[Ed ke6bnl]

nice stuff, I just found some things I made at school some 20 years ago, in machine shop, never did become a machines but play with my mill and lathe.

 

[TorqueRanger]

50 ton air/hydraulic press i made.
3' wide capacity. ive added the pressing shaft and machined a quick connect die system since the pic was taken.

stands about 6.5' tall x 4' wide

Do you have any more pics or a build thread I would like to know more about it ???


Thanks

 

[rocklobster87]

finished my oil pump. added a pressure gauge and a dump valve.

works great. proven to be very useful.

 

[Brocko2]

finished my oil pump. added a pressure gauge and a dump valve.

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works great. proven to be very useful.

That is slick!
After trashing 2 HF drill pumps (cold 75w140) I might have to do something similar.

 

[xj9140]

Can crusher

 

[beakie]

Can crusher

this post ^ is useless without vids!

 

[Soundguy]

this post ^ is useless without vids!

X2 with sound please. :laughing:

 

[RockRogue]

X2 with sound please. :laughing:

Haha.

Seconded.

 

[ZAG]

diesel pump timing tool

 

[1TON73K5]

Home made machined chain breaker

 

[[486]]

made a holder for some tnma 333 inserts i got cheap a while back (like 200 of them for $40) that slides on the dovetail of my quick change holder. tons more rigid than the 1/2" shank I had them on before, I can stall the motor with no chatter now.

had made a dovetail cutter from an axle shaft, but didn't relieve the bottom edge properly and it burnt up right after the last cut in the actual dovetail part, so I'm gonna have to make a flycutter style thing to make more tool holders, and "male" dovetail sections to bolt to the lathe to hold the toolholders and keep them from violently becoming intimate with the floor as they seem to enjoy doing

finally got some pics

it is like texting while driving, only while latheing

ETA: the stud is a SHCS run up through the bottom.

 

[ZAG]

96mm tapered piston ring compressor.
steel tube and some lathe turning. 5 degree Tapper

 

[steve83]

You guys must have hands that are VERY different from mine... This is what I'd call "hand-made":

I made that one in a JY from a car part using needle-nose & snips. The bolt hook was made with an angle grinder, but the clutch wrench was done with a hand drill & hacksaw.

Certainly not as pretty or impressive as most of the other tools in this thread, but somehow, making a tool from a tool using an automated tool just doesn't seem to fit the title of this thread.

 

[JMAN3203]

You guys must have hands that are VERY different from mine... This is what I'd call "hand-made":



I made that one in a JY from a car part using needle-nose & snips. The bolt hook was made with an angle grinder, but the clutch wrench was done with a hand drill & hacksaw.


Certainly not as pretty or impressive as most of the other tools in this thread, but somehow, making a tool from a tool using an automated tool just doesn't seem to fit the title of this thread.

That's called jerry-rigging. :shaking:

 

[[486]]

You guys must have hands that are VERY different from mine... This is what I'd call "hand-made":

heh, I usually use a plastic jug cut into strips, wrap the strip around and jam it up into the fitting
at work I have the HF aluminum tools, but at home...

Soon you'll have a mill and lathe. You've made a wrench. Soon you'll be one of us.

 

[Azzy2000]

Here's a tool I made a few months ago. It's a guide/seal compressor for re-installing a Shaffer riser tensioner shaft on my rig. I was working at the limits on this 20" lathe, so please excuse the excessive tool overhang and poor practice in general :flipoff2:

Made from an 18-3/4" high pressure wellhead seal ring.









And then they figured out that they needed it to be a 2 piece design... :shaking:

So I built V2.0..

 

[1TON73K5]

How round did that come out? Something that big I would have used full pie jaws so it wouldn't be a six sided circle. Unless the wall is nice and think and your chuck pressulre was pretty low. Even a six jaw chuck has A LOT of power to out of round stuff fairly easy. Did you indicate as you tightened the chuck to see if it was growing at the jaw points? What was your indicator TIR and or dimension tolerance requirements? Just curious.

 

[Azzy2000]

How round did that come out? Something that big I would have used full pie jaws so it wouldn't be a six sided circle. Unless the wall is nice and think and your chuck pressulre was pretty low. Even a six jaw chuck has A LOT of power to out of round stuff fairly easy. Did you indicate as you tightened the chuck to see if it was growing at the jaw points? What was your indicator TIR and or dimension tolerance requirements? Just curious.

No offense but this was not a precision job really. Just had to provide a smooth tapered transition from major to minor diameter so the seals would compress and not hang going into the housing. Worked good and now hangs on the wall in the subsea shop until the next tensioner re-seal.

 

[steve83]

That's called jerry-rigging. :shaking:

1) I made it BY HAND :smokin:, and
2) it's not "rigged". The fitting works exactly the way it was intended to, and that tool releases it exactly the way it was designed to be released. :flipoff2:

Soon you'll have a mill and lathe. ... Soon you'll be one of us.

I wish... There's not room in my garage to move the car that's in it OUT.

 

[[486]]

I wish... There's not room in my garage to move the car that's in it OUT.

So knock the wall out, pull the car out, and add on another stall or four.