home made tools and equipment...

Therein lies the problem,,,,,,no beer was involved.

 

Hey,,,,,,I made the local newspaper as a welder/smith,,me on the left pic with the mag welder.

 

j hansen Curious to know what you made this tool up for.

 

Only bought, not made!
Attached a angle iron to it so it could be used in my vise.
One of these,,,must be 5-6 years ago that I bought it,think it cost me 100 dollar.
Damn,,look at the price now!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/355428377222?_skw=Manual+Plate+Steel+Ring+Roller+Bender+Flat+Round+Steel+Bender+Machine+3"+Ring&itmmeta=01J8J8TYQ43QTS6733Q4RWYWH6&hash=item52c12ea286:g:AnoAAOSwqHxlusMI&itmprp=enc:AQAJAAABMHoV3kP08IDx+KZ9MfhVJKmBlRsu38pg4HKWYY4y7AAbtc/CMcWViCr/Sl+sMuOut+eKh71b6TDr1mQNsFCE/doRmJzwWmQA4DTTtvKddfEAnNwzPaxCdOlU3bK8q78E+oJgGsY2s8ak/UOkVNkC+2f7ZMod7V4Sr6hMjomTcj5BfS0h97h8G24XS+pa0H+ol76o2pXQaMC0R074Anq4N645gGCX4uMkDRhjGLuynGZBrz8a4jWw0We8oA5u+Xt0mLzkAMGHAx4IfhciMAlgYkev5ybAsSkwkxm2JTpAs4Nvwr9bQMyoKZrDlFuk40N4Oy72hkcXYlpNrbQVpaeY8l1dqDRT8u8JOQcpmpmLSHKjc4a41b1sERQd0IecFQDO3a9yxoegR2VaI23V71EG8SA=|tkp:Bk9SR9zr68jEZA

 

j hansen Thank you for the reply.

 

good one, thats funny shit!!!!!!

 

maybe turn the heat down a notch or two on the glue gun.

 

Im by lingle in Wyoming ( lingle wy is a small town fairly close to where I live, didnt know if anyone would catch that so thought Id explain) but that dosent mean I speak anything other than bastardized english. would really enjoy reading about you in the paper but I dont sprekenze sweed.

 

Hey hope that made cents to someone besides me and Im not sure about that either.

 

I know where Lingle is but I can’t read the paper either other than Jan Hansen I don’t know any of the words.
Cool Newspaper pictures however. So some of it made sense . Maybe
Dan

 

It`s only say,,

 

Short and sweet thank you Jan.

 

From the Interweb,,,,,,,

 

More from Iweb

 

It's not rocket surgery. I needed to drill some 1/4" holes in a floor pan. I was concerned in that there was an area just below where I needed the holes that I didn't want to damage.
I grabbed a piece of 5/16" fuel line with an inverted flare end. Having a 1/4" ID I cut the tube to length, placed drill bit in, squeezed slightly in vice so it wouldn't slip out and drilled my holes without fear of damaging the surface below. Ron

 

Here are a couple I came across recently and snapped pix.


This is a tool that I made almost 20 years ago to screw in the parking brake adjustment on a car with rear disk brakes. It's pretty rusty now 'cause it's been sitting in a drawer attracting humidity all these years. It got used once. I know I ought to throw it in the steel recycling barrel and get rid of it; "but what if I need it again???"



This is a wrench that I made so long ago that I can't remember what I made it for. That handle shaft is 1/2" x 1/2" square tube so it's obviously for something about 1" across the flats. And for something that I couldn't get a normal wrench on due to it being a long ways "down." Please don't dis on the welding. I like to think that I'm a somewhat better welder now. b-t-w; it looks like my trailer fender is ready for a repaint, but it ain't broke so why fix it? This ain't no Pebble Beach trailer.

 

From the web,,,a little scetchy

 

I feel quite uneducated. For a great part of my life, I've seen ring rollers for sale in all the tool stores, in all the shop articles- they're everywhere.

Evidently there is an entire world of people that need to make metal hulahoops of varying sizes for dozens and dozens of reasons, but aside from circling up rebar when pouring concrete columns, I can't for the life of me understand why so many people of multiple industries require them.

What am I missing? Is it just super handy for making arcs for fabricating? Clue me in, please?

-rick

 

Think I only made 1 hoop,,,,,,mostly bends.I have nothing to do with this car! Just an example.

 

My toys. I love them. Last thing I made was some off topic car's gauge surrounds.

 

def not home made equipt.- that old beauty!!

 

You made that lathe at home? Are you God?

 

I had to replace the adjusters in a set of Mopar 273 mechanical rockers with a set that uses lock nuts. So I had to spot face the rockers.

I setup a bolt on the drill press, then mounted the rockers on that through the adjuster hole/threads.

I put the drill press in a cut up box to cut down on the mess.

I stuck an arbor for a Rol-Loc disc in the drill press, then adjusted things so it hit the right place on the rocker.






It's as flat as it needs to be.

 

Now THAT is the KISS Principle defined

 

16" swing, also a bridgeport.

 

Cleaning lathe now for paint

 

More not rocket surgery. Early Ford master cylinder under floorboards with limited room to tighten or loosen cap. From short rack I found a 1 1/4" X 1/8" wall square tube. 1" square ID fits cap perfectly. Ron