Home built tools

[VLADD]

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I know some guys here that have hollow heads
and some that hear voices

[Rick S.]

Here are a couple of home built tools that I use quite a bit.
First is this collet handle. I Turned an R8 taper inside a piece of tube. Welded on the handles and  tighten with a 7/16-20 bolt from the opposit end. Great for large taps and hand reaming.



This is a work stop for my lathe. It's just two clamp collars welded concentric. The larger one clamps to the O.D. of the spindle bore tube. (where it exits out the back of the head)
The smaller one allows a stop tube to be inserted and set to any depth. The nose of the stop tube was welded on and turned for a slip fit with the spindle bore.
I use this when running batches of longer parts where I want the lengths the same.

[fabr]

Well I really like the lathe stop!

[Voodoochikin04]

heres one i made to butt two tubes together perfectly while being able to tack them together. works for me.

[Admin]

That is pretty cool voo doo...

[Jay]

Ugly as hell but it works, that's why i like it. Ricks stuff is too pretty haha.

[Yummi]

heres one i made to butt two tubes together perfectly while being able to tack them together. works for me.

I have never made one, but back in the day...  Lots of welders would take angle iron and weld it to the jaw of vice grips as a cradle, the one with a chain as the other half of the jaw, quick, easy and worked well on any small diameter pipe. 

[SPEC]

I have never made one, but back in the day...  Lots of welders would take angle iron and weld it to the jaw of vice grips as a cradle, the one with a chain as the other half of the jaw, quick, easy and worked well on any small diameter pipe.

Back in the day
I still have a couple of those in a drawer under my build table
VDC4's tool is cool...just keep in mind when butt welding tubes together to use a plug for the added strength

[Voodoochikin04]

almost forgot my set of hammers i made at work for work.

[Boostinjdm]

Here is my latest, still workin on it.

[Boostinjdm]

Bead breaker, I was to cheap to buy one.

[Nutz4sand]

This aint mine but I saw it and thought someone might benefit from it.

Simple and easy to improve on (wing nuts or T-nuts for pipe insertion/removal) (that sounds dirty....)



 http://www.offroadfabnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4764

[Admin]

This aint mine but I saw it and thought someone might benefit from it.

Simple and easy to improve on (wing nuts or T-nuts for pipe insertion/removal) (that sounds dirty....)



 http://www.offroadfabnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4764

Its fun notching on the Lathe, you got to be damn careful tho, hole saws grab and hold on, were a end mill will just get whatever is in its way out....I about ripped the tool post right off my lathe with a hole saw...

[Yoshi]

My homemade  air over hydraulic bender, maybe $250 in materials.  Ugly as hell but pretty much the first tool I built when I started doing metal work.  I have actualy designed a really cool one, and even had the parts plasma cut, but I haven't built it yet.  I'm only building a new one because I have the skill to make something that looks halfway decent after 4 years, the other one has never failed me...

[Nutz4sand]

This shows a simple tube holder you could use the saw or a mill bit.

I WOULD NOT recommend the power feed to do this unless yours can be set SUPER low speed. Even then.


I meant the post above I put up. Yoshi got his bender in there between me an Bugs post.

You planning on adding more to that bender Yoshi? If not it needs paint!
I like its layout though.