Home made tools

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Re: Home made tools

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I have seen them used as atitude adjusters....
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Re: Home made tools

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51Hog is right that it is a measuring stick, but for what?
(Clue: common dial calipers can't reach.)

John!
My home-made fuel rod alignment tool looks like this attachment.
(You jumped the gun, as it was next!)

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Re: Home made tools

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Tire Diameter?
Fuel oil tank dip stick?
Sidecar alignment tool?
I give up...
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Re: Home made tools

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internal fork tube components?
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Re: Home made tools

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now that you mentioned sidecar Dale, is that horse dead? We haven't had an update since you sent the last batch of pictures....

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Re: Home made tools

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FlatHeadSix wrote:now that you mentioned sidecar Dale, is that horse dead? We haven't had an update since you sent the last batch of pictures....

mike
Yes Mike, unfortunately, I was not able to lock in the deal on the sidecar.
Maybe next time....
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Re: Home made tools

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Perhaps I'm the only one who measures venturies.
Just drop it over the cue, and the lines tell you the inside diameter.

So, what's this measuring stick for?
(Just two moveable pointers on a piece of conduit...)

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Re: Home made tools

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chain adjusters on the rear wheel
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Re: Home made tools

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Great tool for measuring the venturies. Kind of like the one the jewelers use for sizing rings.
Align any rear wheels lately?
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Re: Home made tools

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It looks like FlatHeadSix beat 51Hog by three minutes on guessing what the trammel is used for, although aligning the rear wheel is the more accurate way to describe it:

One point is set upon the front axle center, and the other is adjusted to the rear axle center. When compared to the other side of the bike, it becomes obvious if the axle is skewed.

All that crap with strings and boards takes too long!

Have any of you built one of these machines?

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Re: Home made tools

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Here is one of my handiest tools. It has COUNTLESS uses around the shop. The vice was my Grandfathers...he was a Watchmaker.
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Re: Home made tools

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Have any of you built one of these machines?
Is that some kind of diabolical cylinder hone, or a centerfugingcompostingshitslingingmufflerbearing alignment tool or even something for washing the cat, that incorporates a garbage can lid and a ceiling fan motor? Can't see enough detail to make a good guess.
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Re: Home made tools

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I'll take a shot. A cylinder honing machine.

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Re: Home made tools

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I don't see a toilet paper holder, so it must be some kind of wet honing tub?
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Re: Home made tools

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Well,
The light shade was from a ceiling fan base, but the motor to this Hone from Hell was a floor scrubber. Half a water pressure tank supports a cradle that flips and locks for honing a cylinder from either end.
Hidden by a section of kitchen table to stand upon, a large stainless salad bowl is a sediment catcher beneath the tank, with a Little Giant pump to push the coolant oil back up and out the spout.
The beltguard on top was a deskfan base, and the tombstone-shaped facade was a section of a patio table.
The billet aluminum knobs and footpad saw decades of service on one of my Pans, but since they are REAL billet, I don't want them confused with modern bubblepak cast crap, and probably won't run them any more.
Two Matheson gas bottle valve knobs on the Appleton pipe hangar clamps serve as stops for the length of stroke. One of the knobs saw decades as a steering dampener control.
Of course it is a Sunnen AN honing head you see on the internally spring-loaded drive shaft in the pic below. That part isn't home-made.

....Cotten
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