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Turned File Handles and Rack

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I came across these beautiful turned file handles on the Lathemaster Yahoo Group. A fellow
named Marv Stovall did them. I thought they were really nice, and immediately wanted a set
for myself. This will make a good project to try my CNC Lathe on when I get done
converting it.

At the same time, I’d love some kind of rack to make it easy to organize the files. You need
a collection of different styles, shapes, and sizes, and it’s hard to keep them all neat.
According to Guy Lautard, he knows a guy that keeps his in pipes filled with heavy cutting
oil. I have found that the heavy oil works as good or better than chalk to keep files from
loading up, and it would surely protect them.

BTW, I like Nicholson files. For filing on the lathe, there’s nothing like their lathe pattern file
either. makes for some really smooth work.
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Lathe QCTP Toolholder Rack

So many great ideas I started an Idea Notebook page for this one. Here is a typical sample
from the Lathe Tooling Organization page:

Bearing Greaser

Here’s a neat little bearing greaser Bogstandard showed over on the HMEM boards:
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Zerk for grease gun is on top. Just use the hand gun, not a pneumatic or there is a danger
of bending the shield!

I had an idea for some fixtures to help with preloading bearings. Perhaps a multi-purpose
fixture could be created, I’ll have to ponder that.

Bench Tapping Fixture

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A bench tapping fixture…

This little gadget would be handy to have around for precision tapping a hole straight up and
down and would not be hard to make. I’m saving it for an early CNC project once my
machines are converted.

Tool and Cutter Grinders

Here’s a big roundup of ideas for creating a DIY Tool and Cutter Grinder. They range
from accessories for the ubiquitous Harbor Freight tool grinder to single lip cutters to
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fancy manual cutters and on to building a DIY CNC Tool Grinder.
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Sheet Metal Fabrication Tools

In fact, the whole sheet metal tool arsenal would be handy to have at hand. An English
wheel, slip rolls, etc., etc.. I did come across some photos of this beautiful pan and box
brake, which was built based on an article in “Projects in Metal.” I ordered their book so that
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I would have these plans available when I’m ready to jump in. The article in the book is
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excellent, and there are a number of other projects to covet there as well (like the precision
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cutter grinder and tilting table for milling). Order “Metalworking, Book Two, The Best of
Projects in Metal.” This particular brake was designed by Glenn Wilson.
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Very nice, eh?

There’s a fellow on one of the boards who has an interesting wrinkle on this stuff. He’s built
a hydraulic press with a tubing bending attachment that is CNC controlled. Basically, you
enter an angle, step on the pedal, and the machine bends the tubing to that angle. You
could imagine that the electronics involved must be simple. A PIC controller, an encoder for
shaft position (to measure how many degrees we have gone), and some sort of solenoid
valve for the hydraulic cylinder. It’s interesting to consider whether some of these other
bending tools could be so equipped in order to make it easy to produce repeatable
operations to a particular design spec. I’d have to think it is very possible. The same fellow
suggests that the expensive part in all of this is the hydraulic pump, and that if one were to
build such tools one should use quick disconnects to share that pump with several
machines and thereby lower the overall costs. Good idea!
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One more possibility is to build an electromagnetic sheet metal brake, similar to a
MagnaBrake. Check out my page for ideas.

Machinery Dollys

An alternative to the Gantry Crane would be a machinery dolly system like this one. Slide
the toe under and jack it up and you are ready to move. I could envision making it so that
one could attach a platform between two dollies as well. Those pictured are very similar to a
product called “Rol-A-Lift” that one could buy or rent if you didn’t want to invest in making a
dolly system.
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Heat Treating Oven

I have been interested in heat treating metals for a long time, and finally sat down to do a
little web research on how to build a heat treat furnace. Industrial PID controllers are readily
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available on eBay cheap, and the rest of the materials required are not expensive either.
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Shopmade Heat Treat Oven…

It’s also possible to convert a ceramic kiln to this purpose. The ovens are typically lined with
fire brick, although I have also heard of some people using thermal ceramic fiber blocks
from a company called Vesuvius, and also a material that comes in board form called
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“Marinite“. Other useful materials to know about include high temp sodium silicate firebrick
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cement and refractory mortar (found by yours truly while reading about pizza ovens).
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Links about making your own furnace:

The Shopmade Heat Treat Oven Pictured Above: A nice project with lots of photos.

http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/752668/post/775813/hl//: Not much

on pix, but some good tips and techniques. For example, there is a high temperature
mortar/calk available at Home Depot to seal the bricks that is good to 2000 degrees. You
want a “K” type thermocouple for this kind of project.

HSM Thread on Materials: OhioDeere has built some commercial heat treating ovens and
has some sage remarks there as well.

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