Equipment/Hand Tools

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Actions/activities and tools

Action/activity Tools Purchase options Rough price Comments
Cutting threads Taps, Dies, Alignment jig Arceurotrade sets - the "HSS Metric Tap & Die Set - 32pc - M3-M12" looks good. £50 Quality here is definitely worthwhile. Well made HSS taps and dies make a world of difference
Deburring Deburring tools Arceurotrade £20 for a set
Precise holes Reamers Reamers and sets £80 for a set

Hand tools


Installed

4 squares, inside/outside callipers and a depth gauge (with 6" vernier calliper for scale)
Lever and plunger dial test indicators, various v blocks and slip gauges, 0-1" & 1-2" micrometers and scriber
  • ..

Proposals


  • Small-scale metalwork: Basic tools (Total: around £780.11 incl vat., plus shipping and some storage)
    • workholding (total: 19.98)
      • 2*Bench Peg And Anvil (these clamp on to a bench edge, to support work) (£19.98) [1]
    • files and saws (total 116.45)
      • 6"/150mm Flat File, Cut 2 Vallorbe (£12.12)
      • Set Of 12 Needle Files, 16cm - All Cut2 (one has to avoid contaminating silver with iron, so we'll want separate files for ferrous metals in addition to this) (£19.98)
      • Grobet/vallorbe Saw Frame Adjustable (£22.80) [2]
      • 6" Deep Adjustable Saw Frame (£14.58) [3];
      • Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 2/0, Bundle Of 12*12 (£30.82); Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 6/0, Bundle Of 12 (£3.70) (those saw blades are consumables - they break easily)
      • Straight 7"/17.5cm Shears (£12.54) (for brutal cutting of sheet metal). Aviation snips would be useful on a larger scale
    • hammering (total 73.01)
      • Flat Stake - 10cm X 10cm (£22.44) (this is a small anvil with a machined-smooth surface on all sides) [4]
      • Planishing Hammer Cookson Value Range (£23.99) (a polished-surface hammer for surface finishing and work-hardening) [5];
      • Rawhide mallet (£16.58) [6] (for hitting things without marking the surface);
      • Generic ball-pean hammer (10?) (a non-polished hammer for hitting punches etc.);
    • pliers and tweezers (total 110.99)
      • Cookson 5 Piece,115mm Pliers Set (£37.38) (most cheap or kit pliers will have serrated jaws - these are the minimum quality I'd get: box-jointed with smooth jaws)
      • Ring Bending Pliers, Cookson Value Range (£6.54)
      • 5.5"/ 140mm Maun Flat Pliers Parallel Action (£22.79) [7]
      • round triblet (for forming rings and suchlike) (£21.72) [8]
      • Tweezer set (£22.56) [9] (brass and plastic tweezers for pickle, reverse and third-hand for soldering, fine for manipulating tiny things)
    • soldering: (total 106.63)
      • Hand Torch (£18.00) [10] (this is ok for very small things. Much better for bigger work, and giving more control, would be a bottled-gas torch. The glass torch will do for now)
      • Magnesia Soldering Block (£7.62) [11]
      • Soldering Sheet 300mm X 300mm X 9mm (£7.91) [12]
      • Picklean Safe Pickling Powder 150g (£6.49) [13]
      • crock pot of some kind for keeping pickle warm (33?)
      • hard silver solder paste (£33.61) [14] (consumable) (this is great for small-scale work; for bigger things one wants strip solder and flux)
    • marking out (total 86.35)
      • 150mm Ruler * 3 (£4.83); [15]
      • Standard Steel Scriber (£1.07); [16]
      • centre punch (£1.69); [17]
      • digital calipers (£22.66) [18] (that's a fairly cheap one, which is perhaps a false economy. Basic Mitoyoyo calipers are around £60-70)
      • 3" square (£10.50) [19]
      • magnification: Optivisor 2.0x No5 (£45.60)
    • flexible shaft drill and tools (total 266.70)
      • cheap-but-decent Axminster model (190W) with 4mm keyed chuck and collet handpieces and hanger (£104.95+32.40+29.45+25.15) [20]. Others have suggested a (more expensive) Dremel model. Whichever we get has to have a foot control, reasonable power, and both chuck and collet handpieces.
      • Polishing Kit No 2 (£53.99) [21]
      • Set Of 20 Drills 0.3-1.6mm (£15.96) (consumable!) [22]
      • diamond burrs (set of 30) (4.80) (consumable) [23]
    • Toolmaking - presume we have elsewhere
      • bench grinder
      • mapp gas torch for annealing and hardening
      • 4" engineers vice
    • Stock


    • Tool Storage

Either in the wall-mounted bins or in a cheap thin-drawer metal filing cabinet (72 from Rymans) [24].



  • Small-scale metalwork: possible extensions, budget permitting
    • Hammer With 25mm Nylon Head (£9.50)
    • small swivel vice of some kind
    • Lighting - some good desk task lighting (probably this should be included in the above)
    • Bench polisher (not much)
    • Doming block and punches, for forming sections of spheres (£200 from Sutton tools) [25]
    • Bottled gas torch (£145 + gas) [26]
    • Rolling mill (£807) [27] (for reducing the thickness of sheet, embossing texture and pattern (laser-cut?) on sheet surface, and making wire. Rolling mills come in between £200 and £2000; this is in the middle of the range, with just one pair of rollers but with gearing)
    • Stereo microscope (£1500 new; hopefully less second-hand or donated)
    • Raising hammers and stakes (for making forms out of metal sheet) (£ a few hundred)
    • a wider range of flexible shaft tools: diamond burrs, stone-setting burrs, ... (each one is not very expensive, and these are semi-consumable - perhaps best got on demand)
  • Small-scale metalwork: implausible extensions (just to give an upper-bound context)
    • laser cutter that can cut metal sheet (e.g. up to 1mm)
    • PUK4 microwelder (£3195) [28]
    • air-powered hand engraving kit (£ several thousand) [29]
    • high-resolution 3D wax printer, for lost wax casting (£ lots)


Wishlist

Do we already have a general purpose socket and wrench set with extras like this 242 piece kit with cabinet for £100? www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cht497-242pce-tool-set-chest. We could use another when we have more users.

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