Hi to all
has been a long time for me to post on the forum..
now, with the few basic tools that i have been adquired, im ready to start building my own NOT CHINESE tools, better said, made in chile tools 8) jajajaj
i have seen a lot of guys that made its own heigth gauge, so seem to be a popular and usefull build, I desing mine with nothing of engineering, just to be a lot of fun and experience.
and ofcourse, money its not my friend, so all is build from scrap, the only things that are not, are the screws and the cheap dial caliper.
first the base, i found a scrap piece of cast iron with the dimentions:
first was to take out the "arms" so i can get a square piece, drill a line of holes and then broke the metal with a hit of a hammer, then, put in the mini-mill and start to machine, in some point my favorite cheap hss 1/2" mill became round, total blunt, arrrghhhhh!!!
I thing that i was trying to mill a solder point or some ultra hard end-mill destroyer thing in the midle of the cast iron block..losse the 1/2 endmill is a great loss to me so I dont want to take more risk... I chuck the block on the lathe and with carbide tungsten cutter rough all surfaces to make sure that i will have no more tools casualties.
once the block wass out of "danger hard zones" i put in the machine, this time, using flycutters, because I can resharpen the hss bit
all work pretty well, the scrap block came with a lot of holes that I have errase with some press fit plugs on the holes, the finished base (i still tinking on what color I should pint, green or white) :
the rods are silver steel 8 mm, why one is larger??? jaja just a 1 cm of bad measure at the moment of cut ;D
has been a long time for me to post on the forum..
now, with the few basic tools that i have been adquired, im ready to start building my own NOT CHINESE tools, better said, made in chile tools 8) jajajaj
i have seen a lot of guys that made its own heigth gauge, so seem to be a popular and usefull build, I desing mine with nothing of engineering, just to be a lot of fun and experience.
and ofcourse, money its not my friend, so all is build from scrap, the only things that are not, are the screws and the cheap dial caliper.
first the base, i found a scrap piece of cast iron with the dimentions:
first was to take out the "arms" so i can get a square piece, drill a line of holes and then broke the metal with a hit of a hammer, then, put in the mini-mill and start to machine, in some point my favorite cheap hss 1/2" mill became round, total blunt, arrrghhhhh!!!
I thing that i was trying to mill a solder point or some ultra hard end-mill destroyer thing in the midle of the cast iron block..losse the 1/2 endmill is a great loss to me so I dont want to take more risk... I chuck the block on the lathe and with carbide tungsten cutter rough all surfaces to make sure that i will have no more tools casualties.
once the block wass out of "danger hard zones" i put in the machine, this time, using flycutters, because I can resharpen the hss bit
all work pretty well, the scrap block came with a lot of holes that I have errase with some press fit plugs on the holes, the finished base (i still tinking on what color I should pint, green or white) :
the rods are silver steel 8 mm, why one is larger??? jaja just a 1 cm of bad measure at the moment of cut ;D