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Old 23-02-2019, 23:25   #1
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As title was thinking of starting a new thread on that very topic, what have you made to do a particular job, what do you all think? Rick
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Old 24-02-2019, 22:14   #2
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OK so many looking but no comments so I will start the ball rolling, here are two drills I made in the mid 70's one a steel drilling twist bit extension, and the other a masonry drill extra long, made from solid stock with brazed tungsten carbide inserts fitted to some barrel with a turned down solid drill chuck adaptor, now this was in a time when such drills were so so expensive, when I said I made my own TC masonry drill people laughed, but here it is, over 40 years old, I also made a disk cutter from a washing machine motor around the same time, if there is interest I will get it out and take some pics, Rick
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Old 24-02-2019, 22:44   #3
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Sorry Rick, think I must be a bit dull cos I can’t think of any tools that I’ve made.
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Jim I bet you have, it can be just a simple purpose designed hook for instance, have a think about it, Rick
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Old 25-02-2019, 03:08   #5
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At the moment best thing I can suggest is that I used to build a lot of computers. In the back of the cases are some metal covers that were blanking panels for such as graphics or sound cards. As used to build up a handful of these plates probably around 3inch by half inch.

They turned out to be great to slide down the side of radio head units to release the clips so the radio could be pulled out. Kept one in the glove box so I could always nip the radio out easily.
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At the moment best thing I can suggest is that I used to build a lot of computers. In the back of the cases are some metal covers that were blanking panels for such as graphics or sound cards. As used to build up a handful of these plates probably around 3inch by half inch.

They turned out to be great to slide down the side of radio head units to release the clips so the radio could be pulled out. Kept one in the glove box so I could always nip the radio out easily.
Jim, that's a tool and a good tip in one post!

Rick, I made a jig once that allowed me to create a radiused end to a standard bullnosed kitchen worktop, using an industrial router.
Sounds a bit dull, but nobody else was doing that at the time and made a unique feature.
That was nearly thirty years ago.
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I've cut a hole on the side of a socket with an angle grinder once to get an injector out

Nowhere near the level of making your own carbide drill bits though
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Jim, that's a tool and a good tip in one post!

Rick, I made a jig once that allowed me to create a radiused end to a standard bullnosed kitchen worktop, using an industrial router.
Sounds a bit dull, but nobody else was doing that at the time and made a unique feature.
That was nearly thirty years ago.
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There you go and I bet there are loads more "special" tools that you guy's have made and thought nothing of them so get your heads scratching, here is another that I made in the 60's from what was available in and around the workshop, anyone guess what it is for? I know at least one who will identify it and probably many more, it was beefy but had to be, Rick
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Old 25-02-2019, 11:01   #9
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I've cut a hole on the side of a socket with an angle grinder once to get an injector out

Nowhere near the level of making your own carbide drill bits though
It worked though Zac so all that matters, Rick
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I was talking to my nephew last week about his grandad from his fathers side. He passed away some years ago but he was a real motor engineer. He used to repair the family cars and made a lot of tools himself. One thing I was telling my nephew is that his teolley jack amd large axle stands are used virtually every time I need to jack the truck up and I often think about his grandad. He actually made some jigs to lift each model of car the family owned. Basically a long metal box section made to fit into the trolley jack in the centre with brackets and pads welded along to take the weight of the cars jacking points. Unfortunately there was no longer any use when he had passed away so they all went to scrap, seemed such a waste. I was not related to the gentleman but I had still have a hell of a lot of respect for him.
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There you go and I bet there are loads more "special" tools that you guy's have made and thought nothing of them so get your heads scratching, here is another that I made in the 60's from what was available in and around the workshop, anyone guess what it is for? I know at least one who will identify it and probably many more, it was beefy but had to be, Rick
Looks like some kind of puller.

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I have never needed a brake rewind tool in the past, but when a friend asked me to do his BMW brakes, and at the crucial point I discovered the need for one. I used an old Angle Grinder tool and one of those clamps that work like a cartridge caulking gun, but I reversed it so the clamping action opened, rather than closed.

Bit fiddly but did the job.

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Looks like some kind of puller.

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It certainly is a puller, but for what? Rick
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Hub?
Sorry no, Ted should know, Rick
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Super strong body cills capped with scaffold pole
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