Easy Low Profile Side Clamps For The Milling Machine
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Free E-drawing Link : imgur.com/a/dIIQWqd
G'day everyone,
In an upcoming video I will be machining a part directly on the mill table. To do this I will need a way to hold the part down. Traditional strap clamps will not be suitable as they don't allow you top machine the top surface in one pass.
Toe clamps are a common way to clamp parts on the side, but they require a lot of machining to make. So solve this issue, I have come up with my own simple table clamp design. i hope you enjoy the video.
cheers
Timestamps
0:00 - Design Challenge
1:30 - Machining The Clamp
5:38 - Testing The Clamp
#machining #DIY #millingmachine - Věda a technologie
Almost forgot to add the link to the e-drawing. It is quite simple but should be good enough for you to get started. imgur.com/a/dIIQWqd
EDIT: Revised drawing with slightly reduced angles to help prevent the moving jaw from sticking.
link is not working But thats great and simple thanks for sharing cant wait to make my self.
Thanks mate, now I have something to work on rather than sitting on the Couch. Cheers my friend.👍🍻
@@mysterysniper910 the link works fine here
Maybe next time you use a file and hacksaw to cut steel, instead try using a cut off tool 😜 or steel cutting wire 🤣
great version of this type of clamp and thanks for the drawing.
TheMetalRaymond did a similar thing, but bigger, chunkier and didn't bother with the dovetail.
czcams.com/video/IR2p9ceg1bw/video.html
The other thing he did which might interest you before you harden the front edge is the step the front so it has a much lower front face. You could easily do the same with you clamp if it were a bit thicker or you could bolt a jaw onto it. That way you'd be able to completely face a slab of material like the one you demoed.
Nice work, man! You've got me thinking of some projects I would need these for just as an excuse to make a set
Side project- 1
Go ahead, i'd love to see you improve upon these
@@artisanmakes Not much I would change honestly. Maybe a unified t-nut so it all stays together. But thats just me being picky 😁
@@InheritanceMachining Looking forward to it...this is gonna be good!
Side projects for the side projects??
Beautifully simple design, I really like it. In the absence of hard teeth to bite into the workpiece you could probably use a piece of emery paper between the clamp and workpiece to get some extra bite.
Awesome idea. I nevet thought of that.
I had once these clamps . Be aware they hold much less than a vise or regular clamps
@@Hendreh1 The effectiveness of the clamping force is dependent on how steep or shallow the wedging angle is. There are 2 piece bed jaw systems working on this principle that hold the workpiece very firmly
@@howardosborne8647 as I said , I have really used These clamps. And the angle was not an issue . But the Holding force of the t-nut in the table . It Moves sideways.
@@Hendreh1 The simple solution there is to make a longer Tee nut which has a larger surface footprint.
I really appreciate the lengths you’re willing to go to maximize what you can do on a modest sized mill.
Great project and simple to make, I can see having a set of these will get me down to ground zero when the vice isn't the greatest choice. Cheers and thanks!
Wow....easy to make , reliable method of clamping, and cheap.... all 3 points a home diy machinist is looking for thanks for sharing!!!!!
I like the design and simplicity of these clamps. I reckon these would also be useful on the shaper table to hold stock for light finishing cuts.
Have always had to use hold down dogs but often they get in the way and anytime you unclamp and reclamp to continue a pass you chance introducing errors. I love these and plan to build some of varying thicknesses. Thanks for a great video!
That's absolutely ingenious!
Simple and effective design. Love it.
What an elegant solution! I've been pondering how to make a clamp to do this job I will be making my own set very soon!
Thanks for a very adaptable idea. Simply brilliant
Good work yet again, and thanks for including the drawings. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
I actually love how clean your machine is and how nice you keep it. My machines are always covered in coolant and swarf. Great work 👌
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Beautiful design! Hats off to you.
Love it. Simple. Thanks for sharing!
I like it and a sliver of sandpaper between the part and the clamp could be added for extra holding. Thanks for sharing!
Man your parts have come a really long ways. Nice work brother. Those dovetail clamps look really nice.
Awesome. Thanks for the video and the drawing
Nicely done, thank you for sharing the process.
This is absolutely wonderful.
Love this! What a great idea!
Thatsa fantastic mechanism, simple but elegant and sensible....very cool.
Thanks. That is a really simple but very useful tool.
Cheers from Canada
Really great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Great idea!
Great work. Amazing stuff
I like it . Simple and works excellent.
Great Idea. I will definitely make a couple of them.
I like yours better than most store bought ones!
Very clever! :)
That's a clever idea!
Very elegant!
such a cool design
Nicely done, I think I might make some of these for my CNC! To get around the height issue, you could put another piece of material under the work piece to raise it up slightly. You would need something approximately the same size though, which might not always be practical.
I was thinking of the same thing. Perhaps the riser piece could be longer on one axis and clamped at the ends sticking past the actual work piece?
Hey, that’s a great idea. Well done!
Nice.
I never think of using my fly cutters that way. Smart
Simple and effective! 👍
Great design and I may well make up some myself.
For the moveable jaw, if you milled it with an L shape so that only the bottom 5 - 10 mm is holding the work, this pushes the clamp back and allows access to mill the top of the work.
Hi , Thank you for sharing this helpful item, will be a great asset, thanks for supplying the plan. Top videos and top knowledge passed on.
Thank You man for your work
Congratulations for your work. I have just one suggestion for the moving part of the clamp. As you you tighten the screw, the T bolt will be both moved forward and upwards. This tiny forward movement could damage your milling bed from underneath. In order to prevent that, just mill an ellipse into the moving part, instead of a exact hole for the allen screw. I believe that this will allow a kind of "tilt" of the screw and this will prevent the milling bed from getting damaged. I am not quite sure if this is the best solution for that, but it is the one that I thought now.
