09-06-2015, 01:51 PM
I got to work a little bit more on a project that I started awhile ago, but just haven't been able to keep up lately. I borrowed an idea from Tom Lipton (Ox-tools) and began putting together a QCTP holder rack. The top of my lathe head stock is now covered (three layers deep) with tool holders and other "stuff", and it needs to go. I want to have two rails mounted behind my lathe to hold my AXA and BXA sized holders where they will be out of the way, yet I can easily reach them.
The rails are the common "uni-strut" stuff found in the electrical department of the big box stores, used for hanging conduit, electrical boxes and pipes etc. They use little t-nuts for attaching things to the rails and are available in multiple fastener sizes. I bought a bag full of angle brackets that are wide enough to accommodate both sizes of my tool holders with a little mill work. For my AXA holders I had to cut 0.200" from each side of the brackets on the "uprights". The BXA holders will be a little wider.
Still a work in progress, but you get the idea and I'll get there eventually.
The rails are the common "uni-strut" stuff found in the electrical department of the big box stores, used for hanging conduit, electrical boxes and pipes etc. They use little t-nuts for attaching things to the rails and are available in multiple fastener sizes. I bought a bag full of angle brackets that are wide enough to accommodate both sizes of my tool holders with a little mill work. For my AXA holders I had to cut 0.200" from each side of the brackets on the "uprights". The BXA holders will be a little wider.
Still a work in progress, but you get the idea and I'll get there eventually.
Willie