2021 POTD Thread Archive

[francist]

My recent kick is vintage machines, both to use them as well as just because I think they’re cool. I come from a large family of stitchers and I expect that’s where I get the interest from.



Anyway, I wanted a small caddy for tools more or less specific to the machines, or at least how I choose to use them for the machines. Something that would hold the requisite items close to hand but not in the standard tackle box style and not too big, so I came up with this.



I bent an open-cornered box of sheet metal to help give some structure, and the size is built around the typical tools as well as a standard pack of Q-Tips, and the canvas was leftover scrap from who knows what (actually part of that scrap were the legs of my old Carharts). The stitching is a little rough in places but I’m happy nonetheless.



Thanks for looking.

-frank

 

[Hawkeye]

I always get bored shaking rattle-cans. If I make a Sawzall shaker for that, I'm definitely using nylock nuts. I can just see a can sailing across the shop.

 

[Larry$]

I made a tool post grinder: scrap aluminum poured in to a Yam can, bored on the lathe to fit pneumatic die grinder, milled to fit tool holder. Did a trial on a piece of scrap steel. works but need to use a smaller mounted stone so I can run it faster.

 

[BGHansen]

My two twenty-something sons are using painting small models as a distraction during the lock-down.

I'd often see them watching TV while shaking a little paint bottle or two; that gave me an idea.

I pulled together some parts: aluminum t-slot extrusion, some matching bolt and nuts, a couple scraps of aluminum round and angle....grind the teeth off a well-used sawzall blade.......

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The cups or clamp pads were drilled and bored, before being brazed to short scraps of aluminum angle:
(I used bernzomatic brazing rods)
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The short socket-head cap screw heads go in the slot in the extrusion to keep the clamp pads from spinning the wrong way during adjustment.

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The paint shaker is driven by my cordless Milwaukee Hackzall.

Does it shake?

Yes it does:

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A fun and useful little project.

-brino

Ah, shaken, not stirred. Love it!

Bruce

 

[devils4ever]

Mini-Tooling Plate/Pallet for use in my vise to hold small parts. It's made from 1018 steel and has 45 1/4-20 tapped holes to hold down the part along with my mini-toe clamps.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

nothing very exciting, but none the less very useful. My previous car (Outback) had the oil filter upside down between the exhaust pipes = oil on the exhaust every oil change. That car got totalled but it turns out our new car (Pilot) has a similar PITA oil filter placement - upside down right over a frame rail. I used the oil wrench holder that I had made for the Outback but it leaked, so I remade it a bit more robust. Should last alot longer leak free now

 

[erikmannie]

I made this 2 days ago, & I didn’t like the way it turned out (the base was too thin). I redid it by brazing on another sheet to the old, thin base.

I also enlarged the holes so that it fits on 2 different face plates.

I would imagine that I will put on both at the same time, with the second acting as a counterweight.





I had to make one of these more narrow because it almost interfered with the dead center on the 10” lathe.

 

[brino]

nothing very exciting, but none the less very useful. My previous car (Outback) had the oil filter upside down between the exhaust pipes = oil on the exhaust every oil change. That car got totalled but it turns out our new car (Pilot) has a similar PITA oil filter placement - upside down right over a frame rail. I used the oil wrench holder that I had made for the Outback but it leaked, so I remade it a bit more robust. Should last alot longer leak free now

Brilliant.
Why the heck didn't I think of that!
-brino

 

[mattthemuppet2]

thanks, pretty sure I stole that idea from somewhere else It's a little worrying watching the oil rise up the side, but it's never gone over the top yet!

 

[Superburban]

I got something like that with one of my lathes, could not figgure out what it may be for. I'll have to see if I still have it.

Maybe I should keep notes with the books for my tools, for the extra things like this I make. It might be useful for who ever sells my stuff after I leave this place.