ShopBuilt - Machine Hand tap 

Nifty way to center/square up the rod in the drill press to drill the hole in the end. All in all very nice purpose built fixture, it should speed up the process nicely.

Nice shop. I like that the supervisor checks in at the first there. Nice project.

Ryan, your background music is as good as your video content. just a joy to view in a relaxing manner. Keep up the great Work!

I love seeing people making purpose built nice looking tools. it's something that has gone by the wayside the last several decades. keep up the good work bud!

This thing is kicking ass.

I love it! I've never worked with metal to this extent, but now i want to! great jig

That is cool... Nice build!

Well, I am not surprised on how you can make a jig that does a job much easier. Can't wait for the next great jig.

I am liking your metal projects mate.

Great jig. I give you props for having the guts to market your own product, I like you am a Millwright as well as a Machinist and have had numerous jig made over the years that somebody else had a similar idea and marketed it and made the money from it because i didn't have the guts to do it myself . One bit of advice when ever you are going to tap a hole in alum use a coarse tap the threads hold up better over time .

That's the way to solve a problem! Great job!

This might be one of my favorite videos on your channel 👍👍

very cleaver Ryan! I like your ingenuity! Thanks for sharing

Nice job.

That was some very nice work and fun project! Thanks for sharing. You always do such nice work! 👍

Dude you amaze me every time, nice piece of equipment, and I'm inspired by the methods you use, have most of the items in my garage. Thanks

Nicely done! I love working with metals but don't have all the tools so I switched to wood.

Nice jig, and explanation.

Very nice build Ryan 👌👍

Pretty interesting machine project for us cuz we've got lots of new taps recently so we're gonna use your method. Thx))

I really like this. This isn't a criticism of your device but I was thinking, since you are using a cordless drill anyway, a portable drill press (the type you mount your drill in the jig) might be a really good option too. You could always modify the base for the stops and hold down clamp. Your device is great, just throwing that out there because I think it is a good option that I hadn't really thought of until I watched this video.

Pretty slick Ryan! Well done

Ingenious. I'll use it. Thanks.

really smart project Ryan!

Looks great! love the idea of making your own tool jigs!

Great build, thanks for sharing...

Hello hi Joe your videos very very much but I've been wondering where of you been we haven't seen any videos lately I hope you're OK please let us know and keep up all the good work love your channel

very nice tooling man! impressed!

you can use the clutch on the drill to prevent tap breakage.

Impecable!! congratulations!!!!!!

Well done. As noted by others upgrade to machine taps and return spring would be helpful.

There is an attachment that fits on a drill press that makes tapping extremely simple. Press down on the handle the tap turns in the forward direction, lift up on the handle the tap reverses and the tap unscrews from the work piece.

You didn't spend nearly enough time talking about how you aligned the rod to drill the end of it: chucked in a bit of rod, then aligned it with the bushing. Clever thinkin'.

the rod could be supported by couple of linear bearings instead of bushings to reduce deformation by the friction, useful product tho!

sweet build! really!!!

If you can find or have an old cordless drill, take it apart and mount it and setup some forward and reverse push buttons. I saw James Bruton of Xrobots use this technique on his walking bot legs. still has the keyless chuck on them but more importantly, at least on his, it has a DC motor and planetary gear to provide enough torque. #morepower :-)

Great Idea..... very cool

You just used your tools, to make a tool, to help you make tools to sell... I guess now you're a toolmaker. Congratulations on getting to the next level! Oh, and that talk about not having a lathe, fix than ASAP. Before that, get a preper tap wrench, a flexible MIG gun, some machine taps and some c-clamps.

You can make another shaft or adaptor so you can center punch your part. It will make the hole on the press drill and on the tap machine at the same location.

Someone has probably already said this but Chuck it up in a drillpress and you got it

Absolutely beautiful cat. How is she? It seems like a male but calico's are female. Great video my friend.

put a spring on the thread of the clamp to keep it up so you don't have to hold it.

maybe some sort of jig holder for your cordless drill so you dont have to take it off every time but the jig looks great well done

KITTY!

Sweet jig, if the drill press runs slow enough can you use the drill press instead of the drill. Doing 100 at a time it may save on fatigue.

Very nice. I don't have a welder, so I was wondering to what extent you could get away with normal woodworking tools (table saw/band saw, etc.) and a few taps to make holes for screws to join pieces of aluminum together to make jigs like this?

Oooh Power Fist! Goin' for the good stuff, eh? ;-)

Suggestion...Put a stop on your Z axis

Nice work! What if you add a hexagon bit (screwdriver bit) to end of the tap ? With this way you will have very fast cordless drill connection to tap. Versus now you have to tight and lose manually your drill between every hole. This may speed up the process a lot especially if you have a lot of pieces to work with.

Very Nice, could you not use a drill press with the jig?

mount the jig on the drill press, then use the drill press to power it.

Nice job sir! DId you consider using a small pneumatic ram to keep the parts in place? Should make it more convenient with the number of parts you plan to make. This instead of the screw lock. Have fun making parts!

I work in tool and die and the majority of the time we're tapping with a 10-32 we use a hand drill. Cool build though

Fantastic man!!! Is your bandsaw a wood cutter with a metal blade or do you have a sweet metal cutting rig?

You seem to know a fair bit about machining im discovering. Have you considered a self reversing tapping head for your drill press? You might find a used one cheap. But it takes away the joy of making your own jig :-)

Pretty sweet Ryan. Necessity is the mother of invention. How are the sales of the stops going? I hope that they are going well!

So cool brother the only problem I see is your making "me" have a sudden urge to buy chunks of Aluminum to make stuff with. lol

Very engines

If I've seen correctly the arm is connected to the base with only one screw. Wouldn't it rotate and mess up alignment? How about 2 screws?

It's a great idea but like myself Everything that I've taped would not fit in that. Definitely a great idea for a production line type of thing were you would need to tape a bunch of holes in a row.

What? You do have a lathe, I watched you build a very nice one. Or did you give it away? What do you do if the work piece doesn't fit your little fixture?

Why don't your get the holes water jet cut and then tap it on your mill

I like Ian's comment. Also, I was doing a similar operation with a forstner bit using my cordless driver and bought a quick release Chuck. See example: www.zoro.com/makita-drill-chuck-38-14-hex-keyed-191881-4/i/G4003365/

Sorry I'm late to the party but where do we buy this at?

Hey, that's pretty good.

why not set it up for your drill press?

What's the name of the first background song?

What was the tool used to clean the edges at 1:20? Is it only for aluminum?

Add a motor to it and you won't need the handle or the drill.

what welder do you use?

dude buy some machine taps. then you can use your drill press (at a slow speed) edit. i now see you are using a drill and i realized why you cant use the drill press... no reverse.. although you should still get machine taps if you havent already, they are made for power tapping (they push the chips forward or back and away like a drill bit so they dont clog the tap

Sorry ! i meant ingenious