Yh its kind of a tradition now! He does have an angle grinder and has used it to cut, but we also know his shop is a bit small (he's said as much), so has to set it up outside to keep the machines clean and not sure if he has space for a horizontal bandsaw. That said. I think he could also be a master troll!!! Notice how we only ever see the start of a cut, or the end of a cut, never the whole cut.....? He's probably a bandsaw hidden away somewhere that he uses to do the actual cut and trolls us into thinking he did it all with a hacksaw!!! Sarcasm of course, but it's now a tradition to see him cutting stupidly large stock with a hacksaw that he just does it anyways to cary on the tradition.
A colleague of mine was an apprentice machinist at British Leyland in the early eighties. If you left your chuck key in the lathe you were punished by having to chop through whatever stock you were machining with a hacksaw. You Sir do that for our enjoyment and I congratulate you for that sacrifice!
I’m always impressed with your ability to be able to push your humble setup to produce parts in size and quality that it doesn’t seem like you should be able to. I like how manual a lot of your processes are, because of some of your equipment restrictions. I find this relatable, and while I do like a lot of the ‘big’ machining channels, your content feels far more accessible to a novice like myself. I really enjoy the creative solutions you come up with to get around restrictions. You yourself are humble, sometimes to the point of self deprecation, and I think all of these things have helped elevate your ‘smaller’ channel to the success it has found. I like how as your skill set grows, so does the scope and ambition of the projects you undertake. I’m always excited when a new piece of equipment joins your shop, as I know you have carefully considered it’s purchase and will have many projects to follow with. As opposed to some of the vanity purchases you sometimes see on wealthier channels with large sponsor deals and the like. Without gushing any further, I love the channel and I think you have a great formula. Which ultimately is you sir, so well done.
to be honest, it is a pretty decent setup. I feel like there is an inflation of what a decent workable workshop should look like, exactly because of the few outstanding YT channels. Don't get me wrong, I do love amazing machinig workshops, but this one I'd say is more realistic. Limitations make you more creative.
Jesus that's a big bastard tap wrench! I love the way you utilise your machines to the maximum. The design is so close to a normal tap wrench, but different in the design of the tightening system deleting the normal differential screw design in favour of your more simple screwed collar with a tommy bar to lock it up. Brilliant! And bloody nicely done too!
"it's not clickspring perfect, but it's ok." That frase made me stop the video, exit the full screen mode and click the 'like' button, and put this comment. Well earned, sir.
I've made a few tap wrenches. One reason is that I don't like those typical ones, they are off center, unbalanced and won't stay tight. I use the tried and true 2 screws type. They are easy to make, are balanced and won't come loose. I use either the 2 screws or the handles themselves are the screws. With those I can spin the tap out without it wobbling off center, saves time.
My tap wrench is only 1.08 METERS long. hmmmm... make some extension handles! Briliant! Now you just need a very large room to use it in and very long arms to turn it with. 👍😎
Next up: A ginormous bench with matching ginormous-er vise to hold whatever the hell is going to have a threaded hole made in it with this tap wrench. Great work. Regards Doc from South Australia.
Anything this size is going to take some power to shift through steel, easy enough in bronze with some leverage on each end. If you can, leave whatever you want to tap in the lathe chuck and feed in the tap using a live centre in the tailstock. Use a shifter with a long tube as lever and keep pressure on tap till its fed deeply enough in. Keep centre on the tap to prevent stress on tap. Another good video from you. Well done champ
Excellent build, great addition to the shop. Using a jaw chuck jaw against a drive dog is fine, machinists loose time fitting a faceplate, if they can find it, or don't have the spindle centre bush. Lovely looking result.
Listen here!...No-one like a skite!😆 Talk about compensating! All jokes aside that is an impressive bit o' kit. You are going to need a work bench in the middle of the shop so you don't hit the wall with those handles! Keep up the good work!
