Richard King
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2005
- Location
- Cottage Grove, MN 55016
This morning I got a call from my customer and he asked me to come in around 11:00 as he has to machine some parts. He is an owner operator 2 man shop and he is helping me do the rebuilding of his CNC mill, so I have a few hours to wait. I have been thinking about a few things we can share to help each other scrape ways better.
A few years ago Forrest showed a device he made that looked like a wood plane to cut the square corner of a internal box way. Cleaver as heck as it is usually a real pain to knock out that corner. I saw something like it when I was in Germany at Huddlemair that the used to cut oil grooves in Turcite.
I was having camera issues so I didn't get a picture. It looked like a wood plane but instead of a flat blade it was a sharpened steel tube about 3/8" diameter, the flat part was about 1" wide, 2" long x 1" high. They drilled a diagonal hole through the middle so the tube would slide down it and it had thumb screw that tightened the tube into the hole. On the end opposite where the tube protruded out the bottom front. So on opposite end top they attached a file handle to push it along a steel rule. A lot like a wood plain, but it cut a groove.
Cleaver Idea, I usually just sharpen the flat tip of a pin punch and slide it along a steel rule or cut them in a mill with a round nosed 2 fluted end mill.
You could show us your King-Way Copy, home made hand scraper, home made power scraper, your blade sharpener, etc. Don't be shy as you may have a special tool that we can document for the future generations. Rich
A few years ago Forrest showed a device he made that looked like a wood plane to cut the square corner of a internal box way. Cleaver as heck as it is usually a real pain to knock out that corner. I saw something like it when I was in Germany at Huddlemair that the used to cut oil grooves in Turcite.
I was having camera issues so I didn't get a picture. It looked like a wood plane but instead of a flat blade it was a sharpened steel tube about 3/8" diameter, the flat part was about 1" wide, 2" long x 1" high. They drilled a diagonal hole through the middle so the tube would slide down it and it had thumb screw that tightened the tube into the hole. On the end opposite where the tube protruded out the bottom front. So on opposite end top they attached a file handle to push it along a steel rule. A lot like a wood plain, but it cut a groove.
Cleaver Idea, I usually just sharpen the flat tip of a pin punch and slide it along a steel rule or cut them in a mill with a round nosed 2 fluted end mill.
You could show us your King-Way Copy, home made hand scraper, home made power scraper, your blade sharpener, etc. Don't be shy as you may have a special tool that we can document for the future generations. Rich