DIY Boring Head Build | Made From Scratch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2021
- G'day everyone,
I have been wanting to get my hands on a boring head ever since I bought the mill. These tools are vital in boring specific sized holes with the mill, and is a very useful mill tool to have on hand. However a quality boring bar is not an inexpensive tool, and even a budget import model will set you back over $100.
I had some off cuts of cold rolled steel from an old project laying around, so I decided to turn it into a DIY boring head, along with some brass scrap.
Making a boring head was surprisingly easy to do, however it does require a lot of set up and patience. I hope you enjoy the video.
Cheers
Mill: Sieg x2.7l mini mill
Lathe: Sieg c3 7x14 mini lathe
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The good thing about the hacksaw is you get your years workout all at one time.
Great build!
Thanks for sharing,
Cheers
Really enjoy your 'just to do it' videos - exemplifying the have fun in the shed factor!
Great work, I have a commercial one about that size and it does heaps. The horizontal hole on mine takes an adaptor that holds round HSS at an angle for use as a fly cutter. You could use a left hand tool and insert with a bend in the bar. Sometimes I use it in the tail stock of the lathe as a boring bar if I don't want to change out the tool post for some reason. It has straight and MT2 and MT3 shanks that screw in. Thanks for posting.
Love your channel, I think it's good inspiration to show others what can be done with 'on hand' materials, and a limited Budget, to make a tool that's adequate for a vast number of jobs. Keep up the good work man! Cheers from the states!
Gotta love machining! Whatever you can dream up, you can make!
Machining gives life to creativity!
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That’s a really neat tool. If I could make a suggestion for when you’re making a cut such as at 5:18 or so, if you plunge in Z and then retract it, move X, and then plunge again, and so on it helps speed up roughing. Especially when doing rough cutting in a small machine. I have a bench top Smithy a little larger than this
Inspirational build which turned out very nice. Well done 👍👏👏😀
Pretty nice shop made tool there!
Keep em coming!!!!
Outstanding project. Very nice work!
This guy gets allot done with small machinery thats for sure! Good job!
You are my hacksaw hero. Great video. Cheers to you.
Just a little tip...when you are work holding something on the edge of the vise like at least for a proper mechanist vise like you have now put something on the other end that is just a little smaller say half to 1 mm on the other side. Precision vises like that don't like to be unevenly loaded. This will greatly improve your grab on the work piece and the vise will thank you as well.
I had that thought the second I turned off the camera :) Cheers
It can be used for light clamping at the edge. That's why the jaw is constrained from pivoting sideways. The puck in the other end if used will have to be pretty much the same size (+0/-0,2 or so) but 1mm is way too small
I've tested this and on the ones i usually use, you get ~45-60% (varied from vise to vise) of the clamping force if you only use the outer 10mm on a 150mm vise
To get 100%, i needed .05mm accuracy on the second block (i also realised that i only get ~90% when using saw-cut stock)
Pretty damn good job . Looks very functional.
Thanks for taking the time to make the video! It takes a lot of work to complete a nice project like yours.
It is great to see the methods you used to achieve the finished result. Years ago I purchased an inexpensive boring head that has built in runout. At this point I think I’d have been better off making one☺️
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Nice work. There are mt3 collets that fit in to the spindle taper and are held by the drawbar. They save you some Z axis space.
I have actually ordered one, it's in part the reason why the shank diameter had to be as close to 18mm as I could get. I'm not sure if the clamping range of these collets, but I assume it's similar to 5c.
Good job as usual. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week :)
You need a bigger LIKE button man.
Excellent work.
For marking the dial it would be possible to rig up an indexing wheel on the headstock of the lathe and just run the cross slide across the face to engrave your lines. Looks really good though, I think I'll be making one of my own soon.
Nicely done mate.
Very nicely done.👍👍👍
Nice work! Congrats! Think about reducing a cutter shank twice - this give you a less lever effect which is very important on small mills.
