Topic: Cool Tools.

[70CB750]

I also found this pic of my extended boom cherry picker. It can go 10' high or through the trailer door to pick a transmission. It greatly reduces the lifting load so common sense must prevail.

My son and I used to get all the gals in the house to stand on the back of the hoist for that stunt. They were not pleased to be used as counter weights!

I flipped my trailer once while using a crane to unload logs.  The crane is mounted on the trailer. 

[Gurp]

There is a thread like this over on garage journal and damn the money it's convinced me to spend😂😂😂

[Don R]

 Here's a pic of the Hossfeld type tubing bender I built. The first go around was made with 1 1/16" between the bolt holes, they should have been 1.1" I had to rebuild it. Bad blueprint online. It was like pulling teeth to get the guy to fix it.

[70CB750]

Here's a pic of the Hossfeld type tubing bender I built. The first go around was made with 1 1/16" between the bolt holes, they should have been 1.1" I had to rebuild it. Bad blueprint online. It was like pulling teeth to get the guy to fix it.

Beautiful work.  I use HF copy for my fabrication. 

[Alan F.]

I just spotted this one:

[BenelliSEI]

I just spotted this one:

Very clever.

[Don R]

 The meter my brother gave me because he doesn't know anything about electricity. I'll have to get a pic of the craftsman dwell meter and timing light a guy gave me that he got in an abandoned house cleanout.

[newday777]

The meter my brother gave me because he doesn't know anything about electricity. I'll have to get a pic of the craftsman dwell meter and timing light a guy gave me that he got in an abandoned house cleanout.

Nice.
My dad had one similar that I ended up with. I forgot to pull the battery out and it leaked...... I was bummed.

[RAFster122s]

Nice one Don, a good analog meter is expensive these days..the Radio Shack ones like yours were decent enough... pretty accurate.

[newday777]

This morning I drove 2 hrs each way to buy a slightly used HF 56" tool box. It's replacing a old rough, wood cabinet workbench I was using. I'm stoked at the width of it and to have the tools within reach of the lift once I transfer them....
He sold it to me for $540.

[Alan F.]

Good score Stu.

I've still got my first Radio Shack meter packed away somewhere, I haven't seen it in decades.

[BenelliSEI]

Nice cabinet, Stu.

Here’s my dwell meter. No name, “Made in USA”, no less. I’ve had it so long, I can’t remember where I got it!

[willbird]

Today I used this MAC tool kit my son gave me. One of my wife’s broken appliances (melted wire where it joined a spade connector) was held together with Philips screws that have only THREE slots..... WTF is that all about? Looked through the box and there’s was a full set X four sizes of these weird bits!

Very handy set.

I in general like Wiha tools, but this set here has saved my bacon a few times.
https://a.co/d/cwtWFvT

Notices however that it does NOT contain the 3 slot bits you mentioned.

Apparently that is referred to as a "Y type profile" and this set has one bit.
https://a.co/d/iG4Nsan

Y-Type
The Y-type profile, also known as tri-point or trigram, is typically used to prevent access to the inside of equipment. It is used, for example, to secure batteries in Apple laptops or iPhones from the 7th generation onwards. Characteristic features are the three wings that meet at the center of the profile. Commonly used sizes are Y 2.0, Y 2.5, Y 3.0, Y 4, Y 5 and Y 6.

https://www.wiha.com/int/en/service/knowledge/screw-profile-guide/#:~:text=Commonly%20used%20sizes%20are%20Y,Y%205%20and%20Y%206.

[RAFster122s]

Cheap and dirty security bits set at Harbor Freight has allowed many to defeat security bits previously blocking them...for better or worse...

They have things like WiFi detectors as well,these can be used by thrives to detect WiFi cameras and security systems.
So, sometimes things with intended usage for something else get co-op'd by nefarious types for bad intent.

I haven't shadowed the doors of a HF in a couple years

[BenelliSEI]

Cheap, yellow zip ties. Learned this shop practice working at Fossman Racing (one of the few Canadians racing in Trans Am in the mid ‘70’s in a GM Camaro, Peter Wiseman). The guy that did most of the work on the cars always insisted we flag any job that was not 100% complete, including torquing all the fasteners and safety wire! There were three mechanics on the car (I mostly cleaned tools, the floor, trailer etc.) and they all did it.

When my two sons started working on my race car, we did the same. Even today, I chuckle when I walk through Chris’ home shop and spot a few hanging on his latest project! The rear pads are missing from my grandson’s RM85. Spot the ties?

[dave500]

found an old drill bit sharpener other day,i set it up and did most of my larger bits with it,worked great better than i can do by free hand,anyway i broke the drill clamp lug off the thing just thumbing it tight,cheap porous alloy?i liked the tool so much i spent time making a fix for it,all good again!

[BenelliSEI]

found an old drill bit sharpener other day,i set it up and did most of my larger bits with it,worked great better than i can do by free hand,anyway i broke the drill clamp lug off the thing just thumbing it tight,cheap porous alloy?i liked the tool so much i spent time making a fix for it,all good again!

Nice tool! I found something similar in my Dad’s shop. It looked like and old school electric pencil sharpener. Sharpened all my fried bits and then forgot about it. It might have been a Dremel?

[Don R]

 My craftsman tools. Were left behind in a repo house, the cleanout guy thought of me when he found them.

[BenelliSEI]

Don…. I have the same timing light! Good one.

[newday777]

I got a similar craftsman timing light and dwell meter in a tool box I bought from a friend's parent's estate sale. I have both out in California from buying them new in the 70s.

[Don R]

Don…. I have the same timing light! Good one.

I have another one except it has a plastic pickup, my buddy melted it a little checking timing on a 12/71 blown big block Chevy. There was some serious exhaust heat.
  His boost gauge broke and he kept adding blower overdrive, not realizing it was slowing down due to excessive boost pulling the cylinders out of the Chevrolet factory 454 block.

[Gurp]

My craftsman tools. Were left behind in a repo house, the cleanout guy thought of me when he found them.

My neighbor a ew houses down junks and does house cleanouts for a living. He has given me 3 dwell meters to date. I think I'm up to 6 or 7 now. Only one ever gets used....

[dave500]

my car has a T180 or 3L30 as their known as stateside,they are known as "trimatic"here,anyway the vacuum modulator has a weirdo thin hex thats an inch and 3/16,didnt have an open end spanner that size i could grind flat so made up one from flat bar i had handy,i used a 1/2 to 3/8 drive adaptor i had spare and cut the 3/8 male shank off,bored a hole in my super duper new spanner to take the female 1/2 drive and welded it in,all for a tool ill only use once!i couldve used big multi grips but i felt like tinkering around and drinking a few beers in the shed!

[BenelliSEI]

Dave….. Nice one. I have made a few “specials” like that too. Always wanted to make a small peg board and then label each one. Anyone else will think they are just junk!

[BenelliSEI]

Can’t find the old thread and stuck this elsewhere. Reposting here…

Used this one this morning. This “Tilt-Box” is sold in fancy wood working tool section. Has small super magnets on three sides and is used for measuring the true angle of a saw blade in a table saw, chop saw, etc. It can display a true reading or you can set it to level zero on any machine bed and then measure the angle of the cutting blade or tool head in relation to the table.

I use it all over the place, (today was the static angle of a brake light controller) but mostly on the race car to measure camber at each corner. Extraordinary technology that gets less expensive every day..,…