166 Shop Made Tools

[@KW-ei3pi]

Very Awesome. Would love to see some of those things in action! Thanks

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks. I use many of them all of the time. If you catch my videos you will see some of them pop up often. Others I use, but don't show, mostly because I forget.

[@AaronEngineering]

Some great looking shop made tools there. Kurtis and Karen are top people. They do some amazing large scale repairs. Cheers 🍻. Aaron

[@DudleyToolwright]

Love their channel. Cheers.

[@marvinpybus4599]

The spherical attachments for turning tapers is a genius idea.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Very kind, thanks.

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

Some good stuff there. I like: The spacer bottom for the machinist vise. Using 7075 for your chuck keys. Big ass steady rest.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks Tom. Those were some great learning projects.

[@outsidescrewball]

Enjoyed…nice builds for the shop

[@DudleyToolwright]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hello Robert, Some nice tools... thanks for sharing... Cheers. Paul,,

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks 👍

[@garyhall2126]

Thanks for the info. Always enjoy your videos!

[@DudleyToolwright]

You are very kind. Thanks.

[@billstanley4819]

Nice fix on the shear pin draw bar for the mill. When I purchased my Webb mill it had a Kurt pneumatic tool changer on it. Not only does it keep wrenches off the draw bar but it changes tools F-A-S-T. I had never imagined how much I would like it. Cheers from West Virginia !

[@DudleyToolwright]

I have wanted one for a very long time. I also like the fact that they consistently tighten the drawbar to a specific tension.

[@ActiveAtom]

Nice sticker add and nice to see some shop made tools, they sure do come in handy even if some are utilized only 1 or 2 times they are an absolute must to us regardless. Enjoyed your video. Lance & Patrick.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks guys. I am right there with you. It is a really big pain when you are in the middle of a project and can't move forward because you are missing that one tool. I bet you guys can sympathize, because there are so few folks in the watch making industry, that even big distributers probably don't stock all of the specialty tools you use.

[@dannywilsher4165]

Nice bunch of awesome tools!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks for watching!

[@bid6413]

Robert, A lathe chuck wrench with 3 equal length legs, each leg ending in a different size so one wrench will have 3 different size chuck keys has worked well for me. I am amazed by the extent of your shop tooling! Very nice work and much like the old tooling apprentices were required to make to learn skills. Good going.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks. The multi arm approach to the chuck key design is really interesting. Thanks.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

You have done a great job making those tools there Rob .

[@DudleyToolwright]

Your video inspired me, Max. I hadn't known about the community effort before that.

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing!

[@DudleyToolwright]

You bet! I'm always intrigued by your picture/logo. I was a huge fan of Anime when I was a kid after my parents took me to Japan. Their toys were fantastic.

[@MattysWorkshop]

Gday, lots of great homemade tools there mate, really like the look of the upgraded steady rest, great video, thanks for sharing, Cheers

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thank you Matty and thanks for the jack design. I will be building part of one soon.

[@mjwint]

A quick summary of the challenge and an invite to follow the link to others would be useful. You have an impressive resume of builds, and liberty credit others who inspired you. Thanks.

[@DudleyToolwright]

I appreciate the tips. Thanks for helping me improve my content.

[@julianold4441]

Great stuff! How about adding a plate to that 3D print before it gets totally destroyed?

[@DudleyToolwright]

Good suggestion, thanks.

[@MyLilMule]

Thanks for sharing. Might need to add some of these to my to-do list. You have like 20 minutes of black at the end of this video, FYI.

[@jrkorman]

Good to know - it wasn't just me! :)

[@DudleyToolwright]

You are right. I did something weird when I rendered the video. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@DudleyToolwright]

It wasn't you. It was me,

[@C2DSolutions]

The last 20 minutes was for those on the dark web.

[@JeremiahL]

Heat treating and hardening improves impact and wear resistance, and It can also improve yield strength and some other properties.. It does not change material stiffness, or the amount an object defects under a given load aka young modulous.... The idea of material strength is complicated...

[@JeremiahL]

I just subscribed to your channel... I want to make a bunch of these projects.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Very interesting. Are you sure that making a piece of material harder doesn't also make it stiffer? I am not a mechanical engineer, so I will defer.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks for the sub. I really appreciate it.

