[trees]

You guys make me feel like taking my stool and dunce cap to the corner and face the walls!!! Great ideals that I will just have to copy!!! I'll get a shot of my big tool (PG 13) and post tonight.

Trees

 

[MARTINSR]

For God's sake Dewey do you buy ANYTHING? You're making the car from scratch with tools you make from scratch, did you cut the friggin trees down and mill the lumber for the garage too?

Brian

 

[NEW INTERIORS]

Here's a couple I made...

 

[T-bucket23]

For God's sake Dewey do you buy ANYTHING? You're making the car from scratch with tools you make from scratch, did you cut the friggin trees down and mill the lumber for the garage too?

Brian

I think he was smelting the metal for the panels also

Nice job.

 

[Ken Walker]

I'v got a preassurized engine lubricator.. built with plumbing parts and threads into a 3/8" oil galley plug

Matt - could you post pics of your lubricator and/or describe the details. Thanks

 

[67Mustang Al.]

You guys make me feel like taking my stool and dunce cap to the corner and face the walls!!! Great ideals that I will just have to copy!!! I'll get a shot of my big tool (PG 13) and post tonight.

Trees

Just a thought. Has someone invented a tool that can finish the body of this 67 Mustang so i can shuv the engine in it.
Al.

 

[matt167]

Matt - could you post pics of your lubricator and/or describe the details. Thanks

have to remove the pipe on the top and funnel in oil ( bout 1 quart ).. then put it back.. thread in the barb at the end of the hose into the block.. add 30-60 PSI of air and open the valve... top gauge is air preassure at the gauge and the bottom gauge is the oil preassure going into the engine.. should be a little bigger capacity tho. it only takes a few seconds to empty it.. havn't used it in a couple years but it works good for checking oil flow to the rockers and stuff. I still use the drill to prime my engines

 

[cboy]

... did you cut the friggin trees down and mill the lumber for the garage too?

No, but speaking of cutting down trees reminds me of another tool I forgot to mention. This is my "stump set".

Back in the old days bodies were often formed by hammering and shaping metal using stumps and beater bags. Many of the early Ferrari and other sports car coaches were made this way. The tradition goes back for eons.

So after doing a little reading on the subject, I headed out to the woods and took down a dying oak tree to make these metal forming stumps. I cut mine at about 36" tall so they are at a comfortable workbench height. Then I cut and formed various shapes into the top and sides of each stump (I made three altogether). These shapes are then used as a form or solid backing to hammer the metal against. Hopefully the pictures will explain the usefullness of this addition to my "crude tool" collection.

The last 3 pictures show how the stump formed metal technique was put to use on my sedan delivery forming some of the more difficult compound curves like the rear corner...and the final outcome. Not a bad tool for $.00 cost.

 

[OLNOLAN]

Hey Cboy

Sir, You have the patience of a Saint and the eye of an Artist, awesome. olnolan

 

[OLNOLAN]

Crank Sprocket Puller

Crank sprocket pulling head. My two jaw and three jaw wouldn't grab without slipping off, so I made this. Cost $0.00, scrap plate, bolts, washers. Make plate to fit, drill and tap holes in plate(fine thread is stronger). Slip plate behind sprocket, mount puller, pops right off.
Works with either puller in photo.

 

[cboy]

Sir, You have the patience of a Saint and the eye of an Artist, awesome.

Or as my wife would say...a certified, grade A, tightwad.

 

[OLNOLAN]

Ha

Or as my wife would say...a certified, grade A, tightwad.

Mine says I'm so tight, I squeak instead of farting. :thumbup: olnolan

 

[CalmLikeAbomb]

Two years ago I couldnt find a breaker bar anywhere so pulled the handle bars off of my little sisters razor scooter. still haven't bought a breaker bar...

 

[MRGM]

this may be considered a tool...maybe.

had a bedroom dresser laying around, put casters on it, now it is a movable workstation. The 9 drawers are nice and roomy. Put down those rubber shelving mats and all is well. Top sits about 36" above floor, perfect for me.

My shop is a mess, saw dust, and drywall dust. Just added an office and of coarse law of displacement. Have to find another area for a lot of stuff.




:thumbup:

 

[trees]

OK, some promised pics of my big home made tool. We started with two rear hubs/cross member from a couple of 80s K cars, some scrap metal, 4 throw away tires, and a spindle and rotor and a steel rim, all free stuff. We cut and welded up the top rail and then added the risers at the corners. We then welded the first cross member to the rear risers. In the front, we welded in a spacer to give the same height to the front as the rear. We welded the spindle to the spacer and then welded the rim to the other cross member, giving us a steerable wagon. Some scrap 1 inch pipe was used to make the tongue for steering. This thing rolls very easy, can turn 360* in the space of itself or the item loaded on it, which ever is the largest. I don't know how many frames and bodies have been completed on this tool. It has been used to transport a 66 Mustang body in the back of a horse trailer. It was used by a local body shop to assist in swapping bodies on a wrecked and a flooded Suburban. They liked it so well, they used it around their shop until we needed it again.

Trees

 

[MARTINSR]

That is a hell of nice cart! What a neat idea. Getting the thing up for your body work takes a heck of a lot of wear from the back doesn't it?

Very nice!

Brian

 

[MRGM]

im stealing that idea :welcome:

 

[OLNOLAN]

Big Tool

You guys make me feel like taking my stool and dunce cap to the corner and face the walls!!! Great ideals that I will just have to copy!!! I'll get a shot of my big tool (PG 13) and post tonight.

Trees

"BIG TOOL" Thats a big tool all right. I'm gonna post my big tool soon, be watching for it (PG-13) :thumbup: olnolan

 

[MARTINSR]

So after doing a little reading on the subject, I headed out to the woods and took down a dying oak tree to make these metal forming stumps. I cut mine at about 36" tall so they are at a comfortable workbench height. Then I cut and formed various shapes into the top and sides of each stump (I made three altogether). These shapes are then used as a form or solid backing to hammer the metal against. Hopefully the pictures will explain the usefullness of this addition to my "crude tool" collection.

You're something else Dewey! :thumbup:

Brian

 

[cboy]

OK, some promised pics of my big home made tool.

The "Big Tool" was well worth waiting to see. That's got to be very handy in many many ways.