Homemade Tools

[boogerboy72]

holy cow @ the barrel tool.

[kenh]

This tool was made to pull dents out of wheels

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Like this one. Can you show how it in action?

[reptilezs]

Originally Posted by kenh

This tool was made to pull dents out of wheels

Like this one. Can you show how it in action?[/QUOTE]

in the second pic, just push down on the handle. you can see the round stock in the first pic. prob need someone to stand on the rim

[ndoran]

you are correct the fumes from muriatic acid are very corrosive and will produce rust on any bare steel. I had the same problem when I etched my garage floor prior to applyinng an epoxy coating. All the ungalvanised metalwork on my garage doors went rusty. Fortuntely I was wearing a respirator with acid cartridges to protect my lungs

[Ditchdigger]

Originally Posted by kenh

This tool was made to pull dents out of wheels

Like this one. Can you show how it in action?[/QUOTE]

It works just like it looks. The handle is about 4 feet long so if you can keep the wheel from moving ( i had to park a car on one once) you can pull the dings out. It will leave a dent in the aluminum though.

[compo7000]

Great welding

[dabirdguy]

I love tools, but when you don't have a lot of money you improvise.

My beadroller:



Hammer and clamp farm:



Extension for the cherrypicker to lift and move the truck cab:



Rotisserie:

[NASTYZEN]

[QUOTE=dabirdguy;1607721]I love tools, but when you don't have a lot of money you improvise.

My beadroller:



I like the driven bead roller,not sure the safety board would approve though.

[Trucky]

Originally Posted by dabirdguy

I love tools, but when you don't have a lot of money you improvise.

Hammer and clamp farm:

What do you feed your hammers? I never thought about raising clamps... they seem to be a bit tempermental, but it looks like you've got them under control.

I like your bead roller as well... but be sure no inspectors come around that, they'll drop dead on the spot from the nonexistant guards

[diesel research]

Originally Posted by Trucky

I like your bead roller as well... but be sure no inspectors come around that, they'll drop dead on the spot from the nonexistant guards

If OSHA is coming around your house and private non-business garage, feel free to tell them to piss-off.

How many "scary" things have you saw in your/your friends garages?

On the other hand, i am a bit surprised my employer converted a air polisher/sander into a 7" guard-less angle grinder. Guess that's not as bad as the pic floating around with the chop saw blade attached.

[NASTYZEN]

Used to be I would throw out my expensive 6 inch cut off disks when they got to small in diameter for my electric grinder. T'ill the day I turned an adapter for my angle die grinder on my lathe.
Now I can get to those hard to get places and use up those disks to the end.






DOH!!!



Gotta watch that kickback!

[lilredex]

Originally Posted by dabirdguy

I love tools, but when you don't have a lot of money you improvise.

My beadroller:

Another option for a powered variable speed attachment if yours is not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqErTwU1rSE

[Jim Stabe]

I used a HF winch motor to power mine. I use one of the emergency jump start units to run it. One advantage is the spool release that allows you to disengage the motor and turn by hand for the intricate corners. I welded a socket on an old steering wheel to turn manually. The sprockets and chain are from Surplus Center. The cable spool was turned down to 1 1/4" dia and mounts a 1 1/4" id sprocket. I used the winch hand control to make a foot pedal (fwd and rev pedals) an idea I copied shamelessly from the internet.

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[kcaz507]

I was replacing some of the hand railing on my deck, and I was having some trouble getting the deck nails(the twisted shank kind) out on the 1x1's that support the hand rail without breaking the 1x1's, so I made this out of some pipe, angle iron, washers and a piston pin out of a 50 liter Cummins:







Worked great.

[Sterff]

Originally Posted by kcaz507

I was replacing some of the hand railing on my deck, and I was having some trouble getting the deck nails(the twisted shank kind) out on the 1x1's that support the hand rail without breaking the 1x1's, so I made this out of some pipe, angle iron, washers and a piston pin out of a 50 liter Cummins:

Worked great.

That's pretty neat!

[TheKid760]

I didn't make it but a guy I work with did.

It's a speacial tool for working on our breathing apparatus that the company wanted way too much money for so he made it on his lathe and welded it to a socket.

[Machobuck]

Everything ive made for sheet metal...

[bobadame]

I've made a few sheet metal shaping machines.

[bobadame]

A couple more.

[Jim Stabe]

Me too

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