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[DaveH]

(08-28-2015, 08:16 AM)zmotorsports Wrote: My ONLY problem with Rob's pictures is that when I see his work and then mine, I have second thoughts about posting some of mine.

Mike.

Please don't think that, this forum is about sharing (if you want to).
Surely you have seen pics of my welding   no one said it was bad but everyone helped me improve it.


DaveH

[PixMan]

I wish I had 1/10th the time it takes to make all the tools Rob has! Instead, I just buy or barter for the commercially made tools I want. I'm pressed to find 1/2 an hour per week in the shop lately.

Oh well. I live vicariously through Rob.

[Mayhem]

Had to get a stuck key out of a shaft for a friend and it was an excuse to make (adapt) a tool that has been on my to do list for some time.  It is very simple and certainly not my idea, and it worked a treat.  Simply make an adapter to weld onto a pair of vise grips, so they can be used with a slide hammer.

   
   

Not pretty but it worked.

[zmotorsports]

(08-29-2015, 08:34 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Had to get a stuck key out of a shaft for a friend and it was an excuse to make (adapt) a tool that has been on my to do list for some time.  It is very simple and certainly not my idea, and it worked a treat.  Simply make an adapter to weld onto a pair of vise grips, so they can be used with a slide hammer.




Not pretty but it worked.

Hey, I made one of those many, many years ago as well. Matter of fact looks like it has had much the same life as yours, worked hard.

Mike.

[Sunset Machine]

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[Hopefuldave]

(08-29-2015, 08:34 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Had to get a stuck key out of a shaft for a friend and it was an excuse to make (adapt) a tool that has been on my to do list for some time. It is very simple and certainly not my idea, and it worked a treat. Simply make an adapter to weld onto a pair of vise grips, so they can be used with a slide hammer.
Not pretty but it worked.

I threaded the end of a piece of bar to fit in place of the adjusting screw, that worked ok and I can always put the screw back!

[Highpower]

Nothing fancy. Just a couple of press sleeves for assembly / disassembly of some Jacobs drill chucks. Heavy wall tubing bored to be a slip fit in order to catch the thin lip of the chuck sleeve when pressing it off or on. I faced off the "assembly" sleeve at a 12.5° angle in order to match the angle of the gear teeth on the sleeve. Using a flat faced sleeve would put all the pressure on the inner edge of the gear with very little contact.    

   

   

   

   

[PixMan]

Little details like that 12.5º face make all the difference in the world between a real tool and "it'll do."

[Highpower]

I made these some time ago but don't think I ever posted pics of them. A couple of small ball bearing roller assemblies for checking the straightness / run-out of small rods or shafting, small 2-stroke crankshafts, electric motor rotors/armatures etc. I have even used them to balance my lawnmower blades with an arbor.    

I just got the material for building a larger set in steel instead of aluminum, and using larger bearings for more heavy duty applications. Now I just need the free time to do it....  

     

   

[Highpower]

Form tool.    

I've collected a few of the old school " Eagle 66" oil cans off of eBay and they normally arrive all bent up and dented from being dropped on the shop floor time and time again. Hammering out the dents in the side of the bodies is pretty straight forward, but when the flared base is smashed and folded over it's not so easy to restore them to their original radius and shape.

Took a leftover drop of aluminum round and bored it to fit over the main body, then countersunk the ID with a ball end mill in the lathe to try to duplicate the original shape & radius of the flared bottom. It's far from perfect, but at least the cans sit up straight again.    

Just set the ring on top of my open bench vice jaws, drop in the oiler body, and apply a little persuasion with a raw hide mallet until the base comes back into shape.