/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I ground down a croissant wrench so I didn't have to buy the special tool to get the supercharger off a jetski.

>>1745727

>>1745725
I welded a hammer to a crescent wrench because ... idk. Alcoholism?
Pic isn't mine, but f you've seen one hammer wrench, you've seen them all.

>>1745750

>>1745767
Damn, I shoulda gone that route.

>>1745767
Looks like a birth defect.

>>1745750
Was it legitimately more convenient tho? Or did it become the retard tool that was more for looking at?

>>1745725
Does that thing streamline attention-seeking?
Is that what happens when Freddy Krueger bangs Bob Ross?
Is it a PAINtbrush?
Alright, thats all I got...

Gonna dump a bunch of photos of tools I've built over the years...

Giant hole-saw to go on a 3 point tractor post hole digger to cut through a giant tree root...

Pallet breaker "pry bar" for disassembling pallets.

Roller screed for concrete.

Cheater bar for bigger wrenches that don't fit into a reasonable sized pipe.

Pin spanner wrench for bulkhead fittings on poly tanks.

leaf blower powered vacuum backpack.

Sheet metal storage rolling cart.

Concrete planter form...

Hitch mounted cherry picker

Press brake

Paint strainer holder for holding it off the sides of another funnel for filtering used hydraulic oil through. If you just drop your strainer in a plastic funnel the sides of it will stick to the plastic and you only filter through the very tip making it slow as hell...

Oil pump wrench.

If you grab the top and twist to tighten the Tuthill style barrel pumps down then you'll fuck up your gasket. So I built this wrench so I can torque them down tight from the bottom.

Electric fence wire roller built out of a 2 stroke post hole digger powerhead.

Worm gear box put onto engine stands to make them a thousand times better to use.

Tractor split stand.

Sheet metal lifting clamp

>>1745841
>>1745847
nice

>>1745847
Every truck should come stock from the factory with a cherry picker boom installed

>>1745855
ChuckE is that you?

>>1745856
That's not sheet metal. That's plate and you can buy a knurl clamp for 40 bucks homie. You know it's 2020 right?

Out in my shop so I'll dump some homemade tools too.

Hot wire cutter for Styrofoam (for doing aluminium casting)

I've got a bunch of these. Rollers from a treadmill, what for placing beside chopsaws etc for cutting long stock

Best shop vac around

Last one, favourite tool. Kindling chopper made from a large saw blade with a recycled hdpe handle. Use it every day. Love it.

>>1745832
It's a novelty. They're too heavy and the one on the right is not only is too long, but also needs a rubber handle to absorb the blow.

>>1745725
>pic
Back scratchers aren't really tools though.

>>1745847
How does that thing work?

>>1745725
My grandfathers invention

>>1745899
>ChuckE is that you?

I am insulted and offended...

>>1745906
>That's not sheet metal. That's plate and you can buy a knurl clamp for 40 bucks homie. You know it's 2020 right?

Its 11ga. Right on the blurry edge of sheet metal and plate boundary. I usually call 1/4" thick and higher plate.

>>1745967
>How does that thing work?

If you're asking how well it works, then it works quite well, if you're asking the specifics about how it works, it is basically a cherry picker upright that I took off of a used cherry picker I bought for cheap and then welded a piece of heavy pipe and flange to the bottom of it, on the bottom part that goes into the hitch there is a matching flange and a larger pipe that it is sleeved into. Some grease in the joint and a 5/8" hitch pin to pin it from rotating when you don't want it to swivel.

Last pic is chain and hitch storage to keep it somewhat organized and keep that shit from cluttering up the shop.

Bought this table from an auction. The top was long warped 4x4's kinda like a butcher block. So I built this little sled for a router to flatten it out and then put plywood over the recessed area to bring it back flush and then sheet metal over the entire thing when I was done to make a rolling work bench.

>>1745979
An adapter that lets me use Makita batteries on Skill cordless tools.

>>1745982
An adapter that lets me use Makita Batteries on a Stout Cordless tube cutter.

Finished bench.

Hacked a 2 inch square washer in half and drill two 1/4 holes in each side so I could put threaded rod through them to press on the shift linkage arm.

>>1745983
Bearing puller

Collet holder for r8 shank stuff

>>1745837
>>1745838
>>1745841
>>1745925
Mr. Deswal?

Little "land plane" for our garden. Hooks onto a hitch receiver I put on my Troybilt horse tiller.

Pressure tester for an international oil cooler.

Little mini-trencher I threw together... didn't work the greatest though.

