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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by kustombuilder, Jan 16, 2008.

  1. porsche930dude
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    Thanks guys Its a bit of work on 15 gauge steel but it gets the job done. [​IMG]
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  2. Ron Brown
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    Needed a cam bearing driver for the V8 flathead im building...about half hr on the lathe and worked perfectly....may never use it again but what the hay, beats paying someone to install them. image.jpeg
     
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  3. twenty8tudor
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    from Ohio

    Thing I tried and seemed to work pretty well couple weeks back while working to get my 9" apart..

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    Just turned a piece of junk round stock down to fit through the u joint straps and then the other end turned down to fit into the peg hole in the jack.. Ended up working pretty well.. Jack has enough play so it can be wiggled around

    Sure beats bench pressing it.

    Also torched and out and welded up a plate to bolt to the axles to use my home made slide hammer to get the axles out..

    Threaded round stock and an I bolt.
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  4. GearheadsQCE
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    It's not JUNK til it goes to the scrapper! "Just Undesignated Necessary Keepsakes"
     
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  5. cretin
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    Here is a real simple, but handy one.
    I made this little arbor for a cut off wheel. It extends it out a bit for harder to reach places, and the cut off wheel is held on with a flat screw, so you can make a cut up closer to things then a regular cut off wheel will sometimes allow.

    I had to use this one today.

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  6. porsche930dude
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    I made a few this week. A die wrench and a lead hammer

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  7. 117harv
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    Some great stuff in this thread.
     
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  8. My spring eye reversing jig:

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  10. jimmy six
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    Looks like it to me. I always use a hammer and a piece of a rr track rail. This looks a lot easier..
     
  11. J. A. Miller
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    And quieter too!!
     
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  12. You might have to put that in ALL CAPS. I don't think he can hear you.
     
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  13. Inked Monkey
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    I have more time than money so I made this banjo drum puller instead of buying one. Works like a champ.

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  14. wrljet
    Joined: Feb 25, 2015
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    I made up a doodad to use a slide hammer to remove a stuck Flathead oil pump.
    A plate bolts to the pump in place of the cover.
    5/8-18 threaded rod screws into the plate. And I reused the "hammer" from an axle puller.

    I was concerned about breaking the little tabs off the pump, so I used it carefully.

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  15. chrisp
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    Not much, but I needed to replace the dust shields on an Alfa Giullia front drums : 3 nuts, 1 screw, some rod and a hose clamp, now I can cut circles to 1 meter in diameter.
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  16. Built a small plasma table a couple years ago and finally added a rotary axis to it to cut tube. Here is a short video of it running with no cutting just testing the forward and reverse on the axis.



    Still a lot more work to do to get it up running fully.

    Mtw fdu.
     
  17. jackalope
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    Mtw,
    Nice work! Do you intend to have the chuck have a through for longer stock. There is a machine on the market right now called the Dragon. The guy that designed and built it is over on offroadfabnet.com
    His build is impressive. Trick tools now sells them and they use Bend Tech software. Really cool package.
    Yours is really cool. Would love to see it in action when you finish her up.


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  18. tooljunkie
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    from manitoba

    IMG_1898.JPG IMG_1897.JPG Hey, Guys its been a while, some more impressive stuff again. Had to drill out a stud, confined area. No angle drill. Came up with a cheap solution, broken 1/4" drive extension. Sawed in half, stuck in lathe and popped female over square and held in place with my center. Machined it to take a 3/8" fine thread and left a small shoulder. Thead into chuck and snapped onto my 1/4" air ratchet.can see in female end,corners have thread showing through,the chuck supports it nicely. Didnt think there was enough room, glad i was wrong.
     
  19. Whooo hoooo !!! That's awesome x2.
     
  20. So that will do fish mouths and miter sadle tees? Neat!!!

    One shop I worked had a pipe burner that would cut pipe like that.
    This was Way before CNC stuff.
    You'd load up an aluminum template on a horizontal rotating table and template follower moved the torch while the table rotated the pipe. A regular 90* fish mouth's template looked like a peanut. A miter saddle template looked like a kidney bean.
    If you knew how to develop a wrap around template it didn't take much to make one of them burner templates. You could get a 8" pipe to saddle onto a 12" pipe at 37* with a 18.5 miter on the other end. That machine could do it almost as fast as hand burning with a wrap around template lol
     
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  21. Thanks guys for your comments.

    I don't intend to do very big stuff at all. Just small things for me and a few other guys and businesses around my area. I am the only 1 here who has 1.

    Will keep you guys updated when I can cut stuff..

    Mtw fdu.
     
  22. wsdad
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    I thought this deserved a place here on the home made tools thread.


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  23. Just thought I post a thanks to all the guys who liked my last post about my rotary axis.

    I will keep you guys updated as I progress further.


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  24. cretin
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    Here is a quick one I made at lunch today, and a bump for this thread so maybe we can see some more home made tools.

    I made this to get a stuck chuck off my South Bend lathe.

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    On the rear of the spindle, there is a smooth round section which the tool clamps to.

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    Then you put a piece of wood under a jaw and use the tool to break it loose.

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    For those of you who may not like putting pressure on one jaw like that, it's not a ton of pressure, plus I'm replacing that chuck because it's got too much runout.
    I may make something that goes in the chuck and catches on the bed if the new one gets stuck on.


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  25. GearheadsQCE
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    Perfect, I need to do that and didn't know how to old the shaft. Now I see, hold the chuck and turn the shaft!
    Thanx:)
     
  26. wrljet
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    Dunno how stuck your chuck was, but you can usually just engage backgear and put a Crescent wrench on a jaw.
     
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  27. GearheadsQCE
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    Well, I'll try that first.
     
  28. wrljet
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    Don't force it. Protect the bed ways with a board, in case you lose control of the wrench when it breaks loose.
    -Bill
     
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  29. cretin
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    I do it this way because it eliminates the possibility of breaking a tooth on the backgear.


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  30. wrljet
    Joined: Feb 25, 2015
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    Yes, you need to be careful. But I've done it for 30 years w/o a problem.
     

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