The Tools You Need When First Starting As a CNC or Manual Machinist

today we're gonna look at the tools that you need to start out in the trade as a CNC or a manual machinist so the first tool is gonna be your six inch calipers most shops will require that you are able to measure with calipers up to six inches now when you're buying these products you've got a choice between going with something a little more budget-friendly like this a samito or buying something a little more high end like this mid Toyo so our calipers are only so accurate and with machining we like to be extremely accurate so you're going to need some way to measure much more accurately than you can with your calipers and that's just where we get into our micrometer z' some shops may want you to have a zero to one mic some may want you to have from zero to one up to a two to three and again there's a wide range of qualities I'm going to tell you being a good common ground between affordable and accuracy other miscellaneous measuring tools you may want to have tape measures so here I've got a larger 25-foot tape measure and a smaller 12-footer basically depending on what you're gonna be doing you're gonna want to lean towards one or the other if you're just checking bar stock sizes these smaller tape measures are much handier if you're doing full lengths and needing to measure long distances these longer tape measures which are a little bit wider can it be extended further without collapsing and this might be the better option personally myself I prefer the small tape measures just hand your easier to keep in your pockets next up we've got our little six inch scale I'm more than likely the shop you're gonna be working out will have a bunch of these sitting around collecting dust anyways and they can probably just give you one but for the cost of these I think again these are probably under five bucks may as well pick one up and throw it in your shirt pocket cages like this so this is a thread gauge I'm gonna say that gauges at this point in the game are not necessary so I wouldn't worry about buying Center gauges thread gauges or drill gauges at this time so when we get outside of measurement we're getting into setup we're going to want to start looking at indicators so indicators again is a wide range in different qualities versus budget to high-end you know inter up it being at the top end there and there's difference between tests and dial indicators each has their purpose what should you have on your toolbox for day one I would suggest going with a test indicator these could be used for picking up your vices indicating holes for center of datums and you can also use them for indicating on lathes as far as hand tools are concerned you're going to be doing if you're doing setups and working on the machine you're gonna need a way to tighten bolts and that's where your wrenches are to come into play and again with everything else there's different levels of quality you can get with wrenches this is a cheaper one you can see it's got a little bit of a rougher finish to it it works fine this will tighten and loosen the bolt but as far as quality there's there's birds inside here which are not nice but again if you're using it a lot it's not the most comfortable thing to hang on to and that's why spending a few extra bucks on something a little little better can be a little more comfortable for the use there's no burrs very quality product and again something like this should last you probably almost a lifetime alan keyes another big one there's two different versions you can get you can get the ones that fold up into a key set or you can get these guys that are individual and I've got one missing here on purpose because that's the the flaw of this style is that you tend to lose them the advantage of these is number one you can put extensions onto these and get extra torque whereas these guys are kind of in this fold up set and you can look at as much torque as you can by gripping these but you won't ever lose an allen key in these sets with your allen keys you're again probably the same with you wrenches going to need both metric and inch as far as screwdrivers you could get a full set I would get something simple like this just one of those screwdriver sets that has the selectable bit most common sizes works great and this is the standard nut driver as well so it should take all different sizes of inserts so very very useful hammering for machinists typically you're gonna want a ball-peen hammer not that there's anything wrong with the claw just this is a carpenter's hammer it's usually you know this is here for it for nails typically unless you're building skids you're probably not going to need a claw hammer so the first thing I would buy would be a ball peen let's quickly discuss this guy this is an emergency tool this should not be something that replaces the correct size wrench in your shop or in your toolbox however it's good to have in a pinch so adjustable wrenches again they're notorious for rounding off bolts and they are notorious for breaking this is not a very strong connection in here especially with these threads so emergency tool only but yes you should have one of these in your box next let's have a look at files and stones as far as different files you're gonna watch some normal size files and even some needle files even the files themselves come in different shapes and sizes and coarseness I would suggest getting a decent handles as well as decent files as well a good file will go a long way it makes a big difference on the quality finish of your parts stones general purpose stones are used for all sorts of different things in the machine shop