Emanuel Berg wrote:
avid Scheidt wrote:

: You haven't spent much time in
: a workshop, then.

:No, I have only lived in one for the last 2-3
:years...

: Shop made tools are nearly universal, to
: solve unique problems that come up in that
: shop. I've made wrenches to fit stuff (out of
: bar stock, mostly, but once for a plastic
: pipe cap, out of plywood), two pin spanner
: wrenches, countless presses (including some
: to use on bikes), and all sorts of piece
: holding fixures or templates.

:Well, wrenches, pin wrenches, and presses are
:sure available to buy and not expensive at all.

A pin wrench that fits the thing I'm taking apart is a trip to the
store (or a wait for UPS) away. If I can knock one out in five
minutes with a piece of scrap flat stock, a hacksaw, and a grinder,
I'm ahead, even if the tool were free. I've got a couple, including
an adjustable one, but sometimes you need something else.

The last little press I put
together was to replace the bearings in a small electric motor. It's
possilbe I could have found a commercial thing that worked, but a new
motor would have been cheaper. the press was two pieces of threaded
rod, two pieces of slotted bar stock, a bolt, a scrap piece of gas
pipe, a bunch of washers, and a few nuts. All of it was stuff around
the shop, all of it remains available for other uses.




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