Looking through the forum I have seen several great homemade tools/kits for getting the job done on a budget; John C's hydraulic kit and angle iron mount, another posters I beam cylinder bench, any more out there? There was one poster who showed an image of their coffee can jumper wires with test light set up (if someone has a link to it I'd appreciate it) and after 2 power probes started acting up because of moisture/rain started thinking about more robust or field repairable options like the previously mention coffee can jumper wires.
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Homemade Tools
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funwithfuel
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For starters, do you work in any mines or quarries overseen by MSHA? This is a serious question that has the potential to cost thousands.
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Yea that's for sure! Some of the "tools" we had used for decades at the quarry with no problems all of a sudden were determined to be death traps by upper ups in the company when MSHA started taking notice.
We never had a problem locally but with a large multi-national company like where I worked one fine the other side of the country scares the crap out of every place in the company.
The one thing that got me was when a job that had been done for decades at our quarry with some locally fabricated tools was farmed out to a small two man repair crew that used methods less safe than we would have used! Guess management thought that them being sub-contractors insulated the company from any fines. Never heard if that was true or not, but I bet if someone got hurt bad or killed some lawyer would have a field day on the company!
Recall one of the old-timers back when I first started in the late 1960's would often say "If the tools not right, the man's not bright!" And I can guarantee old PeeWee as they called him did his job with many homemade tools and I don't recall ever hearing of him missing a day due to injury!
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funwithfuel
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If you polish the heated areas to a shine and blend your welds to look good, they don't look that hard. It also helps if you stamp some random numbers in there.
Oh yeah about 3 times a week I'm at an MSHA site. But the homemade stuff would not be on the truck during those times.
My bad apparently there's already a thread like this but I'd still like to see what guys are using in the field if anyone has some.
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I made a pair of aluminium jaws for my smaller vice. I really like them.
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