Bogstandard's Bent Wire Tool

[bezalel2000]

Hay Bogs

In another thread posted here you showed us your lathe tool rack.

I have to ask, What is the tool with the grey handle, located at the right front of the rack? ???

you have probably shown it in use in one of your posts, but I haven't seen it yet. scratch.gif

I have a feeling this is going to be one of those "Doh! - of course" moments but I'm curious now and I gotta know. oh:

Thanks in advance

Bez

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[bronson]

Chip rake.


Bronson

 

[rleete]

For picking up the cat?

 

[Lew Hartswick]

You mean you haven't seen snake handlers use that tool?
...lew...

 

[bezalel2000]

Hay Lew

No, I haven't seen any bog standard snake catcher use that tool. ;D

Chip rake.

Bronson

Oh! Thanks Bronson, IIRC Chips used to come wrappen in news paper. and we would rake em up with a tool like this -
http://www.cookshop.uk.com/prod_img/4802_1_large.jpg
:big:


So it's that simple? why not use a parts cleaning brush? - It looks like it would be a beggar of a job to rake the chips out of your lead screw with a single point tool in preference to a brush or am I still missing some thing, like a hidden cavity in the lathe you can't get to with a brush?
I figure if Bogs has got one, there is a perfectly good reason.


Bez

 

[rake60]

I have two of those in different sizes.

The long one is for a chip rake and/or back scratcher.

The short one is for poking people in the eye for asking too many
questions about about what it's used for.

Rick

 

[bezalel2000]

The short one is for poking people in the eye for asking too many
questions about about what it's used for.

Rick

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Well I'll be ..................

With the help of Rick and Bronson, I just found out I need one.

For years I've bin using this brush to clean down the lathe and sweep the swarf out of all the nooks-n-crannies in the swarf tray.
there wasn't any part f the lathe i couldn't get to with it to clean.

Well, last week I upgraded to a bigger lathe.

I haven't generated more than a couple of grams of swarf that just swept neatly off the cross slide and into a dust pan.

I just went down to the shed armed with my new found knowledge and discovered this

My lathe cleaning brush doesn't fit under the lead screw reverse gear box.
[edit] and I seee my red cold chisel has just popped out of the fouth dimension - wonder if it'll still be there when I get back to the shed? sorry I degress -

So here is the first modification required for the new lathe.

That should get to it. Thanks Guys

Bez




P.S : Where's that @#%$& chisel gone now?

 

[Ed T]

One could also imagine a small piece of almost anything that would keep stuff from getting under there in the first place.

 

[Blogwitch]

Bez,

As you have now found out, it is a chip rake.

But not only for getting under the head of my machine.

When cutting materials that the swarf comes off in long strings, it is safer to use a chip rake to drag the material off the machine as it is cutting, rather than trying to use gloved hands. I would prefer the rake to get dragged around the chuck rather than my fingers.

It is in fact a dual purpose tool. The PVC handle is used as a very soft hammer when I am doing fine angle adjustments to the topslide.

BTW, the lathe tidy only took me a couple of days to get used to, and since then, it became automatic to drop the bits back into it rather than leave them draped on the lathe top.

John

 

[bezalel2000]

Hi John

Thanks for your input - informative - as usual.

Gloved hand and rotating machinery, Now there is a combination that sounds like both of us are keen to avoid.

You must be missing the "lizard tail" gene like me. My skin is quite good at replacing itself - but digits or parts of a limb, not so much.

So far, in all the turning I've done, I have always been able to avoid the long swarf problem by momentarily interupting the feed on the cut. Lathe, drill or mill boring.

Is this a bad practice from a technical perspective? ( single point thread and Stainless steel cutting obviously it is, but otherwise?)

Time wise, I have found it to be a good investment.

Bez

 

[bezalel2000]

Hi Ed

I'm not ignoring you, I just thought, with your practical wisdom, you've just killed off any likely debate about what shape a chip rake should be? :big:

Thanks

Bez

 

[Blogwitch]

Bez,

My skin at this time is very soft due to not being amongst the muck and metal, in fact at one time, I had great difficulty doing my twice daily blood tests because my skin was so crocodile like, the very fine needles were reluctant to penetrate hard fingertip skin, but it will soon harden up again.

I invariably power feed most of my cuts, especially heavy ones purely because of lack of power in my hands, and so can't just easily stop the cut, so I use the rake to pull the swarf away from the chuck and cutting tool and manouvre it to the back of the machine tray, where it can be gathered up later.
I was in no way advocating using gloves on a machine, but many do, and suffer the consequences. I do use the blue vinyl gloves occasionally, mainly when cutting cast iron and 'splintery' brass, but because they are easily torn and ripped off, they are not considered a safety issue.

John