Simple homemade jigs and tools....

[DCL_dave]

Hi,

Here's a very crude but handy little gizmo I made to press a countersunk recess into a steel washer using a big vice. I made it a few years ago, long before I got a lathe...and as you can see it is as simple as you like, bit of a Gem barrel with the end bored out to form a simple die and a cut-down wood screw as punch, but it works so well that I haven't bothered making anything fancier for the purpose since...

What little jigs or tools have you made and use?

[look no hands]

The only two things I can think of, which aren't really that special are a modified flat blade screwdriver with a slot cut in the end to help undo/do up the slotted nut on the hinge bolt on the later BSA Mercury and Challengers, I also got my friend who has a lathe to make me up a small boss that slides over the spindle on my bench grinder so I can use an angle grinder cutting disk to cut main springs as I always found it a pain trying to cut through springs with a hacksaw.

Pete

[DCL_dave]

The only two things I can think of, which aren't really that special are a modified flat blade screwdriver with a slot cut in the end to help undo/do up the slotted nut on the hinge bolt on the later BSA Mercury and Challengers, I also got my friend who has a lathe to make me up a small boss that slides over the spindle on my bench grinder so I can use an angle grinder cutting disk to cut main springs as I always found it a pain trying to cut through springs with a hacksaw.

Pete

Hi Pete,

That's exactly the sort of thing I mean, those simplest of tools that were bashed together to do a job yet have prove themselves worthy time and time again...a good example being the indispensable broom handle tool that makes stripping a Meteor easy.

Here's a pic a simple jig that goes in a drill press. I use it to cut breech seals from very thick leather...which it cuts through like butter!

[edbear2]

Hi Dave,

Because I have access at work most of my stuff can be made a bit better, such as this fixture to hold a BSA barrel steady whilst dovetailing (the action was held in the mill vise by the flats on the breech);

https://www.flickr.com/photos/312284...7623019958012/

However at home when caught out it's angle grinder and dremel like everyone else and a couple that spring to mind are a modified air tool spanner (flat steel stock) to do Diana 50 front screws, or a deep socket attacked with a Dremel to fit the nut which secures the stock on early Airsporters, Or even two or three spanners with some tape over inserted in a tight Weihrauch breech block trigger slot so I could it started

ATB, Ed

[aimless]

Hi, this is my home-made "clamp" to rask (?) or saw(?) srews. Just make the threads and then cut the piece with a saw. Dont forget the big bore to make the device "elastic"...

(Please excuse my humble technical english)

http://sta.sh/22a1vt37432j?edit=1

[deejayuu]

Ring nut spanner