Making a UNIVERSAL Tap Follower || INHERITANCE MACHINING
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- 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?
FAQ
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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?
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.
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 !
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
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... 😢
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
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.
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 🙏
This is easily the best channel on UA-cam if you're any way inclined towards the engineering process. And all in a year. Amazing
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.
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 😂
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 !
Your grandfather would be proud. Love all of your videos and craftsmanship.
Love that "Box Of Shame." Yeah, sometimes it's a shame, and sometimes lessons learned.
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 :(
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.
I’m loving this channel. And the best part about being late to the party is the full back catalogue to binge on!
God these videos are theraputic to watch. I can see through the videos as his skill (and tools) get better and better, love it
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!
All hail the saga of making tapping threads not suck anymore than it has to.
Ditto!
By the time it all ended, I had forgotten what it was going to be used for. So relaxing!
Cool project. Goes to show that 'simple' is never simple. Looking forward to seeing the follower in action in future projects!
Thanks!
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
CEE just finished up the big boring bar tool post and now we get an Inheritance machining video in the same week! Whoooo!
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!
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
Thanks for your honesty:) we all go through those "why didn't I think of that....?" Moments. Best foot forward!
This is, literally, my new favorite channel.
I appreciate it, man!
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!
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.
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’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
video from two of my favorite youtubers in one day???
today's a good day
You can wind solid core copper wire around a thread to avoid damaging it when you have to clamp a part on a thread
I love these videos. Spent many years working in a job shop when I was younger. Makes me really miss making 'things'
You’ve just made , working Saturday easier.
4th times a charm 😂
Your content is awesome. I love your nonchalant way of taking on the mess ups.
Love to see that your grandfather was a fan of Magpul. 🙂
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.
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.
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.
The drafting table footage is really nice.
That box-o-shame is getting full!
With that hand drawing, you have a perfect role for engineering. I couldn't do that unless it's on a cad cam..
Your Box of Shame is getting dangerously full... We're gonna need a bigger box!😵💫
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!
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!
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.
You’re like the only UA-cam machinist that adjusts the tail stock for alignment. It really bugs me when I see lathe tail stock drills visibly deflect on camera from mis alignment.
It's a pain in the butt, but It's needed for a lot of things
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!
"It's still pretty tight. But clearance is clearance"
I need that on a t-shirt 😂😂
Premise: Hey, is that a rabbit hole?
Video: pure gold.
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!
The only ones that don't make mistakes are the ones that do nothing.
Nice job!
This channel is just gorgeous.
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."
This channel makes me so happy.
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I'm excited when the "Box of Shame" Becomes the "Crate of Despair"
Your grandfather must be/would have been proud of your work - both machining and video making!
You really knock it out of the park with these videos. Every time I watch one I start combing craigslist and etsy for a drafting desk.
😁 Not a bad tool to have around the shop/house. Thanks!
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!
Thank you Sir and well done... The fourth time.
Someday, once you're a mega star. That Box Of Shame is gonna be worth a lot. So hold on to it, fill it and prosper.
😂 I've got people asking for the scrap bits already. I'm reluctant to let them go. Too much blood sweat and tears!
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!
Not to take anything away from the other aspects of your videos, but I could watch you draught/draft for hours!
I'll have to do another drafting video soon them 😁
NICE! Just had a surgery and I’m recovering right now. Good timing! Look forward to these videos every week.
Thank you! Get well soon!
I enjoy watching your knurling tool being used
Your videos are therapy. very pleasant and soothing, almost to the point of clickspring
I appreciate that. Thank you
As someone who is doing an aprentiship as an industriemechaniker (english industrial mechanic) I love this so much. Its what I do on a dailey Basis, I absolute adore that I get to do this everyday, and its done in such a fun and informative way. I just wish I had such an oportunity that I could do this aswell. I wish you all the best in your ongoing journy Inheritance Machining
Thank you!
To use one of the kindest things ever said to me "Another week of excellence I've come to expect from you." Not just the machining, but the presentation. Complacency bites us all eventually, and I really wish every engineer would watch your channel just to fully understand the cost of precision and the importance of designing for production. If I had any contacts left at MSOE, I'd tell every one of them about your videos.
Well that is very kind of you to say. Thank you. I'm an engineer coming from a machining background and I still learn something new every day that helps me in the design world.
PS: my father in law went to MSOE in the 80's for EE.
@@InheritanceMachining It's quite the small world. Please give him my best; I have fond memories of the school and anyone who went there feels like a long lost cousin.
Watching your video while I finish up homework in my Mechanical engineering cad class! Thanks for the motivation, and distraction…
That's the way to do it! Thanks, man
These videos are so great because each one is a story. :D
Everything this guy makes is always so classy.
Another awesome video. Love the design to make it universal between your machines.
Thanks, Keith!
Brandon, I am happy to see that you finally made a tap follower. It came out great.
About time, right? Thanks!
@@InheritanceMachining Yep, cannot wait to see your next project.
That is a cool and versatile tap chaser and of course it had to have the cap knurled hehe. Too bad it took so many tries to get the body right, at this pace the box of shame will quickly turn into the trunk of shame followed by the big cabinet of shame a.k.a. “Scrap stock” lol but your projects are entertaining as always. Keep up the good work Brandon!
I call my “box of shame” a “recycling pile” and many parts become reincarnated.
Thanks, Leo!
Great video Keep it up. 5th generation, 23 year machinist here. Your order of operations bit you on the body. Always move from most coarse to most fine operation. Drill before turning. Drill a center larger than the drill, drill then turn on with the center. In fact always turn on a center anytime projection length exceeds 3x diameter. If end to end taper and concentricity are critical finish turning between centers. Stay at it brother. Much love, it takes a village to raise a child and a whole lot more to raise a machinist and here you are all on your own. I'd love to see a bio video on your grandfather.
That's great advice. Thank you!
Best New Channel, bar none 👍… on content, narration, vid quality, and authenticity.
Thank you 🙏
Great job. Thanks for taking the time for my enjoyment!
I have a feeling that machining is much like my blacksmithing in that by the time you can make all the tools you would need you are pretty much ready to take on work for real people.
You have a skill that in many ways can be taught but taking it to the point that you do is more of a passion and you have to have that something extra for that.
thankyou for sharing.
Thats a good way of looking at it. Thank you for your kind words as always
Nice work Brandon! Those test indicators only measure absolute distance at a specific angle for the stylus. Everything else is subject to cosine error. A plunger indicator is always what I reach for when dealing with tailstock alignment. Thanks for the content!
Thanks and very good point! I'll have to do the math to figure out how much that cosine error is for the 10 thou travel of the stylus
Vertical camera angle on the cap turning was great.
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!
Never get complacent. I guess “Measure twice, cut once” never gets old lol.
That sure was an unexpected roller coaster ride. Well done on negotiating the bumps and reverse turns. You got there in the end with a beautifully designed and executed tool.
As for your box of shame, it contains important memories and lessons learned. 👏👏👍😀
Thank you!
We’ll. Ive come across a new favorite channel. From the name understating how you’ve learned and now the next generation of your family to use the machinery. I’m sure your grandfather is just beaming on you with joy and smiles. And also saying “you should have done that this way.” Ha. I really need to dust off my old table and drafting tools for my future ideas as well. Freshen up on practice. Your quality on videos is quite appreciated by many of that I’m sure. Keep it up. This channel is special.
Thank you so much, Paul! And welcome!