>>1745725
12 volt battery charger

deal I built for bending rod to a specific shape. I bend thousands of these a year.

>>1745999
small 12 volt dc generator

>>1745984
Out of sight my man!

>this thread

>>1745996
maybe better for stump removal?

>>1745980
Is it tho? :)

>>1745844
>that alice frame

>>1746045
>maybe better for stump removal?

Nah, those wheel type stump grinders with the carbide teeth would work way better than this. I could have probably made it work better as a trencher by turning most of the teeth the other way so they were cutting on the edge of the tooth and just having a couple paddle ones to pull the dirt out of the trench. I ended up getting a Ditch Witch 2300 though so I haven't messed with the home made trencher since.

>>1746060
>Is it tho? :)
Hell no that guy is a doofus. He can lay a good weld bead, but his design of stuff is mostly shit. If you look at his stuff he just slaps flat pieces in and welds them up, whereas I like to engineer my stuff a bit more streamlined so it doesn't look like ass when it is finished.

I built this little mini baler to make those tiny straw bales for our wedding reception when my wife and I got married...

>>1746000
>I bend thousands of these a year
but why

Little filter wrench out of one of those throw away spark plug wrenches that they send with every small engine you get.

Good thread.

>>1746109
>I like to engineer my stuff a bit more streamlined

>>1746115
>but why

To make these gated pipe plug stops that holds a plug in the end of the line. My uncle owns a place that sells a shit load of PVC pipe to farmers, so I build these and sell them to him so he can sell them at his business.

I turn my 4 way tire irons into a hold down for the spare tire in the carriers I make on my headache racks.

Crimper I made for the hydraulic press to crimp battery cable ends and some hose ferrules.

A small vice mounted stand to turn my portable pipe cutter in to a small bandsaw. It uses an 18volt power supply and foot pedal to power it.

>>1746131
What bandsaw/pipe cutter is that?
The setup is pretty cool.

Can crusher

>>1746154
Stout, they actually make a stand for theirs but this is an older model and I didn't want to spend $175

>>1746131

Nice. I have a few of those 4x6 bandsaws kicking around that I got for dirt cheap that I want to turn into dedicated vertical saws.

>>1746163
many brands make a stand for some of their saws

>>1746163
I carefully drilled a hole in the trigger to lock it on with a small bolt, then converted one of the battery packs to connect to an 18v 30 amp power supply that is powered from a harbor freight foot switch.

The saw is held in place by small bolts going through simpson strong ties in places that I made sure no wires ran or would interfere with the blade. Pieces of aluminum bus bar keep it from wobbling at the bottom.

Mine should be even easier to build since the 4x6 saws are already powered by a 110v AC motor. I just need to get er done.

>>1745984
We throw away those wheels at work all the time. Ours cost about 120-400 a wheel and castor. I've acquired a lot over my time here.

>>1746346

Freebies are the best!

Solar powered fence charger. Got tired of the small solar powered ones with their shitty tiny lead acid sealed batteries so i built my own with a 20w solar panel, battery charge controller, a $20 12v lawnmower from Wal-mart and a fence charger made to run off a 12v battery. Made 5 of them identical.

>>1746001
that's a nice post-apocalyptic ipod charger

>>1745845
Did you see a sign that said sheet metal storage?

>>1746127
Can you open a bottle of onions with this?

>>1746377
thats some sweet panel
how does it deal with condensation?

>>1745837
nice thing to plow through a field of zombies, or protesters. depending on what happens next.

>>1745852
I can hear Darwin screaming

>>1746109
if it works it fucking works, no luxourious horses needed.o

>>1745981
I've made something like that. I made it for smaller boards but no reason I couldn't scale it up later.

>>1746622
>Did you see a sign that said sheet metal storage?

Wat? I just store sheets of 11 gauge and thicker stuff on there and it's handy cause I can roll it around the shop if needed and not dedicate a certain spot for it.

>>1746729
>Can you open a bottle of onions with this?

Wtf kinda question is this? Of course it could!

>>1746737
>thats some sweet panel
how does it deal with condensation?

Are you talking about condensation on the solar panel itself, or condensation inside the ammo can? I was worried for a bit about the batteries needing to vent inside the ammo can, but so far it hasn't been an issue. I run them for the winter months when our cattle are on field pasture to keep them away from the gated pipe, but after we kick them out in the spring I pull the batteries and use them on lawnmowers and other small equipment.

If you're talking about condensation in the panel itself, I've never seen it get any behind the glass.

>>1746749
>nice thing to plow through a field of zombies, or protesters. depending on what happens next.

