An adjacent screw hole that you have already removed the screw from. It could even be several screw holes aways. The panels will have a screw about every 2" around the perimeter of a panel.
Never had an issue with that? Of course we were not dealing with tiny screws either, they were #10-32 screws. If a thread was messed up it was from the previous screw seizing normally and you riveted in a new floating nut plate.
Yes, I use it mainly for wing access panels.
Very nice! Stout! Speedholes for the win!Yesterday, I made a wrench extender from a piece of garage door opener steel and angle iron. I saw a few on GJ and decided to make one today. God willing, I will become a better welder some day. He is good.
You welded, it helded. Anything beyond that is just vanity.Yesterday, I made a wrench extender from a piece of garage door opener steel and angle iron. I saw a few on GJ and decided to make one today. God willing, I will become a better welder some day. He is good.
This place is a bad influence.Yesterday, I made a wrench extender from a piece of garage door opener steel and angle iron. I saw a few on GJ and decided to make one today. God willing, I will become a better welder some day. He is good.
Yours looks very nice. Good job!This place is a bad influence.
As for the welding….
I worked with a guy that would say “ A grinder and some paint make a welder what he ain’t” .
With an extended wrench of course.Wow, how do you open the garage door now?
Had some downtime waiting for the painter to get parts back so made a couple quickies.
Crowfoot holder(3/8 square bar tapped for 10/32 set screw and other end peened over to hold everything):
Tucking fork since I don’t have a *********** kick Shrinker/stretcher:
Need to knock the rest of the spatter off and sand more and polish but have to get back to work soon.
Had some downtime waiting for the painter to get parts back so made a couple quickies.
Crowfoot holder(3/8 square bar tapped for 10/32 set screw and other end peened over to hold everything):
Here's what I did. I'll probably find some different stops for the 1/2" set.
I like the idea of having access from both ends to make it faster to get to the one you need--which, of course, will be the one right in the middle.Here's what I did. I'll probably find some different stops for the 1/2" set.
Mine are like the back set of his. Someone commercially sells one with two telescoping tubes, so the cEnter wrench is no more problem than any other. More than I can think thru right now, but an even better idea.
Seen others besides Amazon, forget which brands.
The one I saw was metal, could not find it quickly. Traveling light.
Partially homemade tool?
My Cornwell dealer gave me a discount on a 1/4" ratchet that had been sitting on the truck for a few years. I didn't take a photo before I started but it had a soft handle like this with a weird concave square profile where the guy's thumb is, that had to go.
Pulled that off to reveal a round shank with pressed "wings" like you might see on a screwdriver blade.
I cut the wings off leaving a round shank, then slightly reduced the diameter of the last 1/2" or so with a file and cut 5/16-24 threads with a die.
I didn't have a lathe to make the new handle, so I used a 1/2-20 bolt, nut, and some washers to mount a threaded chuck (spare from a cordless drill) in the middle of my drill press table facing upwards. I used that as a static tool holder for the drill bit and used the drill press to spin a length of 1/2" diameter brass rod.
With a little trial and error, that gave me a blind hole approximately in the center of the new handle. I made the hole stepped so the larger diameter would just go over the shank and last 1/2" or so was smaller where the threads go. That also gave me access to get the tap down to the bottom of the hole.
Then I just used a file and some light sanding to match the taper of the handle where the two pieces meet and rounded off the end.
I did try bluing the brass to be darker like the steel which looked cool but wore off pretty quick with use, hence the few dark spots.
Not a professional job, but it was fun to make and I think it turned out ok
I left the set screws out about 3/16” so I can spin it out with my fingers. Yours would be way more functional but it’s what I had on hand. At some point I’m going to try and make it a ball detent for the hell of it.
Tubalcane on YouTube has a video where he makes Gits style oilers for his lathe. In it he shows how he made the spring loaded ball detent and peened it in place.
Those are priceless and treasurable. Here are a couple that my father and grandfather made over 50 years ago.About 50 years ago my late father made a small number of these car windscreen ice scrapers for family members. I have carried mine in every car I have owned and used it each winter. I last used it only last week.
Nice spanner!Shop made tool for installing a toilet flange without damaging the outer diameter. Some scrap metal, cut off bolts and an old 1/2" drive socket. Nothing fancy but it'll get the job done for a one-time task.
They are just different enough in size that they were not interchangeable. So a "new" tool had to be fabricated and then stored away.Yup. That's common. I've also seen it in the field where a big metal bar / piece of stock was welded to the flange so it could be gripped from either side and turned. Necessity, and not wanting to spend hours going back to the shop to get more tools / equipment, is the mother of invention after all.I think this is a common "style" of tool amongst a wide range of industries. I have had to fabricate several of this style in my career as an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic over the course of nearly 40-years now. What is unfortunate is that when I've needed one I have gone to my toolbox to see if a prior tool will work and of course, they never do.
Is it impact rated Mike?Shop made tool for installing a toilet flange without damaging the outer diameter. Some scrap metal, cut off bolts and an old 1/2" drive socket. Nothing fancy but it'll get the job done for a one-time task.
