Making a Simple Lathe Dog from Scrap

[Music] hi I'm Everett welcome back to the shop this time we've got a very simple project and you know I was debating whether to even make a video of it but I figured hey it's a small tool I need to make well another couple tools that for another project that's coming up the road so I figured I was doing a bit of metal cutting anyway and then I figured you might find it interesting too so hope you do I have another simple little project actually it's a tool to make another tool to make another tool the usual chain of events like we have at home but for now I'll just suffice to say this is what I need is the first step this is the drive plate off of my lathe I need to turn a couple things between centers and to do that you know you need to use a drive a drive dog problem is the drive dogs I have turns out that well that's not really gonna work for what I need the ear there isn't even going to engage with the plate before I can get the stock held in place I use the bigger one well still same sort of issue right so for that what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a simple drive dog this piece of scrap here should work as far as the actual ring one of the issues is I need to put this piece in I mean it's nice that it's already been Center drilled this piece here will fit in just lightly already if there are some threads in here that need to be cut out anyway so I'm going to cut this out to make a little bit bigger I'll put a bolt on one side and a leg in the other side to grab the end of the drive plate so I got I got my ring this can use some bolts I have they got threads all the way along there em 10 by 1.5 bolts and as far as the lake to come off of our ring here I have a annulled spring u-bolt - it was originally designed to bolt an axle to a differential these weren't used these are actually part of a lift kit and well the shop used to work at you used to do a number of these and sometimes the bolts didn't fit these went to the scrap metal bin so I have a few of these well that's just so happens to have a 90 degree well just so happens to have a 90 degree on the end and it fits just nicely into the slot so we're gonna cut it off here in my very precise scientifically place paint marker and then we'll just cut this cut it off to length yeah oh dear okay I'm gonna have to go deal with that and then we'll get up to we'll get to the building I don't know if you can hear my son screech crying in the monitor but I gotta go a little man was you know he's been in bed for about two and a half hours but yeah he squeaked rolled over a little bit of noise then let's go back to sleep so we're good we can keep going what I did was since it came back I wound up taking in his tax on the piece off it's going to be easiest to do it that way so if we're offset here as we move towards Center yeah that's big but the biggest piece we're gonna get yeah let's go about there and it's going to come into the into the body and drill it on the drill and weld it yeah yeah let's call it there this one I can do in the bandsaw eventually but we're gonna do there and there yeah that should work we'll need that measurement for later the length of the ring is going to be arbitrary so I'm figuring probably 7/8 1 inch somewhere around there again that part's not super critical you know probably shoot for about seven eighths I'm gonna clean up this face here bore the center out here just to get rid of those mug fit-up threads again this came out of a scrap metal bin as well so I don't know what it is I think it's a mild steel but I couldn't tell you but yeah we'll just we'll clean up the outside and clean up the face bore it out and then I'll cut it off yep good enough [Music] yeah that'll work I figure I'll make it 7/8 of an inch wide so with their proper tool post in their touching snuff make this nine hundred thousands that gives us a bit to make a clean up pass face the backside here we go there's nine hundred thousandths hopefully you can get a reasonable shot in there okay oh this should be a little more rigid than my last setup I've also moved the compound in 90 degrees hopefully that will help with the rigidity there we are is how it's supposed to happen yeah I knew better the other day I should have followed my gut I've measured the part it's well in or an eight hundred and ninety four thousandths why'd I have to take 19,000 Soph of it [Music] good enough just needs a little bit of a chamfer there in order to not get cut well today is sketchy setup is brought to you by the fact that I need to turn this diameter here down to well 530,000 s which is the same diameter as my seventeen thirty seconds drill this is what I'll use to drill the hole in the side of the Ring and so this needs to fit in its 15 millimeters so approximately 587 so we need to take what yeah I guess about sixty thousand Soph keep my fingers clear [Music] yeah okay 529 close enough I'm not gonna bother parting it I'm just gonna use a hacksaw okay I what I did off camera was I've already established Center and my y-axis and my x-axis on the part spot this one we're gonna what we're gonna do is we're gonna pilot drill all the way through and we're gonna do everything with it in this set up both the stuff on the bottom with the threads and the stuff on the top with the larger hole assess machining really nicely it must be mild steel of some type again it's another mystery metal already take our tap who not quite yeah taps not quick inner reach that way maybe I can't really start it in the Chuck although yes I can't give me a minute it just turns out that I happen to have a 12-point Cornish Drive eleven thirty seconds socket which has a reasonable grip on the square end of my tap I have it in a quarter inch male to a quarter inch hex adapter that you normally use for something like a screw gun and just add a little bit of the tapping fluid bring our hex down here we are there we go we're through we're through yeah this is all I used was a quarter inch adapter that come out a little bit of deburring here and there but there we go I'm gonna do here is I'm just making sure that that's not poking through we use this block here that's pretty square and you square enough for our purposes up against the piece of work here make sure not through in the back and that's where I'm an attack it there that'll hold it in place well hold it in place long enough to run a well bead anyway yeah get you an angle so you can see what's going on yeah yeah I mean if I got resurfaced it took a swim then that last pass okay so let's try this again yeah I'm kind of shaky so I went up dunk in the tungsten in that last pass and it really didn't like like that oh yeah that's better yeah that's better yep pedal halt it's got a cool first hour ring fits around our piece and it'll work for both this part and another part I have to turn between centers and yes I realize I have a live Center and at the moment if I'm trying to do something accurate I'll use a dead center and just try to figure out where I can find some form of suitable Lou Brown here that I can either concoct or is you know commercially available in smaller quantities here you go this is we're very thankful for those new feet I can feel some vibration if you can see the land shaking I can feel some through the floor but before with this amount of this whole machine would be shaking like crazy yeah I know that making a lathe dog is really not rocket science and it's just sort of a little quickie but again just one more little tool I need in the series of things I need to build for my own home shop so yeah very simple project it's just one of those things I needed and I figured you might want to come along for the ride so for what it's worth the for all of you who have been along for the ride so far and those of you who are joining on thanks for watching thanks for subscribing and see you next time [Music]

Channel: Everett's Workshop

Views: 36,873

Keywords: everetts workshop, turning between centers, hobby machining, lathe dog, homemade tools, 12x36 lathe, recycling scrap metal, tig welding, import lathe

Id: rJxOhmp1yFY

Length: 15min 54sec (954 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 27 2019