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What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:09 pm
by HenriSteyn
Made a few to make things easier.
Like my quick detach towbar connection for storing the van in the garage and removing it
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 6:08 am
by Ricof4e
I have a sneaky suspicion that Chas will win this one hands down...
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 6:20 am
by henris
I think we all are now disqualified.
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:21 am
by Shane
Henri I have no idea what that is supposed to do....
But it certainly looks gnarly!!!
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Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:48 am
by BushWacker
Shane wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:21 am
Henri I have no idea what that is supposed to do....
But it certainly looks gnarly!!!
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... I think Henry made it
early back in his Apprenticeship ... ?
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 9:44 am
by HenriSteyn
The welding is good I assure you
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 9:50 am
by HenriSteyn
Shane wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:21 am
Henri I have no idea what that is supposed to do....
But it certainly looks gnarly!!!
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My van is stored in the garage. It uses storage wheels (little steel wheels) because the van is too high to fit.
My driveway is heavily inclined. To get the van out I have to make sure it is as level as possible to prevent the rear of van catching on the top of the garage roof due to the incline.
Hence this compromise tobar.
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:47 am
by Ricof4e
Henri, if your Insurer is on this forum, I would advise that you remove the pic forthwith
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:53 pm
by BushWacker
These two wheel-spanners
are way smarter than Henrys construction.
... and as Ricoffy would observe,
the welding is better than I could do ...
I inherited them over the years ...
The top one applies a 23 ? socket
via a comfortable winding crank ...
The larger bottom one a 27 socket with a
smart handle :
... when tightening the applied moment
of the folded handle is approx 1/2
that of when loosening ...
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:04 pm
by BushWacker
... and this is the jig
that LX made up for me in his workshop ...
place a blunt drill in the precision aligned groove
and the underside is dove-tailed to slide
along the grinding wheel guard plate
... to sharpen the drill at correct angle ...
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 4:40 pm
by Chris Stoffel
BushWacker wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:04 pm
... and this is the jig
that LX made up for me in his workshop ...
place a blunt drill in the precision aligned groove
and the underside is dove-tailed to slide
along the grinding wheel guard plate
... to sharpen the drill at correct angle ...
Real Men sharpen a drill freehand on the grinding wheel.
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 4:57 pm
by KurtG
I can safely say after seeing Chas during lockdown that he is in fact the ugliest old tool in this club [emoji1787]
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 7:23 pm
by BushWacker
KurtG wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 4:57 pm
I can safely say after seeing Chas during lockdown that he is in fact the ugliest old tool in this club [emoji1787]
... well ... I am, of course , a self-made success ...
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 9:30 pm
by Chris Stoffel
I made this tool to clean my braai grid. Scrape off the fat and gritt.
Re: What do your ugliest home made tools look like?
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:40 pm
by Bugger
