(1/2) Making a Machinists Hammer - Handle and Head - from aluminum on the mini lathe
EDIT 12/16/17: A MILLION VIEWS!!!! I'm totally blown away - thanks everyone!!
EDIT 12/16/18: 2.5 MILLION VIEWS!!!! This is crazy!!! I never would have thought... Thank you!
This video is the first part of making of a machinists hammer with replaceable brass and acetal polymer faces on the MINI LATHE. Specifically it is the making of the aluminum handle and aluminum head piece. (MUCH) More information below!
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TimNummy A couple questions: 1. Are you using a broken broom handle for buffing? 2. Isn't diamond white buffing compound more coarse than the red rouge compound? **Btw: I don't know if "red rouge" is the proper name for it, but it's what our metal shop teacher called it in the 80s! He told us to first adequately sand, then buff with diamond white, then use red rouge to finish it up. 3. What is the tool that machined the checkered pattern on the handle in basically 1 fell swoop? Nice project, and even under non-high speed replay, it was probably a fairly quick project to finish.
Hey! Thanks for the comment. 1. It's just a piece of wooden dowel and in the case of the compounds that came in the kit I got, black is most coarse, followed by red, and finally white for a high luster polish. I did a whole video on it here: kzhead.info/sun/ibSmebZ5sWKOm5E/bejne.html 2. See 1. :) 3. That's called a knurling tool and you can pick one up like the one I'm using here: amzn.to/2pI4fCq This project wasn't too bad but it was one of my longer projects of things that I've done, but it was also one of my earlier projects so there was still a lot of figuring out to do.
TimNummy what is the title of the last song in this video?
TimNummy пробуй брать на себя что бы стружки не было
Сделайте так что бы на этот молоток можно было разные носадки присобачить тапор отбивные и дальше
Geez, kid...you're a natural to this craft. Great work, nice finish. Can't wait to see part 2. Oh yeah....always have fun.
Thanks very much! I hugely appreciate that!
Hey, man...credit where credit is due.
I really like the wood dowel polishing technique...pretty cool
Very nice job Tim. I love it. Thanks for uploading this awesome video. 👍
I can't believe this sir. Are u great sir. I am applying this idea thanks
Really fun looking project.Got to figure out how to get a lathe.
This is absolutely awesome bro I made a hammer for my one project in machining class back in my tech school my dad was a machinist for decades and got me interested in it never been happier with a skill I've learned than when I learned machining learned on the old engine lathe's and overhead mill machines them Bridgeports cnc machines where a concept back then but I started learning then I'd rather hand machine any day of the week love the channel sofar bro awesome work
Thanks! I'm jealous of your exposure to both the knowledge and the proper tools!
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You should try spiral flute taps. When tapping bottomed holes it makes life a lot easier. Keep up the good work. I'd also suggest playing around with some scrap metal making radius chamfers by hand using both carriage and cross slide handles at once. Makes for some really nice looking and functional transitions.
Thanks! I definitely need to get some better taps - ironically, most the stock I have is "scrap" metal from commercial orders haha
@@TimNummy haha I hear ya. Keep it up, bro. Enjoyed your videos
Great stuff Tim!
Nice looking project! I subbed cause I love seeing what people can do with these mini lathes. I'm not new to the shop but I'm new to miniature machining, so I'm always looking for good projects that are within the capabilities of a mini machine. Happy chip making
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed and hopefully can pick up some ideas :)
Nice work
That Aluminum polishes up nice.
$500 lathe!! This is impressive given the tools!!
looks fun. Keep it up!
Awesome very good watch great quality videoing even when running the lathe 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Very fascinating man. Good job
very awesome working.
Nice and excellent work
Very cool Hammer! JINWEI Tool-Holders are great for small Lathes like yours! 👍🏻
Nothing like watching meticulous excellent work
I really appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
Serviço de tornearia perfeito. Parabéns pelo trabalho e pelo vídeo
Good job
nice job Tim
Thanks for sharing, looks really good, will try to build it too :o :D
Let me know how it turns out!
learning CNC on a Seiger SLZ 400E right now, if iam finished the next practise i will start :D And will share :P
6:43. YOU'RE FIRED!!!! 😂
u did very will i never seen this type of ides great job dud
Thanks!
love the vid, I same the same lathe and its great to get your feet wet in machining, def need to bolt that baby down! Will make such a difference
Ha yeah I'm sure, right now I still need it to be somewhat easy to move though - hopefully sooner rather than later I'll have a dedicated place for it. Thanks for watching!
