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Let's see your homemade wrenches

cnc-me

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Post up your homemade wrenches.
If possible show how the wrench is used, if its not obvious.
Here is some of mine.


Wrench for quick change tool holder on metal lathe.


Cheap spark plug socket welded to a custom arm,
chrome on socket didn't even burn off.




In operation


Square turret wrench for metal lathe.


Machined with the lathe and finished up with a die grinder and files.


Installed on the turret


Hex wrenches for a four inch Criterion boring head.











Square drive T-Handle for a sanding machine.


Square pocket was made by milling, and then welding a cap over and
then turned to the final size.


Using the wrench on the Solem sander


Hex wrench for a rotary shaper.




2-3/4" Spindle wrench for a rotary shaper.


7/8" thick, sawed out with bandsaw and sized with a disk sander
until it just slipped on the machine's arbor.


Spindle wrench for Clausing metal lathe.


5/8 thick aluminum, round section machined with a boring head
on the mill, rest of the wrench was sawed out with a bandsaw,
and then rolled over with a router.
I used an Allen bolt (socket head capscrew) for the pin, as the
head was just the right size, for the holes on the lathes collar.


Guess I did a good job on this, because my friend wanted to
know how much it cost me, and where I got from.


Not exactly a wrench, but I will throw this one in anyway.


Die handle for 1-1/2" round dies, got a new boring head in 1989 and
had to try it out on something. :D
 
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Kyle86

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Very nice, I am impressed. What is your profession/trade and how did you learn machining? I would love to learn how to make things like this one day!
 

Gmonkee

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This thread title says wrenches. The other says tools.

Ford model T headbolt and spark plug wrenches, the modern versions.
Pretty much a cut-weld-grind operation to make them. Damaged wrenches and the scrap iron pile donated all parts except for the sockets. Those were bought new.
 

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Gmonkee

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And some cut from plate steel that have no uses at all. They were fun to make though.
 

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