home made tools and equipment...

Me too !! I love it ! 1945 or 46' Logan 200. If it's dark blue I've totally rebuilt that part of it. The apron was totally torn apart, new bushings installed and hand reamed to fit, I even drilled holes where the bushings are and installed those small flush fit grease nipples. A few little mods here and there.

It's all change gears with the slowest feed rate of .0046 but after finding some other gears that fit I can get it down to .0018 (gun barrels).

One really cool thing is on the apron is a super rare auto feed kick off. This was an option that you bought and had to install yourself. Downside is I don't have the piece that looks like a starfish that mounts to the bed, upside is I have the all of the apron side and the most complex part. How rare ? Only seen another one in the old catalog and all the guys on the logan forum had no idea what it was but just one gent and he only knew because he owned just the starfish piece. And of course he wanted to buy mine, I wanted to buy his and neither one of us would part with our halves. So between him and myself it's the only pieces I know of and the only way to make a complete set. Never found any pieces for either side and nether has he...

 

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 Milford 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.