Today we needed a tube to be an odd size. the jack handle was perfect. it got me wondering if anyone else sacrifices tools for the good of the build.Post them if you got them.
cut an industrial grinder pedestal up to make a tube ft crossmember for a chassis...it was nice thick wall....LOL
If I need to use a return spring, I often use a 1/4" X 5/16" box end as the stationary mount. Bolt on or weld on.
Saw an early 1960s rail dragster years ago that used two Craftsman 1/2 drive universal sockets & a 6 inch extention as a steering shaft.
my dickhead buddy used my jack handle to make handlebar spacers for his bike. he also let me search the shop for the sumbitch before he showed me what he did. dickhead still thinks it's funny.
I'd bet we all have done that a time or two. I guess that's where Snap-On and MAC get all their good ideas , from guys like us.
Hey Jim, if you look where the alternator mount bracket attaches to the water pump, you can see the Snap-On 9/16 socket we used as a spacer...yes it's stayin'...
i cut down a unibit so it was the right linght at the right width for a hole in some tube on the cdan
Did anybody ever count how many worn out Cresent wrenches were used in the construction of Junkyard Dog?
A fried of mine Tim Conder (some of you may know him from the aramgeddon top fuel project) was on Monster Garage some time ago, on an episode with George Barris building some sort of chipper shredder, anyway, their project didn't turn out well, and was edited to look like a failure. The let the cast keep the tools anyhow. So anyway, time goes on and Tim is invited for another appearance on M.G. and was understandably hesitant seeing as he was made to look "not so good" on the previous episode. After some thought he agreed to reappear. So as a tounge and cheek way of saying f.u. to the people that were in charge he decieded to make a bike out of his free tools, from my understanding the bike was built in one week with a little bit of help, and the shredded part of the tank is a real mac toolbox. Tim Rode the bike to the first day of the show and floored everyone. Now I don't know if I can condone that missuse and abuse of tools, but sometimes you just have to make a point.
My dad had a column shift '48 tranny in his model A with a floor shift conversion. The conversion put the shifter under your leg, so he welded a piece of wrench in there to move the shifter over.
Here're a socket, a 1" and a 12" extension (all 3/8") used in Cassi's torque style throttle linkage. Done mostly to render it easily dismountable.
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