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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by kustombuilder, Jan 16, 2008.

  1. Brendan1959
    Joined: Jun 26, 2008
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    Seeing as there have been some vices shown.
    Her is one I built some 25 years ago, only because one of my work mates who was a welder said I could not build one (I am an electrician) It has served me well I recommend brass soft jaws. Even though I can now afford a store bought version I see no need to replace it. And it has been abused no end.
    Brendan
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  2. bobbytnm
    Joined: Dec 16, 2008
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    Isn't it amazing the thing we can do when someone says "you can't"??
    good job
    Bobby
     
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  3. Brendan1959
    Joined: Jun 26, 2008
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    I recall the hardest part was cutting the square (acme?) threads.
     
  4. cretin
    Joined: Oct 10, 2006
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    Nothing earth shattering here, but made this cam bearing tool for the flathead I'm working on.

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  5. gatz
    Joined: Jun 2, 2011
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    Very good work there, Brendan.

    How did you cut the acme threads?
    And, the nut ?
     
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  6. woodbutcher
    Joined: Apr 25, 2012
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    :DHi Gat.Ahhhhhhhhhh.Very carefully?:rolleyes::p
    Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
    Leo
     
  7. whtbaron
    Joined: Sep 12, 2012
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    from manitoba

    LOL... not the answer we were looking for. I know you can buy the ACME threaded rod, but I also would like to hear how he threaded the nut.
     
  8. ROADSTER1927
    Joined: Feb 14, 2009
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    You can also buy the nuts, weld a tab on and WALLA! Gary
     
  9. bobbytnm
    Joined: Dec 16, 2008
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    wow! I'm super impressed now. You cut your own acme threads? THATS dedication.
    Good job
     
  10. When a friend of mine was taking machinist classes at the local vo-tech in the mid 70's, he showed me one of
    his projects: an Acme threaded rod and nut, that when you set it upright the nut spun down the threads by gravity.
    I was impressed, wouldn't have believed it was possible. Said he threaded the rod on a lathe and made the nut on a mill and lathe.
     
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  11. Brendan1959
    Joined: Jun 26, 2008
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    How did you cut the acme threads?
    And, the nut ?[/QUOTE]

    Well as I said it was a while ago, however as an apprentice electrician I worked for an Australian car parts manufacturer REPCO in the maintenance team. They were keen on training so they had 2 apprentice training schools to train fitters and turners, this was in addition to the apprenticeship commission one day a week at trade school, I recall about 120 apprentices each year. Each fitting apprentice spent the first 12 month in full time training at one of the centres, and just so we were multi skilled, electrical apprentices got the first 6 months training as fitters.
    One of the projects we had to make was a bottle Jack, it had inside and outside, left hand and right hand, multi start square threads, I remembered just enough to make one for my vice. Its a shame no one does this level of training now .
    I still have the jack somewhere.

    Brendan
     
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  12. blue 49
    Joined: Dec 24, 2006
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    from Iowa

    When I went to trade school, one of our projects was a step shaft with, I think, five different diameters. Each diameter had to be single point threaded with a different type of thread, acme, buttress, left hand and I don't recall what else. When I was ready to turn mine in, the instructor told me he wanted knurled nuts for each, too. I still have it somewhere. I can't imagine doing one that long and have it come out good, though.

    Gary
     
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  13. Brendan1959
    Joined: Jun 26, 2008
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    Well as I said it was a while ago, however as an apprentice electrician I worked for an Australian car parts manufacturer REPCO in the maintenance team. They were keen on training so they had 2 apprentice training schools to train fitters and turners, this was in addition to the apprenticeship commission one day a week at trade school, I recall about 120 apprentices each year. Each fitting apprentice spent the first 12 month in full time training at one of the centres, and just so we were multi skilled, electrical apprentices got the first 6 months training as fitters.
    One of the projects we had to make was a bottle Jack, it had inside and outside, left hand and right hand, multi start square threads, I remembered just enough to make one for my vice. Its a shame no one does this level of training now .
    I still have the jack somewhere.

    Brendan[/QUOTE]
    Found it
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  14. 64 DODGE 440
    Joined: Sep 2, 2006
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    from so cal

    Found it
    View attachment 3170883 View attachment 3170884 [/QUOTE]

    That's a nice looking unit. It deserves to be cleaned up and put on display.
     
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  15. gatz
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    Cutting ACME threads is not the easiest thing to do on a lathe. You can buy threading inserts for chasing the threads, but if you have to make your own threading tool, it's a bit of a challenge.

