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One of those tools that once you use it you wonder how you ever managed without it. Really nice job.

Thank you very much for opening one of this up, I found this punch for a buddy of mine that pasted away from COVID and 20 years ago he took it apart and couldn't figure it back together so thank you

I enjoyed the video very much; a center punch looks like a simple tool but in fact it’s kinda sophisticated. And I like that you talk us trough the process rather than hearing some random music. Also I find it oddly satisfying to see the metal being turned :)

Man I need to thank you. These are one of the most important time savers I kept on my tool belt, and I can NOT find these anywhere in South Africa, where I now live. Since shipping anything over here costs more expendable income than I can make in a month, it looks like I'm going to have to figure out how to rig one up, and this is the best video on the entire internet on how to do that. Please pat yourself on the back for a job well done, and accept a brother's gratitude.

Nice metal work you did!

Awesome video, always makes me glad to see when you post a new one!

I’m sorry, I see that you still are making videos. Thank you, keep up the great work 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻

why do i love videos like this just self made stuff always seems better

Thanks to your video, I understood how the automatic needle valve works! Mine, brand new, did not work well, after having disassembled it, nothing made us understand the principle. Now I understand! Thank you for this explanation, I will die even less stupid!

This is very interesting! Just fun I might have a go at making this without the lathe, only using bits and bobs I already have

Thanks for such a great video. My auto centre punch broke not long back and it never crossed my mind to either fix it or make my own. But I will now. Thanks also for the link to the dimensions.

hands down knew it was gonna work, v well made; ty

it's so satisfiying seeing this level of craftmanship on a piece that looks so simple. Subscribed!

Amazing tutorial for both lathe and mechanism! I love it.

Awesome, thanks from Chile

This was a fantastic video to watch at a higher playback speed; lots of realy good content packed into one sitting

Great project! I always wondered exactly how those worked, but never got around to tearing one down. Now I know better... As for the hardness - bolts are hardened by heat treating, so yes, the steel is hardenable. Better bolts = better hardening properties. Grade 0 junk bolts are not very good steel. But it's surely oil-quench grade hardenable steel, not the more expensive water quench grade hardenable steel... But even water quench steel gets more surface hardness if you quench it in oil. Higher surface hardness = less deforming at the tip. Higher through hardness = brittle parts that break on impact (like taps - ever dropped a tap on concrete?). So you want the tips surface-hardened, as well as the surfaces where the 2 pins contact each other and the hammer, but not the length of the pins (too much hardening and they'll break like a tap hitting a concrete floor...). Impact resistance seems to be the key here, not rigidity.

Beautiful job buddy. A tool that gets plenty of use in my workshop.

never knew that's how knurling was done. very cool video, thank you for posting!

the brass barrel interior is what forces the off center pin to centr on the hammer face & fall into its hole

The video was fine, I really did not pay any attention to how long it was, it was not long enough to be a big deal. I was just looking to see how cheap those are on banggood and I noticed some of them have a round or roundish knob on the cap you push down on which could be really nice if you have a really strong spring on your punch. They should send you one of their mini lathes to review, they are not the same as the one you have and may not be as good a quality. I really like that knurling tool, it really make whatever you are making look more professionally made and nice, if I had a lathe I would get one of those.Thanks man.

Very nice job and yes I think it will work :-) just about to find out

Very cool. I always wondered how these work! I wonder if I could fit the mechanism into a fat metal pen?

Great carbide inserts. small chips not long ribbons

Beau travail! Félicitation, 👍👍 c'est une jolie réalisation! Bravo👏👏👏

Nice job; I'll do my version of that later

Great job and explaination. I learned a lot. Thank you

Congratulations, you are very smart. watching here from Brazil.

Very Nice job !

Could you have teat treated the tips of the hammer and push? Use oil to quench.

Amazing work. 👍👍👍

Wow. Amazingly done Sir. Superb and congrats

Nice work! Some would call it a waste of time since they’re only like $5 but I think it’s cool that you went through the trouble and succeeded! I’d like to see a version of a pull back spring punch! Seems like it’d be easier to do!

Good job

عمل متقن و جميل تحياتي من سوريا

NICE JOB, THANKS FOR SHARE

Felicitaciones , muy profesional para trabajar excelente.

I do think it’ll work!

Your idea really makes my daily work easier, sir, thank you sir💯💯❤👍🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝

It's going to work.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 nice job

according to my observations,the orifice in the middle housing part and the smooth increase of the diameter of the pin forces the pin back to the center .this causes the pin to move in to the center bore of the hammer suddenly.

the hammer end has to have a flat side in the whole it will not work correctly thanks for the video it answered a couple of questions for me I hope my info helped as well

I guess need to find my main spring. I took it apart wondering why it wasn't working and couldn't figure it out. Now how did the spring get lost to begin with?

Very nice

I think your parts would benefit from using spring passes once in a while in order to keep the forces down on the last bit of any cut you do. It will make for better surface finish and greatly improve your dimensionnal accuracy. Deflection is a 'female dog' when it comes to small parts, best spring the 'defecat matter' out of it!

Many thanks from CAIRO . EGYPT . Frankly speaking you are professional man , but if l do not have lathe . Can l use some thing else like hard pen ? Or drinking water fitting accessories ?

It's and interesting and useful project. But I would suggest that you use a harder piece of steel for the prick. Why not try the shank of a spade bit? They're reasonably tough but not brittle.

