home made tools and equipment...

Never seen that style of clamp before. The butterfly knife style can be frustrating.

 

Looking at your avatar,you must know Carl Olsen from SD ?

 

better pictures. maybe not nice but works very well

 

joyflea: no sorry.

 

Where's the double flare? I hope you're not using single flare on brake lines.

Andy

 

Simple tool stand for my hammers and dollys.
Just an old rim , a piece of pipe and some wood.

 

Here's my Combo Carrier Preload/Axle Bearing race installation tool for rebuilding The Ford Banjo style rear ends

 

Here are some of my Quickchange tools.

Left to right:
31 Spline stub axle for setting carrier preload.
10 Spline socket for holding pinion shaft while setting pinion preload. (Big QCs)
6 Spline socket for setting pinion preload (V8 QCs)
Full Floater axle puller
Pinion 'flag' for checking backlash
Pinion nut wrench for tightening pinion nut(s)

The School bus yellow is a tribute to my good friend Joy Fair. He got me started with Quickchanges. His race cars were (almost) always that color. He also painted all the special tools he made SBY too. That way anybody working in the shop knew not to cut up a yellow tool for some other use. I miss him every day. When I see a yellow tool, it makes me think of him.

 

Here are a couple of others:


This gets screwed into a manual transmission case and the square end clamped in a vise. Makes assembly a breeze. You can turn it a 1/4 turn to stand the case up or lay it down. If you put it vertically in the vise the side opening will be up and at a much better working height than on a bench.

Crankshaft turning socket. I know you can buy them, but what fun is that? This is a turned down hub from a SBC. Old socket pressed in the other end. don't go crazy on the press fit, they can split. Don't ask me how I know that.

These all got a new coat of yellow for their debut on the HAMB

 

Cherry picker mods.
My son-in law gave me a brand new cherry picker. After using it on a couple of jobs, we found some areas for improvement.
First, it was too high to fit under some of our projects.

So, we sculptured the frame on the front and rear casters, then bolted them to the top of the tubing. The original casters didn't swivel well with weight on them. These are Harbor Freight units. They gained us another 1/2" under the frame of the cars. They worked well until I overloaded them with a mill. (a Bridgeport, not a hot rod motor). Will probably replace them with better ones.

The intermediate casters had to be mounted outboard. Should have put them right out to the end. It gets a little tippy with the legs folded up. I was trying to avoid the holes for the lock pins, but they can be put in from the inside. I will be moving them.

 

The chain wanted to bind when trying to twist an engine into the hole.

This swivel has bearings on either side of the clevis and a Heim joint. That took care of the binding problem.

Here it is with the engine leveler.
The leveler was modified so may times that I think there is only one original part left.

You can't see them in the picture but the moveable block rides on two axles with ball bearing that ride on the inside edges of the Unistrut. The screw was replaced with a larger one, and the Unistrut is longer than the original. There are bearings in the ends of the frame so everything turns easily. I use an air ratchet to adjust the angle.

 

Finally, to keep all of this together, I made a pocket for the leveler to sit in when not in use. The hook is for the chains. And, the chains with the spreader bars are for lifting a 6 cylinder engine. The little box for nuts and bolts etc. was a candy tin from my Grandpa's shed.








Now, where is that yellow paint?

 

I made similar mods to mine to fit under low crossmembers. My swivel for the load hook was a couple bucks at a military surplus store. Made my leveler form an old trailer tongue jack. Engine hoist also not good for trying to uproot shrubs.

Gary

 

Engine hoist also not good for trying to uproot shrubs.

Gary[/QUOTE]

Or pulling steel fence posts.

 

Yesterday I was putting primer on my sleeper for my cab over when I had a big light go out over the area I was painting . Long story short , woke up to two sags this morn when I had light . Saw a paint shaver in Eastwood and built one out of a file . Put file in vice a gave it a small wack with brass hammer . Works great .

 

Here is my contribution of homemade tools....I saw this on youtube, Gene Winfield said we needed to make one....so I did. Sorry about going overboard with the large amount of pictures.

 

Hey Eljorger, that took more than one beer to make! Lol. Nice job, Gene would be proud.

 

That stand looks handy for sure! I finally got my battery charger/ jumper working the way I want it after 3 alternators and 3 engines.

 

Did you remember to put something rubber between the tabletop and the stand so it doesn't ring like a bell every time you whack it with that hammer? I made mine out of an old locking mailbox that I had to cut open when I moved into my new house because no one knew the code. Now I have a tool table that I can lock up my grinding discs in....

That class was one of the highlights of the last few years for me.. What an amazing man.....

 

Yes I did, 1/2 rubber, from a recycled door mat....as Gene would say, works bitchen.

 

Here is a stand I made for my Eastwood shrinker/stretcher combo...

 

I'm surprised to see I haven't posted here. I have a few homemade items in my shop. Here are a couple:

Here's one I just did a Tech Week thread on: Louver Punch Using a Stone Chisel.




Also, I fabbed a RR track anvil.

 

Nice RR anvil, motivates me to finish mine. What did you use to "shape" it? torch?

 

A combo of portable band saw, drill press w/ hole saw, and grinder.

 

Eljorger, that's a great shrinker/stretcher stand! I have a base from an old eyeletting machine that I modified for my shrinker stretcher but it only holds one of the heads so I have to swap them out all the time. I may steal some of your design and get both heads going. Then I could use my old base for the deep throut shrinker/stretcher I got a little while ago. Winter's coming, got to stock up with plans for things to make.

 

cool, never thought about using the portable band saw. May have to take a crack at it tonight....good excuse for breaking in the new Milwaukee band saw that has just been sitting in the corner and only used once. Thanks again.

 

Once you get it (the blade) through the top portion, it cuts like butter.

 

you're right Brent.....once it gets through it goes well.....but I did manage to get the blade stuck once.....not fun to remove...

 

Like the shape!

 

http://www.butlersheetmetal.com/tinbasherblog/multimachine-an-open-source-machine-tool_609.html

Joined a local makerspace and the guys there are pretty excited about this yahoo (link in article) group.
mill , drill , lathe made from inline engine blocks