Cheers, I am definitely considering reducing the bottom piece by about 10mm.
Very nice work done!! 😃
Very very nice work. Good one!
Excellent job, great video.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for the video.
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Hi well done and thanks for sharing your video
Seriously excellent work man! Looks perfect.
The only thing that I could suggest is maybe getting some morse taper collets and reducing your shank size so it fits in those collets, it would increase the rigidity and give you a little more room in the z axis! But seriously excellent work!!
Thankyou, I have ordered one and I'm waiting for it to arrive. It's in part why the shank had to be just a smidge under 18mm. I have never used a Morse taper collet, but I assume they have a comparable clamping range to 5c collets. Cheers
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Nice work!
Nice job dude.
On a rounded surface, you can also spot drill with a ball end mill. The ball end mill won’t be able to wander. I think a center drill also works to a point.
Never thought of that but that would seem to make sense, I don't have any ball end mills bit I'll have to give it a try when I do. Cheers
Ha this is awesome, nice litte shop you got there
Very innovative! I like it! :)
Nice work mate, great watch keep it up
Thankyou
Well done mate..
Very impressive, I have two but I shall make a small one 🇬🇧👍.
Nice video, thank you :)
Very inspiring. I keep teetering on get a cheap one or making one. Where I live, the stock would cost about as much as just buying a cheap one. This seems really great! Maybe I can find some truck axle or something to solidify a DIY. You have certainly shown it is not difficult!
Go to a salvage yard where you can remove parts. Find a rear end up in the air and snatch the axle out. Good high carbon steel that’s cheap and easy to get. Think I paid 8 dollars and some change. I still have over a foot I can make other stuff with.
Great work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very nice project 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Like your videos keep up the good work 👍
Glad you like them, Thankyou
Another great video
Glad you enjoyed it, cheers
very impressive. it looks like a spaceship component
can you use this boring head in the lathe as well?
Thank you
Brilliant
Hahaha! So many this old tony references here 😅😁
Very nice
Ahhh the 2mm. It really works best if you just give it all the RPMs. Boring heads are bloody useful for manual milling tho, fantastic addition to your shop!
Yeah when it snapped I gave myself the look of 'that was totally avoidable' :)
hi mate, awesome videos. Where are you finding the all these projects? do you have a book?
Watching DIY project
My favorite type of machining. Fuck it, it will work machining.
exellent work..👍👍✌✌💝💝
Thank you! Cheers!
اشكرك على هذا العطاء والفيديو لكن لدي سؤال لو سمحت
هل استطيع ان اضع ريشه ثقب وشكرا
Does it hold the boring bar in the right location to get the correct rake on the cutting tip?
Nice build. Kindly share where you get those carbide insert and holder. Thanks
Agreed!
I'm thinking of re-boring the casting on my cheap drill press to add tighter fit sleeves. But I don't have a milling machine and doing it on another cheap drill press doesn't seem reasonable. I might just pay a turner to do it but I'm prepared it might just cost more than half of the ionitial price of the drill press.
Very nice, good set by set, might make one myself. What cutting fluid do you use, as I used wd-40 but it’s far to smoky.
I use XDP 1000. Semi synthetic oil blended with water
G’day mate. Now it might not seem possible, but I’ve had boring head a few times…
hello from iraq with you great
Band saw 💪
Great build!
What is this "wood" material that you used? ive never heard of it. is it some form of alloy?
That first cut on the lathe hahah i was like (Oh no, here comes the classic "let's not feed it too much cos it's hammering away.." point snapper) aaaand yep..
I have no idea how much your tabletop lathe can handle, but usually when turning stuff like this, or even hex bars ( for making special nuts or whatever.. ) It's best to jab the thing right until under the hammering.. (So in 'clean' material) Feels stupid, but this way the insert will have way less of a slapper to handle, eventho you're feeding it massive amounts more material.
