ace940
Plastic
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Why is there not a home made tooling section for people to show off their badass homemade stuff. And inspire others to make similar items.
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stonehaven
Hot Rolled
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- canada
How about here. Let us have a look
jrmach
Titanium
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- Boise,Idaho USA
Not the HOME SHOP forum
ace940
Plastic
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I havent had a chance to make much yet im looking for inspiration!
jrmach
Titanium
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- Boise,Idaho USA
What kind of machine you got at your disposal ?
Take it to the HSM forum, there is a thread there for those interested or in need of inspiration..
Now if you have made something that "really does the job" and show the tool DOING the job. by all means post here under general. We are all interested in a better mousetrap. Myself, I just don't like shiny trinkets and those who need a pat on the back while showing off some shiny machine without a chip (or $$ made) anywhere in sight ;-))
cheers
Now if you have made something that "really does the job" and show the tool DOING the job. by all means post here under general. We are all interested in a better mousetrap. Myself, I just don't like shiny trinkets and those who need a pat on the back while showing off some shiny machine without a chip (or $$ made) anywhere in sight ;-))
cheers
johnoder
Diamond
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- Houston, TX USA
Pete F
Titanium
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- Sydney, Australia
Yes indeed, because as we all know, any "professional" shop never has a need to fabricate/grind/or machine a special tool to overcome a particular job, much easier to push the boss' ATM belly button and he'll just cough up the money to go buy something off the shelf, or if that's not possible, farm it out to another company to make it. Off you go there laddie, make room for the real men to discuss real machining shit, like whether you counter-steer on your bicycle on the way to run one of them See and See thingies.
jrmach
Titanium
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- Boise,Idaho USA
Pete,if it is made out of Billett...................
cuttergrinder
Hot Rolled
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- Mar 16, 2007
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- Salem,Ohio
Here is an insert endmill that I made special for a job. I didnt have an endmill long enough so I made this one. It is about 12" long and has 2" drive. I made this on an old Hurco KMB1 cnc mill with a manual dividing head. I just programmed stops where I had to manually index the dividing head.
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Joe Rogers
Hot Rolled
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- Aug 9, 2006
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- North Eastern West Virginia
A good start would be a title of "SHOP made tools"
Joe
Joe
johnoder
Diamond
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- Jul 16, 2004
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- Houston, TX USA
How about homemade machines? Maybe this one don't count, since I designed it in Houston but we had it built in Detroit where the photos were taken - about 30 years ago.
Spiral Mill Photos by johnoder | Photobucket
Spiral Mill Photos by johnoder | Photobucket
Are you the forum police?
Dupa3872
Stainless
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- May 1, 2007
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- Boston Hyde park Ma.
A guy did this a few months ago and got slammed big time. I think the thread title was tooling up cheep or something like that. It wasn't pretty 
Ron
Ron
By the powers vested in me, I have made it so...
WizardOfBoz
Diamond
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- SE PA, Philly
richard newman
Titanium
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- rochester, ny
Really big dowels, grooves for glue?
pmtool
Cast Iron
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- Jul 10, 2011
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- Portland, OR
A project that has been in my head for a while and finally made it into reality. As far as I have seen nothing like this exactly out on the market so I made it. I have a "rotogrind" unit that I don't really like. Slow and underpowered. This works better for me. I am aware that various makers have made and still do make dedicated rotary surface grinders but this gives me a lot of flexibility and I had the mag chuck and bearings surplus so this did not cost me much to make. Just time
Motorized rotary grinding spindle for surface grinder.
2 7018 angular contact bearings
housing cast iron
shaft 8620 hardened
10 inch fine pole round Suburban Tool Mag chuck
Baldor DC speed control
The idea is to buy another surface grinder and mount it on there permanently. For now I just throw it up on my mag chuck and it does a fine job. For grinding certain types of parts these setups are great.
Motorized rotary grinding spindle for surface grinder.
2 7018 angular contact bearings
housing cast iron
shaft 8620 hardened
10 inch fine pole round Suburban Tool Mag chuck
Baldor DC speed control
The idea is to buy another surface grinder and mount it on there permanently. For now I just throw it up on my mag chuck and it does a fine job. For grinding certain types of parts these setups are great.
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Guess the definition all depends on where "home" is. If home is the shop floor in DE-troit, then by golly, that's a home-made machine...
Impressive piece of machine building. Looks infinitely adjustable pretty much everywhere. It has a look that screams "NOT Rube Goldberg". Is this for roughing out 8" dia. extra-long twist drills?
