Issue 218 will be a bit special…

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

For the impecunious, issue 219 will include a collet rack with a net materials cost of 13p, although it will leave you with £19.87 worth of offcuts.

Neil

P.S. 4 feet of 1/4" by 2" mild steel comes in at at £48 from a hobby supplier, Malcolm's ready-cut rack costs £30…

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 17/07/2014 10:54:37

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 17/07/2014 10:48:10:

For the impecunious, issue 219 will include a collet rack with a net materials cost of 13p, although it will leave you with £19.87 worth of offcuts.

Neil

P.S. 4 feet of 1/4" by 2" mild steel comes in at at £48 from a hobby supplier, Malcolm's ready-cut rack costs £30…

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 17/07/2014 10:54:37

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Pay you to buy the whole bar.

Just rung up and 50 x 6 in a 6.1 metre length that's 19 1/2 feet for the unwashed is £19.69 delivered to my door and VAT included.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Sorry I looked at the wrong table, the cost of the raw bar I found should have been £21.

must clean spectacles…

Still just an extra £10 for the cutting seems very fair to me.

Neil

[Chris TriceParticipant @christrice43267]

You could take a strip of steel and then depending on whether you want to hang it vertically or horizontally, dril pairs of holes a suitable distance apart and then bend up steel rod of a suitable diameter into “u” shapes to slide the tool holders on to either loctiting or brazing the rod in place. Might I suggest an old wire coat hangar? Cost negligible apart from the steel strip which could be cheap fabricating steel. I’m not dissing the hi tech rack but it’s very easy to find a complicated solution to a problem that doesn’t warrant it. You could conceivably do without even bending the wire and just have two pins.

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Chris,

If I did one that's how I'd do mine with two pins but my tool holders are a bit special in that they are like the 200 Aloris series but reversed with the external dovetail on the holder and not the post.

They were made this way many years ago before cheap imports as it's easier to make an external dovetail [ think horizontal mill and do a long strip and cut off ] than the modern internal type.

[David TaylorParticipant @davidtaylor63402]

I really enjoyed this issue, and I like the short articles like Stub Mandrel. That is a great little project to use some scrap. The spade drill article is good too.

I even enjoyed the beginner's article about the Stuart engine.

Regards,

David Taylor.

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Bogstandard2 on 20/07/2014 18:25:12:

I showed how to make a toolholder for the piston type of holders many years back, and it is made out of a few bits of wood and whatever round bar you have knocking about. No hard work, laser cutting or welding involved.

Interesting. I came up with the same thing independently 3 or 4 years ago …. although mine used plastic rod. I'm honoured to be in the same company, John.

And talking about cheap and nasty pliers mods, if you take a pair of end-nippers (this kind of thing) and machine/grind the tops of the jaws (to remove the top part of the bevel), they're handy for removing most of the burrs left by machining even when these are quite heavy. The merest stroke with a file will finish the parts off.

You'd probably want to use a cheap imported pair for this.

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