Form Thinking

[@Boudico]

That custom tooling was a thing of beauty!

[@gohuskies583]

Very innovative thinking Keith! I like how you can approach a task and come up with a solution. You are teaching a lot of folks like me.

[@02stanggt]

That brown cutting oil has a wonderful smell. Great video, Keith.

[@frollard]

I always catch flack from my inside-the-box thinker friends when they suggest just 'doing it with the tools I have' - but if I can save 50% time on each part by using a custom tool, it's pretty easy math to figure out how long I can spend making that tool; usually its a time-saver, and you own the tool afterwards! Great vid!

[@Polypropellor]

Production work can be a grind and a blessing. I get careless-by-rote. Once worked in a foundry making sand molds all day. I would zone out. "Start" buzzer would sound next thing it would be buzzing 1st break- and me and my partner (I was cope) had made 25 molds already- "Where'd the time go?" Off into to never-never land. Mental laxity- and I was operating a 100,000 lb crush British Molding Machine. Gives me the willies today to even think about that machine with me on auto-pilot" all day.

[@kgdies]

I've machined this type of material UHMW into bushings and air cylinder pistons, key is to have really sharp tooling. Cutting both O ring grooves at once is a huge time saver, and the tool you made cut very nice.

[@tfp777]

Nice bit of production, I like your o'ring tool, very clever. :-)

[@joehunt1980]

Excellent job with the tool, we have the factory tooling at work for cutting similar grooves on our CNC and they run around $300 NZD! and thats just for cutting one groove at a time... We set up a vacuum to suck up the swarf as it comes off the billet to aid in cleanup and to keep the tools clear :-)

[@KeithFenner]

@Tarlang Thanks, Rudi, there will be more orders of the same parts every so often, so the tool will keep saving. The brush is more for keeping the chips from flying around and in face, while operating... :)

[@johnnichols5619]

I remember working with Delrin, Glass Filled Delrin, and G10 (G10 is layers of fiberglass textile and some green resin, cured under pressure). Easiest to clean up the standard Delrin chips (ling and bushy), GFD and (not SO much) G10 create small fluffy chips and glass dust that floats all over the shop.

[@KeithFenner]

@imbro84 Shop Vac does a pretty good job, just remember to clean up any metal chips before starting the project, when mixed they don't make it though the hose...

[@mikezaq1]

I love the video looks like it snowed in your workshop.

[@KeithFenner]

Thanks for the comment! ;{)-----

[@StefanGotteswinter]

I would buy one :)

[@AWAradiola]

I have a Ward 2C turret lathe and even after 60+ years, it still feels smooth and unlike NC, you have a better feel for different materials.

[@KeithFenner]

@billdlv Hi Bill, No, I left it alone, the way it cut, it propably would do thousands of parts before even needing a shapening :D

[@KeithFenner]

Been toying with the thought!!!

[@ThePityesz001]

Welcome!I Really like your videos! Keep it up! A beginner turner from Hungary!:)

[@chox2001]

I machine plastics all day long I find it easier to touch on with the parting off tool to give me a guide for the bandsaw then cut through in seconds and just face up each side, I can use a much smaller parting tool and I prefere facing than parting but each to his own method we would all be boring if we did the same thing. I much prefere plastics you can break your edges with a stanley blade. keep the videos comming I do enjoy all of them

[@jjash5848]

Awesome vids. You explain your techniques very well.

[@KeithFenner]

I get projects like this once in awhile, and I don't do production but have seen some small run production work being done and under stand the process of peaking out the set up to maximize the quantity. In the yards I had a few jobs with flying blue chips, sometimes stopping to unbury the lathe. ;{)-----

[@Tensioner]

I really like working with Delrin, you can fly and it finishes nice. Make all sorts of things out of it including brackets/ hardware for sensors and such (I work in a factory). Probably not OSHA approved but on certain cuts and definitely when auto feeding, I just hold a big shop vac line right on the string. Leaves everything clean for measure/unload/ load.

[@AstraWerke]

Nice Idea to make a turning steel for the job! Have you ever used the tool again after having done this job? Guess not :-) Seems to be just made for one-time use... As there are always different measures, depths, etc... But it had payed out very nice!

[@KeithFenner]

Whats the value per pound?

[@prestinosmagic]

Love your videos.

[@bebo5558]

So, did this job pay well? Making moisture resistant lids for cookie jars!

[@manudehanoi]

the more it goes the more I find myself making tools that help making tools for making tools that I get to sell. The whole trick is to always weight the existing solutions you can afford buy and the ones you can afford to build.

[@Kalkaekie]

Enjoyed the video.

[@billdlv]

Keith did you heat treat the tool? You said it was tool steel and I was wondering if you did. I wouldn't think it would need to be that hard since Delrin cuts so easily. Great video.