I dunno how well that would work, as it is on a 3 point post hole digger hanging downward.

>>1746763
>I can hear Darwin screaming

Meh it's actually not dangerous at all as far as I'm concerned. I have an arbor the whole thing mounts on that drops into a mount for a hitch receiver, so it's anchored to the pickup when I'm pulling in wire. A hell of a lot better than cranking that shit in by hand!

>>1746812
>I've made something like that. I made it for smaller boards but no reason I couldn't scale it up later.

Nice. Yeah I was scratching my head for a bit trying to think of how to get those warped 4x4's flattened out to the table sides. Great minds think alike Anon!

Picture is of the chunk of root I cut out with the post hole digger holesaw.

>>1745932
these are neat anon. thanks for sharing

>>1746824
i really thought that thing was going horizontal.

>>1745841
You got another pic of this, one to show how it’s put together? That’s handy as fuck.

>>1746001
And what is this made of?

>>1747114
>You got another pic of this, one to show how it’s put together? That’s handy as fuck.

Just a couple pieces of angle spaced off of a pipe and welded in place. I basically used like a 3/4" thick piece of flat iron as a spacer, clamped the angles to the pipe, welded them up, and then knocked out the spacer and welded the inside as best I could.

And of course you gotta label your tools!

>>1747114
>And what is this made of?
The engine is from an old Echo string trimmer, the generator is a 24 volt wheel chair motor. The control box is something I made.

The one thing it lacks to make it useful is a governor.

>>1747118
>>1747120
You should patent this cunt. I saw a combination wrench cheater bar somewhere on sale once but I can’t remember what the design was.

>>1745841
Fucking genius.

I taped a fork to a closet rod to get our xmas lights up and down because I don’t need a ladder all year. But i kinda do

>>1747784
I taped a pair of needle nose pliers to a to a piece of 1x stick so I could turn the water shut off valve off without putting my hands into a fire ant mound.

>>1745841
Thats a keeper

Made 12 of these sawhorses too... Lightweight, sturdy, stackable, replacable sacrificial board to cut into.

And my sawhorse building jig that I kept in case I need another dozen sometime.

>>1747855
Saved for future copying since I need to make some soon. Thanks for posting!

>>1745725
My dad has a toolbox drawer of heat bent wrenches. I told him i could reharden and nickel plate them but he said they've never failed yet so what's the point. Meh.

The best one is probably a wrench he made in 1990. Had a 1988 delta 88 olds and blew a freeze plug out. Him and his cousing stared at it and then his cousin just called GM. They said you START by pulling the motor or transmission. Dad spent an hour monkeying qith a couple of wrenches, a torch, and a welder and an hour after that we were driving down the road laughing at GM.

Looking back on it the crooked cocksuckers probably just wanted to charge us for an engine pull when their mechanics already had the tool. If not we should have set up a workshop and chinese labor camp.

>>1745749
>not naming it French Wrench...

>>1745832
Probably both since he either drilled out the hammer or lost half the adjustment in the wrench

>>1745837
THIS is diy my man. Good fucking idea

>>1745854
Fucking love it

>>1745895
NO SHIT ANON. AMEN

>>1745906
>$40

VS

>a 6 pack and some scrap.

>>1745932
How you melt the hdpe?

>>1746000
For what?

>>1746113
Badass man. Now use it to crush beer cans into squares

>>1746125
The mutherfuckers should all come from the factory like that. Every time i find a junk old 4 way i make these and sell them on fb for 25 buckss

>>1746156
YUS

>>1747170
Ziptie anon. Slide on for run slide of for not run

>>1747184
No shit right? I'm already sketching one out for my buddy. There are some conections that need a 36 but the fucking jaws dont fit. Jumping on a 10 foot piece of pipe with a steel 24 should do it. Kek

>>1747847
Every man tied to grid water needs a home made wrench you can use standing up for this

>>1748231
doesn't work that way. needs to maintain at least 16 from the DC motor which can generate at least 24 so that the buck converter can generate the 12 volts. problem is droop when a load connects and over revs when load removed.

>>1747174
Depending on where you live.

US had one already out there many many moons ago and wasn't taken care of after expire date, had to dig for that really deep lol. but idk how patents work in US but here its just free for the market if the patent has been expired.

>>1746824
>Wat?
I think it was a Pulp Fiction reference.

>>1745846
Nice

>>1747877
>Saved for future copying since I need to make some soon. Thanks for posting!

Sure thing Anon! I like giving people ideas for how to do things more efficiently!