    As re the internal threads of a nut, that's even trickier to make the threading tool.
    However, there are taps for most common sizes of ACME internal threads....read $$

    A friend of mine got very good at threading L & R ACME screws on the same piece of Stress-Proof and the corresponding nuts out of Ampco 18. IIRC Ø5/8 to Ø1".....Not for the faint of heart.
     
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  16. henry's57bbwagon
    Joined: Sep 12, 2008
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    As a machinist I made many Acme threaded shafts and nuts. No big deal when you have the equipment. Even fab'd triple start shafts and nuts.
     
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  17. archauto
    Joined: Oct 14, 2010
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    from Co

    Brendan, Nice 46 Ford!
     
  18. hotrod428
    Joined: Feb 7, 2007
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    McMaster-Carr sells the acme rod and the nuts, Fastenal might also.
     
  19. bobbytnm
    Joined: Dec 16, 2008
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    Brendan[/QUOTE]
    Found it
    ][/QUOTE]

    Brendan,
    Thanks for the info and for finding the jack. Not too many in-house training programs like that anymore.
    Bobby
     
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  20. loudbang
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    Jeeze and I thought we were doing good having to make a simple H puller out of bar stock at our school. :rolleyes:
     
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  21. treb11
    Joined: Jan 21, 2006
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    I was shown this valve spring compressor today. made from a junk rocker arm
    valve spring tool.jpg
     
  22. Sporty45
    Joined: Jun 1, 2015
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    Love it! The simpler the tool, the better. Especially when giving new life to junk parts. :cool:
     
  23. We had to make nice little (but useless) hammers for half the period and then spend the rest watching '50s driving safety films, you know, the kind with bloody, burnt, decapitated, etc bodies. I took the class so I could learn something; but found that in reality the powers that be "sentenced" the hoodlums (they got to make knives, brass knuckles, and other stuff like that) to Metal Shop and there were more of them than there was room for, thus the split period. But; I did learn how to kinda operate a lathe, shaper, mill, harden metals, etc.
     
  24. ago
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    from pgh. pa.

    Working as a machinist in a research laboratory, Every thing was different almost every day. You had to use your head to machine the parts. Acme threads was one of the simple projects.
     
  25. Dan Timberlake
    Joined: Apr 28, 2010
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    I wonder if that was multi start thread.
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AnwEQPl8NKg/VBeoCFZIG3I/AAAAAAAAA1E/2EJwr3EHSiY/s1600/multiStart.gif
     
  26. JC Sparks
    Joined: Dec 8, 2008
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    from Ohio

    Over the years I have cut a number of acme threads ID and OD. Cut a few with double and triple leads. It's all in the setup. JC
     
  27. DDDenny
    Joined: Feb 6, 2015
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    from oregon

    My first machinist job out of school, the leadman gives me a print to machine some shafts with acme threads.
    I told him that I had never made acme threads before. He said "after today you won't be able to say that".
     
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  28. Ulu
    Joined: Feb 26, 2014
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    from CenCal

    The guy that gave me the big vise got a hold of this cast iron Baldor bandsaw and a 1960s Craftsman drill press, all of which we are in the process of restoring with my homemade, lo-cost, junkyard de-rusting equipement: an old orange juice drum and some old copper tubing and bits of galvanized tin and bailing wire, plus my ancient battery charger.
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    This is after a dip + the Jasco acid wash, scrubbed with a stainless steel brush. The base was a rusty mess but it still had a nice paint on the bottom once that dirt and rust was removed in my tank. If you like machinery, you just gotta love real old-fashioned cast-iron . . .
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    The platten was as rusty as the other parts you see.
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    Dipping the pole, or should I say, "the gratuitous pole dipping shot."
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    Freshly greased, in plastic wrap. The arm and gearbox for the platten, plus fence and small bolts.
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    Final burnishing on the Mighty Baldor.
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    The head unit is next and then we start painting.
     
    Last edited: Mar 31, 2016
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  29. atch
    Joined: Sep 3, 2002
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    Tool to install grease seal; 8" ford axle:

    I don't have any way to take and upload pix, but here's what I did. I don't have any fancy installation tool and don't have a lathe to make one. I took a long (8" - 10") 3/8" grade 5 bolt, two nuts, and a stack of fender washers about an inch high. I put the washers between the two nuts at the end of the bolt. This gave me a tool with a long enough shaft to see that I had it aligned with the centerline of the axle housing. I just smacked it a few times with a ball peen hammer and the seal seated right in. Simple. Cheap (free; the parts went back into the fastener bins when done). Effective. And quick.
     
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  30. bigheadbaxter
    Joined: Feb 18, 2007
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    I'm sure this has been done before. Works well for cutting bolts to length on my band saw ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1460149751.779733.jpg ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1460149762.862808.jpg ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1460149772.378731.jpg
     

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