Topic: Cool Tools.

[grcamna2]

Per….. Lucky you. The Amazon offering in Canada looks like a cheap knock off for +$35 more! Is the one available there from German Company?

I also ordered one from marcparnes.com,looking forward to using it.

[BenelliSEI]

Per….. Lucky you. The Amazon offering in Canada looks like a cheap knock off for +$35 more! Is the one available there from German Company?

I also ordered one from marcparnes.com,looking forward to using it.

I’ll be interested to hear what you think!

[grcamna2]

Per….. Lucky you. The Amazon offering in Canada looks like a cheap knock off for +$35 more! Is the one available there from German Company?

I also ordered one from marcparnes.com,looking forward to using it.

I’ll be interested to hear what you think!

I have one type from Motion Pro,that clamps to the chain.
I don't know why,but only used it once 
Can you imagine depending So much for So long on just the swing arm marks? 

[Alan F.]

I just spotted this card in a toolbox at work, I'm always looking up these conversions.

[willbird]

I just spotted this card in a toolbox at work, I'm always looking up these conversions.

The nicest wall versions show tap drill sizes too.

Bill

[BenelliSEI]

It turns out my closest neighbour still has the cb500 that he bought new! We’re going to get it running. The front brake pad was totally stuck in the caliper and could not find my fitting to pump it out with a grease gun. Made another one (my small lathe helps). “Easy out”.

[newday777]

Nice John

[BenelliSEI]

Nice John

Stu; My old one was the end fitting from a metal brake pipe, threaded for a grease nipple. It was too small and easy to lose…..  I think I'll paint this one yellow or orange!

[newday777]

I can see where that small end could be easy to misplace or loose.
What did you use this time?

[BenelliSEI]

I can see where that small end could be easy to misplace or loose.
What did you use this time?

It’s a long bolt with the correct size and pitch thread. Gun drilled it and then tapped the end for the grease nipple.

[newday777]

I thought that might have been what you did.

[dave500]

make a few for sale?

[BenelliSEI]

make a few for sale?

Dave….. You can whip one up in 10 mins.!

[Honda Hansel]

COOL TOOL. Try one of these “Laser Chain Alignment Tool”. I ordered mine through Marcparnes.com but they are made in Germany so check for your nearest distributor. It takes seconds to use and when I checked my three “riders” (cb750K1,K3, & the Varadero) they were all slightly skewed, despite my best efforts with strings, sticks, and squares. Will be curious to see if my sprockets and chains last longer, assuming I live long enough!

I want one just like it.

[Stev-o]

COOL TOOL. Try one of these “Laser Chain Alignment Tool”. I ordered mine through Marcparnes.com but they are made in Germany so check for your nearest distributor. It takes seconds to use and when I checked my three “riders” (cb750K1,K3, & the Varadero) they were all slightly skewed, despite my best efforts with strings, sticks, and squares. Will be curious to see if my sprockets and chains last longer, assuming I live long enough!

I want one just like it.

I hope I dont need one!

[BenelliSEI]

Steve….. I was surprised. All mine were a bit “off”. I’ll post pics next time I use it.

[willbird]

I showed the Harbor Freight workbench earlier that they had on sale for $139, I like it more every day :-). I really like WIHA tools and having that to the left of where I type gives me stuff right at hand when I need it in the house. Typically "cool tools" I end up with maybe three of, one for the workshop which is in my detached garage, one for work, and one for here at my desk. The work stuff sometimes I need two as well, one for my desk and one for my roll around tool box that I take to whatever we are working on.



This drawer will get fleshed out a bit more yet I think.

Bill

[Stev-o]

I really like WIHA tools...

Very nice and organized, a must for tools otherwise you just waste time searching [for that 10mm!]

Not familiar with WIHA, are they JIS?

[BenelliSEI]

Years ago I missed out on a beautiful vintage wooden machine at chest, at a local auction. All the corners had brass covers and it was all dove tailed together. Bill’s bench reminds me of that!

[willbird]

I really like WIHA tools...

Very nice and organized, a must for tools otherwise you just waste time searching [for that 10mm!]

Not familiar with WIHA, are they JIS?

These are not JIS...well hmm did a search and found some interesting info.


https://rtstools.com/jis-vs-phillips-screwdrivers-and-where-to-buy-a-jis-screwdriver/

The reason these companies have changed to DIN 5260/ISO 8764-1 is because the new standard is designed to work in both Phillips and JIS screws. For the most part that is true, it does work on both screw types, but like anything meant to work with multiple things, the middle ground means compromise. The JIS standard screwdriver will always outperform a DIN/ISO screw driver in the worst of conditions on a JIS screw, and the same is true in reverse.

I bought a set of "JIS" screwdrivers that have wood handles, not remembering the brand now, quite likely they were linked from here in a thread somewhere.

[willbird]

Years ago I missed out on a beautiful vintage wooden machine at chest, at a local auction. All the corners had brass covers and it was all dove tailed together. Bill’s bench reminds me of that!

Gerstner was a popular brand of wood tool and diemakers and machinists boxes. I have a few older ones that were my dads but they are very well worn. The oddly proportioned drawer is for the Machineries Handbook that was something we used all the time, replaced by google these days. Some companies gave a newly minted Journeyman a new Gerstner tool box as a graduation gift.

https://gerstnerusa.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorVtSOlPm2FnboKX7nUwdPNwQbaosY746sjdR3AawxO3Xh3bKAB

There was a furniture company in the town I grew up in that made machinists boxes in it's early days.
https://sites.google.com/site/theguideforwoodmachinistchests/pg-90-the-pilliod-lumber-co

Harbor Freight again has a sort of machinist wood tool box, the best I can say of it is that from a distance it looks kind of like the real thing LOL.
https://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/c7f358f04aec81e7c5e0be4c56edf041/6/2/62585_W3.jpg

Machinists and tool and die makers used blocks of "stuff" that was supposed to prevent rust, maybe it was camphor

Modern uses include camphor as a plasticizer for nitrocellulose (see Celluloid), as a moth repellent, as an antimicrobial substance, in embalming, and in fireworks. Solid camphor releases fumes that form a rust-preventative coating, and is therefore stored in tool chests to protect tools against rust.

One thing the wood tool boxes did was maybe ease the temperature swings that might have happened a lot with more primitive heating in many work areas.

[BenelliSEI]

That Pilliod looks a lot like the one I missed….. still looking!

[willbird]

This is cool, for the make rather than buy crowd the slots measure .342" wide and worked on every quick change male I had on an air tool at hand.

[willbird]

My dad dearly loved that Dymo labelmaker with those black labels that have brown polka dots, he labeled everything and hell that was middle 1970's so they have stood the test of time.



This one is missing 3 drawer pulls which is a PITA, thinking about just adding some ones similar to the other box, might have a look around the web to see if I can find bits. The boxes still work perfectly though they have collected junk in the tops of them, not junk but too good to throw away and perhaps not good enough to keep LOL.

[BenelliSEI]

Nice cabinets!