Great job ! My I suggest drilling holes for faster material removal in the thru pattern before using the endmill to finish the inside. Also I’m interested in the cold air system that you are using ? Thanks
The air blast for the lathe? Thats just a cheapo airbrush hooked up to a small air compressor I have under the lathe. I replaced the nozzle with one that I made. Its longer and it spits coolant, rather than a fine mist. Mist fills up the workshop and you wouldn't want to breathe it in. Whole set up, air compressor included is $130ish.
After reading through several different comments, I have a feeling that one of the next projects will be a steady rest upgrade or else a complete new build steady rest project!
That Fly wheel IS ONE SICK tool bro. I am getting a Lathe & Milling machine next year for my shop. I can't wait for next year. I love working with metal now. I do woodworking in my shop but working with metal has been great too so the LATHE IS A MUST NOW. I want to be able to make tools with the LATHE AND mILL, lOVE THE tAPS AND wRENCH MAN. tHE SIZE OF THEM IS CRAZY. 40mm??
I just want to mention that, in case you didn't think of it, working with metal in a dusty woodworking shop can be a fire hazard (sparks and sawdust). Stay safe and keep crafting!
@@larrybud I wanted to mention it because it's a potential risk. I that know when someone else mentioned it I realized that it was risk that I may have not thought of until after something bad happened.
Just get yourself a 100:1 torque converter that gets used for truck wheel bolts. The problem with using such a large tap wrench is that you cannot push on both sides at the same time and so rather than applying a pure moment you will also be applying radial force to the tap.
You've done a beautiful job, I've used wrenches of this size on a daily basis for years and it's definitely prettier than anything I've used, very nice! But as pretty as it is, there is one little thing that worries me about it, which is the small diameter thread you have supporting the clamp jaw used for tightening and loosening it, it looks too small for the forces it may experience. Typically with wrenches this large, one side of the handle threads in and out of the body so the thread diameter can be as large as possible. I'm sure the wrench will work but after months, perhaps a year or two of use, you may find that the threads are starting to gaul up or become very stiff when opening or closing the jaws, just something to keep in mind.
@artisanmakes Yeah if it's just for a one-off project and won't be used much it should be alright, and a lot of the pressure on the clamp jaws are spread out in multiple directions so the threads aren't taking the full brunt of the force at least, it's probably not a big deal. I was a machinist for 17 years so I'm probably a little more critical of stuff like that than most lol, I've turned some big taps in my days and have gone through the whole gamut of good and bad tap wrenches lol.
Hello AM, @4:30 you added a 20-degree taper to the main body, at @19:00 to @20:00, you could have added a 20-degree matching taper (maybe 21-degree?) to give your handle to threadded-stud shoulder contact area, a bit more strength, for those days when your other 2 husky friends are driving those proposed 50mm+ taps. Thanks for the video, much better results than my results!
Отличная работа👍 Но желательно закалить губки которые держат метчик. И ещё совет: Когда обрабатываете детали в люнете, то заклеивайте его скотчем, а то стружка действует как абразив и быстро стирает кулачки люнета. Ещё можно обрезать бутылку от напитка, и верхнюю часть с крышкой, сделать отверстие в крышке, и вставить трубочку, чтобы сделать активную капельную смазку кулачков люнета.
You do such a great job on your projects. Inspirational. I would think those tubes would collapse, though, if you really needed that kind of leverage, no?
honestly, if the total swept diameter is ~250cm, you're talking about torque from ~1.25m out on the extension pipe, turning a tap with a maximum ~25mm radius & about 19mm depth of engagement in the head NON-HARDENED STEEL jaws. I don't think the pipe will be the first thing to break.
@@artisanmakes All good. I was just pointing out that I didn't expect the tubing to be the first thing to fail, if the tap were pushed to its absolute limit. :thumbsup:
Looks great and it’s going to work perfectly. One question, not about the tap wrench. Why is so common that folks drill and tap metric always give bolt size but almost never give thread pitch? Is there a understood standard?
