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Phineas J. Whoopee
Приєднався 18 кві 2013
The Stupidly Simple Designs of Phineas J Whoopee. Feel free to copy or improve as you see fit. None of these will ever get a patent, but I hope they may prove useful. All contributions, whether monetary or intellectual, are gratefully accepted.
Auto-Retract Threader, The Next Generation
This is my second design for an auto-retract threading tool. It features a full one inch retract, allowing it to clear shoulder diameters nearly two inches larger than the thread. For purchase info email autoretractthreader@gmail.com
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Відео
Making Chips
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This is a video of some of the mill work required to make my auto-retract threading tools. I've been very impressed with the performance of these inserts, both in the APKT/APMT and SEKT configurations.
Semi-Automatic Threading to a Shoulder
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Using the automatic threading stop and auto-retract threading tool on a South Bend Heavy 10L. With apologies for the focus, my phone isn't as good as my camera. ua-cam.com/video/U4gDuL0VDRQ/v-deo.html
An Accidental Milling Vise
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A classic example of project creep. It started out so simple.
Auto-Retract Threading Stainless Steel
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This is a test of the ability of the threading tool to resist chatter. The material is 1 in. diameter stainless steel pump shaft (grade unknown), threading 8 threads per inch. This is the coarsest thread which the tool and insert are capable of cutting.
Auto-Retract Threading Tool
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Demo of my recently developed automatic retract threading tool. This tool uses standard 16ER-AG60 threading inserts which will cut from 8 to 48 threads per inch. It is triggered by a stop fixed to the lathe bed.
Black Bear vs Trash Can IV: Mother & Child
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This time it's a female with cub. There was a trash bag with watermelon and canteloup rinds that had some holes in it, so despite the ammonia, the smell attracted this bear. She didn't spend a lot of time before moving on to easier pickings.
Black Bear vs Trash Can III: The Bear is Back
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In our previous episodes, the trash can went 4 rounds with the bear, being knocked out in the 4th round. ua-cam.com/video/mQgL4pN54t4/v-deo.html Lessons learned from that defeat led to the improvements that went into Version 2. Waste Management was kind enough to provide a NEW container for this version. The bear did not seem as motivated this time, which I believe is due to steps to control odor.
Black Bear vs Trash Can II: Round 4
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This is his fourth attempt, and he finally breaks the hinges, freeing the lid. Time to call WM for a new container. Here is the first round: ua-cam.com/video/raDtoQgMjlg/v-deo.html
Black Bear vs Trash Can, aka I Fought the Bear and I Won.
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Since the Dixie fire in 2021, we've had a major uptick in problems with displaced bears. Being tired of picking up the mess, I started putting our trash in the back of a little used car until the morning of pickup. That worked well for 2 years, then not so much. Not wishing to suffer any further property damage, and finding that WM had nothing to offer, I decided to fortify my trash container. ...
Extreme Winter
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Driving home this afternoon, there was lightning, thunder and graupel pouring down. It was deafening inside my little car.
Homelite Electric Log Splitter, 12 Year Update
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It's been 9 years since I posted the first video about this splitter, so I decided it was time for an update. I purchased this splitter in 2010, I'm still very pleased with it. I see that Home Depot no longer carries the Homelite branded splitter, but they do have the Ryobi model, which is identical. Still $299 after all these years.
Semi-Automatic Threading on a South Bend Heavy 10L
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Demonstrating the automatic threading stop and threading tool retractor operating together.
The Retractor
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Automatic threading tool retractor, cutting 3/4-16 threads. I've seen a few other approaches to this, but they all seem unnecessarily complex. This is my stupidly simple design.
Single Point Threading on South Bend Heavy 10 with Automatic Threading Stop
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Threading 3/4-10 with my automatic threading stop, another stupidly simple design.
