Making an Automatic Centre Punch ll Punching Above Its Weight 💪

[@Pearlybrook]

Nice video! I felt the cheap die struggles in my soul. Not sure if this was your issue or not but for anyone else reading this if you're buying a set of cheap dies look for a short but fairly aggressive taper in one side of the thread cutters. My first set of cheap dies were technically rethreading dies that didn't have this taper so starting a thread from nothing with them was nearly impossible.

[@nomadhandcrafted]

Thanks man! Yep, those cheap dies can be a real pain! I have had the same problem with that little lead in, but didn't know what the problem as at the time, just thought I was having a bit of a moment 😂 But thanks for checking out the video!

[@homemadetools]

Nice work; it came out well. We shared this video on our homemade tool forum last week 😎

[@nomadhandcrafted]

Thanks very much!

[@davidangelo8902]

I like the finished punch! thanks for the explanation on how it works. I always wondered about that!

[@nomadhandcrafted]

Thanks mate! It is interesting how they work, it’s really simple, but a really clever design, thanks for checking out the video!

[@DONJUILIO]

Very cool project, That's an art piece once you make it yourself. I was not expecting this sort of project., but you very often move thru a very diverse sort of list. Always something new and different from your channel, that's probably why I like it so much. I also like the I'm making it I'm not sure how but I'm making it. Keep up the good work...

[@nomadhandcrafted]

Haha if I didn't follow the "making something I don't know how to make" I think it would get boring very fast. I'm defiantly on a bit of a tool/machining thing for the next couple of projects, with a lot of figuring it out! As always I really appreciate you following along mate, thanks again!

[@armageddontools]

Automatic center punches were never invented for making deep markings in material.They are used for finding the center of the two cross lines made by scribe.Tip angle(60°) is different than angle on drill punch(90°) which you use after to make mark bigger.

[@nomadhandcrafted]

Well there you go, I didn’t really know that, I always thought they were supposed to be the start for a drill, not for a different punch, thanks for the tip!