T-Nuts

For my third project I was assigned the task of designing and fabricating a set of T-nuts.

T-nuts are a common fixture component in machining as well as many other crafts.

For mine, I designed them to work on the manual mills in the machining lab.

This is a pretty standard drawing. I didn't really follow all conventions when I created the drawing, as I only intended it for my use.

I used the free space to take notes.

I started by cutting a piece of steel to as close to the dimensions of the finished product as I could.

I then used the CNC method to square my workpieces.

After squaring the part i then cut the features to create the "T" shape.

After this I used a chamfer bit to cut the chamfer features along the edges.

Once i had completed this, I used an edge finder to lcate the center of the piece and cut a hole throught the center.

Once that hole had been drilled, I hand tapped one of the holes with threads.

With the help of Evan we Power Tapped the other T-nut on the mill.

The finished product is two very handsome T-Nuts!

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