stirring the bottom of vices tops of tables deburring parts honing edges all sorts of things stones come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes a lot of machinists also will use deadblow hammer z' personally myself I was never a fan of dead blows ice I initially was a dead blow fan and I switched over to my tapper instead dead blows are an option again quality versus price point you'll see a difference personally myself I just use a piece of inch and a half diameter aluminum you can tell this thing is well used by the mushroom ring on the ends but this is for knocking your piece are tapping your piece down on your vise and that's why I use one of these is I see guys get carried away with the dead blow is where they're there it looks like they're driving over a railway spike into the ground when they're trying to tap their part down just onto there their advice parallels that's why I use these that keeps the the amount of for used to a minimum and aluminum is soft it won't it won't wreck your parts oh yeah so we've covered measuring tools we've covered some hand tools next up what else do you need you'll need some miscellaneous tools in your toolbox and when I'm talking miscellaneous some miscellaneous tools that you should have in your toolbox number one some sort of scriber which may have a little hooking on it as well so most likely to be doing some sort of layout or having to mark something along the way and something sharp and pointy is is good for that sharp and pointy is good for a lot of other things as well you know reaching into fish showed a little old ring or something poking at cleaning something out always useful for more than just scrubbing lines so definitely need a some sort of scriber flashlight yeah self-explanatory you know machinist we need to be able to see what we're doing then sometimes light is not always available so a flashlight pocket light definitely a great idea this should go without saying although shops should supply you with safety glasses it's not a bad idea to have your own pair in your box number one because you know maybe the shop supplied set are not the newest and they're scratched up nothing's worse than staring through scratched up safety glasses so make sure you've got your own backup pair if not two safety glasses are pretty cheap these days you can get a pair for probably under five bucks so having an extra set in your box is always a good idea one thing to check for is to make sure that they are certified by whatever governing body certifies safety glasses for you I know USA and Canada have different certification standards so as the best general practice make sure the safety glasses you are buying are in fact up to standard writing tools marking tools obviously sharpies are good different sizes shapes colors are fine these are good for you know just marking up your work pieces for reference you can even let this dry a little bit and then come back with what this guy later on and I draw scribe lines pens obviously your no-brainer pencils you always want a good pencil this is the Ticonderoga world's best pencil says so on the box no pads sticky notes always a good idea you can stick these things anywhere you can use it in reference material to bookmark a page leave your co-workers nasty notes calculator is a must I would suggest buying a calculator that's got your cosine sine and tangent functions on it so the scientific calculator again these are pretty affordable these days they're not overly expensive would recommend this overusing your phone and some sort of app that's a scientific calculator because if I drop this and that screen breaks that's expensive I drop this number one is probably not going to break but number two you know this is 15 bucks 20 bucks not a big deal I'd rather drop this then drop this a couple of things I missed here tap handles are definitely useful in a machinist toolbox these smaller t-handle ones are good for your smaller taps you know your quarter 20s and under you can get the longer handles with the screw tightening handle for your larger taps most likely your shop will have handles for larger taps so you might only need to worry about purchasing one of these smaller guys to start off with these things I recommend for basically anybody in a machine shop these are blue nitrile gloves and basically yeah they keep your hands clean only that but you're the new guy you're gonna get tasked with hat changing coolant it's kind of the rite of passage in a machine shop shops may or may not have these and nothing is worse than sticking your hands in three-year old rancid coolant so these gloves are very inexpensive you can get a box of like a hundred for like five to ten bucks well until it up over looks so far in this video is an edge finder edge finders are definitely a necessity and a machinist toolbox they come in different sizes as far as tip diameters and you can get name-brand or you can get budget quality as well either one will work fine for when you're just getting going so that's gonna wrap up this video covering all the tools you need to have in your toolbox as you get started in this trade stay tuned though I'm going to put out some supplementary videos covering the big-ticket items so what'll help you pick the correct calipers the correct micrometers and indicators those three tools that are gonna cost you the most amount of money in your toolkit I'm going to go into some options as to different styles different price points advantages disadvantages to hopefully help make that decision making a little easier

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Length: 11min 29sec (689 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 05 2020