Super Great

for your next project: :) make a wooden rounded knob that screws into the back end, like are found on awls, so one pushes with palm rather than grabbing and squeezing the shaft.

Thanks for the lesson in reassembly. I bought and took my brass punch apart before I got home and had no idea how to put it back together. I however will save the time and money that would be spent on hospital bills, plus the truck load of credit card debt that lord only knows that has been mounted in the the purchase of all those tools that ultimately made the $6 punch.

Nice job 👍 ! A+

A simple mechanism,could this principle be up-scaled to function as an impact hand tool to compact rammed earth.

Yes it will work. 17:49 timestamp

Muy profesional el trabajo.

WOW!

Good to watch. If it was me,(and I had the materials), I would have made a beefier one rather than make a copy of what I already owned.

I pause the video at 17:50 and as i have seen you have made a pretty good jod by replicating the parts, so i think it's a YES from me it's gonna work 💪👌👍

Use tool steel for the pin and striker.

YOU CAN USE CONCRETE NAILS FOR PINS

6:28 btw you could do it better , 1.if you cut the shaft near the chuck first you weaken the part so it bends easily, you can see the effect of a cone. 2.instead of pushing against the rod, a better way it cut against the face so the force doesnt bent the metal as much. 3.if you want to play it safe, dont let the part stick out so much, instead just cut the first half then pull it out and cut the second half. this way the cut is less far away from the chuck. 4. the steel bolts are very soft so i dont use lube, and i use more rpm with less cutting depth which reduces bending again, but i think the first 3 point will be enough for your needs. 6:45 offcourse you can use a dead or revolving center, just cut a small center hole in the face with a centerdrill and it works. 5:00 these chinese holders and tools are a game changer i bought 14pcs for ~5-6$ a piece + all the inserts and holders for ~50$, this would cost a fortune in the past xD (avg the price of 2 minilathes)

Me dan anciedad los anuncios y pierdo concentración. Para q ponerlos, si ya estamos adictos

14:58 if you do that with the lathes we have at school you would destroy the whole insert and insert holder that said great video really enjoyed watching it and very interesting to see people make these P.s. why did the metal parts look rounded were the lathe should've left nice straight cuts ... is there play in the crossslide ???

Вы большой молодец 😎😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

A nice fun project but this is reinventing the wheel

Ok so I got one of those and my doesn’t pop as yours did to put the dent. What is being done wrong if you don’t mind answering.

Hello, I really liked your center punch congratulations. I would like to know what the rollers are called to mark the metal.minute 16:30 greetings from Mexico

yes! it will work lol It's nice to right every now and then :) Thanks for the great video!!! May I ask: where do you buy your drill bits, and what method do you use to sharpen them: free-hand on a regular wheel, on a cup wheel, in a jig on a wheel, with a sharpener like drill Dr. or other? Thank you again!!!

nice work but it need lathe machine to do it it will be very nice if doit with simple tools

This ia the machine i would have even it was mini metal milling lathe but i cant afford this machine due lack of funds hope to have sponsor like u so i could have like this machine so i can make more fabrication love lots ka-Metal good work how u make your own metal tapper

What is the size of the center hole running through the middle section?

my first one was in a box of really old tools i got from a garage cleanout, along with some swanson combo squares, and 2 really old 6"starett combo squares, (at the time, i had no idea what they were),so i cleaned all this stuff with laquer thinner and a grey 3m scuff pad we use to blend paint on cars (i can feel all you tool and die guys cringing),so i used this thing for a while to mark drill holes in wood, so one day i pushed really hard and it clicked really loud, so i was like shit i broke it, then i saw one harbor freight , and finally figured out what it was, anyway, i have done nothing to adjust the tools i found and my squares are dead square, i found out the tools i had were made in the 60's, and still dead on, says something for stuff made back then, i don't pass a yard sale now without looking at the old tools, and no, i'm not selling any of it

14:56 ups😊

Yea

BTW, really nice job, it looks great, and works, i still need to get a laithe

OK👍👍👍감사합니다

At 9:25 you'd have got a more central hole if you'd used... a center punch.

I noticed you were turning from left to right. It's supposed to be from right to left, with the bulk of the metal coming out from the chuck.

the chineese onen that i got from amazon gets stuck most of the time..

Exelent😅😅😅

Another great video mate great job And now we know how they work 👍 Love watching channels like yours Inspired me to start sharing my work Think you might like just finished some cool lamps would b amazing if you could check it out let me know what you think 👍 Keep up the great work 😎💯

I want to buy it ,send contact

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Why didn’t you just MAKE the tool holder part that you needed?

I believe, the original was fabricated by Starrett ...

They cost like $10 for 2 on Amazon. Is it really worth wasting all that time making one.

Mo

Goodby fried rice. Hello fried chicken. Time to start making our own tools and stop buying so much cheap Chinese junk......that we modify anyway. I know many choose to support the Chinese economy, but maybe we could dial it back a little. Thank you for the video.

Great for breaking into piggies car

waw, some of the dimensions are in mm (metric) 😮, this will confuse americans. well, half-way there.

no ,i think it won't work let me see ...

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It's nice that you can duplicate it but I payed $2 for mine and I'd pay it again if it broke. Cool the way you made it though

So it's not a center punch, it's an off-center punch.

Lol about $1000 tools and +5 hours of labour just to make a $15 tool from Amazon/ebay....

Come on man get real you would have assembled that punch off-camera to be sure that you did not stuff up.

a diy person does not have a lathe

Nice metal work you did!

Nice metal work you did!