Thread: Mini Anvil

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Now just how in the HELL do you happen to know that?

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Must have overheard two mail carriers discussing workload while on coffee break!!

Originally Posted by JP5

That looks great. Seems too pretty to use now.

TBH, it is!

It is on display with a Starrett hammer B52 gifted me. Some felt underneath.
Everyone is quite impressed with it
I use it exclusively to tighten-up my users!

Beautiful Tom!!

I love the idea of using a drill chuck to start pinning and mushrooming the first side of the pin.
I was doing some pinning this morning. I tried the using the chuck's on every drill I own, 3/8 and 1/2.
The problem I had was I couldn't get any of them to hold the 1/16 pin stock tight enough. Shortly after starting to tap, the pin stock would slip backwards into the chuck no matter what I did.
I guess I'll have to look around for another chuck.

Pete <:-}

A 1/4 chuck is the ticket, I think. Has to be pretty tight!
A small washer underneath the peen gets the mushroom effect going nicely and helps prevent it slipping down so readily.

Originally Posted by petercp4e

Beautiful Tom!!

I love the idea of using a drill chuck to start pinning and mushrooming the first side of the pin.
I was doing some pinning this morning. I tried the using the chuck's on every drill I own, 3/8 and 1/2.
The problem I had was I couldn't get any of them to hold the 1/16 pin stock tight enough. Shortly after starting to tap, the pin stock would slip backwards into the chuck no matter what I did.
I guess I'll have to look around for another chuck.

Pete <:-}

Pete,

I have a small chuck I use for the work I do, it will hold up to 5/32, Made by
Jacobs, this is a #0 (zero). I see them on Ebay for cheap, new they are pricey.

Yeah, that one looks quality, MrClean!

I stole mine off an old cheap drill. A hole drilled and tapped in the top with an old Chevy screw-in rocker arm stud to simply screw it into the top.

I picked up a 1/2" Jacob's Chuck at Harbor Freight for about $9. Supposed to work from 1.5mm to 13mm and it does but it cuts it very close.
1.5mm = 0.0591"
1/16" = 0.0625"
Like I said, cuts it close. Would have gotten a 1/4" if they had it but settled for the 1/2".

Originally Posted by Diboll

I picked up a 1/2" Jacob's Chuck at Harbor Freight for about $9. Supposed to work from 1.5mm to 13mm and it does but it cuts it very close.
1.5mm = 0.0591"
1/16" = 0.0625"
Like I said, cuts it close. Would have gotten a 1/4" if they had it but settled for the 1/2".

Some of them will close tighter than others. Also I have a quarter inch from a defunct drill motor. That little #0 is a doll and I have used one beside the one for my Foredom flex shaft hand-piece #30.
~Richard

One could sacrifice a length of pin stock to go in the chuck to take up space. The pin you are installing in the scales would go down against the spacer
then tighten the chuck jaws. The top pin would have no place to slip. This would work well as long as one is not against doing a little measuring at
the begining.

Simple yet brilliant!