[@pthomps1954]

I'm curious why you cut the tool with a little above center. I've made similar form tools for milling. I make the shaft and head on different centers to create OD relief

[@johnkeates4887]

Really great video! :)

[@PasiSavolainen]

Any reason to not cut full profile with a tool made from plain steel sheet? Not knowing much about it I guess that should be possible to harden enough for soft material.

[@Sjanzo]

Making that tool bit i would have used an angle grinder instead of the mill... But speaking from previous tool purchase experiences, if i had a mill in my shop it wouldnt take long before i'd use the lathe for that job, like you do ;) You can never have enough tools :)

[@DeadlyRabbit]

I never like the smell of the formaldehyde gas that is released when machining delrin, it gets worse with higher cutting speeds. I use high speed steel cutters when turning and facing delrin, nylon and uhmw, radius on the cutter of at least 1/16" and a RPM around 500 lets you manually crank the handles as fast as the machine allows and still get a good finish, 1/2" depth of cuts turn out well.

[@derekbrycen9091]

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[@bryantbarrett2657]

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[@derekbrycen9091]

@Bryant Barrett Thanks, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) Appreciate it!!

[@bryantbarrett2657]

@Derek Brycen glad I could help :)

[@SteveRobReviews]

That was great !!

[@KeithFenner]

Its a Clausing Cholchester

[@imbro84]

Nice job! How do you clean that mess later on :-)

[@KeithFenner]

I have seen it and never wear lose cuffs or tattered clothing when running machinery! I appreciate the concern and keep it as one of my healthy fears! ;{)-----

[@GnosisMan50]

Hey Keith, any chance of making t shirts with your logo on it with the title" get er done! lol...I'll buy one if you make them.

[@KeithFenner]

It was the easiest way for me to control the accuracy of the shape. Plate would have been fine if you were able to create the same contours. ;{)---

[@greathodgy22]

. I may have missed it, but what are these white discs used for ? .

[@KeithFenner]

A plug end to a bomb detection device for under water. ;{)-----

[@KeithFenner]

I think that was a twenty minute vac job! ;{)-----

[@fainderskurs-koi8767]

Лайк А я так понял, резец сырым ставил, не термообработанным? Like And I understand, set the cutter raw, not heat-treated?

[@KeithFenner]

New life is the name of the melody loop. ;{)-----

[@Mercmad]

Do you do many jobs like this? One of my first jobs as an Apprentice was to operate a Ward turret lathe. These old monsters are laying about here now because CNC has over taken them. Basically they have a air operated collet chuch,a turret tool holder with up to 6 different tools and turret tail stock with 5 or six different tool positions. I could turn out 20,000 steel pins per 8 hr shift. .They were also very fast .Imagine 1" steel chips coming off so fast they turned blue in the air.

[@Bowtie41]

Kinda like my 1st shop as an apprentice.Among other things,I mainly ran multi-spindle screw machines,Davenport,Acme-Gridley,Conomatic,B&S to name a few.,as well as turret lathes like you.Every shift we ran between 5-10K gears and cutters for hand can openers,7 days a wk,365 a yr.Do the math.Who the HELL uses that many can openers,even world-wide,lol?!

[@briantoblerone9625]

Call it a guy thing, but I find these video's very relaxing. The problem solving is very interesting.

[@PLUSHAIRPLANECARPET]

what is the song

[@ahz123]

Fun video.

[@genivaldopedro5321]

What's the name music

[@cbkenison]

You recycled all that delrin, right?

[@BruceBoschek]

I'll take two.

[@RoyMeraki]

exactly 10 years from today :D

[@Keith_Ward]

I would prefer a Turn Wright Machine Works logo.

[@MrEh5]

I love working with Delrin. Your lathe has a removable bed gap what type is it? Since my TV broke i watch your videos instead. The wife hates you now. Keep up the good work and get her done.

[@127069]

which were made 40 miles from where I live until some accountant moved production to china and boy are they junk now!!

[@KeithFenner]

Some are not so lucky! ;{)-----

[@ammagato]

È bene che lo sappiate "chi mangia fa briciole!"

[@cbkenison]

Apparently $0.30-5.00? ides dot com/resinpricing/Secondary dot aspx

[@Riller70]

I'm not trying to be a smartass but i cringe when i see you leaning over the chuck with your left arm filing the work, especially with long-sleeve clothing. Seen pictures of a man caught by the chuck ended up squeezed between the bed and the work. His head was crushed and the chuck carving a big hole in his back. He was also filing whilst wearing long sleeves. Look it up, search for lathe accidents. I'l bet it gets to you like it did to me. I have a different respect for it now..."healthier".