Home-made Tools and those you've adapted or modified. And also "tips and tricks".

[Dick Twitchen]

6 hours ago, Peter Truman said:

A good drop too, but a lot of sugar

Who cares if you put it with a tot of rum for a Dark and Stormy! 

[ahebron]

2 hours ago, Dick Twitchen said:

Who cares if you put it with a tot of rum for a Dark and Stormy! 

If you must ruin it😉

[JohnD]

Or with gin, ice and a slice, for a "Foghorn", aka a "Gunner's Mate".

[Iain T]

11 hours ago, Dick Twitchen said:

Who cares if you put it with a tot of rum for a Dark and Stormy! 

Ooooo yes should be a big slug of Goslings Black Seal. 😋

[Dick Twitchen]

4 hours ago, JohnD said:

"Gunner's Mate"

John,

Actually a 'Master Gunner', who had a Gunner's Mate as his underling to look after the Gunner's Party.  Pedantic I know but as I qualified as Master Gunner in 1974.....  Even more disconcerting is that my first, short, appointment was as the Master Gunner of HMS VICTORY where one of my claims to fame was escorting HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to the heads which were in a block ashore! There is more to that tale but the rest is reserved for a shoreside dit.

Dick

ps Is that thread drift or what.....🙂

[PeteH]

"Bonded" Raw Rum. Was a regular Cargo from the West Indies. Ships crew, (Liverpool Lads) no respecters of such nicetites as "bond" where adept at gaining access and "broaching" a few pints. Mixed with enought Cola, neat it could send you mad and blind, allegedly, it was a relief from some of the rubbish lagers which where ship stores.

Pete

Edited April 26, 2023 by PeteH

[JohnD]

Thank you Dick!  Aye, aye, Gunner!  Name will be corrected thenceforward!

JOhn

[Wagger]

On 24/04/2023 at 20:53, AndyTV8 said:

I had been having trouble with a blocked windscreen washer-jet on my TR4 - the usual thin pin didn’t work dispite many attempts.  However, I managed to clear it in 2 mins using the smallest size (00) of Pikster interdental brush.

worth trying if you have a similar problem.

………. Andy 

 

 

 

I use the tapered rubber TePe ones on my crowded teeth. They might leave bits in the nozzles though. What you show are good for hearing aid tubes too. Also, nylon fishing line can work. Almost backon topic.

We were not allowed by our GEC employer to sample rum or Courage CSB on HMS Challenger.

[Unkel Kunkel]

The cheapest welding tool available:

A DIY copper  welding ‘spoon’ gadget made from  a short length of 22 mm copper pipe off-cut  hammered flat and folded over again to give a bit of mass.

( I used  two copper nails used as rivets to keep copper compressed  but  this not really needed ) 

Mig welding  thin metal when there is a need to fill gaps or holes with weld can be challenging and the end result can be can a lumpy mess  that needs a lot of grinding When plug welding where you want a flat surface on the reverse of the weld this also helps. 

Placing this gadget firmly behind the work, conducts some heat away  from the weld - avoiding further burn- through and allows you easily fill the gap with weld at at the same time leaving  a flat surface on the  reverse of the weld.

Using scrap pipe I think it would be possible to make ‘custom” spoon shapes where access is difficult.

[ahebron]

Thats a cunning idea.
I use a piece of copper busbar that is a sod to hold in place.

[PeteH]

6 hours ago, ahebron said:

Thats a cunning idea.
I use a piece of copper busbar that is a sod to hold in place.

Snap!. Except my copper "lump" is of indeterminate origin. Works as well but needs to be clamped behind the work, and that can be a problem.

Pete

[68vitesse]

Have various bits of aluminium sheet for same purpose.

Regards

Paul 

[Unkel Kunkel]

Something very cheap to make your  ultrasonic cleaner quicker and easier, save on cleaning agents and  solvents and make it a lot easier to clean afterwards, 

just one of these:

Putting the items to be cleaned in a bag of  cleaning agent and then immersing in the tank with just water filled up to the usual level means its quicker, cleaner and saves whatever cleaning agent your using.The crud remains in the bag, rather than in the tank.

 

Edited May 1, 2023 by Unkel Kunkel

[ahebron]

I use a similar device called a salas glass jar as i do not want the bag to puncture. Fill the US cleaner with warm water and leave on  for a day or 2

[ahebron]

New special tool

For this
https://forum.tssc.org.uk/topic/11411-vitesseherald-boot-lid-catching/

The foam is stuck to the 3x2 with double sided tape and gets pressed into the drip channel for the bootlid keeping the bits in place while I operated the 4 ton ram

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by ahebron

[ahebron]

On 02/05/2023 at 01:07, Unkel Kunkel said:

Something very cheap to make your  ultrasonic cleaner quicker and easier, save on cleaning agents and  solvents and make it a lot easier to clean afterwards, 

just one of these:

Putting the items to be cleaned in a bag of  cleaning agent and then immersing in the tank with just water filled up to the usual level means its quicker, cleaner and saves whatever cleaning agent your using.The crud remains in the bag, rather than in the tank.

 

This is a heater clip from a Herald/Vitesse that I use as a divider in my US cleaner.
With the cleaner having 2 transducers the waves move the salsa jar to a null point so this keeps it over one of the transducers

[ahebron]

And this non Triumph tool is made to remove the halfshaft from the hub on the rear of a VW Amarok.
VW will not sell a bearing kit for these vehicles only a complete halfshaft and hub but an aftermarket bearing kit is available.
VW wanted NZ$5200 for the part, I could have a destroyed the axle and had a halfshaft and flange made for less than that.
The Febest bearing kit was about NZ$300.
Fitted with press and  heat.

[dannyb]

Use this to get at the lower nuts on the manifold of my Spit.

Danny

[Graham C]

Danny,

Excellent tool, what are the dimensions so I can copy.

Cheers

Graham

[dannyb]

43 minutes ago, Graham C said:

Danny,

Excellent tool, what are the dimensions so I can copy.

Cheers

Graham

I'll have a measure tomorrow.

Danny

[dannyb]

1 hour ago, Graham C said:

Danny,

Excellent tool, what are the dimensions so I can copy.

Cheers

Graham

Just went and had a quick measure.

It's a 15mm spanner approx 200mm long.

First bend 35mm

2nd bend 55mm

Leaves about 100mm to the open end.

Danny

[ahebron]

What are these ‘mm’ you talk about.

I can’t find any in my Triumph😛

[Peter Truman]

Or as my English Mother in Law used to say when she came to Aus to visit "What's that in REAL money".

In the 70's & 80's I used to get my Eng in Chief totally confused when switching pressure units from psi, Mts head of water, & kpa, (some of our older mech field recording units were still psi) or flow lps, Ml/day & Gl/a, it worked he always said YES!

[GrahamB]

The manifold retaining nuts are 9/16" AF which is 14.3 mm so 15 mm may be a bit loose unless it is to fit over the rust!

Convinced that nobody was reading his reports, an engineer started inserting his own units such as furlongs per minute instead of metres/sec.  No comments were received which confirmed his suspicions.

[dannyb]

9 hours ago, GrahamB said:

The manifold retaining nuts are 9/16" AF which is 14.3 mm so 15 mm may be a bit loose unless it is to fit over the rust!

Convinced that nobody was reading his reports, an engineer started inserting his own units such as furlongs per minute instead of metres/sec.  No comments were received which confirmed his suspicions.

I know the nuts are 9/16 but I only have a couple of 9/16 spanners which I did not want to destroy. But plenty of 15mm spanners. It is slightly bigger but will get the nuts tight without any damage to the nuts. 

Danny