Usually metric threads have standard thread pitch. For example, M8 has standard pitch 1.25. If you need something special you can specify pitch (ex M8x1.0).
As already stated, there's a well defined standard. Metric has an ISO standardisation (ISO 68-1). I believe it states a preferred course, fine, extra course, and extra fine pitch for different diameter ranges, but I haven't read it in a while. Edit - I was incorrect, ISO 68-1 is the start of the metric thread standards, but the pitch isn't defined there. ISO 724 specifies all thread pitches up to M300, which would make this tap and tap wrench look comically small.
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Somebody please get this man a horizontal bandsaw!
Or at least an angle grinder! Something! Come on!!
Wouldn't surprise me if he already had one but still uses the hacksaw out of tradition.
And a 4 jaw chuck!
Yh its kind of a tradition now! He does have an angle grinder and has used it to cut, but we also know his shop is a bit small (he's said as much), so has to set it up outside to keep the machines clean and not sure if he has space for a horizontal bandsaw.
That said. I think he could also be a master troll!!! Notice how we only ever see the start of a cut, or the end of a cut, never the whole cut.....? He's probably a bandsaw hidden away somewhere that he uses to do the actual cut and trolls us into thinking he did it all with a hacksaw!!!
Sarcasm of course, but it's now a tradition to see him cutting stupidly large stock with a hacksaw that he just does it anyways to cary on the tradition.
He's trolling you... successfully 🤣🤣
A colleague of mine was an apprentice machinist at British Leyland in the early eighties. If you left your chuck key in the lathe you were punished by having to chop through whatever stock you were machining with a hacksaw. You Sir do that for our enjoyment and I congratulate you for that sacrifice!
Classic British Leyland efficiency right there lol.
DAMN
That's not a tap wrench, this is a tap wrench! ( with a Crocodile Dundee style)
I’m always impressed with your ability to be able to push your humble setup to produce parts in size and quality that it doesn’t seem like you should be able to. I like how manual a lot of your processes are, because of some of your equipment restrictions. I find this relatable, and while I do like a lot of the ‘big’ machining channels, your content feels far more accessible to a novice like myself. I really enjoy the creative solutions you come up with to get around restrictions. You yourself are humble, sometimes to the point of self deprecation, and I think all of these things have helped elevate your ‘smaller’ channel to the success it has found. I like how as your skill set grows, so does the scope and ambition of the projects you undertake. I’m always excited when a new piece of equipment joins your shop, as I know you have carefully considered it’s purchase and will have many projects to follow with. As opposed to some of the vanity purchases you sometimes see on wealthier channels with large sponsor deals and the like.
Without gushing any further, I love the channel and I think you have a great formula. Which ultimately is you sir, so well done.
to be honest, it is a pretty decent setup. I feel like there is an inflation of what a decent workable workshop should look like, exactly because of the few outstanding YT channels. Don't get me wrong, I do love amazing machinig workshops, but this one I'd say is more realistic. Limitations make you more creative.
Well said!
@@super8hell It's not like he started out with the tools you see today. It's been a slow progression, just like most of us hobbyists.
Jesus that's a big bastard tap wrench! I love the way you utilise your machines to the maximum. The design is so close to a normal tap wrench, but different in the design of the tightening system deleting the normal differential screw design in favour of your more simple screwed collar with a tommy bar to lock it up. Brilliant! And bloody nicely done too!
I really like the hex nut used for the holes for the bar. That's really clever.
Your presentation has gotten pleasantly strident with humour. Getting more comfy making n editing the videos, eh? Lovin' it!
You're going to need to upgrade your workbench or you'll be spinning it round in the middle of the workshop with that leverage! Good work 👍
WOW, that's all I can say! What a tap wrench! Great job and thanks for posting the video for all of us to enjoy! Take care!
"it's not clickspring perfect, but it's ok."
That frase made me stop the video, exit the full screen mode and click the 'like' button, and put this comment.
Well earned, sir.
Excellent job. Good design to avoid the left-hand threading. Clever.
