Some useful homemade tools
Friday, April 2nd, 2010I often make or modify tools when I have nothing that will do the job. Here are some examples.
Top: A roller, made from an old ball race, to roll new rims for paraffin side lamps, lying over a taper reamer to repair a petrol tap.
Bottom: A tool for cleaning out core plug threads.
Left to right:
- Three open ended hexagon spanners for the removal of hydraulic brake pipes (the thin-walled nuts distort if a conventional open ended spanner is used). These were made using heads cut off Allen headed bolts and then welded onto a suitable handle.
- A curved handle obstruction socket, specially made get into a particularly difficult place.
- An expanding collet for holding a delicate bush on a lathe so that it can be machined without distorting.
- Bottom: Two expanding collets used as pullers for removing bearings from blind holes.
- Top: A motorcycle piston, beside it a press to remove a seized gudgeon pin from a motorcycle piston without damaging the connecting rod and without having to dismantle the whole engine, below it a puller for a motorcycle flywheel.