>>1748206
>THIS is diy my man. Good fucking idea

Thanks! It got the job done and I still have it in case I run into the same problem in the future.

>>1748212
>Fucking love it

Thanks Anon. Yeah much better than cranking them around with only a swivel and a pipe handle like most engine stands.

>>1748223
>For what?

I already alluded to that earlier in the thread. Those red "plug stops" as they are called on the back of that old flatbed pickup. They hold the plug in the end of a run of gated pipe for irrigation. My uncle has a place that sells tons of PVC pipe to farmers and I make them for him to sell at his business.

>>1748226
>Badass man. Now use it to crush beer cans into squares

Haha. I should try that sometime, take the cans from my other can crusher and see if I can actually bale them up. Would probably require hydraulic pressure instead of just air pressure for that task though...

>>1748228
The mutherfuckers should all come from the factory like that. Every time i find a junk old 4 way i make these and sell them on fb for 25 buckss.

I agree. I've done countless of them for all our pickups. Every flatbed I put on from this day forward will have a spare mounted on the headache rack with a 4 way like that and a hi-lift jack mounted to it. If you don't have it when you need it you're shit out of luck.

>>1748278
>I think it was a Pulp Fiction reference.

Ah makes sense. Never seen it so I wouldn't know.

>>1748292
>Nice

Thanks Anon. Have only poured one planter so far with some leftover concrete but it came out pretty good. Will have to try again with something with smaller aggregate. I'd like to eventually have my wife make them and sell them on the side. Concrete planters could be worth some bucks to the right people!

>>1748221
in the fridge

>>1747855
Yeahbut... where's the jig you used to make the jig? See where I'm going with this dawg?

>>1749740
>Yeahbut... where's the jig you used to make the jig? See where I'm going with this dawg?

Shit... you got me... the jig is up!

man i wish i wasnt stuck in my moms apartment
t. 20 year old with lots of ideas

>>1748221
In ze oven

>>1745750
Rip hand

>>1745856
just get a plate grab bro

>>1745750
From 'fuck this' 'alright you cheeky cunt' in less than a second.

>>1745767
>>1745750
From 'fuck this' to 'alright you cheeky cunt' in less than a second.

>>1745835
it's a taintbrush
for your wirey undercarriage.

>>1750577
Maybe get an idea of getting the fuck out of there?

>>1745987
That is nifty. I tried doing something similar with a floor jack rather than a bottle jack. Ended up just getting the bearing pressed out.

Usually just jigs that I quickly lose. I'll find them eventually, along with left socks and my will to live.

>>1745984
Wow that turned out great!

>>1751791
Thanks Anon! Yeah it has been pretty handy for different projects outside the shop. I put a piece of reciever tubing on the corner of the bench opposite the vise. Need to get a few different attachments made to go in there and hold a little ring roller and a small shear that I restored.

If I build the attachment right I should be able to line up the jaws of the shear with the table top and support the long part of the work with the table surface so stuff isn't flopping around... Will probably also try to incorporate some kind of arm for a stop so if you are cutting a bunch of stuff the same size you can slide it to the stop, and then cut it without having to measure each one.

>>1748203
Fwrench

>>1745841
>>1747118
>>1747120
Dude this is brilliant.

350# air can crusher, does tall boys too. Great party tool in the shop when the beers come out.

>>1752252
>350# air can crusher, does tall boys too. Great party tool in the shop when the beers come out.

I have tons of homemade tools, but can crusher is first that comes to mind because it's the funnest. Working on a FEL for my Kubota B1550HST. 72" pin height same as a factory LA805 FEL. Keeping it simple, all 3/16" wall 2" tube, 3/8" for cylinder brackets and 5/16" for every other bracket and gusset.

Only cost me the rams and joystick, steel is all cutoffs and scrap. Going to make a homebrew quicktach system that makes it primarily a pallet style front, with a bucket that pins into 2-1/2" .250" wall square tube recievers with 2" pegs. Use 2" .375" wall square tube for the forks. Kind of hard to explain, I always do napkin drawings or build from memory. Cut up beer cases are my primary drawing material, and get lost easily.

I have 2 1970s Case 444 tractors, built a TON of implements for them, 4' box scraper, 5' scraper blade, 26" ripper blade for trench lines and ripping roots, modified a single furrow 12" moldboard plow into a double furrow 16", and more I can't even think of. Bought this Kubota and a 1977 Case 644 factory loader tractor (considered a subcompact). Smaller than a Home depot John Deere, but has a 16HP Onan twin. Has a 3-point hitch, mid lift for cutting deck, and the front end loader can comfortably lift 800# with a proper wieght box or good box blade on the 3-point.