If the handle threads were left handed then he could have threaded away from the chuck for both the internal & external threads.
I've made a few tap wrenches. One reason is that I don't like those typical ones, they are off center, unbalanced and won't stay tight. I use the tried and true 2 screws type. They are easy to make, are balanced and won't come loose. I use either the 2 screws or the handles themselves are the screws. With those I can spin the tap out without it wobbling off center, saves time.
Fantastic result! And when it comes to making the hole for that tap, Kurtis has just the boring bar you need!
My tap wrench is only 1.08 METERS long.
hmmmm... make some extension handles! Briliant!
Now you just need a very large room to use it in and very long arms to turn it with. 👍😎
You must have an arm like Quagmire from using that bloody hacksaw! 🙂
Cant say I have ever seen a 2 person tap wrench before!
Wow! I did the same, 4140 steel, quenched and tempered, hardness 56 HRC. Congratulations, I liked your work! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Next up: A ginormous bench with matching ginormous-er vise to hold whatever the hell is going to have a threaded hole made in it with this tap wrench.
Great work.
Regards
Doc from South Australia.
7:12 the tool you used was made a nice finish
That thing is the Godzilla of tap wrenchs! 😮
To think that somebody beat me to leaving this comment... I feel robbed. 😄
Setup an indicator on the ways so that the carriage contacts it and set a zero before you get to an internal shoulder.
This is the most violent manual machining I've witnessed
It's every bit as gloriously ridiculous as I was hoping for. Bravo. 😄
When you made the tap, I thought "good God! The wrench for that is going to be absurdly huge".... I wasn't disappointed. ;)
Anything this size is going to take some power to shift through steel, easy enough in bronze with some leverage on each end. If you can, leave whatever you want to tap in the lathe chuck and feed in the tap using a live centre in the tailstock. Use a shifter with a long tube as lever and keep pressure on tap till its fed deeply enough in. Keep centre on the tap to prevent stress on tap. Another good video from you. Well done champ
Must be for a tool post, I am intrigued as to what you are going to machine. Good luck, I'll be watching and cheering you on.
Thanks, nice thinking around the movable jaw adjustment.
Excellent build, great addition to the shop.
Using a jaw chuck jaw against a drive dog is fine, machinists loose time fitting a faceplate, if they can find it, or don't have the spindle centre bush.
Lovely looking result.
The only time I would bother with a catch plate and centre is if there wasn't enough length working from a centre turned in a chuck.
@@dutchgray86 Spot on.
Keep waiting for crocodile dundee to jump out and say "That's not a tap wrench"... Bam... "This is a tap wrench". Fingers crossed, 20 minutes to go...
You do make some great gadgets. That tap wrench looks like a real beast. Im sure it will come very useful. Well done in this project. 👍👍👍👍
THE KING RETURNS
My thoughts exactly!!
True
Listen here!...No-one like a skite!😆
Talk about compensating!
All jokes aside that is an impressive bit o' kit. You are going to need a work bench in the middle of the shop so you don't hit the wall with those handles!
Keep up the good work!
Somebody please sponsor this man with a power hacksaw :D Or .. perfect future project???
Abom tap wrench. I've seen him use ones about this big with the part on a lathe with a huge swing. Good job!
Someone buy this poor man a porta-band saw! He could make 2x the videos if he didn't spend hours cutting stock with a hack saw! Love the vids!
Great job !
My I suggest drilling holes for faster material removal in the thru pattern before using the endmill to finish the inside.
Also I’m interested in the cold air system that you are using ? Thanks
The air blast for the lathe? Thats just a cheapo airbrush hooked up to a small air compressor I have under the lathe. I replaced the nozzle with one that I made. Its longer and it spits coolant, rather than a fine mist. Mist fills up the workshop and you wouldn't want to breathe it in. Whole set up, air compressor included is $130ish.
After reading through several different comments, I have a feeling that one of the next projects will be a steady rest upgrade or else a complete new build steady rest project!
