Making a UNIVERSAL Tap Follower || INHERITANCE MACHINING
Welcome back to my manual machine shop. In this build I’ll be making a spring loaded universal tap follower. This is a super useful tapping guide that keeps your tap and tap wrench straight when thread tapping. I’ll start at the drafting table putting together a detailed pencil drawing of the parts. And while it’s not nearly as over engineered of a design as I normally do, there are some features that were far more challenging than I anticipated. And the box of shame claims several victims… Despite that I got to spend some quality time at the metal lathe, my favorite machine. And after several videos without one, had an excuse to knock out a good side project.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:51 Design
3:54 Getting it All Straight
5:42 To Cut a Taper?
7:27 Drilling... Reimagined!
9:18 In the Clear
10:58 An Unsettling Discovery
13:05 The Boring Way is the Best Way
15:34 Moment of Truth
16:17 The Knurly Bit
18:11 Was it Worth It?
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Editing: Final Cut Pro X
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• Making a UNIVERSAL Tap...
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Thanks for watching everyone! Despite my troubles (and lessons) this "simple" project was intended to give time for the next one. My biggest project to date. Literally! Keep an eye out for that on February 17th!
Thanks for including and discussing all the things that didn’t go to plan!
@@andrewfergcorpcom My pleasure!
Thanks for the video. Just a suggestion change the name on the box from "box of shame" to "box of learning"
A new box for lessons learnt? ;)
Your videos are great. If you spent a minute explaining what the problem is and how your tool solves it they would be perfect. Not everybody who watches is an experienced machinist.
Please never stop the design drawings, even for simple stuff. In the future, they will be just as important as the products themselves to your children or whomever comes after you.
I teach high school physics and this channel made me dust off my old ENGR101 drawing chops for the lecture notes i post online
Best comment ever !! Keep the analog drawing board ! this is the best feature in a digital "ctrl+c" world. And makes the brain work !
I reckon you could see prints of the drawings
my great uncle was a city planner in philly. his old drawings are some of the coolest things i own, dude was a wizard at it
Find it nice to have a good drawing even if unnecessary
as an engineer student this is my absolute adored channel
Thank you!
Same man
Don’t engineering students still have to take some English gen eds?
As a stupid worker i also adore this channel
@@jb76489 I believe all students have to take core classes which do include English. Why do you ask?
I had a project once where all I had to do was drill a variety of holes, some with counter-bores, into a piece of wood and then make a mirror image piece for the other side. After hours of confusion I ended up with two good parts and 3 scrapped parts. Some days it can be a real battle lol.
I found this channel a few weeks ago and i love it. the production quality of the videos, the learning processes, the side projects, the drafting of most of the projects, the attention to detail. . I am learning so much for when i finally get my own shop space and start tinkering. Thank you for such amazing videos.
My pleasure! And thank you for the kind words. Good luck on your own shop!
You should consider selling your designs.
Yeah, he has us all ordering drafting tools!
Me Too !
When the box fills up, you should do another just-lots-of-side-projects video using as many of those pieces as you can, bonus points if they all become parts for one project
Cool idea. I'd like to see that myself.
Once again thank you so much for including the whole build lifecycle. Seeing you encounter and overcome mistakes makes me feel so much better about my trails in the shop. Outstanding content as usual.
My pleasure. We all go through it. It's all part of the learning process. Thanks!
Your honesty with mistakes and the learning process are amazing to see since I didn't know the first thing about machining when I found your channel
I appreciate that. Thank you
I LOVE that you do proper drawings and that you show them being made.
If this channel ever needs merch drops, those would make pretty great posters.
When I was a apprentice, I made one just like that. The only problem and always would roll off onto the floor. So the second one I made up all the hex stock and that stop it from rolling around. Then on the plunger, I put grooves quarter inch apart, so I could tell the depth of the tap. As always great project. I think you’re gonna need a bigger box.
Those are really nice additions. Thanks!
Showing the mistakes, what you felt about noticing / not noticing problems, and the iterative approach to solving is so great. It makes the channel waay more approachable than only mentioning mistakes in the voiceover of machining the successful part. Your method shows how to learn, grow, and be comfortable creating and following your own feedback. What a breath of fresh air.
