I Had To Make a MASSIVE Tap Wrench. It's 270cm Long
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- G'day everyone,
In this Video I will be making a huge tap wrench to hold my big 40mm taps that I made a few weeks ago. The shank on those taps measures out to be 30mm in diameter, which is too big for any of my current tap wrenches. Probably not too surprising.
Now I don't want to overthink this project, put it simply, I want to make a big tap wrench. I didn't have to do this, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity. The final result is a very strong tap wrench, and having used it I can say that it is very solid.
I will be making it from a piece of 25 x 75mm bar stock which I will turn between centers on the lathe and turn a thread for some handles.
I hope you enjoy the video.
#machining #diy #tapwrench
Making a Giant Tap Wrench
2.7M Long Tap Wrench
Massive Tap Wrench Build
DIY Tap Wrench
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Turning Down The Main Body
8:36 - Milling The Main Body
11:01 - Machining The Moving And Fixed Jaws
13:52 - Turning The Adjustment Screw
16:29 - Turning The Handles
20:18 - Final Assembly and Measurement 
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Somebody please get this man a horizontal bandsaw!
Or at least an angle grinder! Something! Come on!!
Wouldn't surprise me if he already had one but still uses the hacksaw out of tradition.
And a 4 jaw chuck!
Yh its kind of a tradition now! He does have an angle grinder and has used it to cut, but we also know his shop is a bit small (he's said as much), so has to set it up outside to keep the machines clean and not sure if he has space for a horizontal bandsaw.
That said. I think he could also be a master troll!!! Notice how we only ever see the start of a cut, or the end of a cut, never the whole cut.....? He's probably a bandsaw hidden away somewhere that he uses to do the actual cut and trolls us into thinking he did it all with a hacksaw!!!
Sarcasm of course, but it's now a tradition to see him cutting stupidly large stock with a hacksaw that he just does it anyways to cary on the tradition.
He's trolling you... successfully 🤣🤣
A colleague of mine was an apprentice machinist at British Leyland in the early eighties. If you left your chuck key in the lathe you were punished by having to chop through whatever stock you were machining with a hacksaw. You Sir do that for our enjoyment and I congratulate you for that sacrifice!
Classic British Leyland efficiency right there lol.
That's not a tap wrench, this is a tap wrench! ( with a Crocodile Dundee style)
I’m always impressed with your ability to be able to push your humble setup to produce parts in size and quality that it doesn’t seem like you should be able to. I like how manual a lot of your processes are, because of some of your equipment restrictions. I find this relatable, and while I do like a lot of the ‘big’ machining channels, your content feels far more accessible to a novice like myself. I really enjoy the creative solutions you come up with to get around restrictions. You yourself are humble, sometimes to the point of self deprecation, and I think all of these things have helped elevate your ‘smaller’ channel to the success it has found. I like how as your skill set grows, so does the scope and ambition of the projects you undertake. I’m always excited when a new piece of equipment joins your shop, as I know you have carefully considered it’s purchase and will have many projects to follow with. As opposed to some of the vanity purchases you sometimes see on wealthier channels with large sponsor deals and the like.
Without gushing any further, I love the channel and I think you have a great formula. Which ultimately is you sir, so well done.
to be honest, it is a pretty decent setup. I feel like there is an inflation of what a decent workable workshop should look like, exactly because of the few outstanding YT channels. Don't get me wrong, I do love amazing machinig workshops, but this one I'd say is more realistic. Limitations make you more creative.
Well said!
@@super8hell It's not like he started out with the tools you see today. It's been a slow progression, just like most of us hobbyists.
Your presentation has gotten pleasantly strident with humour. Getting more comfy making n editing the videos, eh? Lovin' it!
Jesus that's a big bastard tap wrench! I love the way you utilise your machines to the maximum. The design is so close to a normal tap wrench, but different in the design of the tightening system deleting the normal differential screw design in favour of your more simple screwed collar with a tommy bar to lock it up. Brilliant! And bloody nicely done too!
I really like the hex nut used for the holes for the bar. That's really clever.
