Home made tools

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

That sounds a bit scary....

I assumed you'd be a precision tool kinda guy Dave...

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He has a precision sledge hammer. :p

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Originally Posted by p38arover

He has a precision sledge hammer. :p

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There are people who have the exact precise tool do do every job close at hand, then there are those who know exactly how much force needs to be applied, no friggin micrometers or torque wrenches needed, and can use a lump hammer as a precision implement.:):):) That takes real skill.:D

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Originally Posted by bee utey

There are people who have the exact precise tool do do every job close at hand, then there are those who know exactly how much force needs to be applied, no friggin micrometers or torque wrenches needed, and can use a lump hammer as a precision implement.:):):) That takes real skill.:D

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Well i'd love you to show me how you can turn a perfectly level surface on a shaft without a lathe or end mill...

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

Well i'd love you to show me how you can turn a perfectly level surface on a shaft without a lathe or end mill...

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But then some people are different to me and only fit parts instead of making some custom ones, it's pretty hard to buy off the shelf bits when your 103 year old car is the only one in existence....

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

But then some people are different to me and only fit parts instead of making some custom ones, it's pretty hard to buy off the shelf bits when your 103 year old car is the only one in existence....

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What 103 year car?

:rulez:

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

But then some people are different to me and only fit parts instead of making some custom ones, it's pretty hard to buy off the shelf bits when your 103 year old car is the only one in existence....

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One consolation is that those early veterans were made by blacksmiths, fitters, and carpenters with hand tools and what are considered today to be primitive machines.

Anything they made then can be duplicated with relative ease today. Exponentially better machine tools, better foundry techniques, better matallurgy.

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

Well i'd love you to show me how you can turn a perfectly level surface on a shaft without a lathe or end mill...

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In high school metalwork class we were expected to use hand files to make level surfaces. It's all in the wrist action...:)

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Originally Posted by bee utey

In high school metalwork class we were expected to use hand files to make level surfaces. It's all in the wrist action...:)

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Meant as in turning down a shaft, i just worded it badly...

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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

What 103 year car?

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This car driving a vintage racing car - 1909 S.C.A.T. was the one i was talking about in that post, there are others in the family, just not detailed on the interweb, i'll make a thread about them some day.

And they still had lathes and mills back then, just a lot lower technology, i don't know how you would restore one without at least access to a lathe...

Cheers
Will

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

This car driving a vintage racing car - 1909 S.C.A.T. was the one i was talking about in that post, there are others in the family, just not detailed on the interweb, i'll make a thread about them some day.

And they still had lathes and mills back then, just a lot lower technology, i don't know how you would restore one without at least access to a lathe...

Cheers
Will

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You make the lathe to suit your job. Give a (traditional) blacksmith a red gum log, a file, an axe and a couple of railway spikes or similar, he can forge a couple of centres and turn your shaft to any degree of precision needed for a vintage car. Accuracy is determined by hand made go/no-go slip gauges, all it takes is skill, time and Will (sorry, I mean will) :):):)

BTW a blacksmith made his own files, too.