Homemade bits and tools.

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Made a shock bush press today. The sense of satisfaction from making a tool is fantastic.

What have you made?

Any ideas for other tools? Currently making a rubber faced mallet too.
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Nice.

How do you do the rough texturing on the hammer? Is that just some tool for the lathe.

Yupp knurling tool. Two rollers with spiral lines on them, when you wind the tool across the work it chequers the work. Cool aint it.

I’ve cut the end off an allan key for a tight spot, and created a cranked spanner from a straight one. Does that count? 😉

Actually, I did make some sort of tool at school years back…I remember using the lathe to put a knurled handle on it. Can’t remember for the life of me what is was…

headset press
length of 16mm threaded bar, 2 nuts to fit and 2 big washers.
works a treat.

Presume you have a lathe at home to have made that.

Might make a fancier headset press next achilly. Not done any threading on the lathe yet..

I have a dream of making a CNC lathe and making some hubs. (nevergoingtohappen)

Did it at lunch time at work.

Nice work wysiwyg.

Most of my ‘tools’ are bodges but it is satisfying to cobble together something that does a better job than a hammer.

I need a lathe…

headset press
length of 16mm threaded bar, 2 nuts to fit and 2 big washers.
works a treat

And me. Jobs a good’n.

That mallet must be heavy?

I’ve made myself a sine bar, lots of clamps etc from my engineering days, got some home made mic head holders, extended drills,
Also cnc’d my pc tower case side panel with a bio hazard sign.

Wish I had access to mill/lathe etc these days. What fun I’d have making bike bits!

Few years ago I made a valve spring compressor for our W123 Merc 280TE.
A mate bought the original home and I photo’d it and made copy out of all mannor of tat I had lying about(couldn’t borrow it as his foreman was a tossa).
It allowed me to change all the valve stem seals – smoking into non-smoking without taking the head off.
Only just, though, as it collapsed on the last one in a Hollywood suspense film stylee.

And yes – great sense of acheivement.

Stuff I made in my engineering days.

Wow, a little more precision than me. I really want to get some time on the mill too.

impressive machine skills. I was led to believe the better hammers had a wooden shaft as it tranfers less shock to your arm.. a falsehood?

so what are the chances of making up a few of those bush presses for us mortals to purchase?

Jammy111

http://www.tftunedshox.com/Miscellaneous/Mount-Kits-and-Bushings/Eyelet-Bushings

Some brake pad spacers I did for my Mono Minis:
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headset press
length of 16mm threaded bar, 2 nuts to fit and 2 big washers.
works a treat

add a couple of smaller washers, or an old bearing, and you can then press your own BB bearings into HTII cups as well.

Drift them out with a hammer and appropriate socket.

Dont think i’ll be making any any time soon. That set took about 2 hrs. Probably get that down if i were to make more, its only the second thing ive made so far.

Oogles> genius or madness I dont know. But why not if youve got the gear. Assuming theyre CNC machined tho?

We’re getting a rapid prototyping machine at work.
If I can model it, we can make it.
And I can model pretty much anything….
😆

This may be the only titanium headset cup remover in existence:

and of course the old favourite:

Also have a variety of homemade presses, including one to pull a freehub off with (I suppose it’s a puller, not a press, but the same principles apply).

I reckon it’s even more satisfying when you bodge your own tools from items available without resort to a lathe or milling machine.

@wysiwyg yup CNC mould tools, takes all the effort out of it really 😉

@aracer I do love a good bodge! I think all my good ones are at home so no photos. My favourite is the bottle opener made from a brake lever blade.

Not done any threading on the lathe yet.

Cut threads are a bit weak, especailly for a headset press. Buy a bit of threaded rod, the thread will have been rolled in.

Cut threads are a bit weak

Not neccessarily, depends on the thread, If turning them they can be made any size/ shape for strength.
threaded rod = stretching issues and generally made of crap grade steel padded with sand and sawdust.

ooh and almost forgot, Aracer and Oggles, nice kit.

Aracer – have you any details on that bottle thing? Presume it’s for seating tubeless tyres? Looks awesome…

This is one of the suspension links I made for my DIY bike.

Workstand. Love it! 😀


I knew I’d one day find a use for those trampoline poles…..

replacement dropout on my Kona A to retain the snubber roller better than the original design

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Now sporting a cartridge bearing rather than the solid roller as the belt wore it flat.

Next job is a pair of dropouts so I can convert it to bolt-thru

@aracer

nice bong

Here are a couple of posts with more details on my lemonade bottle compressor:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/diy-tyre-inflator-made-out-of-old-lemonade-bottle-for-tubeless-how#post-456707
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/tubeless-tyres-anger-management-issues#post-44698

Though I think if I was starting from scratch now I’d probably make one using a garden sprayer, as recommended on one or other of those threads.

Old chain in a vice to act as a chainwhip is the best I’ve done.

Best I’ve ever managed is cutting the bend off a 5 or 6mm allen key, supergluing the long bit into a similar sized socket, connected with an extension bar, to get to the bolt deep inside the legs of Rockshox Indy SL forks to dismantle them. A successfully bodged tool to get round the stupid fork design.

Best bodged tools are things like a bit of metal pole over the end of a spanner to undo too tight nuts and bolts, things like that. Necessity being the Mother of Invention and all that.

I have a piece of steel bed-angle with a short section of chain bolted to it as a chain whip 🙂 And lots of blunted screwdrivers after using them as drifts ?

I find old spokes are surprisingly useful for all manner of little jobs.

Spoke nipples make good anti-fray cable ends as well.