You're going to need to upgrade your workbench or you'll be spinning it round in the middle of the workshop with that leverage! Good work 👍
WOW, that's all I can say! What a tap wrench! Great job and thanks for posting the video for all of us to enjoy! Take care!
"it's not clickspring perfect, but it's ok."
That frase made me stop the video, exit the full screen mode and click the 'like' button, and put this comment.
Well earned, sir.
THE KING RETURNS
My thoughts exactly!!
True
Excellent job. Good design to avoid the left-hand threading. Clever.
If the handle threads were left handed then he could have threaded away from the chuck for both the internal & external threads.
You must have an arm like Quagmire from using that bloody hacksaw! 🙂
You do make some great gadgets. That tap wrench looks like a real beast. Im sure it will come very useful. Well done in this project. 👍👍👍👍
Nice work on another giant size tool. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
Always a pleasure watching your videos!
My tap wrench is only 1.08 METERS long.
hmmmm... make some extension handles! Briliant!
Now you just need a very large room to use it in and very long arms to turn it with. 👍😎
Love you work buddy. Keep it coming. Well done
you make it look so simple and easy , well done .
Fantastic result! And when it comes to making the hole for that tap, Kurtis has just the boring bar you need!
That thing is the Godzilla of tap wrenchs! 😮
To think that somebody beat me to leaving this comment... I feel robbed. 😄
Must be for a tool post, I am intrigued as to what you are going to machine. Good luck, I'll be watching and cheering you on.
This was very fun to watch!
Keep waiting for crocodile dundee to jump out and say "That's not a tap wrench"... Bam... "This is a tap wrench". Fingers crossed, 20 minutes to go...
Very very nice job! Well done, thanks.
Great job, it's huge! 👍💪✌️
I've made a few tap wrenches. One reason is that I don't like those typical ones, they are off center, unbalanced and won't stay tight. I use the tried and true 2 screws type. They are easy to make, are balanced and won't come loose. I use either the 2 screws or the handles themselves are the screws. With those I can spin the tap out without it wobbling off center, saves time.
Totally nuts. Love it.
That's one massive tap handle. Great job.
Cant say I have ever seen a 2 person tap wrench before!
Excellent work as always 👍👍
PERFECT !!!!!
Very nice job, thanks for posting
Very nice job!
Thanks, nice thinking around the movable jaw adjustment.
What a beast!
You've gotten better over time.
Wow! I did the same, 4140 steel, quenched and tempered, hardness 56 HRC. Congratulations, I liked your work! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Abom70 approved!
Very nice!
Keep em coming!!!!
7:12 the tool you used was made a nice finish
Your commenting and video editing and skills have come such a long way! Not to mention your machining skills. No surprise tbat 100k isn't far away....
Thank you very much
It's every bit as gloriously ridiculous as I was hoping for. Bravo. 😄
Skill Beyond Imagination
Setup an indicator on the ways so that the carriage contacts it and set a zero before you get to an internal shoulder.
Another nice project.
Nice video, well done, thanks :)
Anything this size is going to take some power to shift through steel, easy enough in bronze with some leverage on each end. If you can, leave whatever you want to tap in the lathe chuck and feed in the tap using a live centre in the tailstock. Use a shifter with a long tube as lever and keep pressure on tap till its fed deeply enough in. Keep centre on the tap to prevent stress on tap. Another good video from you. Well done champ
You did one hell of a job on that tap wrench BTW love your videos
Cheers thank you
Abom tap wrench. I've seen him use ones about this big with the part on a lathe with a huge swing. Good job!
Comically large tap wrench. I love it
This is the most violent manual machining I've witnessed
That is a comically massive tap wrench. I love it.
I saw the taps video yesterday, and I predicted this was coming :D
When you made the tap, I thought "good God! The wrench for that is going to be absurdly huge".... I wasn't disappointed. ;)
finally, a tap wrench big enough to tap some M12 holes
Nice keep up the great work
You got one big tool cheers.
Awesome
Nice job
Someone buy this poor man a porta-band saw! He could make 2x the videos if he didn't spend hours cutting stock with a hack saw! Love the vids!
I not sure who is Clickspring perfect. The dude is a machine. Great content as usual!
Very good tap wrench
You can drill the solid hand to reduce weight.
