Dan's Hobbies » boring bar http://www.dans-hobbies.com The things i do for fun. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:51:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 boring bar sleeve http://www.dans-hobbies.com/2008/10/09/boring-bar-sleeve/ http://www.dans-hobbies.com/2008/10/09/boring-bar-sleeve/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:33:26 +0000 Dan http://www.dans-hobbies.com/?p=82 I ordered a bunch of boring bars the other day, but before I could use them I needed to figure out how to clamp them in the AXA holder. So how do you hold a 1/2″ boring bar with a holder designed for 3/4″ bars? With a sleeve of course. Sleeves are very easy to make; all you need is a lathe & a bandsaw.

My QCTP came with this 3/4″ boring bar holder but I have never used it.

AXA100 holder

I made the sleeve by boring it to size on the lathe, and then slitting it with my band saw.  I held it in the band saw by clamping it inside a toolmakers vice, and then clamping the toolmakers vice perpendicular to the blade with the bandsaw vice.

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ready for use the rig looks like this.

ready for use

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