Built-it-myself tools/machines - show us what you've done

[Doug19]

Here ya go...

http://www.tptools.com/p/335,142_Build-Your-Own-Cabinet-Foot-Pedal-Operated-System.html

How has it held up overtime being made out of plywood, and is it the 45" or 33"?

 

[wantedabiggergarage]

I can't find the original thread, but it may have been when this was GarageJunkies. A few years later, the one man bleeder question brought back up the link in this thread:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17098&highlight=motive

There is a link on how to make one for future use.

 

[KBinCT]

How has it held up overtime being made out of plywood, and is it the 45" or 33"?

It's 45" and not plywood. I built it from 11 gage sheet metal. It's heavy..

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Here ya go...

http://www.tptools.com/p/335,142_Build-Your-Own-Cabinet-Foot-Pedal-Operated-System.html

Thank you!

 

[matttys]

Work bench made out of square iron, a bowling ally top, locking casters and a little rattle can to finish it off. This thing must weigh 500 lbs easy with the huge vise, but it's simple to move around the garage with the casters.

 

[Jim Stabe]

Work bench made out of square iron, a bowling ally top, locking casters and a little rattle can to finish it off. This thing must weigh 500 lbs easy with the huge vise, but it's simple to move around the garage with the casters.

I didn't know bowling alleys were that beefy. Where do you get that stuff anyway?

 

[Mezzanine]

I didn't know bowling alleys were that beefy. Where do you get that stuff anyway?

Just guessing here... Bowling Alleys?

 

[Jim Stabe]

Just guessing here... Bowling Alleys?

It's been a while but the last time I was at a bowling alley, the wood was pretty securely attached and I didn't see any large sections missing.

 

[Mezzanine]

Sorry for the smart-assery. They have to replace the floors every couple of years. Sometimes it is posted on Craig's List for sale, sometimes a buyer wants most all of it. I have heard of alleys replacing one lane at a time.

 

[Jim Stabe]

Sorry for the smart-assery. They have to replace the floors every couple of years. Sometimes it is posted on Craig's List for sale, sometimes a buyer wants most all of it. I have heard of alleys replacing one lane at a time.

Thanks, I never knew they had to replace the floor so often. I have given it out on occasion so I guess I have to take some once in a while

 

[Kevin54]

I didn't know bowling alleys were that beefy. Where do you get that stuff anyway?

You can't beat a bowling alley lane for a bench top. A buddy made a bar counter out of a 10' piece. It was all three of us could do to lift it and get in maneuvered into the basement of his house. I think he paid $100 for a 10 footer. And IIRC I think it was laminated rock maple 2x's. For some reason I'm thinking he told me that the section he got was the approach lane section but not sure. I know it was heavy though.

 

[A_Pmech]

So where's the rest of the GS-500?

Work bench made out of square iron, a bowling ally top, locking casters and a little rattle can to finish it off. This thing must weigh 500 lbs easy with the huge vise, but it's simple to move around the garage with the casters.

 

[hfturbo2000]

heres a pinch bolt removal tool I made for my passat.

And its used for removing this.

 

[rodm1]

My grease gun holder and grease catcher.

 

[murph64]

My grease gun holder and grease catcher.

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BRILLIANT


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I think I'll be stealing that idea, if you don't mind



Andy

 

[NUTTSGT]

Here's a link to the welding table I built.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43628

Here's the press my neighbor and I built.

He had the steel left over from a couple of jobs, it's all channel iron or angle. I had to buy the springs and bottle jack. The plates came as pieces of steel from another buddy and cost a 12 pack. So I have $50 in it including paint.

 

[Stinger]

Here is a hydraulic lift I built for my lawn mower when I was 14 or 15. Uses a ram from a Mercruiser inboard boat tilt/trim system and a pump from a Chrysler Outboard tilt/trim system. It was built so I could put a ball on it to haul boats around (my dad owned a boat shop). I could just back up to the boat, raise the lift, and drive off. It also has a 3 point attachment on it so I can use any 3 point drag behind items on it (I used a plow and a 4' blade).

Here is a video of it going up/down:

 

[biker]

Here is a hydraulic lift I built for my lawn mower when I was 14 or 15. Uses a ram from a Mercruiser inboard boat tilt/trim system and a pump from a Chrysler Outboard tilt/trim system. It was built so I could put a ball on it to haul boats around (my dad owned a boat shop). I could just back up to the boat, raise the lift, and drive off. It also has a 3 point attachment on it so I can use any 3 point drag behind items on it (I used a plow and a 4' blade).

Here is a video of it going up/down:

More pictures pleace.

