Making & Testing HEAVY DUTY Button Tool Holder | Shop Made Tools

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We’re tackling the challenge of making a heavy duty button tool holder that can handle even the most demanding lathe jobs. ️We’ll take you step-by-step through the process of using our milling machine to craft the tool holder. We start by machining down all the faces using a fly cutter and indexable shell mill. We also use a roughing end mill to clean up the ends before going in with a ball nose end mill to contour the corners of the holder. We then tackle the most daunting part of the process of drilling and tapping a hole for a tiny 3.5mm screw that holds in the button insert. The next thing is to cut a radius on the front to give the insert some relief before deburring all the edges to complete the tool holder. We then put our new tool holder to the ultimate test by using it to machine the eye off a big EX1900 cylinder rod!

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– Hafco BM-63VE Milling machine
– Hafco TM-26120G Centre Lathe

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48 thoughts on “Making & Testing HEAVY DUTY Button Tool Holder | Shop Made Tools”

  1. These heavy-duty tool holders are game-changers! We're stoked with how they turned out, not only do they look amazing, but using them will make jobs that much more enjoyable! Did anyone else get pucker factor when Kurtis was doing the threading with those miniscule taps!? 😅
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  9. If you ever need M3.5 taps and dies try a UK electrical supplier. It's the size used on to hold domestic switches and plugs to the metal or plastic wall boxes. Always getting cross threaded so a standard part of most electricians' tool box. Your inserts are only the second use for M3.5 I've ever seen.

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  14. Buongiorno KURTIS. Mamma mia. Filettare con un maschio così piccolo. Sei un MAESTRO. Complimenti 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👏🤗🙋🏻‍♂️🤚. Un abbraccio forte a Te e FAMIGLIA da EUGENIO di GENOVA VOLTRI LIGURIA ITALIA 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

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  21. hi, Curtis. I know your fans like to hear your off takes. However… Assuming you do know what you want to say… The acoustic environment can cause this jitter. You are in a large room. The echo returns to your ear a little later than what occurs when you talk to someone, whichis usually an instantaneous sound event. I experienced a similar jitter when I was making recordings with a live mike and was hearing the playbak at a slightly different time than my listening habits were used to.
    I am not sure if there is any way around this since you are recording in a large room and must do so. But I thought you might get relief if you used some earplugs. You will still hear your voice since it is in your head even if it will sound muffled. But you won't hear the minutely delayed echo from the workshop. Maybe this will work, maybe not. At leat it would be a cheap and easy quick fix. Any time you want to explain, you put in the earplugs. Then either take them out or leave them in. It would not affect your work a far as I can see. Good luck! Thanks for sharing! Stay Healthy!

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  37. M3.5.. scary?.. Made me giggle.. i often make parts that would fall into that hole, never to be seen again..Imagine drilling a 0.25 mm hole..yes.. that is 0.01" or tapping M3 into Titanium…

    By the way, i Think there's enough material left on these to do the modifications you planned.. just cut the underside to match the height of the Toolholder, and mill the part that sits in the toolholder just a tad bit forward.. that'll do.. it is not that you made them wrong.. they're just not finished yet..

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  48. 7:45 – Just learned a new way to use parallels! TY.
    14:43 – Again, TY. One of the parts we run from time to time could use a better finish, and the extra tool change and (short) pass is worth it for customer satisfaction.
    26:56 – Yep, final climb-mill cut.
    31:34 – Wow! Betting that took at least an hour off the job.
    33:16 – Good design, good fab, good result.

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