T-Nuts out of round stock

追加: 2026-05-08

[00:00:04]Hi G here. Um, if you get a mill, the first things you do is I think making tea nuts because you need them.

[00:00:16]You can buy them. No problem. But um, if you got a mill and buy them, you got no excuses why. So, um yeah, to make it not too easy, I got this uh 20 mm round stock from scrap. I got two of them because one is already and um this is one tin I made out of a leftover part of steel some weeks ago.

[00:00:43]And as you can see, it is in there somewhere maybe.

[00:01:00]It's in there. All right. So, um, let's make him and see how it works out.

[00:01:16]H.

[00:01:17]Let's see a lot. Yeah. Three 2 0 0.

[00:01:23]That's a crooked old one.

[00:01:28]Yeah, I call that good.

[00:01:42]All right.

[00:02:03]So, let's make a cut file. Um, the idea of this project was that if we got a round stock Oh my god. All right. And this round stock is 20 mm in diameter.

[00:02:29]We get 20.

[00:02:31][snorts] So um if I mill it down from here, if I reach 12, I can measure it. And 12 is the upper part of the T-nut. If this one will focus. It will not.

[00:02:56]Come on. Yeah, we got 12 mm here.

[00:03:01]So if I mill it down to 12, then coming coming in with a roughing mill 7 mm deep somewhat here.

[00:03:18]So this exit this is gone.

[00:03:21]That is gone. And then again flip it around and cut off the excess. So, I got a T-nut, you know, it's in here. It's in the round stock. And I only got this rotten 20 mm somewhatish steel, I don't know, from this step. So, that's the setup.

[00:03:54]So, back to the setup. Um, already cut a test piece on this side of the vice. I made a aluminum block with a 12 mm flute because to check um if the block fits and um I'm cannot go on here barely barely um because I'm just using a roughing wheel to cut the sides and I will go over go over here with an end flute to make it precise. Uh, see it's barely going on. It's not going on. It's trying. Okay, this is uh the concept.

[00:04:38]Now I'm kning down 7 mm deep to my lines. And my lines are the cut off sides here.

[00:04:50]So, a new camera angle. I quickly shut off my million lights because it's a little bit too bright for this camera.

[00:05:00]And now you can see I hope you can see the flat on top here.

[00:05:07]It's the same width as my 12 mm part.

[00:05:12]All right, let's mill the other side.

[00:05:50]Just using some light passes. Um I have to learn um the skills of my mill and I don't want to break something. But um yeah, it's worked out on this side and it will work out on this side. So I'm just milling this down is not that interesting operation. So we skip this.

[00:06:21]So we are good at this side. And um going to the other side.

[00:06:31]Yeah. Got very much deflections because of this not very rigid setup. My uh post wandered. It was tightened very well. Um yeah.

[00:06:44]So, let's um change to a smaller endmill and finish this part.

[00:06:56]And now, and now we are doing the same thing on the other side of the rod, but off camera because doubling procedures sucks.

[00:07:11]Uh just um for information uh I chose this setup with this long overhanging parts.

[00:07:20]It's not ideal. It's generally it's not rigid but um my band saw has to clamp these parts anywhere. And in the last time when I made uh my T-nuts um I have to saw them from hand or by hand and that's not a not a nice procedure. So [snorts] um I can clamp this in the vise of my band saw and saw this parts down and vice versa on this side.

[00:07:59]So, I finished um the finishing I finished the finishing passes. That's an iteration. All right. Um yeah, I finished it. And um now you can see why I'm a newbie. I nailed it here. This is um 12 mm at its best.

[00:08:22]And this is 12 mmish.

[00:08:30]Yeah, it's still okay for a t- no matter. Um, I still have to to grind this down a little bit. And this is maybe the better solution because I got maybe 0.3 or 4 mm of clearance. Uh, but I'm shooting for this.

[00:08:56]That's not great. Okay, it's a learning curve.

[00:09:01]We'll see. And now, uh, we are dividing this in some T-nuts.

[00:09:08]Drill the holes for the M10. And then we'll see blue the whole cover and see if we get some um T-nuts out of this.