Kudos for the well finished wrench
Truly massive 😍
Curtis would be proud.
Nice tool. I have a 2,5 inch tap (63,5mm) that needs an even bigger wrench. Never usedt it.
i wanna see you try to tap an M1 hole with the comically large tap wrench.
That poor steady rest! I could feel it's pain.
Your projects look amazing. We would all want to achieve clickspring perfect, but I could barely get to your level.
I thought I was watching cutting edge engineering when the steady came out.
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Now that is a tap wrench.
Cây taro quá khủng và rất tuyệt vời bạn ơi ❤❤❤
After reading through several different comments, I have a feeling that one of the next projects will be a steady rest upgrade or else a complete new build steady rest project!
Somebody please sponsor this man with a power hacksaw :D Or .. perfect future project???
Hoped to see a demo
Carbide end mill is our best friend
Ridonculusly Skookum😅
Love it.
Next up: A ginormous bench with matching ginormous-er vise to hold whatever the hell is going to have a threaded hole made in it with this tap wrench.
Great work.
Regards
Doc from South Australia.
Someone get this man a band saw
I hope you get a bandsaw someday!😮😮
Me too. It hurts to see how he uses the hacksaw every time
The deburring wonkiness must only be obvious in person, it looks pretty good in the video 😁
“Clickspring perfect” has now been formally defined by the International Metrology Association.
sheesh that's a big boi!
Pekerjaan luar biasa 👍👍👍
in the immortal words of vanilla ice, "to the extreme, i rock a tap like a handle"
That thing is so big it's silly. Nicely done!
Crikey, mate !
We’ve gotta get you a bandsaw!
lol I hope the hole you have to tap is accessible by a tap wrench this big! You might have to make a vertical extension
que belleza de herramienta amigo Dios lo bendiga por su saber.
Vary good job
That Fly wheel IS ONE SICK tool bro. I am getting a Lathe & Milling machine next year for my shop. I can't wait for next year. I love working with metal now. I do woodworking in my shop but working with metal has been great too so the LATHE IS A MUST NOW. I want to be able to make tools with the LATHE AND mILL,
lOVE THE tAPS AND wRENCH MAN. tHE SIZE OF THEM IS CRAZY. 40mm??
I just want to mention that, in case you didn't think of it, working with metal in a dusty woodworking shop can be a fire hazard (sparks and sawdust). Stay safe and keep crafting!
@@luchvk I'd be more concerned about dust gumming up the metal working machines
@@larrybud I wanted to mention it because it's a potential risk. I that know when someone else mentioned it I realized that it was risk that I may have not thought of until after something bad happened.
Nice job!
What kind of dies do you use? Curious as I’m looking to upgrade the dies I have
Excellent build, great addition to the shop.
Using a jaw chuck jaw against a drive dog is fine, machinists loose time fitting a faceplate, if they can find it, or don't have the spindle centre bush.
Lovely looking result.
The only time I would bother with a catch plate and centre is if there wasn't enough length working from a centre turned in a chuck.
@@dutchgray86 Spot on.
Listen here!...No-one like a skite!😆
Talk about compensating!
All jokes aside that is an impressive bit o' kit. You are going to need a work bench in the middle of the shop so you don't hit the wall with those handles!
Keep up the good work!
Great job !
My I suggest drilling holes for faster material removal in the thru pattern before using the endmill to finish the inside.
Also I’m interested in the cold air system that you are using ? Thanks
The air blast for the lathe? Thats just a cheapo airbrush hooked up to a small air compressor I have under the lathe. I replaced the nozzle with one that I made. Its longer and it spits coolant, rather than a fine mist. Mist fills up the workshop and you wouldn't want to breathe it in. Whole set up, air compressor included is $130ish.
Nice
Just get yourself a 100:1 torque converter that gets used for truck wheel bolts. The problem with using such a large tap wrench is that you cannot push on both sides at the same time and so rather than applying a pure moment you will also be applying radial force to the tap.
That's the moment when you need an apprentice :D
That was interesting. One thing though, that steady rest you have is a piece of junk. You need to fit bearings on it.
Slow down there ABOM JR!