Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

[TorontoBuilder]

I have lots of large taps and dies. Here’s a handful I pulled out of the bottom drawer. View attachment 55176
Nothing unusual about these. But the pics below are of an unusual thread cutting device that is used to clean-up existing threads not cut new threads. Often in the field you only need to make old damaged threads have a new lease on life.
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It will clear up dozens of thread pitches up to 4” in diameter.

Here’s another tool I’ve had for a long time but it has seen little use since getting out of the drilling business. Its a rather specialized puller.
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That appears to be the snap on thread repair tool TR-20

 

[Susquatch]

Vertical vise that triples as angle plate and two-piece table vise.

I have one like that made by Bridgeport.

Like many other old vises, the handle is missing. But an old 1/4 Allen drive works fine.



I've not taken it apart yet or cleaned it up. Project 42z6b.

But I can only imagine the gear train it must have inside it to drive the double lead screws.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

I have one like that made by Bridgeport.

Like many other old vises, the handle is missing. But an old 1/4 Allen drive works fine.

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I've not taken it apart yet or cleaned it up. Project 42z6b.

But I can only imagine the gear train it must have inside it to drive the double lead screws.

I must find such an animal

 

[Susquatch]

I must find such an animal

I got it with my Franken mill drill. Also got that Gerardi of mine with it. I'll never bitch about it being a raw deal. The mill had a billion problems, but the kit I got with it was worth 10x what I paid for the mill.

It was my first I SUCK moment.

 

[CWret]

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Only markings are a logo OTC and 897-A
Had it for 35+ years, no idea of origins.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Only markings are a logo OTC and 897-A
Had it for 35+ years, no idea of origins.

Outside Thread Chaser

They were made by others too, but same design.

 

[Darren]

OTC is a tool company....

 

[Susquatch]

Interesting. Seems OTC (originally Owatonna Tool Company) also makes an Outside Thread Chaser! It looks different than yours. Here is their tool:



And here is their Logo.





What does this logo on your tool look like?

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Interesting. Seems OTC (originally Owatonna Tool Company) also makes an Outside Thread Chaser! It looks different than yours. Here is their tool:

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And here is their Logo.


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What does this logo on your tool look like?

That's funny

 

[whydontu]

I don't have a logo on my tool, I believe it was cut off when I was 8 days old.

 

[CWret]

What does this logo on your tool look like?

Here’s the part# and close-up of the logo.
It looks like a quality / well made tool.

 

[CWret]

Oooops forgot to attach pics
(Had a Susq moment)

 

[Susquatch]

Oooops forgot to attach pics
(Had a Susq moment)

Too funny.

Close enough if you ask me. Your Outside Thread Cleanup tool looks like theirs too.

 

[RobinHood]

Here is my example of @MrWhoopee ‘s two piece table vice / holdown.

 

[ChazzC]

Vertical vise that triples as angle plate and two-piece table vise.

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Hmm, I wonder how my SMW Hobby Mod-Vise would work with one of my angle plates . . .

Thanks, Phineas: another item for the "After My Shoulder is Fixed" list!

 

[RobinHood]

And a few more unique items (some of you have already seen some of the items on display at one of the Calgary meet-ups):

1) A 3J chuck without a scroll - but the jaws still move in unison. This system uses a ring gear & pinions driving precision square threads to move the jaws.

2) Allmatic precision force multiplication / force limiting vice. Here is the link to the manufacturer:

Allmatic Bestellsystem / eShop | HD 100 | purchase online

HD 100 - Product features: Clamping force preselection, 2 to 4 increments, allows accurate repetition (type 100 – 2 increments types 125, 160 – 4 increments) Our tried and tested HD vice enables probl

www.allmatic.de

A cross-section of the mechanism.

3) 2 foot inside / outside calipers.

4) Super high precision height setting standard (it is not 100% functional - something is wrong with the laser inside; maybe someday I’ll send it in to Mitutoyo to get repaired).

5) Some old school mechanical rpm measuring devices; they both still work perfectly.

6) A precision swivel / tilting table Made in Japan. It works well, but takes up a lot of head space on the mill table.

7) Precision angle measuring device; it reads to the arc minute and is very easy to read with the built-in loupe.

8) Etalon depth measuring calliper.

 

[Darren]

Two piece vise:

JAM grinding vise:

Suburban 6" mag chuck:

 

[MrWhoopee]

Not to go too far OT, but if I were to keep a firearm in the house it would be a pump shotgun: most people will just go (run?) away when they hear it being cocked.

I wanted to make a small home security device that would produce the sound of a shell being racked into the chamber of a 12 ga.

 

[Darren]

I've been going about it all wrong. I keep one chambered so I can sneak up on them.

 

[CWret]

Sometimes the obvious is not obvious. Well not at first.

I have a pair of TE-CO toe clamps. (Thanks to @Stuart Samuel for putting me in contact with the seller during our Forum spring meet-up)

I tried them on the mill to hold a a large flat piece of steel. They worked great but that exercise made we wish i had another pair so i could clamp from 2 directions or locations.
A light went on this morning when i saw this picture (from Darren’s post above).







Oh so obvious - just clamp down a backstop and then use one of these to clamp towards it (just like a 2 piece vise).

Wow - Just overcame another brain fart!