Lets see your custom home made tools

[gnx547]

I like to see everyone's custom home made tools. What the tool is and what is it used for. Thanks

 

[SCscoutguy]

There is a huge thread about it with tons of pictures already if you want to see them.

 

[gnx547]

Do you have the link for it? Thanks

 

[blue dog]

hot off the welding table.

 

[woody 73]

Bluedog very nice,but what happens if you need room to turn something ,looks like you might not get much turning room.

 

[mrholeshot]

hot off the welding table.

I love your hammer wrench. I see you added some to it since I saw it last

 

[bchee]

Is that Stanley ratchet assembled in USA from global materials?

 

[JPRACING]

here you go

 

[nisreo]

nice weld.

 

[Gmonkee]

Assembled in Mexico from usa and chinese parts. Like everything else.

 

[2drx4]

There is a huge thread about it with tons of pictures already if you want to see them.

It wasn't so much about hand tools, more equipment.

I've got some weird stuff that I could take some pictures of, if I remember.

 

[blue dog]

Bluedog very nice,but what happens if you need room to turn something ,looks like you might not get much turning room.

I never said it was the perfect homemade tool, but your right it can get tight in some situations. But i will tell you that it can flatten out a finger like nobody's business weighing in at 3 pounds now that i have added a actual hammer head. tool steel is hard,we destroyed a end mill bit putting the rabbit in the hammer head, next i will add a cellular phone and a licorice dispenser to it , and i think it will be complete.

 

[blue dog]

Assembled in Mexico from usa and chinese parts. Like everything else.

I nominate gmonkee for president of garagejournal for his quote above.

 

[wafrederick]

I have found metal coat hangers make good tools,cut the hook off and use the coat hanger to "fish" up wiring on vehicles by bending the coat hanger in any configuration.Did this on a 2002 Chevy Venture van today,had to to get one side of the right side ABS wiring harness up between the battery and wiring harness ,could not get my hand in there.It worked and luckily it was not by the positive battery post.

 

[bchee]

Is that Stanley ratchet assembled in USA from global materials?

I must be going crazy.
I posted this cuz I thought I saw a Stanley ratchet. Now that post doesn't exist. Am I imagining things?

 

[Gmonkee]

Its a great neck 1/4 rh (autozone cheapie) with a stanley screwdriver handle jammed on. Comfy and useful, as well as cheap. Surprising strong head too. I put it back up.

 

[skeletonizer]

Old flat bar *** valve spring compressor. 4.0 Jeep zj firewall overhangs the rear cylinder so that my shiny new Craftsman t-handle screw jobby won't work.