 

[Fhunter1]

....is a plate bender I made and it can bend up to 1/4" plate up to 90*. You lock the work down with the 2 bolts on top and then lift like a regular brake. It can bend 3/16" up to about 6" wide and 1/4" up to about 2" wide. You can do 1/4" wider but you have to heat it first. It is very handy for making brackets and the like

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I love the plate bender. do you have any sketches or drawings so I can make a copy? Thx

 

[Stinger]

More pictures please.

http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n266/yellow_stinger/Mower/

 

[mustangmccance]

Simple, elegant and easy!!!! Now to figure out a way to keep the MC filled. I wonder if since you already have the air tight seal if the change in pressure would be enough to create a small vacuum that would draw fresh fluid into the MC from a bottle off to the side? hmmmmmm, worth a try!

I wonder if you had a container that had tubing coming out of the bottom to a shut off valve just above the mc cover then attach the air line to the container you could then pressurize the fluid in the container and it would keep the mc topped off. what do you think?

 

[yhprum]

I made a vacuum bleeder with a jam jar. I put two barbed hose fittings on the lid. One hose goes to a hand held vaccuum pump. the other goes to the brake bleeder. You can put grease or teflon tape on the bleeder threads to seal it some. Put the hose on the bleeder, pump up a vacuum and loosen the bleeder until you don't see air bubbles in the hose. Works good enough to bleed brakes on a motorbike front end. Will **** the master cyclinder dry fast, so you need to be ready with the refill! You could use engine vacuum at idle if you dont have a pump.

 

[Jim Stabe]

....is a plate bender I made and it can bend up to 1/4" plate up to 90*. You lock the work down with the 2 bolts on top and then lift like a regular brake. It can bend 3/16" up to about 6" wide and 1/4" up to about 2" wide. You can do 1/4" wider but you have to heat it first. It is very handy for making brackets and the like

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I love the plate bender. do you have any sketches or drawings so I can make a copy? Thx[/QUOTE]
Here are some more pictures

The base is 1" x 2" x 11" and the piece to grab in the vise is 1/2" x 2" x 6" welded on. The ends for the pivot are 1/2" x 1" wit 1/2-13 holes tapped. The center of the hole has to be in line with the mating edge of the base. Two holes are tapped into the top of the base for the clamp bolts.


The top clamp is 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 11" with a 1/2 x 1 1/2" brace welded on and two elongated holes drilled for the clamp bolts. The elongated holes allow for different material thicknesses.

This is how it looks in the vise


Continued -See next post

 

[Jim Stabe]

Plate bender continued

The swing up portion is 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 11. The long handle is 3/4" x 1" x 27". The 1/2" hole is on center with the edge of the horizontal piece. The short handle is 3/4" x 3/4" x 12" so you can use two hands when bending (put a pipe on it).


This is how it looks together. Use grade 8 bolts at least.

 

[Fhunter1]

Thanks a million for the great pictures and info. Now I just need to get busy and make one...

 

[Jim Stabe]

This thing is so handy I'm surprised I didn't do it sooner. The main beam is an 11' piece of 2x4x1/8 rectangular tubing with 10' barn door tracks welded on and braced. The HF 1300 lb winch has tapped mounting holes that are the perfect width to match up with the tracks. I used trucks from McMaster that mount with a through bolt and just got metric bolts the right length and used jam nuts to keep them from coming out. The pivots are 1 1/2 x 3/8 wall tube with 3/4 grade 8 bolts. I had an existing 4x6 beam holding up a 4x12 ridge beam in my garage. I doubled it with another 4x6 at 90* to form a "T". Both sides are 4" channel and the through bolts are 1/2 threaded rod. The upper pivot point has a diagonal tension rod that ties it into the 4x12 ridge beam with a 3/4" turnbuckle to preload it.




The tracks and wheels are rated to carry a 450 lb door so I should have 900 lbs capacity with 2. The 1,300 lb winch has a 650 lb single line capacity but I usually don't pick up more than 500 lbs with it, I'll get the cherry picker for anything heavier. I did pick up my welding table that weighs over 500 lbs and the end of the beam deflected less than 1/2 inch. I have also picked up a bench mill that weighs 750 lbs and put in the back of a pickup at the full extent of the travel. It's nice having it so handy so I won't be tempted to lift the marginally heavy stuff and risk hurting my back.

 

[mustangmccance]

this is a stupid little tool, nothing as cool as the ones you guys have made but it is so handy and I have used it so much this week I thought I would share it. I have seen similar tools in body shops for holding masking paper but they are costly and take up space, and since I use this I use this so sporadically I wanted it to be out of the way. so I mounted it over the door to the kennel section of my shop. it is out of the way but easily accessible.

 

[E.rodz]

check out some picts of my unfinished english wheel sound encloser for air compressor and bridge cran all made at home for the garage built just for building hotrods.

