| Make Your Own Tooling |
Subject: Make Your Own Tooling by BillH on 2011/12/22 13:46:05 I like buying tools but I like making them much more especially "Low Usuage" ones. When I was at Steve's machine shop painting his locomotive engine. I told him I wanted to use his lathe to make a punch cause my lathe has a hiccup right now. The pinch is used to stake the trailing arm bushings in place on a C2/3. He said, just make the whole thimg while you're at it. I did the punch on the lathe, he programed his CNC mill for the plates, took him a minute and a half. Made the whole tool in 35 minutes. The smaller locating pin in one plate is a .001 press fit. I have to get 2 bolts today. Total cost - $4 First pic is the $100 tool from the Corvette catalogs.  |