I really appreciate that. Thank you
Wonderful tool, beautifully made. My grandpa was an engineer and tool and die maker. He said "Feel free to ignore the problem now. It won't ignore you later." I have often remembered this too late. My wife and I completely restored our 22 room 19th century abbey that would become our home. It took 15 years and in the process, a number of times I saw something that needed to be addressed, but I didn't have time, didn't want to bother, didn't think it mattered. Some of those things never got corrected and still irritate me. I'm too old to start correcting them now, so if they ever do get corrected it will be by someone else. Thanks much for this excellent video. In learning from your mistakes you are helping others avoid making them. That is a true gift.
Those are some great words to live by. I can imagine the stories you have of your renovation. I too have had many similar scenarios in my own home's renovation(s). (ongoing). I take care of as many issues as I can though. Thank you as always for your nice words and encouragement. Even since the beginning!
The most creative people use their mistakes to develop perfection. Your no exception. Your in an excelent club.
Thank you 🙏
Absolutely wonderful! The voice overs are very well recorded too. Makes the story telling aspect so much more immersive. You precision ambition makes my woodturning projects feel like kindergarten 😂
I really appreciate that! honestly I feel like I'm in kindergarten with the mistakes i make sometimes 😂
In a world where people get millions of views with zero actual talent its so refreshing to see a channel with such passion and talent involved.
This is easily the best channel on KZhead if you're any way inclined towards the engineering process. And all in a year. Amazing
Great job! I can see a future side project being an upgrade to the "Box of Shame". It's filling up nicely after this one 😂
yeah some wood work to create a refined, precise and bigger one seems appropriate, considering the importance of this box ;-) (and when we are at it, a little renaming, because this box is much more about the learning process than the fails )
this one took a heavy toll for sure 😂 Thanks!
@@InheritanceMachining Start the series "Box of Shame Come backs" !!! 🤣 and let us give advices. The best ones go to machinning !
I love the drafting set-up. That's exactly what I learned on decades ago. And your table looks just like the one my dad made for his take home work.
Thanks! It came from my grandfather who got it probably in the 80's sometime
The best 20 minutes of internet all week by far.
Hey man, it's your friendly tool maker here again. Lots of drills are actually bent from the manufacturer and will cause the hole to walk off center when drilling in a lathe or any time the drill is stationary and the work is moving. Bent drills don't seem to be a problem on mills or any operators where the drill is spinning and the work is stationary. It's a total pain in the ass when I have to make step drills out of supplied drills from companies who don't care about their quality. It happens way more than you know... 😢
Awesome, I was waiting for this! BTW, I saw those stickers on your cabinet door ;) I like this channel more every day.
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Lol I saw those too! Love that middle one, they've been fantastic for the price, just wish they'd bring the old logo back :(
In a pinch, I’ll use a spring impact marking punch as the tap follower. I do have a mounted tap wrench, but I almost always power tap. But then again I’m usually machining more forgiving materials; also I almost never use small taps or threads that have a tendency to have taps break more.
I’m loving this channel. And the best part about being late to the party is the full back catalogue to binge on!
I have a jewelers benchtop laser. If I break a tap, I can use it to either blow a hole in the tap or weld something to it so that I can extract it. I’ve also repaired a hole that didn’t need much strength by drilling way large then press fitting a tube into the hole and then laser welding the seams and finishing the hole to correct size. Smallest focal point is listed at 0.2mm, so I can go after small drill bits too. This laser is probably my favorite benchtop tool, when I got it I didn’t know just how much utility it would have. I can weld, “cut” (more like incrementally vaporize material in a line), solder, ablate coatings, and so much more. Being clever with it has seriously increased my capabilities and saved so much time on a couple of parts that I messed up. Freaking love this laser.
God these videos are theraputic to watch. I can see through the videos as his skill (and tools) get better and better, love it
Love the vertical lathe with the infinitely adjustable tool holder. I've got one of those too but didn't know it. Might come in handy one day.
Great video, thanks for sharing! In our experience, drilling a long hole with a twist drill will always wander somewhat even if you set up your tailstock super carefully and use a brand new high-quality drill bit, so boring is a must. If you can't bore the whole length, it helps significantly if you just bore the first bit so the flutes of the drill bit are a nice fit to help guide the drill bit the rest of the way.
That's great advice! Thank you
Just wanted to let you know, and I find that even older experienced machinists sometimes don't know this but, in commercial tap followers you can actually flip the 60 degree plunger upside down and on the back is a matching cup so that you can follow small diameter taps that only have the point without the use of a dimpled tap wrench. Something to think about.