Start for the 5' box blade for the Kubota. Ripper shanks are made from an old 8' road grader blade and some 2x5/8" AR400 flatbar. Also planning on making a box planer down the road. Brush hog I don't think I'll make myself, probably buy a super cheap 6-7' rotary mower (since 4-5' ones goes for $900+ around here, and 6-8' go for between scrap price up to $400) and chop it down to 5' to do what I need.

Also need to make a roll bar for this thing like my other tractors.

>>1752258

Worked fantastic for my last one for the smaller case tractors, this one is even beefier so I'm sure it will handle whatever I can throw at it. Excited to have the 4x4 and diesel 20HP, be able to hook roots and pull them right out of the ground with the box blade.

>>1745725
Bought and gutted a vibrator and rigged it up to a dissection probe for mechanically stirring. I saved maybe 2$

I've had to 3dprint screwdriver security bits because I couldn't wait to have them delivered

Took an old roller mill that I bought at an auction and put it on a trailer, then added the pto shaft. It had a pulley mounted on there and was meant to be belt driven by a motor or engine.

Then of course if you have a grinder ya gotta have an auger to get the ground corn where you want it to go!

Took a little 4" auger and mounted it to another little trailer and made it so you can adjust the angle to whatever you desire...

Now with a grinder and an auger you gotta have a little grain bin too!

Built this out of an old fuel tank and some scrap steel I had lying around.

All painted up. I added the sight glass so you can see how much corn is left.

Gate action...

Rigged up this dolly to move barrels of oil around. Just a length of cable with swaged ends that you can loop over the top of the barrel and then lever it back.

Also extended the back some to give more leverage.

Our old 24v jump pack had a cheapass blow molded case that was cracking and falling apart so I built this new steel housing for it and swapped over all the guts.

Complete with a removable back panel to access/change the batteries out.

Some simple ramps to get things over the lip into the shop... I use them to roll cherry pickers and engine stands in and out.

Basically just a rectangle tube that I split longways at an angle to make the ramp. Added a spreader bar to keep it from folding over.

>>1752647
I want it straight up in the air. In the bin.

>mfw corn fountain.

>>1752258
Just to like they do out in western kansas man. Get half a dozen old truck rear ends buil 7 foot blades for them bolted to the yoke. Hitch it on a 4x4 and haul ass

2 liter bottle rocket launcher...

Old propane tank, three removable legs for transporting it, and an air cylinder operated ball valve for remote operation and fast valve opening.

Valve open...

Pilot control valve and handle... With it in the neutral position it holds the launcher valve closed and fills the tank. With the control handle lever pulled it yanks the launcher ball valve open.

>>1745725
Don't have a picture, but I had a piece of quarter round (for extended reach) duct taped to a piece of baseboard (for width) for cleaning eaves trough. Was about 14' long.

>>1745979
Interesting. All kinds of leverage going on.

>>1753035
IT works just fine but vice grips are less complicated.

>>1752639
And it worked? Bullshit.

>>1745767
The hammer might restrict where you can get your wrench tho

>>1753857
>using a crescent wrench in a tight spot
Not possible anyways, for the kind of work a crescent gets, might as well put a hammer head on it

>>1745934
thumb detecting nut fucker innit?

>>1745979
This is definitely a bdsm device.

>>1754418
X-TREME NIPPLE CLAMP!!!!!

Didnt have the right sized bit, so i cut out of some 1/8" steel sheet

>>1754419
You do you.

>>1754421
isn't that a 3-jaw keyed chuck though

>>1745725
I bet you could remove a tumor with that

>>1754421
saved :)

>>1745982
Makita, LOL
East European detected

>>1755336
nope southwest US

>>1754421
kek

>>1749839
and gone

>>1745844
do you catch ghosts with it?

>>1755589
kek

>>1745981
>>1746812
don't have a good picture of mine in action (never found a real use for it, have a good sized planer), but there's an actual product like this.

>>1746127

I totally misread that as "horse fetuses" and needed a double-take.

>>1752252
all fun and games till someone puts their fist in it. would like to see desu

>>1756039

>>1755589
>do you catch ghosts with it?

Actually yes, thanks for asking!

>>1755947
>I totally misread that as "horse fetuses" and needed a double-take.

Well, I suppose it could work for that too...

>>1745991
W-who?

>>1756213

Some hack youtuber guy... cause apparently anyone that makes homemade tools has to have a hacktacular youtube channel.

