TECH, Homemade dimple dies, flaring holes

Thank you to the OP for this thread.
I got my projects new frame this past weekend, and I wanted to make my own 10 gauge boxing plates with flared holes down it..
I have been planning to buy a mini-lathe for months now. This seems like a good project for it.

 

Wow, 3 year old post, but I've never seen it before!

Killer idea and work, Chris!

 

Harbor Freight sells a punch set that punches pipe sized holes (a 2" pipe measures 2 3/8" and a 3" pipe measures 3 1/2"). It goes on sale periodically and is downright cheap with a 20% coupon. The thing works great and comes with dies up to a 2" pipe size hole. They sell a 3" pipe die separately. The 3" punched the 18 ga inner door panels stacked 2 thick like butter. The dimple die is made from some thick walled tube and works with the hydraulic kit.

 

But for whom?

 

"Never send to know for whom the belled holes; it holes for thee."




Ah... a Hemingway pun.

Never let it be said that I haven't tried to make this place a little classier.