Frankentools

[wavinwayne]

Got any tools you've cobbled together for this job or that? My example is my Craftsman C3 1/2" impact wrench, fitted with a Makita 18V battery adapter, a Neiko 1/2" to 1/4" hex adapter, and a Dewalt magnetic impact bit holder. I needed to tighten down a loose deck screw and my impact driver is on loan to my Father in law at the moment. I'm buying him one for his birthday in March since I can't stand being without a tool.

 

[eljefino]

That torx bit isn't bent.... yet.

 

[Pterostylis]

Closest I got was a sledgehammer, a length of chain, a gear puller and some flat plate cobbled into a slide hammer to remove some axles.

 

[AZjeff]

That torx bit isn't bent.... yet.

One ugga dugga and it will be.

I've got some open end wrenches that have been ground to 1/2 the normal width to fit somewhere specific. Don't remember what it is but the wrenches are ready.

 

[wavinwayne]

One ugga dugga and it will be.

Maybe? This impact is ancient compared to modern offerings. I think the max torque on it was advertised as ~200 ft/lbs, which probably isn't that much greater than my Makita impact driver. Those bits are consumables anyway and I've got a bunch of them.

I've got some open end wrenches that have been ground to 1/2 the normal width to fit somewhere specific. Don't remember what it is but the wrenches are ready.

I was watching a lawn mower repair video recently where the guy had ground down a wrench to remove a fuel solenoid. Pretty ingenious.

 

[Runalot]

Closest I got was a sledgehammer, a length of chain, a gear puller and some flat plate cobbled into a slide hammer to remove some axles.

Substitute ratchet strap for chain and vice grips for flat plate.

 

[ls1mike]

I wish I had taken pictures of some of the stuff I have rigged up over the years to get stuff done. I made a special extension to get the engine out of my old 91 C4 Corvette. Have cut and welded a few wrenches to make tools so I wouldn't have had to buy any.

 

[FT92]

I have heated up and bent a few wrenched over the years to fit whatever it was I was working on, of course they were some cheap wrenches

 

[BigCahuna]

I cut a 1 1/4 inch socket in half, to fit the oil filter cover for my wife's 2.4 chevy engine. Plus shortened wrenches to fit in tight spaces.,,

 

[93regalcustom]

I have a 1/2 inch breaker bar and a 1/4 inch t-handle branded Montgomery Ward Powr-Kraft that came from an estate auction with evidence of prior repair and having a socket attached to the bottom of the handle, respectively.

 

[D60]

I built this fire poker decades ago. Honestly it feels so good in-hand because the eyelet stabilizes it at the back of your palm and the hex handle affords great control.

 

[D60]

Before I had the Lisle air hammer tool for fan clutches I machined my own 36mm plate wrench and Magnum wp pulley spanner. Apparently I determined the pulley holes to be 1.800" on center

I've used them several times and they do work quite well

 

[D60]

I personally like using sliding Fs to compress caliper pistons -- call it the metal fabricator in me. But sometimes the swivel foot won't make it to the outer pad.

Just last night I got sick of it and popped the pad off two inexpensive clamps (I reco 6.5" minimum) and problem solved. These will just stay on my service cart for brake work.

 

[JRay’07]

 

[D60]

The definition of cobbled... I used this for the first time just now. A homebrew setup to go from the air fittings on my pressure bleeder to the Speedi-Bleed caps. Worked perfectly-- no more chaining the universal adapter under the master!