Vape pen fell between driver seat and center console

[ShadowsPapa]

When I don't have the right tool - sometimes I make one -
I needed to remove the lock ring holding the sending unit and in-tank fuel pump from my car. It had been in place for years and a hammer and punch just didn't want to turn that ring. So I made a socket to remove it (using a spare sending unit lock ring as a pattern - on the right)

Marked a piece of pipe I cleaned up in my lathe, notched it for the lock ring tabs using a Dremel with cutoff wheel -

Another section of that same pipe size was cut, and opened up to fit around the "socket" and welded in place to hold the socket onto the lock ring so it couldn't slip off to the side -

Then I plated it yellow zinc.

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[Cburd61]

LOL - that is the result of having a shop in the mid-70s, then winning a contest and getting a set of tools at deep discount as part of the prize (Thank you, Plymouth!) and then working in shops as a mechanic off and on for decades.
That's definitely not an over-night collection.
And that doesn't include the stuff upstairs in the wood shop or a few tools in my garage (or in the house)
Maybe I'm a tool hoarder but when I want a tool for the job, I want it.
I have peg boards of specialty tools, a couple of tubs of Kent Moore tools from an AMC shop, valve and seat tools, CCing equipment, boring bar, rod hone, cam bearing installing tools, a cabinet of body tools, ugh. My wife keeps asking "what the #$@ am I going to do with all of this stuff someday?"
And I tell her - call Ian in Indiana, let him sell it off for you - and he can keep whatever he wants.

Ah, but do you have a 10MM?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Ah, but do you have a 10MM?

Not in 3/8" drive in the garage. I do in the shop.............. great, now I have to check.....

 

[WILDHOBO]

Ah, but do you have a 10MM?

I have 17 10mm sockets, box wrenches, shallow, deep, expensive, cheap. I swear everything is a 10.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Dan is opening a 10mm socket and wrench library - contact him if you need to borrow.

 

[Cburd61]

I’m kinda like Shadowspapa. I’ve got almost 50 years of accumulated tools. Everything from machinist tools, upholstery tools, and mechanics tools, to PDR and body work tools. Whitworth tools for working on classic Triumph motorcycles, specialty Harley tools, factory Studebaker tools………Almost like Bubba in Forest Gump. Only tools, instead of shrimp recipes.

 

[WILDHOBO]

I’m kinda like Shadowspapa. I’ve got almost 50 years of accumulated tools. Everything from machinist tools, upholstery tools, and mechanics tools, to PDR and body work tools. Whitworth tools for working on classic triumphs, specialty Harley tools, factory Studebaker tools………Almost like Bubba in Forest Gump. Only tools, instead of shrimp recipes.

Are you joining the contest?

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/largest-socket-contest-photo-required.77542/

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Front spring "compressors" for AMC up through 1969 -

Spring compressor for AMC front springs 1970-1988 -

And there's a tool for rebuilding GM tilt columns from the early 1970s.......

Or, how about - name that tool ->

or

 

[WILDHOBO]

Front spring "compressors" for AMC up through 1969 -

Spring compressor for AMC front springs 1970-1988 -

And there's a tool for rebuilding GM tilt columns from the early 1970s.......

Or, how about - name that tool ->

or

I’m guessing, but I’d say the top one is a bender of some kind. Bottom one, maybe for honing cylinders?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Bottom picture - for removing the hubs from rear axles to service rear axle bearings and seals on AMCs.

Next one up - the black "vice" is a piston vice - used to hold a piston while either cleaning or machining piston ring grooves, etc.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Bottom picture - for removing the hubs from rear axles to service rear axle bearings and seals on AMCs.

Next one up - the black "vice" is a piston vice - used to hold a piston while either cleaning or machining piston ring grooves, etc.

Dammit. Piston vice was genuinely my first thought. But I second guessed.

 

[Cburd61]

I forgot about the hub remover. I’ve got one stashed somewhere to remove the hubs on the CJ2.

 

[AstroZombie]

the engineers at Jeep are watching this thread and laughing at the marvel of their black hole. Just small enough so you can't get your hand in there but big enough to suck up anything within 6 inches of the opening. It probably is connected to a vacuum hose and is stronger when the engine is running!

 

[starrskream]

Just ask some kid with tiny hand to get it out lol

 

[starrskream]

Not in 3/8" drive in the garage. I do in the shop.............. great, now I have to check.....

by the time you get there it will be missing. It's probably between your seats lol

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