-
Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.
- Thread starter Susquatch
- Start date
Tips/Techniques
ChazzC
Ultra Member
Back in one of the trash stikes in NYC (80’s? 90’s?), those who owned cars and parked on the street were putting their garbage in a box, gift wrapping it and leaving it on the seat with the door unlocked hoping someone would steal it.
Downwindtracker2
Super User
That's a good trick.; It was more the hassle of putting together another set of cheap tools than the money. I have an aluminum box in the back now.
When I lived in Montreal, they were threatening people who put garbage on the curb in Grocery bags, with fines. Said they would search through the contents to link it to the 'offender'. A wag in one of the papers suggested that it only took a wee bit of computer literacy, to print addresses of various city council members on envelopes, thus directing the fines at those esteemed personages! LOL!
On the package theft side, there is a whole genre of videos out there, showing the results of 'trap' parcels, as used against the 'porch pirates'.
Yeah. Correct! Drilled hole to clear (barely) the pilot of the broach.
But, I don't think I was so far off as to be giving bad info.
No foul, no pack drill! 
It does take some pressure to push a broach through. Done a fair few 1/2 inch holes with a 3 ton arbor press. Usually that involved a couple resets to account for the travel of the broach.
Might be a stretch to get a 3/4 inch broach pushed through on a 3 ton Arbor Press. Never tried that.
On the cheap side, it occurs, that if you drilled a hole, milled out as much as was practical with milling cutters, you could make a broach guide to be able to use a keyway broach to clear out the corners and square those up.
Use a ball end mill, after the hole was squared up, to put a groove inside the hole for retention on the socket driver.
ChazzC
Ultra Member
Sorry, didn't mean to imply otherwise.Yeah. Correct! Drilled hole to clear (barely) the pilot of the broach.
But, I don't think I was so far off as to be giving bad info.
Thats a great tip!
Hells no, I was trying to make it clear that I wasn't taking offense, really! LOL!
Lots of cheap and cheerful ways to get to the desired end result, a fella has to keep an open mind, and, sometimes, quit the hand wringing and just muckle on to the job and get 'er done!
Three more ways I've used for hex and or square holes, make a broach (standard type you push through), built up, and forged
For those interested: using a square broach requires a hole that matches the first guide section of the broach. You don't have the option to use another size. Someone with an undersized press can do some milling with a small diameter cutter to ease the pressure, but it is considered easier to use a bigger press!!
Downwindtracker2
Super User
How big for say a 1/2" ?
ChazzC
Ultra Member
That makes sense; I guess my suggestion is more suited to "nibbling away" at the 4 sides using a single edged tool.
I doubt it......
You are bad, but I'll watch it anyway. Maybe later tonight so I can fall asleep a minute after pressing play.
I think a 5 ton would suffice.
FWIW I waited for the 20 ton floor mounted press on sale, knowing it would do any wheel bearing and/or broach I'd need to do.