Cool project. Goes to show that 'simple' is never simple. Looking forward to seeing the follower in action in future projects!
Thanks!
Yet another incredibly shot, narrated and produced video! And I'm eyeing that Box O' Shame because some of those pieces would be the perfect "found" parts for a lightsaber build ;)
😁 Thanks!
I'll be honest, before I even watch the video, I tap the like button. That's how much I like your content. Good work
I'm not going to say there's anything wrong with that. Thank you!
Your honesty about your mistakes makes your content soooo great: not pretending to be perfect on the one hand and raising awareness for possible traps to fall into on the other hand side! Thx a lot!!!
My pleasure. Thank you!
In case you're interested, a couple of years ago Keith Rucker did a video about lathe bed leveling and eliminating bed twist. Might help with your tailstock alignment problems. Great vids, keep them coming!
Thanks! I might have to watch that. I did a vid on leveling and aligning my own, but that doesn't necessarily mean I did it correctly. That was also about a year ago now
As usual really fascinating. I don't know the first thing about what you are doing but the way you do it is superbe. I have seen all your videos and the way you comment your work is addictive. I look forward to the next episode of this trult amazin story. Marc from Belgium (excuse my French)
Thank you so much, Marc! Everyone is welcome here. Not just machinists!
I inherited my fathers Moore and Wright tap wrench which he bought as an apprentice during the war, I hadn’t used it much before I took it to the Scotchbright debuting wheel and polished the sharp knurling and nicely turned ends smooth. So much kinder to the hands and more pleasant to use.
Hey @Inheritance Machining, curious if you would prioritize the various tools and fixtures you’ve made in the same manner again or if you could go back and do it again would you have made certain things sooner. Keep up the great work!! You’re an inspiration to go out and start tinkering and making chips.
Oh for sure. This is one I wish I would have made earlier. I'm already using it for projects. Thanks!
This might sound a little mean, but I am looking forward to the episode where you need to make a new "Box of Shame" to accommodate everything that cannot fit in the current one. Otherwise, I love your straight forward and honest videos. Too many other folks will only show all the perfect things they've done. But you are willing to let all of us learn with you. Thank you so much!
Not mean at all! A larger box is inevitable. If I'm not making mistakes, I'm not learning. Thanks for the encouragement!
By the time it all ended, I had forgotten what it was going to be used for. So relaxing!
Turning the boring bar on the mill…simple out side the box thinking. I learn more in one of your videos than dozens of others! Thank you!
trying my best 😁 Thanks!
All hail the saga of making tapping threads not suck anymore than it has to.
Ditto!
I just noticed the parallel lines you’ve cut into your triangles to help with spacing your section lines. I did that on all of my triangles. On Architectural drawing the section lines are called pocheing. Hadn’t thought of that in many years.
Love that "Box Of Shame." Yeah, sometimes it's a shame, and sometimes lessons learned.
I really enjoy watching your videos because of how open you are about your learning experiences. Very inspiring to see this growth mindset in action.
Your content is awesome. I love your nonchalant way of taking on the mess ups.
I spend way too much time watching machining videos. Both to be entertained and to learn something. As for my personal machining I've spent too much time "learning " from my mistakes. Stefan Gotteswinter, Joe Pie & That Lazy Machinist are great teachers of the craft. They all explain "WHY" not just repeating "old wives'" methods. Thank you for the high quality videos. 100 years ago, I made drawings for the professor's papers, to help pay my way. All done in India ink, mostly cartography. I really like your drawings, bring back memories.
Another great video, another great tool. By the looks of it you'll soon need to build a chest of shame. Looking forward to the next one!
I sure hope not! 😂 thanks!
Nice job. Nice to know someone else has their own “box of shame”. I like how you got the lead pointer in this video. I still use an old-school straight edge with the cables and pulleys. I may get one of those drafting machines and step up to the ‘70s!
i love how you show the mistakes and issues you come across. It helps me realise when i make mistakes its okay and that even the best engineers can make mistakes.
CEE just finished up the big boring bar tool post and now we get an Inheritance machining video in the same week! Whoooo!