Automatic Threading Stop on South Bend Heavy 10 Lathe
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Automatic Threading Stop on South Bend Heavy 10 Lathe
Harbor Freight/Meyer T5 Hybrid Truck Bed Crane
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Harbor Freight/Meyer T5 Hybrid Truck Bed Crane
Meyer T5 Snowplow Pump on a Harbor Freight Truck Bed Crane
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Meyer T5 Snowplow Pump on a Harbor Freight Truck Bed Crane
Mounting a Meyer T5 snow plow pump on a Harbor Freight truck bed crane
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Mounting a Meyer T5 snow plow pump on a Harbor Freight truck bed crane
My Southbend Heavy 10L Earning Its Keep
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My Southbend Heavy 10L Earning Its Keep
Foot Pedal Modification for Homelite Electric Splitter
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Foot Pedal Modification for Homelite Electric Splitter
It's doing a decent job of it.
Would you have construction drawings that I may purchase, for the manufacture of this marvellous tool you have made ?
When are the prints coming out. I would like to have one
Do you have plans?
Winky gave me this link. It's clever and useful. It's also something that's going on my very long "To Do" list. I'm a retired EE/ET, so my old brain is leaning toward a 2 Solenoid design. One for the Compound and one for the Half Nut. My lathe is a 1965 Heavy 10. She was manufactured when I was 18 and knee deep in rice paddies. Compared to me,... the old girl is in great shape!😕 Wakodahatchee Chris
Very nice work! 👍🏻
Compound feeding
Very nice!
I am 79 years old and my reflexes are shot. I just crashed the threader into the shoulder of my project. I needed to have threads all the way but even at the slowest speed it was too fast for this old Marine. Do you sell a BXA version and what would it cost to send to NE Pennsylvania? (18818). Thanks for sharing your talent.
I do sell a BXA. Contact me at autoretractthreader@gmail.com
Excellent! It would be great to somehow rig linkage to reverse the spindle instead of disengaging the half nut.
Sounds good but unless your lathe happens to have a zero-lash ball leadscrew, reversing the spindle and carriage without retracting the cutter will cause the cutter to track a different path due to backlash in the leadscrew.
Looks like the cutter is being pushed back slightly as it hits the threads on second version?? Not good, position repeatability probably not great?
It's the entire cross-slide pushing back. It gets pushed forward, due to lash in the screw, when the tool is reset.
3/4 in would work thanks let me know and also which email do you want me to use have a Great Day
Contact me at autoretractthreader@gmail.com
how can i buy one your email does not work
I just tested it, the email is working. Try copy and paste instead of typing it. Let me know what type/size toolpost you have.
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I like that
that is really cool
How much? I could use one on my lathe with a axa tool post holder
email autoretractthreader@gmail.com for info
Similar to "The Shed Dweller" design. Have you seen it??
Yes. I saw his and thought "I can make that, only Stupidly Simple".
That’s awesome
How much are you charging for these?
email autoretractthreader@gmail.com for info.
Nice bit of kit for old fellas with slower reflexes.👍
...wait... old fellahs? Slow reflex. You'd think after living for over 50 years, your reflexes would get better in old age. Hence the saying, practice makes perfect.
Taking the skill out of machining. Brilliant.
Just reducing the stress and anxiety, skill still required.
@@phineasj.whoopee3301 Anxiety? sheesh. I loved single pointing, did a few quad leads in school just cause.
Nice design, but I've been doing this by hand, for some years now. Regards JB
This is marvelous! Can I buy one or the plans?
I have units for sale, contact me at autoretractthreader@gmail.com
That’s pretty slick.
I think you should use two springs each side, or top and bottom to keep sideways play and wear to a minimum, or a single concentric spring like a solder sucker uses.
As currently designed, there is no place to put an opposing spring. A concentric spring is possible if added at the back end between the holder and reset knob. This would require about 3 inches extension behind the holder.
Very nice craftsmanship. However if you're lazy you can flip your tool upside down and run spindle in reverse. That way you can take your time setting it up on the shoulder and feed out away from the spindle and then no rush for crashing. Joe Pie showed this technique
Gets pretty dicey with a threaded spindle nose.
Great idea. I wish you a successful patent application.
No plans to apply for a patent. If it is even patentable, the cost of obtaining a patent, while high, is nothing compared to the cost of defending one. I'm happy just to make and sell them.