>>1745725
Is that Freddy Krugers paint brush

>all those hammer-wrenches
>not a single knife-wrench

>>1756653
I’m working on a tomahawk one.

>>1756653

>all those hammer-wrenches
>not a single knife-wrench

Built one, Went to loosen rusty bolt, cut all my fingers off.

Thanks Anon...

>>1745841
I could have use this on so many jobs. Patent that mother fucker and sell it. That's brilliant

Blow out soon comrades

>>1745841
fap fap fap

>>1745930
do you have it on blow instead of suck?

>>1754421
>>1754431
Yeah what's going on ehre

Built this to pull 3 point arm bushings into International 86 series tractors...

This is a spring compressor to work on the PTO clutches on International tractors. You have to compress some springs in order to remove/reinstall a large snap ring.

A few fan clutch wrenches I built for some of our pickups. Most of the time a standard wrench is too thick to fit...

Oil filter wrench for a Toyota Rav4... Broke one of those cheap pot metal type that fits onto the base of cartridge filters trying to get the housing off, so I built this socket instead.

Another angle.

Got tired of fucking up my aluminum bodied sharpies in my pocket. Top one is what they end up looking like after a few weeks, so I built the housing on the bottom. Sharpie slips in and I applied a drop of super glue to keep it in place. When it runs out of ink/dries out I can either unscrew the top and replace it with a refill from another marker, or if the threaded aluminum part sticking out happens to break I can heat it up a bit and push it out (put a drive hole in the bottom) and put an entire new marker body in there.

Some odds and ends drive bushings I built for driving out cylinder liners, cam bushings, etc... I have a drive bar too, but I loaned it to my uncle and he hasn't brought it back yet...

Injector tester/cleaning rig I built. I plug the cigarette lighter end into a jump pack, and then that momentary switch is used to actuate the injector. I also built that little cup that goes over the end of injector that inserts into the fuel rail and can pressurize it with a can of carb cleaner or brake cleaner and then test the spray pattern and help clean gunk out of them.

Welding lead reel I built for my service truck.

>>1745844
Do you vacuum leaves with this? What is this for?

>>1745996
RIP legs

>>1758787
>Do you vacuum leaves with this? What is this for?

I built it to vacuum dust and dirt off the floors of the shop. Doesn't quite have the suction I wish it did, probably need to fiddle with the impeller and inlet size to get it to have more suction.

>>1758789
>RIP legs

Nah, it was harder on your arms trying to hold that beast back!

>>1750577
Get a blue collar job, learn a trade or a skill, go to your nearest metal working factory and ask for a job, stop being a nigger

>>1745844
This was a Spongebob episode

>>1746117
Based. I tried doing riveted mail using a chinesium Whitney punch but chinesium gets chowdered up too fast

>>1748252
Add a big 'ol flywheel to it.

Love this thread

>>1745846
>>1748322
Do you have a picture of the finished planter?

>>1745929
They make roller stands but that looks like a nice diy version

>>1750577
Have ideas too. But I live on my own in an apartment. I can do some stuff, but a lot of the other stuff I can't till I can find a place to work on bigger and louder shit. I can rent a garage here but they are all rented out and they have no power.

>>1761165

I don't have a pic saved, but I will try to remember to get a pic today.

>>1745849
underrated

>>1745725
I needed some micro fishing lures.

>>1761733

>>1747118
>>1747120
+1 for patenting. Name is 10/10

>>1761734
Same device, but with wood burner attachment using a nichrome ribbon and mica from a toaster in a pen with a clothes pin used as a foot pedal switch.

>>1761738
Temp weed eater blade made from HDD and CD drive sheet metal.

>>1761740
Ghetto steering wheel for ground vehicles in Arma II.

>>1761741
Vacuum sealer pump for when the electric is out and I'm in the middle of preserving and packing food.

>>1761743

>>1761744
Needed a spanner for an angle grinder.

>>1761748
Vent hood so I could do stuff inside. It is made from a microwave oven's sheet metal and its exhaust fan.

>>1761751
Beefier spot welder for farm related things.

>>1761753
Bread board before I ordered one.

>>1761755
Very temporary soldering tips.

>>1761757
Wifi needed a boost through a few walls and 300 feet of air.

>>1761759
I needed a mallet. Being made of plum wood, it is still going strong 4 years later.

>>1761763
...I needed to trigger /diy/ one time.

I also needed holes of a certain size: >>>1755439

>>1761765
Locks don't pick themselves.

>>1761767
I needed healthy lungs so I attached a shop vac to this. The t-shirt gets wetted down since summer is hot and sparks are also hot.

