Lets see your die filing machine

[f350ca]

I think Victor tools has them, but I've made them, or repurposed I should say. Grind the end of the file down to fit inside a 3/16 hole , drill a 3/16 hole in a 5/16 shaft and epoxy it in. Then chuck the file and turn down the shaft to 1/4. This sets the shank in line with the file. Rob's might have a bigger clamp arrangement though.

[Hawkeye]

On my unit, the clamp below the table takes 1/2" diameter toolholders. I can make whatever format I need to fit a piece of file, held by a setscrew with the teeth facing toward the table. As mentioned, chainsaw files of various diameters are useful and readily available. Small triangular and square files would be easy to use.

[RobWilson]

Evening Lads 

Plenty of suppliers of files in the USA  search "parallel machine files"  

My machine takes compression and tension files , the compression files are mounted in a quick change cat head .




A sawing shot using a 20 thou saw blade .



Same blade cut 1/4 steel no problem .




or you can stick any size old hacksaw blade in .



Also can be used for lapping , all in all a canny bit of kit .


Rob 

[DaveH]

Yep, very nice machine.  
 
DaveH

[EdK]

Now that's cool Rob. I didn't know you could do all of that with a die filer.

Ed

[oldgoaly]

Mine is a Keller bought it about 20 years ago for 25$  at the Hershey swap meet.
then found a can full of good files for it for 5$ 10m minutes later & my wife wanted the can!
The "files" are stored in a file cabinet! another 2$ worth. I've used them for details on Pullmax dies.

[Bill Gruby]

Die Filers cut on the down stroke. You can get all the files you wand from Falcon Tool. The correct name for Die Filers is Parallel Filing Machine

http://www.falcontool.com/Section-1/Para...hine-Files

 "Billy G"

[Micktoon]

Hi Lads , I have the little brother of Robs die filer , its a Thiel bench top model, same sort of thing but smaller, here are a couple of photos.



Its is three phase but had a small inverter fitted inside the casing so it works from single phase.



The stroke and speed are adjustable so the inverter is just set at 50hz and left.



Its just sat on the bench and not been used yet , I am planning on making a cabinet / stand for it. As Rob has said these are well built machines that will last for many human lifespans !

 Cheers Mick

[dallen]

how come its not green  

DA

[Micktoon]

Never mind that ................How come its there twice lol   .........can anyone get rid of one copy , I am scared I will dump both lol

 I will not be doing it Green, my new policy is if its a good machine and not a rancid colour to start with I will do it either grey or green   , I am hoping to scrape off the darker grey recoated layer of paint as it looks like there was no need to paint it anyway and it was not rubbed down in any way either.
  I am sure in the old days it was a method of teachers punishing a cheeky child ............ ' Boy, paint that machine'  but sir its does not need painted ................ 'Boy paint two machines' , this will explain why some machines have six layers of paint too, after a bad spate of cheeky incidents they would run out of unpainted machines to spoil so have to re paint the already repainted stuff

  Cheers Mick