What an Excellent design, simple and effective, the way it should be…
Great idea. Thanks
Simple and effective, nice work
What a clever design.
Excellent job. Very good idea.
Great idea and execution. True engineering.
Thank you very much!
This is brillant !
I am watching your videos for a long time and really appreciate all you achieve with hobby tools. And by the way, english is not my mother language, I love your accent !!!
I think that’s a GREAT idea
Nice video. If you take a few millimeters off the bottom of the moving jaw (making it shorter than the fixed piece), it will probably be useful in more situations/configurations.
I am sure that would be an excellent idea
Great video. I just might make a few of these today. :) Thanks for sharing.
What a fantastic project - might have to have a go myself ;)
Well thought out young fellar--first class idea and explanation..--thanks a million E
really nice , definately make some for my mill, thankyou for the video
really smart idea
Excellent clamps my friend!
The ole k.i.s.s. method for the win!
I always feel you need to clamp something down, not across but that is a solid idea. The best part is if you need to clamp low objects you could use some thin stock in between
the clamp and the part to be machined to give the cutter clearance? Just thinking out loud on that one.
Keep up the good work!
Yeah I'm sure there are many ways of going about using them
That is indeed a good idea.
Impressive. Very good job.
Brilliant!
Very clever solution.
Thanks for a good idea.
Nice simple clamp cheers.
Very good design! So far, I like your the most, than I like Harold Hall's. I'll be needing them really soon.
Very nice!
Simple and effective
Brilliant.
Smart idea them 👍🏻
I really enjoy all your videos. I watch and rewatch them all the time. I am relatively new to machining and am really impressed at the quality of your work, editing, and filming. I wonder if you could do an instructional video on how to do the dovetails in metal. I know how to do this in wood, but what cutter, what angle, feed/speed in metal? It is one of those black holes of information in my head. I guess if you were a machinist this would be easy. Already subscribed, but you get another thumbs up!
Idk about anyone else but I really enjoy watching / hearing that fly cutter
Very beautiful ❤
Ill make a pair based on your excellent design
Very nice work.
This is my very next project thank you
I like the Eccentric Cam Lock style but I can see myself making a set of these in S7 and run them Thru the Ovens.
Very nicely done indeed, it’s simple, it’s clever, and supremely strong of all things well done I think I’m going to have to make myself a couple sets of these they’re beautifully made. Only things are I’d harden them and chamfer those sharp edges a lil even just breaking that edge .010 - .015 would do I think 🤔, well we’ll see I suppose.
Brilliant
Nice work 👍
That is so clever!
I´m gonna make myself a set of those I think :D
Very beautiful! Very simple design and probably really easy to make yourself I'd imagine. I was wondering if you were going to harden it. Do you think you might get a metal hardening station in the future for all the parts you make? And maybe blue them? I know space and money are probably the biggest issues
Great idea and video! Thanks for sharing it. :) -Mike
I like creativity !! Thanks.
Good Idea
Lovely work, if the piece clamping the work had a step to clear the cutting tool I think that would help as well, nicely done.
Nice video Artisan!
If it would help you, there are hardened grip inserts on the market for brand name vise jaws. You could machine pockets for these and add them in your design if need arise.
Have fun
The best!
Excelente 👌
Nice video shot, thank you for sharing it , keep it up:)
I like it very much
I'm pretty sure you also need double T-slot nuts for this project ;) Basically a double length nut with two threads. It will serve many purposes:
- clamp alignment
- keeps the clamps together in storage
- better force distribution
and above everything else: It will just make some additional content for us to consume 😁😁😁
that would actually work against the mechanics of the clamp as the two bolts slightly move together while clamping...
Nice.
Interesting idea. I'm guessing it would work without the dovetails too...
I made a prototype without them, and you might see them in the video where I use them. They worked fine, but I seemed to get slightly better clamping with the dovetails, and they were a little easier to set up ands store. That's how I saw it, but you can always do it without them if want. Cheers
I'd guess even a simple keyway would be fine. Anything to keep the halves located in the presence of lateral force would serve the purpose, no?
Im sure you could approach this many different ways and get similar results
Genius!!!!!! :)
Hi, superb design. Can the clamp push the part flat downward to the table? Or will there be a little gap?
Side clamps underestimated but very important
Great design! I’ve been looking for something exactly like this. Any chance you’ll be making any more?
I probably will once I get more material, everything seems to be on backorder at the suppliers these days :)
@@artisanmakes Make friends at a local scrap yard! Tell them you're a hobby machinist and take along some items you have made.
Offcuts from screw-machine shops and fabricators go a long way to reducing costs.
Tool steel you can get from annealed automotive springs.
For complex items such as machined-from-solid crank shafts I purchase a piece of stressproof aka 1144 machinery steel.
Your low rise clamps are very nice and useful indeed. To resist wear and tear, case hardening or pack hardening would be a useful.
Instead of hardening the clamping jaw, you could incorporate hardened serrated gripper inserts. McMaster Carr and CarrLane carry these. I was a tool and die designer years ago and designed many a fix and fixture with these type gripper inserts.
Nifty.
I will say that these are a modified version of clamps I (eventually) learned to love. This is a great alternative. Only downside is the possibility of pulling the part down to the table. Aka if the part is warped and you pull it straight, when you loosen the clamps, the part will spring back to not flat.
Not a downside of the clamps, every holding method has the same problem. The problem can be solved by shimming the workpiece from the clamping location, so that it when it pulls down, it as a solid rest under it, thus no warping.