We're tackling the challenge of making a heavy duty button tool holder that can handle even the most demanding lathe jobs. We'll take you stepbystep through the process of using our milling machine to craft the tool holder. We start by machining down all the faces using a fly cutter and indexable shell mill. We also use a roughing end mill to clean up the ends before going in with a ball nose end mill to contour the corners of the holder. We then tackle the most daunting part of the process of drilling and tapping a hole for a tiny 3.5mm screw that holds in the button insert. The next thing is to cut a radius on the front to give the insert some relief before deburring all the edges to complete the tool holder. We then put our new tool holder to the ultimate test by using it to machine the eye off a big EX1900 cylinder rod!

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Hafco TM26120G Centre Lathe

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