Sure takes me back. .cheers.
nice work
Top em meu amigo parabéns
Worked very well.
good work bravo
Yeees absolutely haha krank ich finde dich einfach in yt Kommentaren 😂
Super cool😉 hammer💪💪💪
hypnotic!!
🎥 Nice job 🎬 ! _ Congratulations! 👍 🇧🇷
This man is pro , and so does his machine.
Thanks so much!
Interesting , well done
Nice 👍🏽 job
Hi Tim, Your project is really awesome and with your consent I would love to use your project for a training project for my high school students as it shows a basic understanding of lathe work. I am an Industrial Arts Instructor where one of the subject I teach is Machining. Thanks for sharing.
That'd be great! Just let me know how it goes :)
Muy bueno amigo saludos
Beautiful
Still have the one I made 45 years ago! Not sure about the precision sandpaper work though.
Very Good Working
My deign and manufacturing class are actually making a hammer. Not the same kind but eh love your work btw!
Thanks so much! That's really cool you're making one in class. Let me know how it turns out.
My class is too (Ventura, CA)
Good work
wonderful brother. I want to make it.
nice work bother
A best hammer looked till now in design
Thanks!
Good job bro
good job!
Thanks so much! It's incredibly flattering to be noticed by you and I hugely respect your channel :) Your cube inside a cube video actually inspired my latest project... kzhead.info/sun/n7akptykp5uonoU/bejne.html Thanks again, I really appreciate the comment!
nice job
Really you are great sir
such nice skill working like lathe mc master
0:48 you can make a makeshift steady out of wood for something like that. Start thinking about end support when you get more than about six diameters away from the chuck. For this application though I'd think about marking the center using the centering head on your combination square (or that printed centering gadget someone pointed you to on the large-diameter video) and center punch it, then use the punch mark to start your center drill, starting with your smallest center drill so the pilot will go in your punch mark.
Very nice!
へぇ～こうやって作るんだ!! 勉強になります!!
very nice work! awesome
Thank you! :)
Wow amazing
nice work keep up whit the work
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awesom,good job
Great job man a tip from a cnc machinist also I like to make my handles out of poly to reduce vibration on the swing. Aluminium looks way cooler tho lol
Great vid. Only thing I can see that I would fix is that you used a Hex dye to cut your threads. From what I was taught, Hex dyes are for chasing threads and Circle dyes are for cutting them. I believe the only reason it cut relatively well was because it was a soft metal like Aluminum. Other then that, hats off.
É gratificante acompanhar os episódios, pois o aprendizado na riqueza de detalhes é muito útil para desempenhar projetos com mais facilidade.
Muito obrigado! Eu realmente aprecio isso :)
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Them calipers and that neural is nice
Hi next time when you do a Thread, do a 90° lowering before, because its whey better for your drill.🤙🏼
"Even if the two sides aren't perfectly lined up with each other, they should at least be perfectly lined up with themselves". how the heck does that work.
17Industries I think he misspoke. I think he meant that even if the two faces aren’t lined up perfectly with the handle they’ll at least be lined up/ parallel with each other
It's been a while but I think I meant even if the center lines of each face aren't lined up, the center line of the face and the corresponding side of the hammer head would be aligned
Ever used a living hinge for adjustable angle adjustment? Small angle adjustment to be sure but if the mirror or lens mount is very stiff so that if precision in an environment containing motors, it minimizes low frequency distorting an image.
Nice job on the hammer, not sure how you can stand to use that lathe. I have the newer model of that lathe with DRO, I can't stand to use it. I bought a 13x40 Grizzly and love it. I'm gonna try to build a hammer similar to that. Thanks.
awsom.good job
I award you First Prize. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
Thanks :)
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Hi Tim: I am making your hammer in my metal shop as we speek. One suggestion: I am taught that the center drill shown at 7:21, should not be plunged deeper than the bevel. That way, the following drill will be guided by the interior bevel and not the lip of exterior shoulder. Do you (or others) think there is any difference here? Thanks again Tim.
Coming along well.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that :)
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Very nice
osm good job
How does the slender section of the handle hold up to use being aluminium? I don't know if I'm just feeling a bit conservative or heavy handed but it looks like it could do with being a bit stronger. It'll be a project for the new year for me! Thanks for the great content.
I haven't used it too much other than tapping on things I'm making with the lathe but so far it's great and has a solid feel. The reason I went with that diameter is simply because that was the largest tap I had haha. But I honestly don't think I could hit anything hard enough holding it in my hand to come close to breaking it. Let me know how yours turns out and thanks for watching!
tim, at 0:41 cutting a face on a bar that far away from the chuck is a really bad practice, i dont know if your lathe came with a fixed steady but that would be the time to use one, if you don't have one it would be a good project to make one. im sure you could imagine what would happen if the tool grabbed the end of the bar and knocked it off at an angle, if you had you hands or face in the way it would not be pretty, also it could damage your machine, machine safely and always think, what's the worst that could happen if....
