Model Engineers’ Workshop – August 2019

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A Simple Storage

Solution for Quick

Change Tool Holders

H

aving acquired and made a number of quick change tool

holders over the years, I thought it was about time I made a

better way of storing them rather than putting them on the

shelf. The following simple design was devised to achieve that.

I wanted something that would keep them out of the way but

still have them conveniently to hand. I also wanted to have them in

a position where any coolant would drain from them, back into the

tray, photo 1.

The idea is simplicity itself, relying on the cutout in the tool

Roger Froud describes a straightforward but very useful way to keep your

toolholders organised.

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holder to hold them in place.

The individual holders, fi g. 1, are held on a long length of M10

threaded rod, with spacers, fi g. 2, to keep them apart, photo 2.

The whole thing is clamped end to end with a pair of nuts, photo

3. The brackets on the end can be made to suit whatever lathe

back you have, or perhaps go underneath a convenient shelf.

The idea can easily be scaled or adapted to suit diff erent sizes

of tool holders, these ones are typically fi tted to Harrison or

Colchester lathes. ■

The toolholder rack, almost fully loaded.

The unloaded rack A close-up to show how the rack is constructed.

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