Hot Rods A tool for every job

I was replacing the blown out shock on my olds station wagon but couldnt get a wrench in the top to grab the bolts that were spinning. I am sure they make a tool but I had this one in my tool box I made up for some project a while back. Worked like a charm. lol.Bruce.

 

Innovation and ingenuity are the bedrocks of the hot rodding tradition. Way to go, Bruce.

 

hmmmm, and i always thought those, and distributor wrenches, were just for jamming tool box drawers.

 

I have a drawer full of "one use only" modified tools. Most never to be used again!

 

Yeah , because the factory and chiltons says that you need **** tool. Bull , you can make something work , just keep them in case

 

Yea, keep em so ya don't need em again. If ya chuck em you'll need em next week.

 

Most of us seasoned citizens have a collection of such tools. I don't remember what a few are for but I know not to throw them out.

 

I also have a drawer of them also and I label them,,after so many years you pick one of those tools up and either think WTF or recall exactly what vehicle and how long it took.

 

Mine are all from my job ( heavy commercial HVAC) so they're all in my service van. I don't remember them all but at least once the damage is done, you don't feel guilty beating and heating them into another shape. I remember one job I had to butcher 3 different 7/16" wrenches, one of which was a brand new Gear Wrench. You gotta do what you gotta do.

 

What a selection! Very cool!

 

you all are a bunch of butchers chopping up those perfectly good original tools...don't you realize they are only original once?

 

Maybe if you leave them out so they can rust, and then clear coat over the rusr, maybe that will soften the blow for you, Larry.

 

I always buy cheap ones when I see them at swap meets so I have a stock pile of spanners/wrenches to modify and I don't have to ruin my good ones.

 

I think that everyone that has been wrenching for a while has at least one of those.

Good idea glad to see that you don't think that wrenches are sacred.

 

as a GM guy screw Kent-Moore , I just Bend-More , I have a drawer with some home spun monstrosities , and some work better than the "proper factory specified tool " and we have modified some of the factory tools to make them work better we are the R&B dept , reheat and bend

 

Popular subject. Here is 89 pages for you to look at.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/home-made-tools-and-equipment.235784/

 

There you go. lol.Bruce.

 

Back when I worked in a restoration shop I used to head over to Sears at least once a month to return some kind of tool I had to 'modify'. After awhile, manager there didn't ask any questions he just told me to go grab a new one.

 

Sometimes it pays to buy a set of open & ring spanners made of Chinesium just so you have good fodder for chopping up and modifying.
Or a set of rubber spanners would be handy too.

 

I have been giving this some thought and it has come to my attention that while I may not yet have a tool for every job I have been called a tool and there is not a job that I haven't at least tried.

 

I have made several tools out of pawnshop finds. With gramps and dad restoring cars since the '50s there are so many modified tools I will never know what their original use was. I never know when I might find the right tool for a job.


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I'll have to drag my camera out later, I got a 60+ year collection of my stuff and the Ol' Man's stuff.