Thread: Show The World How You've Modified Your Tools To Work For What You Needed/Razors etc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Hey Roy was I the first one to use that brass drift? It was the perfect tool in my opinion, I,,m going to have to have one of them myself!!!! Tc

I have a set of different sizes. One of my bigger ones I use for knocking the axle out of a Harley (or anything else) to keep from damaging the threads. I also have a big brass headed hammer.

Well.... new guy has reinvented the wheel hahaa
Saw a pinning anvil in a video a while back and thought, man thats pretty clever. holes drilled for pins and all. I didn't realize they were sold at SRparts.com for $20 lol live and learn. Im into mine for $18 with the shipping.

3 1/2 x7/8" D2 drilled for 1/16" and 1/8" pin stock, awaiting heat treat.

Originally Posted by AKmik

Well.... new guy has reinvented the wheel hahaa
Saw a pinning anvil in a video a while back and thought, man thats pretty clever. holes drilled for pins and all. I didn't realize they were sold at SRparts.com for $20 lol live and learn. Im into mine for $18 with the shipping.

3 1/2 x7/8" D2 drilled for 1/16" and 1/8" pin stock, awaiting heat treat.

I use a 9" piece of 1" X 1" key stock I drilled 1/16" holes in different depths, a hole for a 3/32" pin (rarely used) plus a hole to catch pins I knock out of old razors.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Hey Roy was I the first one to use that brass drift? It was the perfect tool in my opinion, I,,m going to have to have one of them myself!!!! Tc

Sorry about the late post but yes indeed you were the first to use that brass drift.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Gasoline works very well to slip rubber over metal and has the added advantage of once it dries, (a few minutes) the rubber is glued on. Just squirt a bit inside and slip it on, they become very slippery, and you have a few seconds to adjust the fit, if needed.

Years ago, when I worked in a Motorcycle shop, this is how we replaced rubber hand grips. You have to cut them off, once dry.

Hmm... never tried the gasoline trick. In our shop, we just used a compressed air nozzle and put it against the hole in the end of most grips, thumb over the other end of the handlebar, a bit of air and that grip would balloon up and slide right on.

The other way I'm familiar with is grip tape and grip fluid used for rubber handles on golf clubs... Those grips will NEVER let go!


Regards

Kaptain "The things you learn... after your retired" Zero

Originally Posted by AKmik

Well.... new guy has reinvented the wheel hahaa
...snip... 3 1/2 x7/8" D2 drilled for 1/16" and 1/8" pin stock, awaiting heat treat.

Nice job there!!
If you drill, with a larger bit, up through the holes from the bottom to about a ¼" from the top, the pins can drop free instead of wedging after the first couple pins.

~Richard

Originally Posted by AKmik

Well.... new guy has reinvented the wheel hahaa
Saw a pinning anvil in a video a while back and thought, man thats pretty clever. holes drilled for pins and all. I didn't realize they were sold at SRparts.com for $20 lol live and learn. Im into mine for $18 with the shipping.

3 1/2 x7/8" D2 drilled for 1/16" and 1/8" pin stock, awaiting heat treat.

It figures that some corporation took a backyard solution and turned it into a product sold for profit.

As I've said, this wasn't my idea (Got it from Geezer) here:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ml#post1595792

Here's my way of doing it/see post #83:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ors-etc-9.html

Where do they sell it? I like the looks of that block! Tc

Yep, good idea for our niche market. I tell you what I would have had a dozen for sale if they weren't being made. But , with them available for $20 I can't even think about it.
Great idea Geezer , I think I will drill a larger hole for disassembly. I have not heat treated it yet. I have a small 20lb bench anvil I have been using , this one will go on a new assembly bench I am building so can still drill and mod this one. I did coat it with anti scale and get it read to heat but its in stand by for now.

Here's another useful scrap made hootenanny . Just a little wrapped sand bag glued down to a piece of scrap hard board. I have a few of these in the shop. Very handy when you want to work on something small and odd shaped, not in a vice and without scratching. gets your work up off the bench a little. This one is my dirty one, I post these up because I found myself filing the tops of my clipped pins on mine yesterday. This one is a Crown Royal bag, fake suede.


And my clean pad is a piece of soft leather and plywood, no filing here. This one for scrimshaw and other clean work. The soft sand bag holds irregular shapes nicely for up close detail type work.



Razor is a Northfield Cutlery I rescaled.

The sandbags are a great idea, yes there are absolutely times when I need that. I like the look of that razor too!