@@phineasj.whoopee3301 No patent - good man. I completely agree that the cost and hassle is not worth it and defending is a money pit. I send you my high respect and best regards from Victoria 🇨🇦
It’s in the public domain now. No chance of a patent.
@@lesmansom7817 That was the plan, I didn't intend to patent it and now no one else can.
Very cool.....I'll just flip the tool upside down for now
Oh goodness I can't imagine life without this. Oh yeah I can
Just thread away from the chuck and towards the tailstock. Joe Pie just re-released his video on how this is done.
I've done it before, but it can get dicey with a threaded spindle nose.
@@phineasj.whoopee3301 very true. Any tips to prevent it from unthreading? Maybe using some pipe tape to give it a tighter fit?
One inch of retraction… pfff
Creative video, thanks :)
You might want to check out the geometric die head.
I used one a lot when I worked in the trade. Sometimes you still have to single-point.
Wow! Very impressive.
Great idea!
What are you planning to do with this? I began to design one of these as well, but ended up getting Geometric die heads instead. I still single point threads larger than 3/4” though, so this is still of interest.
I am simply making and selling them. If someone wants to copy the idea they are welcome to do so.
Well it looks like it works great, but I could see it having rigidity issues. I can't tell in the video, but unless you have a precision slide for the tool retract, there's going to be some free play side to side and up-down.
Each tool is individually fitted to provide the absolute minimum clearance, both in vertical and horizontal. Rigidity is not a problem.
the dreaded backlash
You have a workable tool, that will help you. One change that I would recommend if and when you get the itch to go for number five, would be to change the retraction angle to run parallel to the right thread flank. This will move the tool roughly .5” away from the shoulder, which gives a bit of safety for the operator’s reflexes.
That sounds like an entirely new device which would need a different mechanism
Great design. We shared this video on our homemade tool forum last week, and people really liked it 😎
I loved screw cutting and made hundreds of threads. I never disengaged the half-nut, always retracted the cross slide by hand and put the lathe in reverse. It was all one-off work, no production runs. I remember some odd ball pitch jobs when I used the feed screw instead of the lead screw to thread cut. Mostly I ground my own cutting tools from hss.
Never seen a lathe with a feed screw, only feed shaft and lead screw, the former shaft being smooth with either 1 or 2 keyways. Smaller lathes that don’t have a feed shaft and having only a leadscrew for both functions, being the exception. I’m curious though what you mean by cutting the oddball pitches via the feed shaft. Is it that you set the feed/rev to the pitch req’d and did it that way? If you’re ever disengaging and reversing the spindle I suppose it would work but there’s not the positive indexing that comes with the lead screw. Anyway…
@@matter9 it's ok, small difference in terminology aside, you have understood correctly. I was a Toolmaker not an english professor, but it seems I can still get my message across. Cheers.
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Do you sell plans of the tool?
No. 🙂
You said you are making the BX size version. I'd be interested in one. I didn't see a private contact info so .........
contact me at autoretractthreader@gmail.com
Very nice. I need an axa for my 12x40
Contact me at autoretractthreader@gmail.com
I guess after 40 years of turning threads I found it easy once you put an undercut at the end of the thread near the shoulder the same size, or just under, as the threàds minor diameter.
Few hobbyists will ever get to do enough threading to become comfortable, and sometimes a thread relief is not allowed.
@@phineasj.whoopee3301as a hobbyist an undercut would be way easier than building something as complicated as you have and I can't think of a reason not to undercut
Awesome, very smart. Wowww
beyond pointless for internal threading, tho.
I can't be all things to all people.
Absolument génial !
Dern good idea. I like #4 as it has minimal tool movement when it picks up the cut.
The force of resetting the tools pushes the entire carriage forward due to lash in the cross-feed screw. If you watch carefully, the movement you see is actually the entire carriage pushing back. I've since developed a technique for resetting that doesn't push the carriage forward.
@@phineasj.whoopee3301 yeah I saw that movement. There may be an adjustment in the nut on the cross slide. Or replace the nut if its badly worn. But still a cool idea. Im a 39 year machinist and like seeing innovative ideas. I could have used a tool like this for many thousands of parts.
@@martinswiney2192 Some of my employees could have used it .