I know :/ I don't have a steady yet and the material diameter was too large to slide it back through the chuck... definitely not good practice but I just wanted to take a careful, light facing cut to get it moderately square before setting the live center. I definitely appreciate the comment and am going to pin this to the top so others can find it as well. Thanks for watching :)
chrismechanic B Hi, I'm ignorant in this, what's the danger? Just out of curiosity.
the workpiece could snap out due to the friction caused by the cutting tool.
i saw the predicerment you was in tim, i did not know if you knew about steadys and wanted to point them out to you, great work on the hammer. ;)
Thanks for letting me know! Part of the reason I'm posting these videos is so people who know better can (constructively) tell me what I'm doing wrong :)
Which type of wood and paste are you use for shining? Super work sir
I can actually see flexing of the machine just during sanding. I’m surprised it makes such nice parts.
The machine isn’t flexing just wobbling If everything is true it shouldn’t effect finished product by much but would be a lot easier to bolt her down
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4:00 you're using lots of abrasives in your work, between the bars of compound and the sandpaper. I'd suggest covering the ways when you do that sort of work.
From a fellow Fitter Machinist good job mate!
Beautiful and Wonderful work
Nice job..! I would like to make Tiffany chairs...
new to working on lathes. this is awesome to watch by the way. Whats the tool called you used to make the grip on the handle?
Hey! It's a Knurling Tool and you can find the one I used here: amzn.to/2pI4fCq
Thanks!
Sweet!
This guy got some mad skill, I would never even attempt to center drill with the material that far out of the chuck.
its not skill, its simply said "careless". and dangerous, concidering the poor quality of the lathe and the chuck in itself
I've made some sweet hammers from silicone bronze faced to hardened but nothing this precise or fancy
My uncle he is Judge I will tell him if he needs one.. Good work 😁
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good job
I would love to have a lathe like that! A few tips though: Countersink the holes before tapping to avoid chipping teeth on your taps. At the start, turn the head completly first, leaving roughly .1 on the end, cut it off, then face it to size. After this then drill the hole on center for the handle. There should be plenty of room for the thread, so a blind hole will work(thats why we have bottoming taps.) Use a spring center and tap wrench to tap, its easier and not too expensive for those tools. Your finishes came out great though. Two questions: What is the diameter of the throat? and can you use collets with this lathe?
Thanks so much for watching and for the tips! I should definitely invest in some bottoming taps. I think the final product with the top trim piece came out really nice anyway though so look out for the second part video. As for your questions, the diameter of the throat is ~35.2 mm at the skinny part and ~38.5 mm at the ends. I've seen videos where people use collets that they just clamp into the chuck with this lathe, so I think the answer is yes.
Funny thing, I don't recall seeing very many fast-forwarded machining videos. But I think it's interesting what you can see when it's fast-forwarded versus real time. Some of the things that happen gradually in real time cannot be seen. For instance, I never realized how much aluminum dust is being generated when sanding or polishing something on the lathe.
Agreed! made me start wearing a mask.... also it's interesting to see how much the tools and such wiggle around as they are cutting - definitely speaks volumes for how important rigidity is in a lathe.... Thanks for watching!
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you have to cool your workpiece with 100% alcohol that gives you the best surface and your tool doesnt break so fast ^^ and you dont have to polish youll see
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I just acquired a mini lathe like this set up with a matching mill. I have 0 experience in metal work. Do you have any videos breaking down the functions of the various bits and cutters that you use? There’s so many different parts to the machine I don’t know where to start
thank you for this great video. I want to buy the exact lathe as you. could you make a review on it and maybe another video on how to get it up and running. the reviews are mainly good but have a bunch of "must dos" before you run it
Definitely watch some of my other views... I've done quite a few that go into pretty good detail specifically because I had the same questions as you when I got mine. Hope they help and let me know if you still have questions otherwise!
TimNummy thank you Tim! You Have brought confidence to me. If there is something to do first except the belt and cog. What would you suggest
Good to hear! Probably this -> kzhead.info/sun/fdSOaKayhauQqq8/bejne.html make sure everything is oiled and tightened properly. Rather than using grease like I did though, oil would be better.
Pa to je cekic!!!to zna I beba da napravi.
Гениально молоток из алюминия))))
what make/model lathe is that? Im gonna buy one. Also, how heavy depth of cut can you take on it?
Amigo o que e esses bastões que vc usa pra dar o polimento?