>>1761768
I needed to make cob bricks for part of a temporary furnace. Easy wooden rectangle. I find it odd I have more photos of the tools I make than of the things I make with those tools.

>>1761770
I needed something to power small devices and recharge small batteries.

>>1761772
I needed to carve things, so I made a knife carving set.

>>1761774
I needed to make some fishing flies.

>>1761775

>>1761777
Pulling T for submersible pump made from $30 of gas pipe. Used twice.

>>1761165

Here's a pic of the planter I made so far. Like I said above that was leftover concrete from pouring a slab and we were fucking exhausted, so with a proper mix with smaller aggregate and maybe some concrete plasticizer in there it would probably turn out better. the black on there is from some graphite paint I had in the form. Next one I do I'll probably spray it down with some PAM non-stick cooking oil, or some diesel fuel before putting the concrete in.

Bit closer and different angle.

Found some more pics of the form too...

This one shows how the form opens up on the outside. I cut some plywood inserts to get the recessed area in the concrete. You could put different designs in it if you wanted to to make the planters look different.

Here's one after I painted the form and you can see the pins on the corners that hold it in the folded up position for pouring. I got the seams nice and tight and only had a tiny bit of water leakage out of the form when it had concrete in it. No actual concrete got through at all.

Inside piece painted with that graphite paint I mentioned above.

It bolts down to the outer form on the inside and sits up on some tapered standoffs. I tapered them so that they will break free from the concrete easier and they also provide drain holes in the planter so that whatever you grow in there won't get water-logged.

And a fire pit I made for the wife out of a shitty old rear tractor rim. Made the grate so it sits inside the lip of the rim and can be rotated to any position. Figured we could grill some steaks on it when sitting around it drinking beer.

>>1745725
https://youtu.be/vBcS3iSkhc0

>>1761844
>>1761845
That's some pretty good work to get to that point and look that good.

>>1761855
I really like that.

Forged a tomahawk-style axe from a 1-1/2" wrench

Inline rc car volt meter

Too lazy to take a photo of the printed part but it's a tool for unscrewing shower drains. Hex on the other side for a spanner.

>>1745725
Stapler, I created a spring from a large paper clip wrapping around its swivel post having it taper down towards the angle point then turn back at the angle a guns box spring magazine would and rested the tip of the paper clip near where it started.

I used copper wire and made an extension for my rifles not-long-enough aluminum milsurp barrel cleaner rod. So when I pull it past it doesn't bur into the rifle but is strong enough it won't get stuck. This way I can really load on the rag that it drags through getting the grooves of the rifling.

I bend extra wrenches so they fit each car bolt that they need to angle to get to. I have three sets of wrenches and my good ones I know not to bend. This ensures the bolt never gets stripped by "do everything mediocre" tools.

I also put these helpful photos together as like pic related. You've probably seen my work since 2010.

>>1762259
""work""

>>1762262
>putting images together for roughly 20 hours isnt work
You've probably posted my work at least once.

>>1762263
>He wasted 20 hours of his life and can't even crop them properly
If anything I would have split the images up if I downloaded that shit.

>>1762273
DIY started because of max image limit threads that were back to back. Condensing them was a better option and that's a proto image.
Zoomer.

>>1762290
Whatever has you posting less, faggot.

>>1745841
You glorious motherfucker. That's a good one.

>>1745854
where did you get the gear box from?

>>1758717
That's brilliant.

>>1762291
doublenigger

>>1762304

Thanks Anon. Seems like quite a few guys like that one!

>>1762307

I got them from Surplus Center... They are a 50:1 ratio and were the last ones they had of that exact style.

This one would work just fine and dandy though:

https://www.surpluscenter.com/Power-Transmission/Gear-Reducers-Gearboxes/Cast-Iron-Shaft-Input-Gear-Reducers/50-1-Right-Angle-Gear-Reducer-13-1594.axd

>>1762312

Thanks! I needed a way to test some injector spray patterns and wanted to clean them while I was at it. Works a treat!

>>1761977
Not bad, that's a pretty neat project.

>>1762254
I always used a pin spanner, but cool.

>>1762447
Thanks. I spent yesterday polishing her up and wrapping the handle with paracord.

>>1762447
>>1762624

>>1762624
Nice, how does it feel and does it do the job well?

>>1762628
I took it to the woods yesterday for a test run but that was before I wrapped the handle in paracord. It throws well if you're strong enough to throw it. Sticks in anything you huck it at. The spike broke right through a cinder block on it's first try. Splits wood just fine but if you don't land your strikes correctly the handle vibrates pretty bad. I'm hoping the paracord handle mitigates that, even if just a little.

