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    Default Any ideas for Multifix tool holder storage / rack ?

    I'd like to improve on my storage / accessability of my Multifix style tool holders

    Had a scout around the internet and can't see where anyone's done it

    Anyone got any ideas ?

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    Mine just sit on a shelf behind the lathe, they sort of have an order so i know what is what.
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    How about a length of say 40 x 5 flat with a hole drilled to suit the hole at the end of the holder then cut some short bits of round and weld them in from the back side.
    Then just slide the holder on to the round bar.
    Hope that makes sense.

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    Bob Thomas posted a response to this thread but it seems to have disappeared. He said that I made a "xmas tree" for my Drehblitz holders, and had a photo of it he could post. I have no photos of it on my computer and my camera is busted so I can't take a pic of it and post it here, so if you have a pic Bob, by all means show it. With a photo, I can give a description of its various components, all made from bits and pieces in my "scavenge box". I made it about 7 or 8 years ago and it is still giving excellent service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Fou View Post
    Bob Thomas posted a response to this thread but it seems to have disappeared. He said that I made a "xmas tree" for my Drehblitz holders, and had a photo of it he could post. I have no photos of it on my computer and my camera is busted so I can't take a pic of it and post it here, so if you have a pic Bob, by all means show it. With a photo, I can give a description of its various components, all made from bits and pieces in my "scavenge box". I made it about 7 or 8 years ago and it is still giving excellent service.

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    Peter,

    Your toolholders warrant a thread of their own. The PM thread about their creation is no longer illustrated and had I realised that images expired I would have saved them. I consider those holders art.

    The Christmas tree appears in a few of the photos of the No.1. Here is one I posted previously - //metalworkforums.com/attachmen...p;d=1384007340

    Bob.

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    Bob,

    When I get the thread up the on PM the photos are still there. Maybe this is because I have the photos in my pictures folder on my computer? In any case I could put them on here if anyone is interested though I doubt if there are many members here who would want to make Drehblitz holders.

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    Peter, it's always interesting to see someone else's work and how they approach a problem. Please post (the projects section is probably appropriate)

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    Peter,

    The lack of images could simply be the computer, I'll check out PM on another. Your description of the processes involved are thorough and if the images are present (elsewhere) there would be little point in reproducing the contents of the thread here when it exists on PM. A lot of work for nothing.

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    PS. The images are present on a different computer.

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    Bob,

    I agree entirely. To get back to the origins of this thread, I have had a trawl through mountains of photos in my picture library and found one showing the "Xmas tree". I have forgotten how to attach a photo to a thread reply and there seems to be no expos'e on the forum. Perhaps you could point me in the right direction or failing that I could attach it to an email to you and you could do the honours.

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    Samsung 4 004 (Large).jpg

    Peter's Tree.

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    Thanks all, Problem solved I think, I hadn't thought of hanging them by the adjuster screw bracket, I was fixated on using the clamp pin holes

    The tree's a great idea, but spacewise it doesn't suit my situation

    I think the answer for me is to to make some flattish saddles curved to fit inside the toolholder, maybe a 1mm or thereabouts thick and just screw them to a sloped timber shelf allowing a foot or so between toolholder centres

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    The post is spiggoted to a ball race nested in a steel base so the tree revolves. It really only takes up the base diameter space which is 165mm plus whatever tool hang out is.
    Peter

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    Touch late, quite like the tree! In the case here, just used a variation of steamwhisperer's idea, bit of box section, mounted in the mill, several holes, turn over, repeat at a different height, then zap a few pins in with the mig.

    004.jpg

    Best idea, if there's more than one lathe, is to space the toolpost, so you never have to adjust the height of the holder when swapping.

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