Long Screwdriver.

[tanglediver]

Sometimes ya just need a looong screwdriver, but it may need to be a Phillips, or squaredrive or hex. My $0.50 fix was this.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1737/pa020003vx9.jpg
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http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6782/pa020005gb9.jpg
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[MAC702]

Harder than it looks, too. Nice job!

[distractor]

What have you dipped the handle in?
It looks like wax!

[David R]

One of those one time use tools. Although something like that may be needed again. Nice job.

David :)

[tanglediver]

What have you dipped the handle in?
It looks like wax!

Plasti-Dip. The handle is actually wood underneath. I made is just short enough to still fit in the box.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9416/pa02000801ct7.jpg

[farmersamm]

At that length I'd have trouble seeing the head of the screw :laugh:

[daddy]

I like it Danny, super nifty!

[duaneb55]

At that length I'd have trouble seeing the head of the screw :laugh:

I was going to say ,where's the scope for that thing! Nice job. Just how long is it anyway?

I've got a regular length one that I put a magnetic hex bit holder on in similar fashion with reversible bit so I didn't have to carry two drivers around.

Makes one wonder how many times someone has had to make a 'special' tool to get a job done? Sounds like a thread to me.:)

[denrep]

Overheard at Tanglediver's work:

"Hey Tanglediver, Have you seen my little stubby nut-driver collet?"

Ahh.... ;)

[duaneb55]

Overheard at Tanglediver's work:

"Hey Tanglediver, Have you seen my little stubby nut-driver collet?"

Ahh.... ;)

Shhhh!

[tanglediver]

I have about 1/2" on either end space inside the wide drawer of that box. It's at work and I didn't measure it!
"Where's your stubby nut driver collet?"
Where's that flange buster o' mine? :cry:

[tanglediver]

I was gonna start another thread, but this one out to do. I had to come up with a handle for a scissor jack. The jack was left over after a car crashed through the chainlink from the freeway onto the company lot years ago at a previous job.

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/1411/pa040001ov9.jpg
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So, if you had a Nissan come back from the body shop without the scissor jack, I have it right here.

[ProficientBumbler]

I was gonna start another thread, but this one out to do. I had to come up with a handle for a scissor jack. The jack was left over after a car crashed through the chainlink from the freeway onto the company lot years ago at a previous job.

Hijacked your own thread!

I do like seeing the creativity people do in tooling, for a once, maybe twice in a lifetime job!

The right tools make the job soooo much easier!

Good thread!

[fbrown333]

I have cut a socket in half and added a section of pipe to it more than once just to keep from having to drive 20 miles to the store to replace the one I had just broke :mad: Funny you know Sears will not warrenty them if you do that :laugh:

[Burnit]

[QUOTE=fbrown333;216989 Funny you know Sears will not warrenty them if you do that :laugh:[/QUOTE]

Or wrenches that have been ground down so they were thin enough to get at a fan clutch.
or the box end of a 22mm wrench that got a slot cut in it like a line wrench for an O2 sensor.

I have a drawer that has all my welded/ground/machined sockets and wrenches. I just wish I could remember what they were all for.

My favorites are the allen drivers made from an allen wrench and a socket

[CrimsonWelder]

Or wrenches that have been ground down so they were thin enough to get at a fan clutch.
or the box end of a 22mm wrench that got a slot cut in it like a line wrench for an O2 sensor.

I have a drawer that has all my welded/ground/machined sockets and wrenches. I just wish I could remember what they were all for.

My favorites are the allen drivers made from an allen wrench and a socket

Guilty!
I looked for my O2 socket for a while (no way to get a wrench on it) couldn't find it... cut a new socket... went to put it in the toolbox... yep (i looked there, i swear). so now i have two o2 sockets... i use the one i "made" because it makes me feel better hehe.


Oh, and i also modified one of those oil filter wrenches by welding the last 1/2" of a cut off nail (the sharp side) onto it in two places so i could grab this damn filter. that filter hangs in my shop to this day hehe.

[Supe]

Or wrenches that have been ground down so they were thin enough to get at a fan clutch.
or the box end of a 22mm wrench that got a slot cut in it like a line wrench for an O2 sensor.

I have a drawer that has all my welded/ground/machined sockets and wrenches. I just wish I could remember what they were all for.

My favorites are the allen drivers made from an allen wrench and a socket


Depends where you go. I had a wrench arc out on a rusty radiator support when disconnecting a battery cable some years back. When I pulled the wrench loose, a few inches of radiator support decided to come with it. Handed it to the guy at Sears, he just shook his head, and came back with a new one.