home made tools and equipment...

J.D.
I guess it will suffice for flushing the pipes of mfg. contaminants!

 

What's the Coke for?

 

Balance
The coke bottle keeps the whole thing from tipping over.

 

the true definition of "counter"balance

 

Cheers

 

Ryan locked down the anvil thread and redirected people to garagejournal.com, which I know is another of Ryan's sites and I've been a member over there for a long time. garagejournal is great for all sorts of stuff like discussing building plans and LED lighting and choosing the right in-floor heating, but most of those guys are not HAMBers, and they are not DIY builders. I want to be able to discuss tools with guys who get dirty and build cars. Since when don't we discuss TOOLS on the HAMB?

This is a railroad track anvil that was made by a good friend of mine. He made it when he was going to school in the '50s and when he was moving into a home recently I rescued it from the scrap pile. It had been covered in rust and looked pretty bad, but I cleaned it up and now I use it pretty regularly. My friend John had been an industrial metal fabricator (along with a photographer, jeweller, deep sea diver, biker, inventor and all-around tinkerer... a lot of people thought he was a very strange guy, I thought he was very strange and very cool... our kind of guy).





John died last Thursday morning, so I think I'll go bang on his home made, DIY railroad track, not-HAMB-approved anvil in his honour.

 

Updated pic of my bead roller

 

Cool anvil and I'm very sorry to hear about your friend.

Steve

 

Ditto. Having a tool that belonged to a passed friend is very special. You'll think of him every time you use it, and you'll cherish it more.

Mart.

 

[QUOTE My friend John had been an industrial metal fabricator (along with a photographer, jeweller, deep sea diver, biker, inventor and all-around tinkerer... a lot of people thought he was a very strange guy, I thought he was very strange and very cool... our kind of guy).





John died last Thursday morning, so I think I'll go bang on his home made, DIY railroad track, not-HAMB-approved anvil in his honour.[/QUOTE]

I think you friend was a hell of a guy, and you were lucky to know him.

 

Thanks guys. He was hard to get along with and pissed off a lot of people, including his kids, but he was a really interesting guy. I got a lot of huge old hammers and other strange tools from him, and before he passed I let him know that a lot of his tools were cleaned up and back in action. He was happy to hear that.

 

Sorry for your lose and thank you for the story that will live on as will his anvil.

 

Bump

Sent from my cell phone when I shoulda been working, using the H.A.M.B. mobile app

 

Anvils and tough men can be beat on but never broken.

 

That was in my fortune cookie the other night! Lol

 

This a rotary gizmo I built for my hand held spot welder that is also counterweighted

 

argentina metal shaping

 

BTT

 

Here is a seal puller for that pesky rack lip seal in the right-hand side of a Mustang II power steering gear. Several years ago I was putting stock MII X-members in several cars with the power rack and that seal is impossible to reach without something like this tool. I am sure some took company makes one for $$$$$$$$$$$$ but I have more time than money so built this one. Works great. View attachment 3507193

 

I wish I had some pics, but when I was on the robot team in high school one of the mentors had a small portable lathe that he cobbled together, he made a bunch of accessories for this lathe. He also had a Bridgeport mill, and a lathe in his basement.

 

Well I'm certainly not the first one to do this but here's a little press frame that I built out of odds and ends I had laying around and I'm using it here to swage a piece of tubing out so I can use it as a doubler over another tube.

You can barely see the swage sticking out of the top of the tube, but it was made from an old 3/8 Drive Socket extension.

Everything else is nuts and bolts and steel plates that I made for something else years ago.

The bottom two nuts are clamped in my vice to keep the thing upright. I covered my workbench up with rags and stuff because there was so much clutter you couldn't tell what was going on in my first photo.

 

Was putting the grille lacing on my '35, so I dug out an old tool I had made ages ago for setting the split rivets. Thought it might be interesting on this thread. Even works with the crappy steel rivets that Vintique provides.

 

A cluttered bench is a busy bench!

 

You know he was just hiding the super secret stuff.

 

Because bored. Who DOESN'T need a "tight access" 13/16 for dirtbike spark plugs? Lightening holes to make it faster.

 

They don't make rags large enough to cover my clutter.

 

Yeah, I think I must have been skipping school the day the lesson was "A place for everything, and everything in it's place".

 

Not mine but this is great

 

Thats excelent,well done.
Another thing on the list to make.

 

by the way for anyone who tries my little trick to swage a tube of any length, will need to reverse the process once the swage is installed in the tube a certain distance. I made a cross hole in the workpiece and pinned it under the lower bed of the press. Then you must draw the swage through the tube, by running the press in the opposite direction. Of course she swage must have a hole through it to run a draw rod, and the workpiece part that has the Cross Hole is cut away as scrap.

I found that once I had a tube of more than four inches it was impossible to swage it by pressing without distorting the tube considerably, but by drawing the swage through the tube with a bolt or rod, even a long work piece is kept perfectly straight.

This is the same sort of process they use for "button rifling" a gun barrel, where a carbide swage with the rifling shaped into it his drawn through the barrel to create the final shape.

Unfortunately I did not take photos of me performing this process, but with a 3/8" draw rod I was able to swage a piece 12 inches long and keep it perfectly straight.