Home made tools

[Anonymous No.2398109]

What do fags think about my stubby screwdriver? PVC fitting with a screwdriver bit grouted into it. I needed one for installing a hinge in a small cabinet. Didn't want to drive 30 minutes to buy one.

Home made tools general I guess.

[Anonymous No.2398111]

You fags. This autocorrect is straight up killing me.

[Anonymous No.2398114]

>>2398109
Innovation is always cool.

[Anonymous No.2398134]

>>2398109
I made a condom out of duct tape and a rubber glove. Obviously didn't work too good since you were able to start this thread 20 years later.

[Anonymous No.2398139]

>>2398134
Oh papa! I have so many questions!

[Anonymous No.2398151]

>>2398134
I'd pay money for a virgin humor filter on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.2398153]

>>2398109
Not bad, it's not like it's art or anything. My dad taught me to grind tools back in highschool. We were working on his car, and couldnt get to a screw (fucking Ford, man), so he showed me how to bend an old screwdriver with a torch, then grind the tip down.
Pretty basic stuff, but shocking how few know how.

[Anonymous No.2398154]

>>2398109
I purchase and grind down Philips head screwdrivers into superior flat heads

[Anonymous No.2398293]

>>2398154
I'm such a badass I grind down flathead screwdrivers into phillips head screwdrivers.

[Anonymous No.2398307]

I grind round-shank screwdrivers into carb jet removal hollow-ground versions that look like )( viewed from the side.

That grabs the jet (or other soft screwlike part) rather than smearing it. My Vincent-restoring mentor devised that about fifty years ago and it works superbly. Do a tidy job and don't overheat the tip I keep a cup of water handy and dip when the tip gets warm.

Works great on gun screws too.

[Anonymous No.2398308]

>>2398293
Post tool and cutter grinder.

[Anonymous No.2398328]

I found a Popular Mechanics Torx screwdriver in a parking lot. The tip was completely trashed so I converted it into an ice pick.

That's the extent of my creativity, basically.

[Anonymous No.2398351]

The charger always fails before the battery.

[Anonymous No.2398377]

>>2398351
Based SAE connector detected.

[Anonymous No.2398459]

>>2398351
Good job anon. Fuck the charger Jew.

[Anonymous No.2398565]

>>2398308
I would but I ground down my digital camera into an impact driver for my flathead screws

[Anonymous No.2398626]

I've welded a deep socket to a box end wrench for valve adjustments. I made a shitty bearing press with a bottle jack and some scrap angle iron. Made a bar with some hooks that lets me pull an engine using my post lift.

[Anonymous No.2398705]

>>2398308
>Post tool and cutter grinder.
I was just bullshitting about grinding a phillips screwdriver of course, but I do have one of those D-bit grinders like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313371117315

So I actually could do it if I really wanted to waste the time...

I've got a bunch of tools that I have made over the years. I've posted up a bunch of them on here in the past in different threads. Necessity is the mother of invention.

[Anonymous No.2398722]

Socket welded to an adjustable to make an adjustable crows foot wrench

[Anonymous No.2398725]

Socket with a slit cut out of it to fit over brake line fittings. You grip it with a pair of vice grips. This works even better than a brake line wrench.

[Anonymous No.2398745]

>>2398109
As a broke college student I epoxied a jigsaw blade into a bic pen so I could have a small hand saw for the wood work I was doing. Built a pc case with that.

[Anonymous No.2398746]

>>2398705
Hi-Lift jacks are love.

[Anonymous No.2398748]

>>2398626
>Made a bar with some hooks that lets me pull an engine using my post lift.

That's also common for truck cab and bed pulls.

[Anonymous No.2398798]

>>2398109
Yes right because that grout set strong enough for you to use it on the same job...fucking liar

[Anonymous No.2398834]

>>2398798

[Anonymous No.2398850]

>>2398834
Ok so you didnt want to drive half an hour to get a tool but you waited at least an hour for this to set?

[Anonymous No.2398860]

>>2398351
Lol

Baste

[Anonymous No.2398941]

>>2398850
Yeah I just fucking stood there staring at it for 30 minutes. What kind of retarded mother fucker are you?

[Anonymous No.2398953]

>>2398109
I mean it's cool that you're resourceful, but this really wasn't the best way to do it. You could've just ground the tip of a nail and then bent it at 90 degrees. Faster, cheaper, and you'd also have extra leverage because of the 90* bend (+ you can put an extra handle on it if you need more force). Idk how much force you can put in a screw using a smooth pvc fitting.

[Anonymous No.2398991]

>>2398850
It's completely impossible that he was doing something else for a while, he was definitely just standing there watching it cure. Retard.

[Anonymous No.2398996]

>>2398953
Not OP, but that's actually a good idea. Thanks lad.

[Anonymous No.2399027]

>>2398953
Nails are soft and make shitty tools. I've hammered wellding rods flat to use as a tiny flathead before, and it worked but only for like 5 screws.

[Anonymous No.2399029]

IM FUCKING UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.2399045]

>more blatant Rigid shilling
Turn your trip back on Bepis

[Anonymous No.2399057]

>>2399045
I think that's the only ridged tool I have. I'm a Milwaukee boy.

[Anonymous No.2399184]

>>2398725
>Socket with a slit cut
This reminded me of an axle socket I had that was too big. I made a slice with a wide kerf on either side, pound in together until it fit, then welded it up.
>>2399027
I had some huge nails I was able to make into some punches with basic tools. Welded up a holder, overall worked relatively well. Retired them to a plaque for the boss's going away, picrel.

[Anonymous No.2399883]

>>2398151
Me too, then I wouldn't need to see posts like yours.