[@JeremiahL]

@@DudleyToolwright its not intuitive, but yes Im sure. This video demonstration illustrates the properties of heat treating. Heat treating improves the distance you can bend something before it stops bending back…. Or permanent yielding. But doesn’t make it stiffer…. Weird right… kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXqpl4xjgrhmr6M

[@heinstrydom864]

Nice need to add it thanks

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks.

[@terrycannon570]

Saved it. Nuff said.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thx.

[@jpsimon206]

I made the Lipton rod bender and came up with the same need to move the pivot point. The trick for me was simply to make an eccentric bushing and add a few grub screws. It's not particularly elegant, but I tend to misplace small innocuous accessories

[@DudleyToolwright]

The eccentric bushing idea never occurred to me. I love seeing other peoples solutions to identical problems.

[@georgesbasementshop1240]

Fantastic 👍🥸

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks. I appreciate the commment.

[@jpsimon206]

Nice tricks! Are you familiar with space blocks? You've basically recreated them. I was mainly stopping in to suggest you put a retention washer on the brass bolt for your camera. They make these super simple little spiral dealies that let you leave the bolt in the hole loose and dropped below the platen. Just a thought, they're like$0.25

[@DudleyToolwright]

I am familiar with space blocks. They were the first gauge blocks I ever purchased, because used they were affordable. I like the retention washer idea. I will definitely follow up on that.

[@MrModify]

Some good ideas.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks, I hope some of them were useful and I really appreciate the comment.

[@jpsimon206]

Kudos sir! The design for turning between centers on a long taper is absolutely brilliant. How have we not seen caps before? Would be a way cheaper way that once a year that I need a bullnose center. I can't think of a good reason they're not all ball tipped. Very impressed

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks. It does seem strange that someone doesn't sell a live center with a ball tip.

[@jpsimon206]

@@DudleyToolwright maybe you should make and sell them. I would certainly buy one

[@DudleyToolwright]

Interesting thought. I think I would need access to a CNC lathe/grinder to make it worth while. Definitely interesting idea.

[@batmanacw]

On your lathe chuck stops you can use chunks of aluminum bolted to your t- slots so you can pull the jaws and face them off each time you use them. Then put the jaws back in. No indicating. Dead square every time.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Wonderful suggestion. Thank you very much.

[@jpsimon206]

Never thought about a sheer pin in a draw bar. You would almost think that would be standard, like the springs on Chuck keys. Clever fix

[@jpsimon206]

Your upgrade ideas would be particularly easy to achieve if you had an old drill/driver that you could cannibalize the clutch assembly off of

[@DudleyToolwright]

The ball bearing clutch idea would be a big improvement over the singe use shear pin.

[@jpsimon206]

Okay that sander is awesome! I've been on the edge of building one from scratch off and on. It seems like it's nearly impossible to buy it a high quality belt sander for a decent price. The one concern is the lack of clearance. Every time I change a grinding wheel there is like an inch thick of cement like swarf that I usually have to use a chip hammer on.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks. I was the product of more than a year of effort. I redesigned it on CAD at least 8 times before I settled on the final imperfect design. I use it over the grind wheel all of the time now. As a side note, I probably spend more on the raw materials, so this sander is not a very economical choice, but for me, it was a learning experience first. The final build works better than I thought it would.

[@glennbrown1961]

Kurtis and Karen AND........wait for it.........HOMELESS!

[@DudleyToolwright]

Love that channel.

[@jpsimon206]

You mentioned offhand that you had a six jaw Chuck. Did you happen to buy the sanou? If so, could I get your opinion on it? I've been drooling over a six jaw for a couple years but I cannot afford a beautiful polish true set

[@jpsimon206]

I'm sorry, as an adjunct to that question, what brand/size lathe are you running it on? I'm afraid I'm asking a lot, but I quite respect your opinion and like I said, can't stop drooling over six jaws

[@DudleyToolwright]

I am happy to answer: I have a Shars tools 6 jaw that only has one drive port (which I did not know when I purchased it) so you cant work your way around the chuck and put even pressure on the scroll. I wish I had purchase the one Adam Booth has - I think TMX. It has 3 chuck key ports. My lathe is an ACRA 1440TE - acramachinery.com/product/1440te-precision-gap-bed-engine-lathe/. I am still a relative newbie to the metalworking field so take what I recommend with a grain of salt, or perhaps two.

