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RE: Home Shop Made Tools - TomG - 02-14-2016
Thanks Mike.
You may want to practice on some scrap parts until you get the hang of it. No sense risking real parts while learning the process.
Tom
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - wawoodman - 02-14-2016
How can I mess it up?
I'm sure I can find a way; I'd just like to know what to watch out for!
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - Roadracer_Al - 02-15-2016
Knurling? Ugh.... let me count the ways I've done it wrong:
- the knurling tool isn't square to the work
- the OD of the work isn't a multiple of the pitch of the knurling wheels and never settles down into a pattern.
- on those cheap-ass 6-wheel/3 pair bump knurl, the axles are undersize, the wheels wobble, and your knurls look like poop.
- on a pinch knurl, you install one wheel of one pitch on the top, get interrupted by a phone call, and install a different pitch on the bottom. You get an interesting rectangular pattern with that.
- you squeeze the knurl too hard and you get flakes of material coming off the work and the knurls look shaggy.
Here's a neat video on making your own knurl wheels from ClickSpring.
https://youtu.be/i9pD5vIHJ8M
(BTW, are youtube embed codes disabled on MWF?)
a
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - EdK - 02-15-2016
(02-15-2016, 01:55 PM)Roadracer_Al Wrote: (BTW, are youtube embed codes disabled on MWF?)
No.
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - wawoodman - 02-15-2016
I was talking about screwing up the heat treating. I already know how to screw up knurling!
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - Roadracer_Al - 02-15-2016
Thanks, Ed. It didn't preview correctly, so I just posted the link.
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - dallen - 02-15-2016
parts for that knurler really don't need to be heat treated
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - wawoodman - 02-15-2016
(02-15-2016, 06:06 PM)dallen Wrote: parts for that knurler really don't need to be heat treated
The only parts that would get it would be the knurl carriers.
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - dallen - 02-16-2016
I used 1/2" brazed on carbide tool bits to make my carriers out of and didn't harden them, used hardened dowel pins for axles and have never had a problem.
RE: Home Shop Made Tools - Mayhem - 03-05-2016
Finally made an arbour for the 2-3/4 HSS slitting saws that I bought. This is the first time I have turned between centres.
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