home made tools

[crazy steve]

It is mate, i broke one to sell on ebay and that part didn't sell.

Well, then this is yet another anomoly in what is shown as the 'right' part vs what may have been installed on the line; what mine are and what the parts fiche shows are these: http://www.benefiscal.co.uk/partinfo...J7-22141-00-00

[bikerphil]

Fork cap removal/installation tool for the Special.....

[Ken Talbot]

Tool for removing float pivot pins. Works on the principle of a chain breaker:





No more broken posts!

[CatatonicBug]

Tool for removing float pivot pins. Works on the principle of a chain breaker:





No more broken posts!

Very nice! You don't happen to have a drawing with dimensions, do ya'?

[Ken Talbot]

I've got a dxf file that I can send via e-mail if you want to send me your real e-mail address in a PM. There is also a copy posted in the files section of the old Yahoo site at http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/xs11/files/ for anybody who is subscribed there:

[subike]

Ken I believe that your little tool will be the most common copied on this forum, that has almost got to be THE tool for any XS owner!!
and even small enuff to be kept in the tool kit!

[Jamie]

Ken,
Why don't you make a bunch of these and sell them to members here on the board, I know I would buy one. Great idea for a testy little task.

[CatatonicBug]

I've got a dxf file that I can send via e-mail if you want to send me your real e-mail address in a PM. There is also a copy posted in the files section of the old Yahoo site at http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/xs11/files/ for anybody who is subscribed there:

Well, DXF files can only be opened with Autocad. Can you print it to a PDF file (using a pdf writer like CutePDF) or use the MS Document Image Writer printer and make a .tif file, and post it here? I agree - that tool is incredible! It's simple, yet solves a problem that the folks around here have a HUGE problem with. I'm suprised I've never seen that one before!

[Ken Talbot]

An easier way for folks to work on this would be to browse through the long thread that traces the development of the concept and the extensive collaboration that went into it. You can jump to the part with the critical dimensions at about the end of page five here.

Be sure to go back to the start of the thread to get a good flavour of all the work that went into it, and how MRO actually made the major breakthrough

[CatatonicBug]

An easier way for folks to work on this would be to browse through the long thread that traces the development of the concept and the extensive collaboration that went into it. You can jump to the part with the critical dimensions at about the end of page five here.

Be sure to go back to the start of the thread to get a good flavour of all the work that went into it, and how MRO actually made the major breakthrough

Perfect! That's what I needed!

[CatatonicBug]

Actually, now that I've read that thread, I think the slotted option might be the better way to go. It would be easier to produce, and you would be able to handle both versions of posts. Too bad Guy's picture is gone...

[xs11jack]

Thanks KEN

I built one of your carb float pin pushers a couple of years ago after seeing yours. I chucked my threaded pusher in a drill press and with a file, ground the tip smaller, about the size of the pin. I found a old plastic knob in one of my junk drawers( what? you only have ONE junk drawer? shame on you!) and epoxied it on the end to make it turn easier.
Ole "love this thread" Jack

[subike]

Perfect! That's what I needed!

thanks for the link to that thread, I will have one of these in my tool kit by tomorrow.

[b.walker5]

Does this count...??

Not quite a tool but it's what I've been building lately.



Ran it for the first time yesterday. Got 4 litres of clean spirit at 87%.

Got lots of homemade tools as well. Will take some pics and post.

[fredintoon]

Not quite a tool but it's what I've been building lately.
Ran it for the first time yesterday. Got 4 litres of clean spirit at 87%.

Hi Brian,
should you post that where the revenooers might see it?