home made tools and equipment...

Rail Road Rail anvil....not done but real close....Thanks for the motivation Brent. Stand and paint to follow.

 

Needed a wrench to remove the clutch fan on my 5.9 ***mins.

 

That is quite a tool.... I am intrigued and have begun to research this one.
Jeff

 

Rescued from the back yard after almost 20 years....

 

Well here is my vice that I rescued from my back yard....been back there since I closed my Car Stereo shop in 96....been awhile, but its back at work and portable (sort of...lol)

 

Any tool that will give me that home built look instead of that $350,000 Riddler Award look is what I need. You can't beat the look of hand made whether a louver, a bracket, a mount, whatever. Just make it different, make it neat, make it look like it belongs there.

 

Anvil complete...., Bandsaw, drill press, lots of grinding, a flywheel as the bottom base and some primer and paint....not too shabby. and I have another to finish....a larger one I was able to get as a bonus when I bought my used drill press off Craigslist.

 

Nice anvil, is that a piece of rubber between the anvil & its base plate?

 

Yes, it is...cut a piece of a door mat to prevent the anvil from ringing too much.....worked well.

 

Hand Truck Tanker
I got tired of lifting gas cans..One electric pump, old hand truck, bungie cord. Pump runs on 4 AA batterys, so far has pumped 15 gallons on first battery set and even has an automatic shut off built into the clip on nozzle..

 

Here is my take on a tool to straighten the fender bead on my Model A

 

I have made several of these cp style hammers.

 

Show us some more pictures of this cp style hammer, how is it driven

 

Uses a cp motor,compressed air. Excuse the mess in the background!

 

So is a pneumatic preferred over a mechanical hammer?
Or vice versa?

Are there clear advantages of one type over the other?

I was considering making one that just runs from an electric motor with a fork & cam-action mechanism that works both ways. (Like desmodromic valve lifters on a Ducati.)

 

Made this anvil from a chunk of rail, way back in '73 or so. It's been sitting on my bench since then.
Didn't know much about making tapered parts at the time I was attending community college, so this was really winging it.
Drilled a center-drill hole at the back or "hanging" end, and another at where the point would end up.
Kinda half-***ed guessing what the angle would be.
Chucked it up in a big ol' lathe and set to work making the bick (I had to look up the parts of an anvil).
The 1/2" sq hardy hole was a PITA to make.




And, in case anyone is curious, these are the features of an anvil

 

Here are a couple of tools I fabricated over the thanksgiving weekend. One is is a set of six(6) triangles for aiding in leveling a welding project on uneven concrete or floor. The other is a a pair of clamps to hold two pieces of round stock to be "****" welded together. Mind you, both of these ideas were found while surfing the net, so I cannot take credit for these.
although I did add a 1 1/2 inch hole to the tube clamp, to be able to weld from underneath. And yes I did use the tube clamp before I painted...just had to try it out....lol.

 

my contribution...

rollers for straightening line





only used it on 1/4" and 3/16" so far seems to work pretty good

 

I caveman together this stamping die to make some spears for a dash project I have been working on.

 

Figured I would throw this up as I used it again tonight...


Pretty simple slide hammer and threaded the end to thread the attachment on that has the same thread as the end bolt as the vise grip..

The you can attach any vise grip to it.. I made the end before I had a lathe so it's kinda crude haha

 

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Cool. Any photos on how you made and use this?

 

I took a peace of round stock and ground a flat side on it then shaped the point.
Then found a peace of s**** plate stock and went after it with my polish bridge port aka die grinder to shape the female die.
Now after some practice I found that I needed a guide or should I say a stop for the sheet metal and my female die so I welded the spear and some more s**** on a plate for my stop.
Then its a trip to the shop press and pump away.

 

Nice. Thanks.

 

I made some press dies for 36 ford wheelwell/subrail details. They have locating pegs with a depth mark on them. Press until you see the mark and you know its the same depth as stock

 

Needed a spring compressor for a nailhead today.

 

That is very nice Ulu, looks like something a sailor might do to p*** the time. You don't happen to be a former canoe club veteran?

 

My freestanding vice. The base is an old cream separator stand.