 

[blackice]

I don't really have anything too cool I have built for the shop yet. I rigged up a stand for the old bender, with die holders. I also made a stand for the grinder.

I am currently working on a new "offroad" welding cart for going out in the gravel driveway, and a "got Trikes" tubing bender, I will post pics when they are finished

 

[schultz]

I've been working on a welding cart lately, Here's the thread about it: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48968

I built the mig holder yesterday and still have to throw together a box that will sit between the two to hold my gloves,Rod's eTc. This is a update pic and also a grinder stand i made last year.

 

[wineslob]

I built a logsplitter a couple of months ago, I've already run about 2 cords through it.

I don't have any finished pics of it, I started using it right away!
My best guess is it's about an 8 ton splitter. I plan on changing out the 3" cyl for a 4". I need the extra tonnage.

 

[akdiesel]

I built a logsplitter a couple of months ago, I've already run about 2 cords through it.

I don't have any finished pics of it, I started using it right away!
My best guess is it's about an 8 ton splitter. I plan on changing out the 3" cyl for a 4". I need the extra tonnage.

I would like to see the final results. Is that a home made single acting cylinder?

 

[JaysinSpaceman]

I thought that I would add a few of the tools and things I have built.

My welding table. I do fab work for a living and needed a good heavy table that was perfectly flat, 1/2" top with adjustable feet and weighs 1200+/- lbs and when I screw the feet up and it is rolling on the casters it moves super easy.

Here's a roller stand that I made for supporting material while being cut in my horizontal bandsaw.

This tube notcher is a prototype although it works so well I may never get around to the next incarnation.

Hydraulic press I built to operate my Northern Tools press brake and press bearings and whatnot.

And lastly, for this post, is the English Wheel. I built the frame from 4" x 6" tube and had the top wheel cast from 4340. Then I machined the casting for bearings and faced and surfaced it. The casting weighed 34 lbs. before machining. The lower wheels were machined by a friend that is a way better machinist then I.

I am also working on an electric powered tube bender and a jib crane. When they are farther along I will post them up too. As I find pictures of other stuff I have built I'll ad them in. While I don't mind buying tools I would rather build them myself.

Jaysin

 

[E.Marquez]

Few tools made I have pics on hand for.

Motorcycle crank install tool to set the crank in the case main bearings.

Crank bearing driver, another motorcycle tool.

Clutch hub holding tool

Off set wrench to hold flywheel

Case splitting tool

 

[Greg9504]

Some great work shown so far. My fab skills are not that great... I must admit to having a hard time getting real accurate measurement markings. Things have gotten a bit better since I started using a carbide tipped scribe. Paint markers, even pencils I can't get that good to keep things all lined up and square.

Anyway here is my hydraulic stone splitter. Unfortunately not built in a shop yet... instead in my gravel driveway.

Here's a video with some slow motion
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[Mr_fixit]

Does this count? Power angle for my quad plow using a linear actuator. Works like a charm..

 

[akdiesel]

Some great work shown so far. My fab skills are not that great... I must admit to having a hard time getting real accurate measurement markings. Things have gotten a bit better since I started using a carbide tipped scribe. Paint markers, even pencils I can't get that good to keep things all lined up and square.

Anyway here is my hydraulic stone splitter. Unfortunately not built in a shop yet... instead in my gravel driveway.

Here's a video with some slow motion
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That is impressive. How much pressure do you think you are applying to shear them? Is there any type of starter cut to get to shear in the correct spot?

 

[Bfoughty]

WOW.....that is impressive. I agree...how much force is being applied.

 

[A29]

Here is a sheet metal brake. Set up for 36".

 

[Greg9504]

WOW.....that is impressive. I agree...how much force is being applied.

Hi!
The hydraulic cylinders are 6" (from Princess Auto here in Canada). The relief valve is set at 2500 psi (currently running off the hydraulics of my dump truck). So that gives a total of 70 tons. The cylinders are rated for 3600 psi, so theoretically I could go as high as 100 tons. I have a little bit of movement in my guides I need to take care of before I think about increasing the pressure.

There is no starter scoring done, however there is a bottom blade. If you watch closely you'll see that as the upper blades come down, the table "falls" away so that the stone is resting on the bottom blade. A hydraulic cylinder (single acting) then raises the table as the main cylinders move up. Of course in the video I posted above, the last split I forgot to back off the valve and the table doesn't lower so the split is a bit more dramatic as the table springs back.

The blades are wood splitter blades (4 in total, 2 top, 2 bottom) I got from Northern Tool. They are holding up well, better than I initially thought. There is a picture of the lower blades in this video
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It's all wrapped up under a tarp for now though, waiting for spring...