[00:10:04]So just making some antenna.

[00:10:08]could have done it on on um the mill, but I thought it's faster to go this way because uh I have to change from drill to tap every time and yeah, don't want it that.

[00:10:30]So, I do it with my setter.

[00:10:56]Heat. Heat.

[00:11:10]All right, there we are.

[00:11:15]I like this cuts looking good.

[00:11:21]If this thing will focus, right, you see what I mean? Nice cut.

[00:11:30]Now, I'm back on the mill. Um, I've left this part on because I can clamp it in my band saw and cut it with this on the vice. And, um, yeah, now we have flats on both sides.

[00:11:46]I think it will sit in here nicely using a power feed.

[00:12:18]Okay, I think we are good. 5 pointish 5.7 5.5 um 13 nuts. It's not a critical measurement.

[00:12:31]All right.

[00:12:39]So, I think we got ourselves something.

[00:12:44]Yeah. A little bit roundish here. Yes, that's okay.

[00:12:48]Um, but they will do well.

[00:12:55]That looks good. They will do their job.

[00:12:59]And now let's slice them off.

[00:13:08]So we got melt these two parts matching. [clears throat] All right. Just a little bit. And now we uh cut them.

[00:13:26]Oh, what did I wrong here?

[00:13:30]Maybe it's meshing. Okay, let's cut them.

[00:13:37]So Heat.

[00:14:05]Heat.

[00:14:13]Heat.

[00:14:34]Heat.

[00:15:04]That's fine.

[00:15:11]One, two, three, four, five.

[00:15:17]Where is number eight?

[00:15:21]Oh, there she is.

[00:15:25]Okay, it's rolling. So, what we got here? Um, it's a tumbler. Um, got my, um, T-nuts in it for some time now. And let's see.

[00:15:50]Right. Take it off see [snorts] what we got.

[00:16:02]Well, some nuts, some stones, some old bearings. Uh, where is my Okay, let's do it the old way.

[00:16:17]One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight T- nuts. So, let's clean them [clears throat] with all the parts I used 5,000 times.

[00:16:41]Yeah, and we got some stones, too. Nice.

[00:16:46]I think there was a little bit of metal left in it there.

[00:17:01]All right, that's clean, I think.

[00:17:09][snorts] And back Not the prettiest nuts in the world, but [snorts] some I made myself. So, pretty enough.

[00:17:48]Just some fresh motor oil.

[00:17:57]Okay, not fresh. This is uh maybe 10 years old and is used and used and used.

[00:18:04]It's getting darker.

[00:18:08]Just took an old watch.

[00:18:15]Now it's shiny silver.

[00:18:19]And if you get the right temperature, it's getting dark. After it's getting dark, it gets this shiny somewhat bronze color.

[00:18:47]And then you can make bubbles.

[00:18:51]off camera.

[00:19:01]Oh, all right. We got our eight blackened pots magnetic.

[00:19:29]All right.

[00:19:33]What have been? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T- nuts. I think that's enough for this here. All right.

[00:20:08]All right.

[00:20:10]Yeah. Um, yeah, we got a handful 18 nuts. Um, yeah, I got again some miscalculations on the mill.

[00:20:24]I'm a newbie and some are very good scented.

[00:20:30]That was the the second batch from the other side of the rod. And the first one is H sharp on the edge, but yeah, they will work. They will take a M10 screw and then will hold whatever I screw in it. So yeah, I'm glad with it. So, um, just a short side project. And why is this camera leaving me?

[00:21:02]Ah, you're back just um blew out and Okay. Um, yeah. Um, where did I stop?

[00:21:17]Okay.

[00:21:19]How did Q say brain freeze? Got a brain freeze. This uh T-nuts will will serve me a long time. And yeah, if they are not as that perfect, they will do their job. So, um thank you for watching this small side project. Got a lot of fun uh to mill them out of this old uh rot from I don't know where. So, um, thanks again for all your subscriptions, for your comments. Um, I like them very much.

[00:21:51]It's It's great to have you out there.

[00:21:54]Thank you. Bye, G.

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