Toolbag Tales-Homemade and improvised tools

[CitroJim]

I was unaware of this thread until now... I'm sure I can find a few interesting items for it

[Rp0thejester]

Homemade tool....can I include my son, he makes a great door stop

[mickthemaverick]

Homemade tool....can I include my son, he makes a great door stop

Is he available in B&Q?

[Rp0thejester]

Unfortunately not he's more MFI, Mother Fing Idiot

[mickthemaverick]

I had one like that but he's exiled himself in Devon now and not communicated with me since before last Christmas!!

[Rp0thejester]

So what do you do for a door stop now??

[mickthemaverick]

I had to go and buy a metal one:

MTM Original

MTM Original

Far more efficient and it doesn't answer back!

[Rp0thejester]

I had to go and buy a metal one:





Far more efficient and it doesn't answer back!

[NewcastleFalcon]

I was unaware of this thread until now... I'm sure I can find a few interesting items for it

Please do Jim, but today is not your first appearance on the thread . March 1st 2017, you were right in at the start of the thread! I very much appreciated your comment on my own do it yourself blacksmithing, and I still have this homemade timing belt tensioner tool today, not that I have the Xsara Picasso now, but may well have done, really liked it. It was excellent before it had a huge drink of floodwater.

Homemade tool number 1 on the thread...
full method of production here...
viewtopic.php?p=523388#p523388 (corrected now thanks Mick!)

Timing belt tensioner tool
Xsara Picasso 2.0 HDi

Neil, I like it Very resourceful!

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Is the "Genuine Biscuits" coach essential or could I get by with my alternative:

BFTW

[NewcastleFalcon]

Excellent, backgrounds add a touch of interest, to what would otherwise have been the Falcon homemade timing belt tensioner tool lying unflatteringly on a table.

I have used Car Mechanics open at the Barry Cade page, The AA book of British Birds, and my 100 best stations book amongst other things when photographing the normal mundanity of bits of car, parts, tools etc.

Neil

[CitroJim]

I was unaware of this thread until now... I'm sure I can find a few interesting items for it

Please do Jim, but today is not your first appearance on the thread . March 1st 2017,

That was a lifetime ago Neil! I can barely remember what happened yesterday, let alone 2017

[Rp0thejester]

I inherited a shed and tools 10yrs back and inherited this

and also my favourite tool attachment ever!!

[myglaren]

I had a screwdriver like the last one, got it in Sweden. Wonder where that went.
There seems to be a black hole specifically for tools around here.

[Rp0thejester]

I find it so useful as magnetic stuff give up after awhile. Great design, anti gravity but never seen another