Peck drill (very small holes on the lathe)

A device I designed and built to aid in the drilling of very small diameter holes on my 9x20 lathe without breaking the drill bit! The original idea was formed after watching a video by Gmark1953 'drilling an orifice on the lathe' I just thought the holding of the pin vice a little risky!

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Science & Technology

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• peck
• drill
• 9x20
• lathe
• orifice
• hole
• small
• mini
• micro
• mill
• milling
• engineer
• engineering
• machine
• machining
• machinist
• metal
• scratch
• built
• sensitive

[metalreign1]

nice work, try some alcohol when machining copper,bronze, brass or aluminum. nice lubricant with no mess. cheers

[Dividedhead]

@metalreign1 Thank you. I'll have to try that one. Never heard that before... Now, I'm in the UK and this kind of stuff is hard to find in neat form.... Plenty in the pubs though!

I'll see what I can do. Will be interesting to try it out :-)

[metalreign1]

@Dividedhead -ur welcome. any rubbing alcohol is good. i keep it in a squeeze bottle and add as needed in situations where you might run no lubrication at all. helps keep aluminum and copper from gumming up your lathe/mill/drill bits. and your part just needs a good shot from the air hose when your done. wear latex gloves, and make sure you got good ventilation.

[Dividedhead]

@metalreign1 Thanks, I'll try and source some and give it a try :-)

Nice pic's on your flicker link BTW. But 2 years and no videos?? ;-)

[DrDirtyJr]

Nice little attachment. I AM a machinist (over 30 years) and it takes more than a spelling error to ruffle my feathers. Threads can be single pointed or made with dies and sometimes dies are a better choice. Nice job. For fun try milling some parts using only a lathe with a tool post and not a milling attachment. Really screws people up when you show them a complex part made solely through turning on a lathe.

[123HURST]

I had forgotten how good Mile Oldfields music is.



[Dividedhead]

@brianszoo Yes. A friend of mine purchased one a few months ago. well, I think it's what you're describing? sounds like the same piece of kit.

This was something I thought up a while ago, I didn't know then that there were "sensitive drills" on the market. Else I'd have probably tried to copy one of them.... Myford for instance 125 British pounds!!

The few hours and cheap materials I used here are far better when I consider how many times I've needed it.



[Dividedhead]

@dh5830 Ahh, I see. I read it without the context of answering Ninja6kid. Read it now. It makes much more sense. Thinking it was meant for me (so self centred!) I was quite confused.

Competent... No, I just make what feels right trying to get a few crucial points in the correct place. Doesn't always work. But then that's how many of us learn I suppose?

:-)

[dh5830]

@Dividedhead I am sure your are you look very compadent. My point was really to some of those made below who were asking about mill attachements etc.

I nearly said outside the cube when I was writing that comment but didn't. Not sure why. Yeah all of my apprentices do a cube exercise amoung other things when they are learning how to turn.

[Dividedhead]

@aphex4000 Thank you. Glad you like it :-)

[Dividedhead]

@TheLightningStalker Possibly did and I subconsciously copied it? ;-) 

[Dividedhead]

@dh5830 I'm not quite sure where you're going with this comment?

Just stating the lathe is good for everyone to read? Or telling me I'm not using it to potential?

I'm personally aware of many of it's functions. But thank you for pointing a few out.

"Turners cube" > google images = a few pic's of a very common project for learners.

"The lathe is very versatile you just have think outside the box"

surely you mean cube?

Hard to gain inflection from text isn't it?!

smiley anyone? :-)