Show us your DIY tools, workshop equipment.

[Uncle Arthur]

Might be an idea to keep all this stuff together so it's all currently accessible? Anyway here is my modest contribution, a home made wheel lifter for those awkward big wide wheels. Made from a kids bike fork and office chair caster wheels. Place the wheel on top, position it, line the wheel stud holes up and roll the wheel on.

[dave1600]

Home-made flycutting tool for pistons - the valve head has a bit of tool steel welded on and shaped into a cutter, set the adjustable stop on the valve stem to the correct height, attach an electric drill and away you go..










Jig for cutting and shutting a Datto L-series bellhousing onto a Nissan S15 6 speed gearbox. Jig holds the S15 bit of the bellhousing in place, L-series bit bolts to the back of spare block. It would work for any gearbox conversion - the jig locates in the main bearings of a spare block, and in the input shaft bearing hole in the bellhousing, with a flange perfectly square to the centreline of the jig bolted up to the bellhousing. This all ensures that he bellhousing is both square to, and inl ine with, the crank.

[ChrisS]

dave1600, Both are damn clever!!
Do you have a pig of the cutter?

[EVOSTi]

Nice work Dave1600.

I have a box full of spanners heated and bent with an oxy, does that count?

[dave1600]

Flycutter wasn't my idea - a fellow Datsun owner used something similar, I just modified it a little.

I can get a picture of the cutter, but its basically just a bit of tool steel about 3mm square and 10mm long, cut off a lathe tool with an angle grinder, brazed onto the underside of the valve head with a few mm hanging over, then sharpened to a cutting face on the bench grinder.

[rolin7]

I'll steal a few from the metal shaping forums

[mopar lover]

dave1600, Both are damn clever!!
Do you have a pig of the cutter?

I have seen similar but they cut grooves like teeth into the head of the valve to make the cutter.

[RVK 355]

Balancer puller, made it out of some P20 tool steel, running a M20 thread in the middle,

[2JLUX]

Simple yet very effective
Height adjustable with built in tig torch holder.

[Gassed250]

ghetto spec stud mount valve spring compressor, had to macgyver this up one night after finding out i had lent my other one to some cunt that dont like to return tools

This beast turned out to be easier to use than the proper one



diff housing jig

[RVK 355]

this is to hold the yok on a BW diff when torquing up the nut on the end of the pinion gear shaft.

[RVK 355]

Quick Cam shaft instalation tool i made today.

[kneelo]

my ghetto line boring rig... cost me $100 for some bright shaft and bearings vs $400 a machine shop wanted to put it on the horizontal boring machine or $2k a mobile line borer wanted.

[RVK 355]

my ghetto line boring rig... cost me $100 for some bright shaft and bearings vs $400 a machine shop wanted to put it on the horizontal boring machine or $2k a mobile line borer wanted.

Love seeing this sort of stuff.

similar sorta set up to this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_kXgxS6Fk&feature=plcp

[MRMOPARMAN]

had to make a vice at trade school this week.

not as cool as alot of the other creations here, but it does the job

[garvice]

Was sick of tripping over my mig and having to carry the bottle around. Cheap bunnings trolley and some scrap metal I had laying around.

[SLO78U]

Had an old dishwasher lying around. Wanted a sand blaster.
So far cot is nill. But I need to buy gloves and screen and light. Already have a portable sandblasting kit I'll be using inside.

[ChrisS]

Nice effort guys

[SLO78U]

Started with this


Cut and made holes


Ended up with a end sand blasting unit.


Also

Small tool for the lathe.



That's all for now

[dynoryder]

I have a few ill take some picks just hand tools.

[dave1600]

Small tool for the lathe.

OK, I'm intrigued. What is it ?

[PHULL]

OK, I'm intrigued. What is it ?

looks like he is machining brake discs or something to that effect

[SLO78U]

looks like he is machining brake discs or something to that effect

Bingo.

Allows you to turn both sides parallel. You skim one side with the tool then change tools to skim the other side.

In the past I have just turned the disk around and then used the dial gauge to get it parallel. Time consuming but effective. It's little jigga saves me heaps of time.

[Greg Rust]

Made this tiny vice.

[dave1600]

looks like he is machining brake discs or something to that effect

Ahh, vey good.

[kyle_b]

my ghetto line boring rig... cost me $100 for some bright shaft and bearings vs $400 a machine shop wanted to put it on the horizontal boring machine or $2k a mobile line borer wanted.

Good work man! That's pretty good! What were you line boring? We use sub zero at work and they do great work but priced accordingly!

[kneelo]

Good work man! That's pretty good! What were you line boring? We use sub zero at work and they do great work but priced accordingly!

Its a top mount attachment to fit a rock breaker to an excavator.

[snavy]

Bingo.

Allows you to turn both sides parallel. You skim one side with the tool then change tools to skim the other side.

In the past I have just turned the disk around and then used the dial gauge to get it parallel. Time consuming but effective. It's little jigga saves me heaps of time.

Shit I've machine heaps of rotors and prob can do it with my eyes closed but I have no clue how that little jig works!

[dynoryder]

Shit I've machine heaps of rotors and prob can do it with my eyes closed but I have no clue how that little jig works!

It appears you machine one side then undo the lock swing the jig around and machine the other side of the rotor.

[mecmw]

Bingo.

Allows you to turn both sides parallel. You skim one side with the tool then change tools to skim the other side.

In the past I have just turned the disk around and then used the dial gauge to get it parallel. Time consuming but effective. It's little jigga saves me heaps of time.

A mate has a nice little tool with both a left and right cutter and a dial to set the distance between them - it does both sides at once.