[@jimforsyth2.]

Lobe my tom bender its awesome

[@DudleyToolwright]

I don't bend a metal a lot, but it does work well when I need to.

[@carlbukowsky1931]

Great info but maybe chose something less busy for a background, ....am I the only one that is totally distracted by that mat as a background?

[@DudleyToolwright]

Interesting. I don't think anyone had ever commented on that before. I will take your thoughts into consideration when it eventually gets replaced.

[@johnlanham9057]

CEE is Epic !!

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks.

[@umahunter]

Thanks for sharing one thing you can try for your belt sander if you have enough room to protect the plastic from melting go to most hardware stores and go to the a.c. Section and you can get this heavy foil tape that's used for dealing a.c. Ducts it's thicker than aluminum foil and sticks quite well to most surfaces I got a sander that I was worried about cause it's got plastic shielding inside so I covered everything in that tape and haven't had any problems I figured I'd have to change the tape a bit but so far I haven't had to change it yet hope this helps 👍👍👍

[@umahunter]

*sealing ac ducts just make sure it's the thicker more expensive stuff that's about 3 inches wide cause they also make a smaller 2 inch silver roll that's shiny and looks similar but it's kinda thin like mylar the good stuff is thicker like a couple layers of foil 👍👍👍

[@DudleyToolwright]

Great suggestion and I even have some of that tape at home.

[@jpsimon206]

I'm sorry to be nosy, but what the hell would be controversial about that tool height gauge? Did you carve a swastika on the back?

[@DudleyToolwright]

I am not sure. I have received so many emails and comments stating that they do it this way, so why would I bother? I actually encourage hearing about alternate solutions, because there is often a better approach, but people really have strong feelings on the topic. It is really strange.

[@jpsimon206]

@@DudleyToolwright machinists are definitely a pig-headed bunch, we probably get that way from having to deal with engineers. I don't understand criticizing anyone's method if it works. I will argue all day long if something is a bad fix, but there's a dozen ways to skin a cat

[@DudleyToolwright]

Too true. I have first hand experience with parts designed by someone who has not considered how they will actually be made. Every engineer should spend time on the manufacturing side before they start their designing career.

[@donmittlestaedt1117]

I think the last 19 min (approx) were boring buy the first 37 min (approx) were interesting. Thanks.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Ahh, the trailing black. I am not sure how that got added to the end of the video project. I would reupload a fixed version, but then I would lose the comments - which I love. I wish that youtube would allow reuploads and just keep an archive of older versions.

[@donmittlestaedt1117]

@@DudleyToolwright don't bother. Keep the comments. We still love ya.

[@DudleyToolwright]

Thanks.

[@christophercullen1236]

Robert do you ever sleep ? Christopher from Down Under

[@DudleyToolwright]

Funny. Not enough.

[@jpsimon206]

Tom Lipton is unquestionably brilliant, but I have to say, I do not understand the popularity of the chamfering block. Perhaps it's because I don't have a serface grinder that I cannot appreciate it. I absolutely hate those little noga deburring tools. I've always kept an old 1950s wood shaper next to my mill. It accepts up to half inch bits, I just put a carbide chamfering bit in it like 10 years ago, and it already has a mechanism for raising and lowering the cut. It's basically an automatic motion now when something comes out of the vice it takes a trip across the shaper. They are like 50 to $60 at many yard sales. Am I missing something fundamental about using the service grinder? My current setup leaves an excellent surface finish...

[@DudleyToolwright]

Your solution and other dedicated solutions make a lot of sense. I like the block, but find that it takes too much time to set up to want to use it all of the time.

[@jpsimon206]

@@DudleyToolwright yeah that's my main criticism. I have no place criticizing since I've never used it, but I've seen so many other KZbinrs make them and the setup time of getting the wheel just right seems well clunky

[@DudleyToolwright]

Spot on.