You can wind solid core copper wire around a thread to avoid damaging it when you have to clamp a part on a thread
Thanks for your honesty:) we all go through those "why didn't I think of that....?" Moments. Best foot forward!
I love these videos. Spent many years working in a job shop when I was younger. Makes me really miss making 'things'
I enjoy watching your knurling tool being used
Another interesting educational experience. You are working on needing a larger box! But your humor is appreciated. You actually show boo boos instead of editing them out. Highly commendable. Thanks to Grandpa for his buying skills!
Your grandfather would be proud. Love all of your videos and craftsmanship.
I never knew these existed, I do wood turning but occasionally have to tap a thread, bought one off the back of your video (can’t really make one on a wood lathe) and it’s made tapping so much easier
The drafting table footage is really nice.
I definitively love your videos. A mix of fantastic pictures of brilliant masterpieces and very calm and clear comments. My best compliments.
thank you very much!
I’ve watched since the beginning. I’ve been watching this old Tony for a years and this channel is just as great
That is very kind! Thank you
Everything this guy makes is always so classy.
A quick way to sweep in a drill (this is how we do it in a gang tool CNC lathe where we don't have a set X position) is to stick your dial indicator on the workpiece in the spindle (or in the spindle directly if you're not mid-process like this) and coaxially indicate the tool or a dowel in the holder. Super quick and accurate.
I've tried this technique before for another purpose and had trouble with the indicator/arm shifting under the changing gravity direction. Do you not run into this? May have just been I was using a less than rigid arm.
@@InheritanceMachining could be, I prefer to use the super short arm that came with my Mitutoyo tenths indicator directly in the spindle. I've seen sag with something like an Indicol. I recall an old time toolmaker showing me a trick to account for it but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
@@rickfinsta2951That makes sense. I imagine for compensating you could mount both stock in the chuck and the indicator on the chuck touching the stock and see if gravity changes the reading.
Good job. They're a really handy tool to have laying around. I've made a few over the years.
I thoroughly enjoy the drafting table. Having been brought up, in a age, being able to do it all in a computer, and working from isometric and 2d orthographic drawing... It's super satisfying using the drawings, the digital not so much.
Very nice job. A very useful tool. Thanks for sharing. Take care, Ed.
Thank you for sharing this invaluable tool
A tap follower was one of my first projects in machinists school, many years ago. I still have and use it. It is far simpler than the one you made but that was intentional due to the very real possibility of "evaporation". A surprising number of machinists out in the real world and here in the KZheads don't know what this is, especially considering how simple yet useful a tool this is. I have a favorite ratcheting tap handle that has the proper dimple on the back of it.
Looking forward to seeing you experiment with blueing all your homemade parts.
Love watching you learn the trade skills. Looking to retire in a few years and do this for fun!
I've been working my way through your videos and the hand drafting brings me back to highschool. I graduated in 2003 and I'm guessing those classes didn't last much longer after that. I really enjoyed those classes
I’m always so happy to see a new video from you. Out of the hundreds of channels I’m subscribed to, you’re one of only four that I have alerts on to notify me of new videos.
I really appreciate that! Thank you!
I finally have my shop fully operational. This is going to be my first project as it will also get me to dial in tail stock alignment and give me practice turning a MT3 which i will need for several different upcoming tools. Was thinking about making the main body a seperate piece and pressing in the taper shank as i think it would look neat to use aluminum bronze as the main body (and also act as a lubricated bushing of sorts for the movement of the pin). I will post pictures to your patreon when i get it done!
Oooh, I really like the design with the partial morse taper and straight shaft. Might make a similar one in the future once I get my lathe running again lol
Loved your box of shame haha! SUPER super video. Sometimes I feel like I'm alone in all those little errors along the way. Such is the life of a metal lover.
What I like at your videos is that you make mistakes and you show it. It is something that just happens and you don't hide it. Very sympathic. As a mechanical engineer with an apprenticeship of mechatronic technician before studying I collected some experience in the workshop, I know that mistakes just happen and you've to figure out how to deal with it. I love your "BOS" :) I had to comment this as you were doing the wrong correction on the tailstock. Greetings from Germany.
I appreciate the encouragement. A lot can be learned from making mistakes. Hopefully others learn from mine second hand as well. Thanks!
Great job. Thanks for taking the time for my enjoyment!