Your projects look amazing. We would all want to achieve clickspring perfect, but I could barely get to your level.
Nice tool. I have a 2,5 inch tap (63,5mm) that needs an even bigger wrench. Never usedt it.
Comically large tap wrench. I love it
That poor steady rest! I could feel it's pain.
I hope you get a bandsaw someday!😮😮
Me too. It hurts to see how he uses the hacksaw every time
Your commenting and video editing and skills have come such a long way! Not to mention your machining skills. No surprise tbat 100k isn't far away....
Thank you very much
That Fly wheel IS ONE SICK tool bro. I am getting a Lathe & Milling machine next year for my shop. I can't wait for next year. I love working with metal now. I do woodworking in my shop but working with metal has been great too so the LATHE IS A MUST NOW. I want to be able to make tools with the LATHE AND mILL,
lOVE THE tAPS AND wRENCH MAN. tHE SIZE OF THEM IS CRAZY. 40mm??
I just want to mention that, in case you didn't think of it, working with metal in a dusty woodworking shop can be a fire hazard (sparks and sawdust). Stay safe and keep crafting!
@@luchvk I'd be more concerned about dust gumming up the metal working machines
@@larrybud I wanted to mention it because it's a potential risk. I that know when someone else mentioned it I realized that it was risk that I may have not thought of until after something bad happened.
Very good tap wrench
You can drill the solid hand to reduce weight.
Kudos for the well finished wrench
Nice work on another giant size tool. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
I saw the taps video yesterday, and I predicted this was coming :D
This was very fun to watch!
I not sure who is Clickspring perfect. The dude is a machine. Great content as usual!
you make it look so simple and easy , well done .
i wanna see you try to tap an M1 hole with the comically large tap wrench.
Just get yourself a 100:1 torque converter that gets used for truck wheel bolts. The problem with using such a large tap wrench is that you cannot push on both sides at the same time and so rather than applying a pure moment you will also be applying radial force to the tap.
That's the moment when you need an apprentice :D
That is a comically massive tap wrench. I love it.
“Clickspring perfect” has now been formally defined by the International Metrology Association.
Skill Beyond Imagination
You've gotten better over time.
That's one massive tap handle. Great job.
Great job, it's huge! 👍💪✌️
Looks great, but you gotta blend those handles into the main body :)
lol I hope the hole you have to tap is accessible by a tap wrench this big! You might have to make a vertical extension
finally, a tap wrench big enough to tap some M12 holes
Abom70 approved!
Very nice!
Keep em coming!!!!
The deburring wonkiness must only be obvious in person, it looks pretty good in the video 😁
Carbide end mill is our best friend
Curtis would be proud.
I thought I was watching cutting edge engineering when the steady came out.
You got one big tool cheers.
Totally nuts. Love it.
You've done a beautiful job, I've used wrenches of this size on a daily basis for years and it's definitely prettier than anything I've used, very nice! But as pretty as it is, there is one little thing that worries me about it, which is the small diameter thread you have supporting the clamp jaw used for tightening and loosening it, it looks too small for the forces it may experience. Typically with wrenches this large, one side of the handle threads in and out of the body so the thread diameter can be as large as possible. I'm sure the wrench will work but after months, perhaps a year or two of use, you may find that the threads are starting to gaul up or become very stiff when opening or closing the jaws, just something to keep in mind.
I won't be getting a huge amount of use from this bit it is something I will look out for. Cheers
@artisanmakes Yeah if it's just for a one-off project and won't be used much it should be alright, and a lot of the pressure on the clamp jaws are spread out in multiple directions so the threads aren't taking the full brunt of the force at least, it's probably not a big deal. I was a machinist for 17 years so I'm probably a little more critical of stuff like that than most lol, I've turned some big taps in my days and have gone through the whole gamut of good and bad tap wrenches lol.
Someone please get this young man a proper horizontal band saw.
