Tools - Show Me Your DIY Tools

[Supratada]

I got a reflecting telescope from that tip too. All that was wrong was a broken clamp. Since then they've changed staff and now you can't take stuff away. Annoying because there was a nice 90's Marin there a few months back, all complete. Bikes go to a recycling charity in York though, so its a bit "off" to deny a charity so I can sell parts.

 

[MuchAlohaNui]

Makeshift headset press and an expanding cup remover. Screw in the cone from the other end and the cut seat-post expands so it butts up nicely to the head set cups. I call it the Butt-Plug.
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Modern bikes - BB thru axle stand. Modified from an existing stand with some light welding to add the gusset brace. It will just about support
my e-bike.

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Heavy Duty version for e-Bike, made from a Ducati stand that some bloke was throwing away at the tip.
I added the thinner bar to the main motorobike sized axle tube thing.
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Homemade workstand, entirely from bits in the workshop, including some samples of door ironmongery.View attachment 780263View attachment 780265

Wheel truing stand, made from legs of a very old MFI office desk, and a bit of a chair frame.
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Not bike related, but this was a crankshaft locking toolset I made for Toyota Supras, back in the day. I sold it eventually. Its heavy sections of steel, mirror polished. Note, foam deforms with heavy steel in, so it had to be stored flat or eveything started to "migrate"
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Some cool stuff. I like the trueing stand.

 

[novocaine]

Thanks guys, contraptions like this are indeed the reason for me being given my nickname. Hope to be promoted to Professor Proxxon some day

A couple more from "the lab", albeit a bit less inspired, but still in the vein of "if it looks stupid but works, it ain´t stupid"

Seat tube sander
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Chain whip
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we used to lap gun bores (non barrel, so breach, action etc.) in a similar way to your seat tube sander, we called them flag lappers.

 

[madjh]

Mine is one of this, and little more. A long screw for head sets, some tools for the BB and to stract the casete and crank set. But this one is my tool for every thing.



And this hammer I can change both sizes if needed.