Lathe Tool Holder

[WILD-BILL]

This is a little project I've been meaning to do for some time now. I always hated having to go through my drawer to get to my tooling.

Just a few scrap pieces I had around



Little 90 deg "holders" cut to fit the dove tail slots. I plan on getting another set of 4 in the future so I planned ahead for that



Plan on using the nut off the stud in the top back to mount it directly to lathe



Mounting adapter




Mocked up to make sure it fits and doesn't interfere in operation



I was gonna weld it together but a lack of Argon and experience with thin Aluminum thwarted that plan so I just riveted it together



Mounted



With the tooling

 

[E.Marquez]

Nice.. very nice.

I used a short piece of DIN rail

Holds the AXA 1/2 tool holders very well

 

[bullnerd]

Is there anything holding them in place?

Can they vibrate out and fall into the spinny things?

 

[deere2210]

very nice!

 

[k-os]

Is there anything holding them in place?

Can they vibrate out and fall into the spinny things?

Looks like they're made to fit the larger end of the dovetail. You'd have to lift them up to get them off.

 

[WILD-BILL]

Looks like they're made to fit the larger end of the dovetail. You'd have to lift them up to get them off.

That's exactly how they fit

I did spin it up just to make sure nothing fell off though.

 

[bullnerd]

Very nice,I totally missed that detail.

 

[Ozwelder]

It is mounted so that you need to reach across the chuck.

That makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Can you say with absolute certainty that you will never reach across a rotating chuck to reach for a tool.

I have mine mounted in a similar fashion at the tail stock end of the lathe so i will never need to reach across the chuck.

 

[WILD-BILL]

As I find it much easier and safer to change the tooling with the lathe off I can say yes.