Recent content by thruthefence

I light of some of the work submitted here, I feel unworthy, but here are a few I've made through the years. My version of a hydraulic press. Ram is a Flap actuator from some unkown aircraft, and the pump is an emergency gear pump from another. Not alot of horse power, but for the small...

This is like attaching some intrinsic value to a Garrett Snuff bottle with "foe dots" (That's "Four" to you non-southerners)

I have an old set of vice grips that I made a sheetmetal "joggle" tool out of, i a similar fashion. This is very timely, because I need to bead the radiator transfer tubes on my Lotus project, and your idea is perfect!! Permission to shamelessly copy?

Shade tree 1/4" drive tip. I'm an aircraft mechanic, and 95% of my work is with 1/4" drive stuff. Often in really close quarters. A cheap & effective "lock" and "wiggle damper" is a short length of 1/6" wall thickness surgical tubing slipped over the u joint section of the socket, and down...

Got a taker! thanks, guys.

Going through a long forgotten box of tools I've accumulated over the years, and I find this odd 9/32" drive ratchet, with an adapter that takes it to 1/4". An old (older then me) retired Air force friend told me, that back in the day, the military had these tools issued, because the non...

Any way to sharpen these things?

I got this one for a few hours labor on a guy's Aircraft. Belonged to his Grandfather, and had just been sitting around for years. the ad copy is from a 40's Popular Mechanics magazine by the way, congrats on YOUR score!!!

Don't thank me, thank the guy who designed the "official" tool for Lucas, (about $80.00 from the 'usual suppliers') that I unashamedly copied. Here's a tip for tool vendors: If you have a "special tool", don't post such good photos of it on the internet!

Cobbled this up from a set of throwaway Channellocks, & some scrap .125" steel strap. They're used to install those miserable Lucas bullet connectors on old English cars.

While I can't justify such an expense with the amount of sheetmetal work I do in my "real" job, I had the chance to use a couple of these: http://www.tungsten-bucking-bar.com/prices.html While helping a buddy of mine do a moonlighting gear-up repair on a Beech Baron. He works as a structures...

"service manager walks by and I have the cover off the outlet and a roll of wire and a metal grate". If I'd have been your service "manager", I'd have fired your ****-wagging happy *** on the spot. The fact that he did not do so, is why I have "manager" in quotes.

I have one of those $13.00 touch up guns that I use for small stuff in my job, and I was cleaning it the other day, and it occurred to me, that if I was in a working shop, selling services, my "cost-of-labor" would not cover the cleaning of the gun. It would be cheaper to throw it away after...

Another Aircraft engine tool. Round motor guys might recognize it. I wouldn't take a hundred buck for this one. business end: part # & mfg

"MORE IMPORTANTLY, nitrogen filled tires do not fluctuate pressure with changes in temperature like air filled tires." This is what I was responding to; post #61. If I misread, or misunderstood the post, my apologies. However, I stand by my statements on temp vs pressure in a compressed gas.