home made tools and equipment...

All you have to do is tighten up the the bolt that holds the 2 blades together (don't overtighten) and as long as the blades are sharp they should cut! I reckon this has to be the most basic tech tip you'll ever see RodL

 

There is a clip on utube on the proper use of tin snips. Its worth the watch. I'll see if I can find it.


found it....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAOQfUaRZyw

 

what should I do it the blades are riveted together?

 

keep in mind i'm only guessing here; 'cause i've never seen your snips, but i'm thinking grab a rivet setting tool and tighten up the rivet. and if you dont have a rivet setting tool use a small punch and hit around the edges of the rivet to tighten it up.

 

nice idea

 

You could have claimed that you converted your scissors to do the same job as a small sheet metal brake. lol

 

Pretty good guess! To keep this on topic lets assume that we are doing an upholstery job on our car, and our scissors isn't cutting properly.
I am referring to a normal household scissor. These scissors used a rivet that was ball shaped on the underside of the head and that ball fit loosely in a 90* chamfered hole in the scissor blade. This was the bearing surface. the rivet shank was peined tight in the other blade only.
The way it was done in production. (this was very hands on) The operator felt of the tightness, decided it it need tightening or loosening, To tighten; the scissor was laid on a hardened steel block with the rivet head contacting the block, the rivet was then tapped with a ball pein hammer. (How hard depended on the operator and how much it needed to be tightened) To loosen; the scissors was laid on a nylon block that had a hole in it just big enough for the rivet head to drop into, (nylon was used to keep the blades from getting marred) once again the rivet was tapped with a hammer. essentially what was being done was the rivet was being extruded back and forth in the hole a few thousandths of an inch. A good operator could average 300-350 per hour!

 

Not as much homemade as home adapted.

I use a really old manual tire machine to change all my tires. One issue I have is wide 5 wheels cant be held down by the spinner piece that holds the wheel down to the machine. Well, I was at an auction and there were these two round pieces of aluminum that no one knew what they were,,,, but I sure did. They are adaptors to run wide 5s on 6 pin rear ends (the kind with knock offs).

I use them to bolt them to the wide 5 and the center hole now works on my tire machine.

 

I made a 2 prong nut driver to remove/ install the wiper switch nut on the 57 wagon. When I posted the 3 jaw chuck someone asked why I would make such a thing? This is why.

 

On my tire machine the threaded insert was tack welded so I cut it off and then I cut the slot longer and welded the part threaded piece further towards the top. This is my dads old machine he had in his Sunoco since the 50/ 60's.

 

I have seen a few homemade brakes,,all good however if you want a larger one I have seen them made from used grader blades, just a matter of sourcing the old blades,,6' long and you could bend some large gauge tin.

 

Ironic, my brake uses a grader blade reinforced with a heavy angle for the top clamp. I was just winging it when I built it, and learned a lot, next time I will design it a little different. But, this one works just fine....

 

I needed to bell some holes in 3mm for a frame I am building. I decided to try this instead of making/buying 'proper' male and female dies.

The male die was a worn out sprocket I welded up and ground to a taper. Bottom die is a piece of thick walled tubing with the inside edge radiused a little. Took a bit of care to make sure it pressed down evenly and centred.
Less than an hour to make, and with one or two different sizes and a selection of different diameter tubing it is possible to do just about any size hole. Didn't take a whole lot of pressure to do it either...

 

Nice, I always just used a pair of needle-nose pliers with the tips ground to fit. A pair of snap ring pliers with 90 degree tips works good too.

 

Holy shit,I just learned something.....Been using snips wrong for 30 years...

 

here's my bead roller, I started with an Eastwood roller and made the rest.


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Check with yopur local Hi Way department or one of the local snow removal companies if your in the "Snow Zone" snow plow edge does the same thing as grader/dozer edge lots of places run plow edge for a set amount of use then replace them so the back edge is still good (back meaning the side not dragged) this is good steel for a lot of uses and getting 1 or 2 has never been a problem asking at the garages where the plows/trucks are maintained.

 

why would anyone want to use a used grader blade . every one I have seen is worn 70% on one side and 90% on the other. a new one would be a great start tho.

 

Many of the local hiway departments are overfunded. They spend every cent they get so they get it the next year. I know of one shop with a surplus of blades that would last 10 years and they keep buying new blades. If they don't buy blades the budget will get cut..... It goes on and on with government supplies.....

 

There is an amazing amount of talent around here

nicely done everyone!!

 

WELL worth the watch. Now I know why they didn't do what I was trying to do with them all these years.

Also some very interesting links that came with it. I thought the embossing with the slip roller was really trick. Will be checking out more when I get the chance.

Ed

 

Found this section of bowling alley out for free. a few hours later i made legs out of old excersize machine. Awesome table

 

that looks like a really nice table

 

Those lanes are great. Up here they go for $75-100 a foot.

 

That's being very creative Barry, very well done!
Glenn

 

the table is working great! Heres my next homemade tool. Well half home made. Its a 7/8" jd2 model 3 bender die set that i made my own bender for. its just two pegs to hold the dies and two pegs welded on a rod for the handle. Works great. Not doing anything really thick just tubing for minibikes . L bend mount so i can mount it in the bench vice on both angles

 

talking about benders, I've just finished building this one to bend 1"x1" RHS tube up to 2.5 mm wall

 

OK, time for something quick and easy.

The best use of WD-40 I have come up with so far is to recycle the two-way spray nozzle. Just snap off the nozzle and put it on your can of PB Blaster.

It makes the PB easier to apply and you use less.

 

First post! Am trying to give back what so many of you have given to me...ideas and more ideas. This is an old crappy table saw that I turned into a belt grinder. Super cheap to make:

2 -neoprene wheels from Sunray
1 -5/8" axle I had laying around
1 -half inch bolt
miscellaneous junk.
Total cost $80

I read over and over that a 1 hp 110V motor wouldn't power it but I've never been able to stop the belt once! The tracking and tensioning is acheived with the old saw blade tilt and rise handles.