There's only so much this little lathe can take on cold rolled steel. Anything more and the lathe stalls. Cheers
@@artisanmakes thought so, however angle of attack can also do wonders, besides, no idea if you have a tool with a 45deg insert, those can take much much more of a beating, all in all, nice video! Goes to show you can make your own tooling if need be, it might not be perfect.. But still it works and it was a nice watch!
Nice video
Thankyou
nise job
0:53 time for a new saw blade.
Not bad at all
Hacksaw lol. It's not 1925 any more dude.😋
Get a bunnings Ozito $29.95 angle grinder and some 1mm thick cutoff discs. They go through steel like butter, even hardened steel or tool steel.
You might even find you can sharpen carbide inserts with those cutoff discs too... 😎
The tool holder your using at 2:17, is that a SDJCR? Thanks!
Yes, this one takes dcmt 070204 inserts
@@artisanmakes Thanks. I've been thinking of trying DCMT inserts. They look like they cut pretty well in your videos.
Nice work. However, your presentation would be complete if you give more information about dimensions while you are turning or milling. That enables enthousiasts to copy your design.
Thankyou for the feedback. I'm working on some basic e-drawings for my projects and hoping to get them out done soon. Cheers
Great build. Would not recommend inserts that are cheaper than $1 each though. I'm sure there's some that might be okay but it's rather hit and miss.
At that price you can miss a lot though.
I usually don't but curiosity got the better part of me and I had to see what they were like. Tbh they cut almost as good as some of my more expensive inserts. Mostly down to the fact that I'm not pushing the insets to the limit. Cheers
It doesn’t matter if it’s off a couple thousands until you setup. Just put some post it notes all over the machines and cabinets like most people do. 😂
Cheers, the real test for it will be making a bearing seat.
Where did you get 50 cent insert. Regard DK
AliExpress. There are a lot of inserts that sell around $5 - $20 for a 10 pack of inserts. They work for great for hobby use. I've used kyocera inserts and on hobby lathes, the difference is negligible. Cheers
This man uses solidworks?! That is not a cheap software!
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FIFTY CENT INSERT? BRAH
I paid about $5 for a 10 pack off AliExpress. They are nothing special, but on a hobby lathe a they work just fine. Cheers
Someone has gone a bit too long without their regular dose of ToT, it seems...
-making exact sizes up during the build
-quite short non-moving part
-technically not the right dovetail tool
-slightly looser dovetail than expected
-some issues when cutting the moving part's scallops
-using the boring head itself would be useful for the adjustment screw hole, since breaking through the wall causes issues, but the right endmill isn't available
-mentioning how one should single-point the leadscrew for good thread fit
-dial markings could use some work
-no rotary broach for the internal hex
-cut down a nice inserted boring bar, instead of a brazed carbide one
Was that intentional? Got me chuckling either way :)
(in case anyone is unfamiliar: those are all things that also happen in This Old Tony's boring head build)
Speaking of This Old Tony, where has he been? It’s been months since he’s made a video.
On his patron he posted an update a while back, my understanding is he is taking care of his father in law.
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precision is optional
Exactly…..it really only matters when you setup. 😀👌
ThisNewTony
This is like my 3rd time watching this video and nothing changes, still a boring video...
XD
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buy a cheap angle grinder so u can cut metal 50x faster :)
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красиво и глупо... вот деревяшки и точи.... с такой длинной головки....
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Please for the love of your poor time get a chop saw or something. 😭 I see you hacksawing steel of all things every video and I groan at your poor time loss
Plot Twist: For those who were thinking what a great content this chanel is.... it is just a copied video from This Old Tony.
I don't think I'm trying to pass this off as my own unique design. Fundamentally all boring heads work using the same offset head design, and every design I have seen on TH-cam is a variation on that. I love Tony's video on it, but it's misleading to say this is a copy of him. I do this stuff for the love of the hobby, not to rip off content. Cheers
I've just realized thanks to a comment from an IG follower that I made a very similar mirco boring head!! (swisstoolmaker) Cheers, William