One more tool to my name !
 

Working on the lathe today and decided to make a camshaft installation tool. I always see them in Summit and Jegs and never really needed one before but figured a man can never have too many tools. So here it is ......

Chris
Bowtie468:bowtie:

Looks awesome! well done man!

I usually use some extra long bolts laying around the shop to install cams.

Nice job! That looks heavier (thicker in the handle) than the one I bought off eBay... and that's a good thing! :D I paid $18 to my door... if that gives you any ideas about making more to sell :)

man that looks nice. put me in line if you decide to make and sell those. do you know any Pontiff's? i have some friends who are brother chris and tim Pontiff from around you.

Very nice!!!

Nice job.......how long did it take to make?

how long?
 

Blue Beard, i did it between jobs during the day, but i'd say about an hour total. Now that i have a template for the faceplate, it shouldn't take that long!

Chris:bowtie:

holy crap 3 louisiana members in one post!

we have a lathe at the machine shop that i work at, i've only made a little dinky throttle cable connection extension piece for my carb. what do you call the piece/part/ccessory that makes the checkered grip on the handle? how do you do that?

its done with a knurling attachment on the lathe.. very easy to do...

Sean, the knurling tool is nothing more than 2 grooved wheels that turn against the workpiece. This is what gives you the diamond pattern.

Like Opper77 said, it really is an easy attachment to use.

sorry to butt in Bowtie....I know this is your thread...forgive me...

Also, most good shops will have a couple different tools to give you different sizes and patterns. We have 2 different sizes of diamond krurl, and a couple sizes of straight krurl (looks like just a bunch of longitudinal grooves when done)

The key to using one of these >X<, is set your carriage feed to one of the higher seetings (the larger the feed, the coarser the diamond pattern) and set your chuck speed fairly low (I remember 20sfpm for some reason; 90 - 100 sfpm is a usual turning speed for steel..)

A good pattern will take a few passes but the key for beginners is not to disengage the feed lever (like cutting a metric thread on a imperial lathe) ...just keep the tool in contact and stop the lathe where you want to stop the krurl.. reverse the feed direction (if this is not an option, reverse the chuck rotation), crank the tool into the workpiece a little more, and run back the other way

when you get good at it, you can just keep it running continuously and pick it up every pass, but you need to be careful or you can ruin a good krurl easily...

here's a few things I have made...

:) No offense taken, Opper77 !! This is an open forum and that was darn good info you gave if i must say.

BTW.. Thats a sweet job you done yourself !!
Thanks pal,

Chris
Bowtie468

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