home made tools and equipment...

[RichG]

Originally Posted by bobj49f2

Here's a quick and easy tire bead breaker I made out of some 2X8s and cheap port-a-power unit. I made the wooden frame just slightly wider that the rim. Worked on some very crusty old tires.

Awesome idea! Now the breaker I have can be turned into something else!

[mixedupamx]

heres my new shop press. I built it several weeks ago when we were snowed in by 18 inches of the blowing white stuff. used a cheep 1 ton harbour "freight" cherry picker for the basis. I flipped the legs upside down giving me 2 mount holes on each leg, built the upper crossmember and lower press bed from some 4x6 I beam that I was able to requisition from a local scrap pile. the rest was scrap angle iron I had cluttering up the garage. this was built to utilize my 10 ton porto power that had been doing nothing but collecting dust. it was mounted with a couple of old used muffler clamps, a piece of pipe welded to the upper I beam locates the ram and a couple conduit clamps mount the pump on top of the upper beam. I drilled a series of holes evenly spaced down the legs to give height adjustability and used 2 $3.00 H.F. round pry bars for the support pins. I tried to use the original bolts and pins everywhere to hold it all togther. the only extra fastners were the 4 bolts holding the upper beam to the legs. even with all that I can still pull off all the press gear and use the picker as a picker so its a double duty tool. I even made a small tray at the back to store the picker beam and ram plus the porto power box so its all self contained. the only cash I have into it are the rattle cans of orange paint, the conduit clamps and 2 pry bars. I already had the c.p. and all else. cant believe how much I use it already rather than beating everything to death with a BFH!

[plym49]

Originally Posted by bobj49f2

Here's a quick and easy tire bead breaker I made out of some 2X8s and cheap port-a-power unit. I made the wooden frame just slightly wider that the rim. Worked on some very crusty old tires.

Friggin' ingenious.

[1929CDAN]

Here is a couple grinder stands I made using new disc I bought at a farm supply store. They are less than $10.00 dollars new. One of the stands is made using a closed drive tube and the other is a old drive shaft. When you use one of the tools you can put your foot on the disc to hold it in place, so they don`t need to be bolted down. They are easy to move and none of the dust or grinding gets under then.

[encswsm]

Nice tools.. I have a 10" piece of railroas track I use for an anvil..

[Blue One]

Originally Posted by mixedupamx

heres my new shop press. I built it several weeks ago when we were snowed in by 18 inches of the blowing white stuff. used a cheep 1 ton harbour "freight" cherry picker for the basis. I flipped the legs upside down giving me 2 mount holes on each leg, built the upper crossmember and lower press bed from some 4x6 I beam that I was able to requisition from a local scrap pile. the rest was scrap angle iron I had cluttering up the garage. this was built to utilize my 10 ton porto power that had been doing nothing but collecting dust. it was mounted with a couple of old used muffler clamps, a piece of pipe welded to the upper I beam locates the ram and a couple conduit clamps mount the pump on top of the upper beam. I drilled a series of holes evenly spaced down the legs to give height adjustability and used 2 $3.00 H.F. round pry bars for the support pins. I tried to use the original bolts and pins everywhere to hold it all togther. the only extra fastners were the 4 bolts holding the upper beam to the legs. even with all that I can still pull off all the press gear and use the picker as a picker so its a double duty tool. I even made a small tray at the back to store the picker beam and ram plus the porto power box so its all self contained. the only cash I have into it are the rattle cans of orange paint, the conduit clamps and 2 pry bars. I already had the c.p. and all else. cant believe how much I use it already rather than beating everything to death with a BFH!

Fixed it for you, now we don't have to turn our heads sideways

[mixedupamx]

Originally Posted by Blue One

Fixed it for you, now we don't have to turn our heads sideways

thanks blue one, Im almost computer iliterate. I saw it as a personal victory just to figure out how to post the pic

[FANTM58]

The 20 ton shop press in the back of the picture was made with scrap metal ( I have re-built it since bending the top frame in the picture )

A few sch 80 PVC parts and a bolt made a pretty good hole dimpler

The car rotisserie was made from some scrap I-beams, off of a job at Carlsbad caverns

[encswsm]

Check this site out..
http://www.ch601.org/tools.htm

[terryr]

Originally Posted by encswsm

Check this site out..
http://www.ch601.org/tools.htm

That guys a DIY fool. Or a genius. Or both.

[123]

I like this one, the power cord is nice....

http://www.ch601.org/tools/high_speed_drill.htm

[3kross]

Almost got my home made hossfeld bender done got a stand made and bolted to the floor and got it into a working machine and did a few practice bends to see how it works. Still got a little bit of welding to do on the swing arm the only way i could bend the 1/2 steel was to put it in the band saw and cut half way through then i could bend it on the work bench. Bent some 1/2 rebar and 3/16 steel strap and some 1/4 rod.

[Motorbreath]

Originally Posted by 123

I like this one, the power cord is nice....

http://www.ch601.org/tools/high_speed_drill.htm

ummmm . . . yeah

[bjinatj]

I hope he deburred the edges on the 1" x 2" rectangular tubing handle.

Originally Posted by 123

I like this one, the power cord is nice....

http://www.ch601.org/tools/high_speed_drill.htm

[123]

Originally Posted by Motorbreath

ummmm . . . yeah

LOL, yeah. Well at least he will have some spare speaker wire for the shop when he needs it. I wonder how many times he has been electrocuted by his own tools?

[Kbeitz]

Originally Posted by C4 Metal Werks

I have limited space so I had come up with a few things to save space and help keep the workshop cleaner.


Clamp Holder



Swing out belt sander




Die rack for tubong bender


Sheet metal behind my lathe table is great for magnetic tools and note. Also helps keep the walls clean.

Is that a Woodstock or workshop lathe ???

[Kbeitz]

Originally Posted by scootermcrad

WOW!!! This thread is rad!

I have some requests! I would really like to see some more home made belt sanders with some good detail, and maybe someone's take on a slip roller, and how about a video of one of these helve hammers in action? Don't know much about them.

Great stuff! Some very impressive tool builds! I really need to make one of those three-wheeled roller thingys! That would be way useful!

[Kbeitz]

Originally Posted by scootermcrad

WOW!!! This thread is rad!

I have some requests! I would really like to see some more home made belt sanders with some good detail, and maybe someone's take on a slip roller, and how about a video of one of these helve hammers in action? Don't know much about them.

Great stuff! Some very impressive tool builds! I really need to make one of those three-wheeled roller thingys! That would be way useful!

[Kbeitz]

Originally Posted by Blue One

I got hold of a Dayton gear motor, the same one Murfman used to power his bead roller. He posted pictures of it on one of the bead roller threads.

It has a pair of wires which need to be swapped to change the direction of the motor.

I'd like to be able to wire it with a switch to change motor direction and a single foot pedal to control it all.

Anyone have any ideas or know how to do this ? It has me stumped right now.

By the way I have been in touch with Murfman and he did reply back initially, we corresponded back and forth by e-mail.

I asked him for details on how he wired his, as he has done what I want to do.

No response lately to my messages and he seems unable (or unwilling) to help me out.

Any help will be appreciated. Below are 2 pictures of Murfmans BR.

Larry.

You need a double through double pole toggle switch... And a on-off switch...

[Spazevedo14]

Originally Posted by 4t64rd

Wheel polisher: original motor blew up, gotta bigger one now.


Body Dolly


Tech article: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...2793&showall=1

My low tech body dolly.