Show us your lathe Gang Tooling! Here mine I milled out today!

[dustin_drews]

I cut one that requires no reduction sleeves and mounts directly to the tool post. Plus every hole was is bored on center. No height adjustment will ever be required.
But it was a lot of chips to to cut out.
To top it off I mounted a MT4 tool post to the Carriage makes it super handy.
I’d love to see yours!

God Bless,
Dustin

Drews Precision

I thought I posted this but it disappeared?

 

[DaveTooley]

I thought about doing that but never got around to trying it.

 

[dustin_drews]

I thought about doing that but never got around to trying it.

It took a lot longer than I ever thought it would have. Plan on a minimum of 8 hours at a minimum. Them steps add up fast.

God Bless,
Dustin

 

[boltfluter]

I cut one that requires no reduction sleeves and mounts directly to the tool post. Plus every hole was is bored on center. No height adjustment will ever be required.
But it was a lot of chips to to cut out.
To top it off I mounted a MT4 tool post to the Carriage makes it super handy.
I’d love to see yours!

God Bless,
Dustin

Drews Precision

I thought I posted this but it disappeared?

Very nice! Should make for some, nice repeatable cuts.
Paul

 

[LVLAaron]

Slick. One day.....

 

[LVLAaron]

I spy a kennametal kc5010 insert

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

Really a nice looking unit, but I don't think I fully grasp the reasoning behind the build.
Everyone has a different lathe setup, so could you spell out the features?
(For the slow kids in the class)

 

[LVLAaron]

He's got a CNC lathe - so he doesn't have to do tool swaps to do a barrel tenon.

 

[LVLAaron]

@dustin_drews - give us a tour of your hydraulic follower

 

[dustin_drews]

Really a nice looking unit, but I don't think I fully grasp the reasoning behind the build.
Everyone has a different lathe setup, so could you spell out the features?
(For the slow kids in the class)

Time savings and repeatability.
In CNC repeatability is only as good as your tooling. Qctp do no repeat as well as you think of they advertise. This prevents 4 different tool changes.

Less then 5 minutes to cut a tennon.

Gunsmithing Gang Tooling, Cnc gunsmithing,

God bless,
Dustin

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

Ahhh, I see. I work on CNC's for a living, but I never see those little toolroom lathes. Sort of forget they exist.
Every CNC lathe I work with has a 12 station turret.

 

[jackieschmidt]

Neat.
the proof is in the checking.

 

[VA_XTC_Shooter]

How did you get each tool height to be the same? Am I correct that you made those adjustments when making the solid block?

 

[dustin_drews]

How did you get each tool height to be the same? Am I correct that you made those adjustments when making the solid block?

I used the lathe to drill and ream all the holes.
God Bless,
Dustin

 

[Jesswil61]

Am I to access that there is no dialing in the the barrels bore, this setup would be limited to concentricity with the barrel OD or am I missing something?

 

[jackieschmidt]

His inspection at the video‘s end shows he had to have indicated the barrels ID so that all of the subsequent machine operations ran true with that portion of the ID.

 

[LVLAaron]

Am I to access that there is no dialing in the the barrels bore, this setup would be limited to concentricity with the barrel OD or am I missing something?

He dials in the barrel - he has a true bore if memory serves

 

[dustin_drews]

Am I to access that there is no dialing in the the barrels bore, this setup would be limited to concentricity with the barrel OD or am I missing something?

All the cuts are made true to the axis of the barrel bore over 5 inches of length.
Zero run out on the back of the chamber.

 

[dustin_drews]

He dials in the barrel - he has a true bore if memory serves

Correct… wish the machine did that for me!

 

[jackieschmidt]

Just curious, why did you use the little solid boring bars rather than small insert bars?