Alternative Uses

[DIC]

Used a craftsman screwdriver and Visegrips for a ball to move a
gooseneck horse trailer a couple of miles.............

 

[nate379]

I made a redneck porta power last night.

I needed to spread the subframe on my WRX to line up a bolt.

Took a 12" or so 2x4 and drilled a 1" hole in the end. Hammered it on a bottle jack, stuck the jack and 2x4 between the subframe and worked great.

I was scratching my head for a good 45 mins and tried a few other things before doing that.

 

[sberry]

I like the leaf vac, could always convert to LP for fuel, would like electric motor though.

 

[lametec]

duct tape.... isn't good for it's intended purpose of actual duct work.

That's because it was never intended for duct work. It was intended for waterproofing ammo cases.

I have been having the devil of a time priming the oil pump on my wifes 96 Thunderbird after replacing the timing cover.

I had isses with this after rebuilding a Chrysler 2.7. Ended up using an oil can w/pump and attaching a hose to the end of the oil spout, then shoving the other end of the hose into the hole in the block that goes to the oil pump (the one that feeds the filter). A few pumps and the oil pump was primed and ready.

Leaf blower to dry the wet tent out.

They also work great to inflate kiddie pools. Takes but a few seconds.

 

[murph64]

I made a redneck porta power last night.

Didn't have a press, so I tried the bottle-jack-under-the-Jeep-trick...Ended up lifting the Jeep instead of pressing the studs in.


Andy

 

[bgott]

The Lake Ponchartrain Causeway in Louisiana is 24 miles long and runs between Metairie and Mandiville. There are four turnarounds that are the only place in the bridge that you can stop. I left Metairie headed home to Mandiville one day and had the alternator on my '71 Dodge van lock up due to a bad bearing letting the rotor catch the field coils. I made it to the first turnaround and had to figure out how to get home. I had no money so a tow or bumming a ride to town and buying another alternator was out of the question. I removed the alternator and set there scratching my self and wondering if I could make it from turnaround to turnaround with out burning it up. Having just replaced the heads a month or two before I didn't want to chance it. I had nothing to make a short belt with to drive the water pump so I had a brainstorm and gutted the alternator. The problem with the Chrysler alternator was that the iron core for the field coils is an integral part of the case, with it gone you have a major gap between the end bells. So I used a good number of my quarter inch drive sockets to make spacers to take the place of the field. Of course it wasn't going to charge, I just needed an idler to make the belt work. It got us home just fine, I retrieved my sockets when I re- assembled the alternator for a core.

Another use for a leaf blower...the local car wash uses one to blow the water out of cars that leak going down the line. You ought to see the looks on people's faces when they see someone using a blower on their car.

 

[selohssa]

Does anyone have any cool stories of using thier tools for purposes other than their intended use.

I saw a guy using a leaf blower to blow dry his car one day...thought that was interesting.

I saw a body shop that had converted to waterborne paint on the cheap. They retrofitted their booth with 6 leafblowers to get the air movement to a point that would flash off their paint. The craziest part is that it worked