Mini chamfer tool

[rmack898]

So I was not feeling well last weekend and I spent a bunch of time on the couch watching YouTube.
I watched Jason at Fireball tool making a jack that was pretty cool but in the process of making it , he used a pneumatic chamfer/de-burring tool that used standard carbide inserts. He showed a link for the tool and I was intrigued enough to take a good look.

I ordered the tool from the link from Amazon for $62 and it arrived today. I immediately put it to work on a piece of 1/4" 316 SS flat bar and all I can say is where has this tool been all my life.

I have absolutely no horse in this race but this tool is a winner.

 

[blare]

Is that the one that works with the new Swag Off-road table?

SWAG Chamfer Table

SWAG Chamfer Table When fabricating, few things a more satisfying than a clean edge or a consistent chamfer. Even more so when that perfect chamfer takes less than 30 seconds to achieve. Introducing the SWAG Chamfer table. The Chamfer Table may not look like much, but it has become an...

www.swagoffroad.com

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0946GGNXY/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Thinking about moving this combo to the top of my tool wish list.

 

[slowtwitch73]

I think you could run carbide in any edge/laminate router and get the same results?

 

[Nortonscustom]

That is very cool! Thanks for the heads up. Just ordered one. Looks like it would be perfect for deburring inside curves.

 

[rmack898]

I think you could run carbide in any edge/laminate router and get the same results?

No doubt a router could do the same job but this tool is small and can go places where no router will fit.

 

[jeepinerdeep]

I had previously seen that SP Air has a chamfer and a radius version of this, but much more spendy of course. I had been dreaming of picking up that radius version, but I might have to grab one of these to try.

 

[smokeysevin]

Couple of issues with mine, if doing aluminum, the area next to the cutter under the "table" area packs up with chips and you have to knock it out.

The screw that holds the bearing onto the cutter shaft backed out mid cut on mine and took a nasty notch out of the part I was working with. Remove that and add loctite.

Sean

 

[rmack898]

The screw that holds the bearing onto the cutter shaft backed out mid cut on mine and took a nasty notch out of the part I was working with. Remove that and add loctite.

Sean

Thanks for that tip Sean, I’ll take care of that screw tonight.

 

[Honch]

I bought one about a year ago, it works very well for the price. Here are some 1/2" plates I chamfered with it.

 

[Grant Gunderson]

Does anyone have a link to the bits you are using In these? Thanks!

 

[Honch]

There isn't a bit in the sense of a router bit. The spindle of the tool holds three, three-sided carbide bits.

 

[slowtwitch73]

CMT and probably a number of others make 1/4 indexable bits and there a plenty of brazed carbide options out there as well for anyone wanting to chamfer with a router.

 

[Nortonscustom]

Little beast came in today. Holycow does it scream! Cut some link brackets and played around with different depths. This thing is going to be a huge time saver. Thanks again rmack898

 

[Milton Shaw]

A micro stop countersink holder with the right bit could be used with a drill to make a small head router. The heads are less than 1 1/4 inch diameter and the piloted bit would locate on the edge and then use the bevel of the counter sink to cut the bevel and the micro-stop would do the vertical adjustment for a uniform bevel. These micro-stop countersinks can be found on Ebay on aircraft tools sites for very little money. Very accurate countersinks are required in aircraft construction.

 

[gearhead1]

Thanks for posting, didn't know this existed, I shall be getting one of these. I work with metal a lot.

 

[Bodj Built]

Little beast came in today. Holycow does it scream! Cut some link brackets and played around with different depths. This thing is going to be a huge time saver. Thanks again rmack898

Seeing you do a small part now gives me the go ahead to get it. I’ve been wanting one, but not knowing how i would hold a small part and use the tool made me hold off. Did you hold the part in your hand and use the tool, or clamp it somehow?

 

[Nortonscustom]

Seeing you do a small part now gives me the go ahead to get it. I’ve been wanting one, but not knowing how i would hold a small part and use the tool made me hold off. Did you hold the part in your hand and use the tool, or clamp it somehow?

On those parts I used an old mag chuck off a surface grinder to hold them down. You can see it in the bottom right of the pictures. But you could certainly clamp a part down or hold a corner in a vice. There's not a lot of force involved. Probably could hold a part by hand but I would want to be wearing good gloves, the chips are coming out at a billion miles an hour and pretty hot.

 

[clutchee]

Just bought one, tried on some scrap metal in shop. Very cool, will take some practice.

 

[gearhead1]

I got one also, thanks for posting.

 

[rlitman]

I've had one for a year or so now. It's pretty amazing what it can do, but like any carbide cutting steel, the chips are terrible splinters.