Your videos are therapy. very pleasant and soothing, almost to the point of clickspring
I appreciate that. Thank you
I haven’t even finished watching this yet, and I had to comment. Just got to the part where you mention the “Morse Taper”, and it reminded me of the grandfather I barely knew and inherited little because so was I when he passed. At this moment I am unsure of the dates, but he worked his way up from sweeping the floor in Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company to be the president of the company in the 60’s and possibly early 70’s. So now I’ve spent the last three hours looking up facts about tooling and the history of New Bedford and such (I’m not a machinist fyi). So side project 1 for tomorrow, is to talk to my 80 y/o father and get more information about a man I have scant memories of. But now back to finishing this video since I can’t sleep at this point until I do, three hours later than I planned on. I have few things from his time there, an index of drill bits, a tap set, and not much else. Much my father had was damaged in a flood, and I assume is gone. Keep making these videos, it is fantastic watching you make such fine things and also remain entertaining.
Excellent as always. Looking forward to the building of the 'cabinet of shame' 😉
It's a beautiful tool, excellently explained. I probably would have shrugged at the first mistake, though, and asked "How much difference will it make in the actual tapping of a hole? ANYTHING is a big improvement over free-handing it. Carry on."
i came across your channel a few months ago and ive been watching your content avidly. the quality of your content is really fantastic, i love watch the projects you make and how you humbly show your mistakes. i always give your videos a thumbs up and soon as i start watching. keep doing what youre doing, we love it.
Thank you so much!
I got to say, this my favorite channel, your drawings, your honesty, and your strive for perfection is really inspiring. Keep it up and I will be here watching!
Thanks a lot!
Your videos are always a must watch for me. Super satisfying and always well produced.
Thank you!
video from two of my favorite youtubers in one day??? today's a good day
With that hand drawing, you have a perfect role for engineering. I couldn't do that unless it's on a cad cam..
Every time I see you start a drawing, it makes me smile. Your K&E drafting machine reminds me of the ones I used in drafting class many years ago. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Thank you for the life lesson here...I needed that.
This channel is just gorgeous.
Love your work, thanks. Informative and inspiring, with a touch of sentiment of those past, repect for their skills and practices. One of my favorite chanels to watch.
Thank you very much
I love this Channel, The quality of production, your presentation skills and the workmanship are second to none.
That is very kind! Thank you
I love watching the drafting as well as I do the same for as many projects as I can.. However, my drafting arm is a little to big but I make do . Thanks again for the awesome videos!
Great video. I've never used my mill as a spare lathe but I may give that a shot at some point.
Your Box of Shame is getting dangerously full... We're gonna need a bigger box!😵💫
I just wanted to extend my gratitude for the fantastic videos you create about machining. Your content not only provides in-depth knowledge and practical insights into the world of machining, but also imbues valuable lessons on inheritance, character building, and the joy of making things. Your passion and dedication to your craft are truly inspiring, and I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from you. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and expertise with the world. Your videos are a joy to watch
That is incredibly kind of you to say. Thank you so much, Daniel! It has been my pleasure!
I've done hobby machining and a bit more intensive blacksmithing and it always amazes me how in both areas, when you need a tool, you simply make it. Seeing as how blacksmiths of old are still around only in the form of machinist today, it shouldn't suprise me but for some reason it still does. Oddly enough I had done the machining first in my dad's shop and had several projects stopped simply because I didn't have the right tool, it wasn't until I began training in blacksmithing that it occurred to me that I could have simply made the correct tool to complete those projects. Oh well, live and learn, now I just need to get back in the shop and get some stuff fired up.
I go to work, machine things, then drive home and watch Brandon machine things(only with signifincatly more skill than me). Some might say it's sad, some - weird, but I personally love it. Haven't even finished the video and I can already tell it'll be a great one. Can't wait to see what you've got lined up next for us!
😆 You sound like just about all of us. Once a machinist, always a machinist! Thanks as always, man!
Another awesome video. Love the design to make it universal between your machines.
Thanks, Keith!
These videos are so great because each one is a story. :D
You've been creating some really awesome content over the past year. I've already binged all your videos and have learned a lot. Can't wait to see more! Keep up the great work.
It's been a wild year to say the least. Thank you!
I chanced on your channel a week ago. I love the video's. I will never own or operate any of the machines. But your video's show the love you have for using them. The mistakes only show you are human and learning. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much. Welcome!
This channel makes me so happy.
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