In my opinion, 7/10. My work needs refinement, the axe head should be bigger, and steel is not the best handle option. However it does it's job and does it well, and it's all-steel construction means it'll last several lifetimes if it's cared for properly.

I also made a railway spike knife but I intentionally left it rough-looking. I feel like that gives it a bit of character and helps maintain it's spike aesthetics.

>>1762633

>>1762633
FYI, a strip of rubber from a bicycle tire makes for nice dampening material for handles. You can even use the rubber as the base material and wrap something nicer over it.

>>1762635
That's a lot better than anything I've made forging yet.

>>1762641
>a strip of rubber from a bicycle tire makes for nice dampening material for handles.
Duly noted, thank you for the tip!

>That's a lot better than anything I've made forging yet
What sort of things have you made? How long have you been forging? Got any pictures?

>>1762645
No pics, digicams didn't exist and no internet here back them. It was just some knives and needed parts for various things. Now I just do stock removal, but if I did get back into forging it'd be a lot easier with all the access to info online now.

>>1762652
>but if I did get back into forging
Why not? I mean, assuming you can still swing a hammer for a few hours a day. It's fun and very rewarding, especially if there are kids in the family you can pass the knowledge to.

>>1762251
Is a volt meter ever really inline?

>>1762656
I guess I got that bug out back then.

>>1762696
Ah, no drive or passion for it anymore? That's fair. I feel the same about computers and internetworking.

>>1762698
That and I normally make things I need.

>>1762699
You mean you cut and machine things you need instead of forge them?

>>1762702
When it comes to that, yes. Cast>cut>machine The last thing I did was to replace a roller for a sliding glass patio door. The plastic ones kept discombobulating.

Just got some scrap copper pipe from a buddy's home improvement project. Any ideas on what I can forge it into? I'm seeing bowls and cups online. It's too soft to make a blade. Maybe a hammer? Or tiny handle rivets? IDK, looking for inspiration.

>>1763103

Do you have a way of casting it into one solid ingot? If so a copper hammer head would be tits. There is a recent AVE video of him machining some out of solid bar stock.

I've seen people make rivets out of scrap copper wiring, that would probably be a heck of a lot easier to turn into a rivet than a copper pipe.

>>1763130
>Do you have a way of casting it into one solid ingot?
Think a sand-cast would do the trick?

>>1761733
What a legend!!!

Love it.

>>1763133

I'm not going to pretend to know a damn thing about casting, but I don't see why it wouldn't work just fine...

>>1763136
10-4, thank you for your honesty. After reading up, though, it looks like you're right - I can dig some clay and sand out of the back yard right now and make "green sand" and use that to cast an ingot. Now I need a crucible.

Made another one with my buddy, by the way. This one's his, he likes 'em curvy.

>>1763149

>>1762626

>>1762635

>>1763172
>>1763173
Cut me some slack, faggot. They were my first 2 forging projects. I'm a beginner.

>>1745856
This is incredibly unsafe and can kill someone. Get a plate clamp you douche

>>1763176
What are you beatin’ it on? I got a piece of track and have been thinking about trying one. Never forged anything before.... might start with a tire iron knife first.

>>1763243

I hope it kills you. Fuck off buy faggot.

>>1763246
A 150lb anvil

>>1758714
Genius

>>1755336

I live in the midwest, mostly work in Ohio and Michigan, Makita drills are super popular around here. You see them everywhere.

Lets keep it alive boys!

Die wrench for 2" split dies. Still need to drill and tap for set screws in this pic.

Center scriber. Used it to scribe a line down the 2x4 square tubing I split for my sawhorses above... Tungsten carbide scribe and skate bearings for the rollers on each side.

>>1765305
>Lets keep it alive boys!
Considering the thread is over 300 replies and at 150 images, I think it has hit the end of the line.

>>1765306
I like this.

>>1765471

>Considering the thread is over 300 replies and at 150 images, I think it has hit the end of the line.

Surely there are some more home made tools! I've got a few more things I could put in here, just gotta either find the pics I've taken, or take some new ones... Hard to remember what all I've posted so far, so I gotta go back and make sure I don't start repeating myself.

>>1765628
A new thread would need to be made.

>>1765305
this thread will die in 2 posts.

Bump for new thred?

>>1745841
only works for loosening?

>>1766733
fuck i'm an idiot. just flip the bar over

Here are some stoneworking tools I made

>>1748256
To the best of my knowledge, that is how it works just about everywhere, including the US.