home made tools and equipment...

Used an engine hoist and two pairs of DIY wooden “towers” made from 2”x 4”s and a 4” x 4” vertical centre piece to slowly raise my OT project onto a rotisserie in my driveway. To get it onto the rotisserie, had to raise the body (was an IH Traveler) between 3’-4’ off the ground. My neighbour was impressed watching it all unfold, then wheeled it into my garage. Miracle it all went without a hitch.

 

I have had several of these hand held sandblasters over the years. The nozzles wear away and I buy a new one. I have been unable to find replacement nozzles but they may be available. I was able to use a short piece of heater hose, a small hose clamp, and one of the replacement ceramic nozzles available from Harbor Freight. The nozzles that they sell are for one of the blasters that they market. The package of nozzles sell for $ 6.50 a package of 4.

 

Homemade cutter to reshape flathead heads.

 

Hub puller for vintage Halibrand and the like, tapered hubs for sprint/champ car open tube axles. Just a big, beefy hunk of steel, and some holes. Also useful for 1959 Mini flywheels…

 

I didn't build this, and they've been posted before, but there is a little bit of history in this one. Inherited this rail anvil 20 years ago, from my uncle's estate. and he got it from his dad, my mom's step-dad. My grandfather worked for the railway that was local to our area. However, I just remembered something else unique to this piece. My grandfather, on my Dad's side, worked at the steel mill here in town, making rails. It was one of the first product lines that the steel mill started producing at the turn of the previous century. On the side of the rail you can see the embossing of "A -CANA" which was part of full name: ALGOMA -CANADA.

 

This is an anvil I made from a rail when attending SECC at ****ord in the early 70's
It was a project ! but turned out good. No CAD or prints, just winged it.
The BICK was done on a big ol' lathe, chunk-a-chunk chunk chunk. Fun times
Although I did have a little trouble getting the 1/2" sq Hardy hole in it.



RED line is the axis for turning the BICK.
The narrow end opposite is where a center-drill was placed for the live center at the tailstock

 

nice ones guys, I've made a couple, here's my latest.
made with torch and grinder.

 

I have a section of rail that needs some of this treatment. Could probably make half a dozen of those out of it.

 

Here is a tool to hold the adjustable lifters on my 8BA. A little ruff but works well. Made out of necessity I couldn't find one to buy any where, now that I've made it they'll show up for sale everywhere.

 

Beautiful well made tool. I am crude. Here is my version.

 

Made a stump grinder with 10" saw blades. Obviously works best on small rotten stumps but it works surprisingly well. I thought the blades would get dull fast like a chainsaw but they hold up good even after hitting rocks.

 

@porsche930dude - great use for a broken pressure washer !
I made small stump grinder from gr*** edger using saw blades as well. Not as creative but it worked.

 

Hmmmm..... you know how all your grinders take a different size pin wrench? You may have just inspired me to make a "one size fits all".

 

Oh well.... looks like someone else already invented it.... but I might make one anyway.... https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DXQ793DN/?tag=atomicindus04-20

 

I just added that to the wives' next cat food order. I can usually sneak a few small items into the cart without her noticing.

 

if I can't get the nut loose by just turning the disc by hand , I grab any of the spanner wrenches I have .The "wrong " size wrench can be used if you catch one hole with a pin, then rest the second pin on the outside edge of the round nut.

 

If the pin fits
Dan

 

Sand blasting cabinet extension.

 

I love using these jacks. Especially when setting up pinion angle on your drive train and whatever else you need small and exact height measurements on.

 

Me toooo,and they cost nothing.Last thing i did was this motorcycle lift.

 

I weld a big nut on the input shaft so I can spin them up and down with the impact. Go easy putting any pressure on them though....

 

Princess Auto just had the adjustable wrenches on sale for $3 so I cheated and ordered a couple in...

 

I was replacing the thermostat on an OT car recently and there were a mul***ude of hoops to jump through to get to it. For one, you had to remove the throttle body to get to the thermostat. Anyway, it was impossible to get a socket on one of the nuts. Like as in an inch or two away there was something in the way that couldn't be removed. My solution was to modify a couple of 13mm wrenches as shown. The bent one to get the nut broken loose using a Crescent wrench to turn the modified wrench; and then the shortened one to take it off. There was too much in the way to use an untouched wrench and the bent wrench, while it worked good to break the nut loose, didn't work very well to remove said nut. Even at that I could only turn the nut 1/12 of a turn before having to reposition the wrench. If I had owned a 13mm ratcheting box end wrench maybe I'd have modified that. fwiw; I own enough 13mm combination wrenches that I still have at least one intact one. I never owned any metric tools until a few years ago I needed some so thereafter I started buying them up when they were cheap at swap meets.

 

Good solution to a common problem. I've modified many wrenches for similar purposes.

 

Yep.... somewhere I have a cheap 1 1/16" socket in 3/4" drive that has been ground very thin to access a plunger plug on a hydraulic pump.

 

"Something will get it," even if you have to modify and make that "something."

 

Atch, that's why I buy H.F. wrenches when they are on sale. When I modify for purpose, the low price doesn't bother me at all. Eastwood had wrenches on sale for just less than 10 dollars a few years ago. I bought spares in sae and metric. I think my supply will outlast me.

 

As a Chevy guy I can never have too many 9/16 sockets or wrenches, or the elusive 10mm.

 

I have a couple of wrenches with the box end modified - good for tight spaces …
And a few hammers my dad fabricated.

 

i can feel it in my elbow just looking!