Custom made shop tools

[PlayingWithTBI]

Ones at work are now 3 years old.

I have an old CP die grinder that's over 20 years old. I use it regularly - at least once or twice a year

 

[Moparmat2000]

Sheetmetal and sheet materials storage rack. I picked up the wheels from China freight, and some 3/4" thin wall tubing to make the sideboard frames. I had sheet masonite board, a couple rattle cans of yellow rustoleum, 3/16" pop rivets, the 2" angle, 1" tube, plus plastic end caps for the 1" tube. Took me about 5 hours to make and paint, and a couple hours to cut, drill and pop rivet the masonite on. Much more handy to roll this around than leaning these materials against something and having to keep moving it out of the way a piece at a time. I have some sheet steel that's 3/32" and 1/8'. That's thick stuff.

 

[Moparmat2000]

I made this years ago when I used to buy my oil in quarts. every few oil changes and I would have almost another quart saved up. It worked great, now it comes in those 5 quart containers. I never use it. In the scrap trailer it goes.

 

[Orpedcrow]

I made this years ago when I used to buy my oil in quarts. every few oil changes and I would have almost another quart saved up. It worked great, now it comes in those 5 quart containers. I never use it. In the scrap trailer it goes.

I want one of those. I still use a bunch of quart bottles.

 

[Erik the Awful]

I read about a kid who won a science fair by figuring out the optimum amount of time to keep an oil bottle inverted. It was something like 30 seconds after it slows to a tiny stream. You lose something like 5-10% of the oil in the container if you don't, which tracks with what @Moparmat2000 says about his tool. I got in the habit of just inverting the bottle and setting it in the fill hole and leaving it for a minute or so before moving on to the next bottle.

 

[Moparmat2000]

I want one of those. I still use a bunch of quart bottles.

I had a small funnel with it attached to a lanyard. I clipped the lanyard, but can include the funnel If you want it, PM me your name and address, and I will box it up and get you a cost to send it. Just PayPal me the shipping costs for it. Send it as friends and family, not goods and services.

 

[Moparmat2000]

All my air operated die grinders use the same keys except my inline grinder. Why it was decided by the manufacturer to make these a different size I dont know, but I fixed it. Now I can find these little buggers quickly.

 

[Moparmat2000]

Building a wireless charging base for the shop out of .050" aluminum. This gets my phone and wires off the workbench and out of the way. Now that the black paint is dry, I will glue the charging base in and attach it to the book shelf. The notch in the very bottom is to allow space for my plug in cord for the phone to run pandora to my stereo.

 

[Moparmat2000]

Done. Works great. Gonna tuck the wire up nice and neat.

 

[Moparmat2000]

The final installment of wire free phone and music in the shop. I mean tunes are a very important part of shop time, dare I say a tool in it's own right. I used a small bluetooth wireless reciever that plugs into the aux jack. Now while the music is running, I can charge the phone, and when I need to pick it up to take pix of what I'm working on, I dont unplug anything. Plus the 2 cords I got rid of. The charger power cord I just taped in place out of the way, and I have a short USB cord to recharge the wireless reciever.