Show off your home made tools!

Brian1 said:

Just finished these fan clutch wrenches today. A few weeks ago I had to rent the set from Autozone to change the waterpump on a powerstroke. While I had them I took dimensions, drew them in CAD and then cut them out of 1/4" steel on my cnc plasma. (I know that is kind of cheating )

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Nice, now I know who to call when I have to change the pump.

Got tired of using those buckets to stand to lean over fender. Had various size tubing laying around so I thought I'd put them to good use, plus a little safer.

Like pretty much every one I have the assorted cut and bent wrenches.

Extra deep sockets.
8mm for Acura drip rail moldings
10mm for Lexus drip rail moldings
and 11mm for Ford (?) rear bumper cover.

I also have several wooden dowels for cutting body lines.

I have these hard chisels with the points ground down flat to aid in my metal work.

a modified socket for the drain plug on radiators.

This is super handy for belt molding removal. Especially Toyota and Honda.

The orange one on the left is for Lexus windshield squinter removal.

The one on the right 90's Audi wagons had this hokey puck looking thing that went under the rear cover and held the center of it up.
It was spring wound. You would twist it all the way down and stick the zip tie into a slot on the spring loaded hokey puck looking thing. Snap it onto the rear bumper and drape the string behind the bumper beam. Then slide the cover in place and attach appropriately. Then grab the string and yank. The zip tie would come out and the spring loaded hokey puck thing would spin up into place.

Mercedes Benz mirrors actually unscrew from the out side.
You need to remove the glass and then pop off the housing to get to the screws.

This tool here gets to the clip behind the mirror glass to release it.
Very handy indeed.

Monmix, you are very creative. Nice work!! :biggthump

The motor in my shop vac burned out. I was going to throw it out, then I had an idea. The base is still good, and it has wheels. Now my old shop vac is the shop trash can.

I recently made a impact tool for my stock Ford Jack. Using a socket and a piece of coal finish round solid bar. Just found a solid rod and cut and shaped the end to fit in the Jack and welded it into a socket. Now I just get the impact out and Jack up my truck. Works pretty good.

Could you post a picture of it?

Made a new version of my previous Plane of Bend Bracket for bending and notching tube. It lets you use a digital level or degree finder to measure the rotation between bends and notches.

Here's my 2$ Kydex press made with scrap wood, a clearance 2x4 and a scissor jack from a junked car.
It just needs some foam and it'll be done.

I had to do a search to learn what Kydex is

Nice job on the press

Made a parts tumbler out of a $3 Home Depot Bucket and a $25 Harbor Freight drill. The big wheel is from an A/C unit I scrapped. I take my small plasma cut parts right off my CNC table and throw them in there and then turn it on for an hour or 2. The parts come out slag free and with a nice sand blasted like finish.

Brian,is that just gravel out of the yard?
Wonder if a big 55gallon plastic barrel would hold up to larger parts? That is pure genius though, I like it.