Improvised tools

[Shootinok]

If necessity is the mother of invention, it must also be the aunt of improvisation.

When you break a cheap import flex and the small piece that broke off is stuck down next to a spark plug - too tight to get a magnet in there...
A person needs to be creative.

Funnel, tube from a shelf cut-off and a shopvac did the trick


Patent Pending [emoji16]

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[ChefRex]

You gotta do what you gotta do but just maybe if you spent a little more for a quality tool this wouldn't be necessary and you wouldn't have been aggravated and in need of figuring out how to fix your pickle.
Just saying

 

[Professional Tool User]

Modded and improvised tools have their place when you need to get the job done and don't have time to buy the tool or the tool doesn't even exist.

 

[Fedwrench]

Great Job!!!!

Adversity is the best teacher!!!

Now get yourself one or two of these:

https://www.toolsource.com/pickup-t...netic-pickup-tool-p-139194.html?tsqtid=933904

They're super tiny, yet strong, and have saved my bacon and the bacon of techs around me more than once

 

[RTM]

Now get yourself one or two of these:

https://www.toolsource.com/pickup-t...netic-pickup-tool-p-139194.html?tsqtid=933904

They're super tiny, yet strong, and have saved my bacon and the bacon of techs around me more than once

The only problem with those super magnets is they tend to stick to the things around the path getting to the thing you dropped. I have one on a telescoping stick, and the telescope kept collapsing then the magnet got on a sight spot on the way in.

 

[Shootinok]

Surely there are some great improvisers on here - let’s see (or at least hear about) some successes.


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[Pistolero]

cant find my Socket welded to a scissor jack. Ill post the pic when i find it

 

[Copymutt]

Try Five Chevy’s have a weird 5/8 and 3/4 heater hose set up. Needed to accommodate a good seal for both. Made this tubing beader.

 

[Shootinok]

... Made this tubing beader.

^^^
That’s what I’m talkin about !!
Nice



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[Mc817]

If necessity is the mother of invention, it must also be the aunt of improvisation.

When you break a cheap import flex and the small piece that broke off is stuck down next to a spark plug - too tight to get a magnet in there...
A person needs to be creative.

Funnel, tube from a shelf cut-off and a shopvac did the trick


Patent Pending [emoji16]

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I've been in a jam like that before. I have some super heavy, tacky grease, and I put a glob of that on the end of something (extension, welding rod, whatever works) and it usually picks up whatever I'm trying to grab

 

[Mgdoug3]

I've built several tools when I didn't have the right tool or I could build the right tool far cheaper. I have a side mounted diesel engine stand and sleeve puller that I built that works as well as anything I can buy for the fraction of the price.