Thread: Tools needed for most landy repairs

Originally Posted by DEFENDERZOOK

you got a picture of this file...?

I do now.

Hoof_File.jpg

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

breaker bar? ratchet? why?

Put the socket on and then use the vice grips to hold the socket, jam the screwdriver into the vice grips then slide the ring end of a ring/openender over the handle and step on that...


If your going to get a breaker bar, get one of the ones that is looks like just a bent steel bar with square ends, the pins give out in the others at the most inconvenient times. And a good ratchet.

I buy my socket sets as a set of sockets then buy the extentions, breakers, ratchets and speed handles seperately.

My God, if you broke a flex bar then you either had a cheap and nasty one or did something totally out of order. The only one i have ever broken since an apprentice in 1959 was a 1/2" drive being used to loosen the pinion flange nut on an old Volvo. I had stopped the pinion from turning by use of a chain, shackles, and a turnbuckle around a suspension arm, and was using a hydraulic jack under the flex bar in an attempt to turn the large nyloc nut. Eventually I got the thing off with a home made tool. It turned out that some clown had loctited the nut to the pinion. The torque spec. for theseis 180ft/lb so they wouild not loosen easily in any case.

MY basic hand tools those usually accumulated by a fitter-machinist and motor enthusiast over almost fifty years since apprenticed:-

AF, Metric, Whitworth ring, ring/open end, open end wrenches, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, Allen & torx, sockets and accessories, multitudes of pliers, vise grips, multigrips, punches, clamps, pullers of all kinds, quantities of files of all shapes and sizes, scrapers, hammers small & large- ball,straight, cross pein, sledge, lead, plastic, hide etc. Feeler gauges:- metric and inch, steel and brass. Torque wrenches from in/lb to 400ft/lb. Dial gauges, bore gauges, dwell meter, timing lights, multi-meters, vacuum & pressure gauges. Deburring tools. Shifters 2" to 30". And so on.

Yet I still find jobs where I have to buy or borrow a tool. Start with the basics and just keep accumulating.

I have as well, stick & mig welder, lathe, drill press & drill bits parallel and taper shank from no.80 to 1 1/8" , three bench grinders all with dedicated wheels, a diamond wheel drill sharpener, linisher, micrometers inside to 12" & outside to 6" & 150mm. And many other items. If I had a bigger shed I would have two lathes,one bigger and one smaller than my current one, a universal mill with vertical head on a motorised overarm, anvil and forge, English wheel, guillotine, folder, rollers. A bigger drill press or radial arm drill (No.4 morse taper with power feed & geared head), & a high speed sensitive drill, at least three linishers.

Hope rests with Gold Lotto.

Is that similar to surform plane?





Which is just basically a kitchen grater with handles.

Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by Norm Mueller

I do now.

Hoof_File.jpg

Bastard!












just kidding - couldn't resist


anyway, I must have about 10 of those files in various lengths (inherited from Grandad the ex army engineer - along with assorted tools etc collected from his days at the proving grounds)