Hello AM, @4:30 you added a 20-degree taper to the main body, at @19:00 to @20:00, you could have added a 20-degree matching taper (maybe 21-degree?) to give your handle to threadded-stud shoulder contact area, a bit more strength, for those days when your other 2 husky friends are driving those proposed 50mm+ taps. Thanks for the video, much better results than my results!
Now you’re going to need to make a giant set up knurling dies to knurl those handles
Love you work buddy. Keep it coming. Well done
Always a pleasure watching your videos!
Отличная работа👍 Но желательно закалить губки которые держат метчик. И ещё совет: Когда обрабатываете детали в люнете, то заклеивайте его скотчем, а то стружка действует как абразив и быстро стирает кулачки люнета. Ещё можно обрезать бутылку от напитка, и верхнюю часть с крышкой, сделать отверстие в крышке, и вставить трубочку, чтобы сделать активную капельную смазку кулачков люнета.
Very very nice job! Well done, thanks.
You do such a great job on your projects. Inspirational. I would think those tubes would collapse, though, if you really needed that kind of leverage, no?
honestly, if the total swept diameter is ~250cm, you're talking about torque from ~1.25m out on the extension pipe, turning a tap with a maximum ~25mm radius & about 19mm depth of engagement in the head NON-HARDENED STEEL jaws. I don't think the pipe will be the first thing to break.
I’ve used the tap wrench and nothing is in danger of breaking. The jaws hold up just fine. It’s high tensile bar stock so it’s strong enough
@@artisanmakes All good. I was just pointing out that I didn't expect the tubing to be the first thing to fail, if the tap were pushed to its absolute limit. :thumbsup:
That thing is so big it's silly. Nicely done!
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What a beast!
Looks great and it’s going to work perfectly.
One question, not about the tap wrench. Why is so common that folks drill and tap metric always give bolt size but almost never give thread pitch? Is there a understood standard?
Usually metric threads have standard thread pitch. For example, M8 has standard pitch 1.25. If you need something special you can specify pitch (ex M8x1.0).
Unless it's unique in some way, pitch is usually 1mm. Sometimes you'll see something like M3x.5 or something, but those are specialty threads.
@@JeansWithPockets541, examples of standard threads:
M6 (M6x1.0)
M8 (M8x1.25)
M10 (M10x1.5)
M12 (M12x1.75)
etc...
As already stated, there's a well defined standard. Metric has an ISO standardisation (ISO 68-1). I believe it states a preferred course, fine, extra course, and extra fine pitch for different diameter ranges, but I haven't read it in a while.
Edit - I was incorrect, ISO 68-1 is the start of the metric thread standards, but the pitch isn't defined there. ISO 724 specifies all thread pitches up to M300, which would make this tap and tap wrench look comically small.
@@toblexson5020 thanks for the insight. I figured there was a standard, I just am not familiar with it. I’ll need to some looking into it.
Another nice project.
Very nice job, thanks for posting
Now that is a tap wrench.
Someone get this man a band saw
in the immortal words of vanilla ice, "to the extreme, i rock a tap like a handle"
We’ve gotta get you a bandsaw!
Excellent work as always 👍👍
He is going to make a vise and I know it
Very nice job!
Could you also place the square end in a slit piece of aluminium tube and indicate in?
Three jaw compresses pipe, pipe clamps work piece.
Ridonculusly Skookum😅
Love it.
Slow down there ABOM JR!
Nice work on the tap wrench, but i fear you will need a bigger one. Your m40 thread is going to take very large torque.
With 1.6m arm length on one side, he will have a lot of torque.
brother,,,, you need to get a horizontal band saw ,,, cutting steel that thick by hand is a mission,,
You did one hell of a job on that tap wrench BTW love your videos
Cheers thank you
Pekerjaan luar biasa 👍👍👍
20:45 I believe the scientific way of describing it's size is to refer to it as "an absolute unit". :P
In awe of the size of this tap. Absolute unit
You and what gorilla is gonna help you run that thing? 😊
Hoped to see a demo