angus67
Welder's penetrate deeper!!
Hello, gents, (and a couple missus').
A couple months ago I bought a Harbor Frieghf Tubing notcher. When I got it home, I tried to put it on my tabletop drill press which was also purchased at HF.
Unfortunately, there wasnt enuf room in the press to fit the notcher, so, under the bench the notcher went.
Yesterday, the mrs. and I got into a difference of opinion, so I locked myself in my garage. Puttering around, and ran out of junk to put away, I decided to get out the notcher, and see whats up.
I first took the power unit off the pipe of the drill press, extented it 1ft with longer pipe. put it back together after squaring it back up, then atached the notcher to the base.
It must be put on backwarks ,IE, the pipe clamp will face away from you so the press and the notcher line up so nothing binds..
So I put a peice of very thin stainless pipe in the notcher with the appropriate blu-mol hole saw, and went at it. I also tried with a 1/8 wall tubing
Must have one hand on the power button, and one on the press handle. Couldnt press too hard, or the press would jam. So very lightly, I start cutting, and notice the clamp of the notcher isnt exactly perpendicular to the holesaw, off-center. There are no adjustments other than 90* down to 35*.
It dosnt line up, the "bearing" part of the notcher is a brass maybe bronze bushing that what ever the hell the chinese call a lubricant quickly overheats, and gums up, so I squirted tool oil in it, worked better, but what a waste of effort.
Im pretty sure I could make one better, or fix this one, but just so you guys know, don't buy one and assume you will build a frame with it.. Cuz you won't.
A couple months ago I bought a Harbor Frieghf Tubing notcher. When I got it home, I tried to put it on my tabletop drill press which was also purchased at HF.
Unfortunately, there wasnt enuf room in the press to fit the notcher, so, under the bench the notcher went.
Yesterday, the mrs. and I got into a difference of opinion, so I locked myself in my garage. Puttering around, and ran out of junk to put away, I decided to get out the notcher, and see whats up.
I first took the power unit off the pipe of the drill press, extented it 1ft with longer pipe. put it back together after squaring it back up, then atached the notcher to the base.
It must be put on backwarks ,IE, the pipe clamp will face away from you so the press and the notcher line up so nothing binds..
So I put a peice of very thin stainless pipe in the notcher with the appropriate blu-mol hole saw, and went at it. I also tried with a 1/8 wall tubing
Must have one hand on the power button, and one on the press handle. Couldnt press too hard, or the press would jam. So very lightly, I start cutting, and notice the clamp of the notcher isnt exactly perpendicular to the holesaw, off-center. There are no adjustments other than 90* down to 35*.
It dosnt line up, the "bearing" part of the notcher is a brass maybe bronze bushing that what ever the hell the chinese call a lubricant quickly overheats, and gums up, so I squirted tool oil in it, worked better, but what a waste of effort.
Im pretty sure I could make one better, or fix this one, but just so you guys know, don't buy one and assume you will build a frame with it.. Cuz you won't.
