Shop Made Tools

[Jim Stewart]

If you think you are being clever and humourous with the use of "yews" you are sadly mistaken.

Ummm, why so harsh? Looks to me like we simply have a translation problem...

-js

[J Tiers]

Ummm, why so harsh? Looks to me like we simply have a translation problem...

-js

Yes, and I have been trying to figure out what the part that has been translated to "yews" is. Not jaws, not maybe "vise", cannot quite get it.

[Dave C]

I think he must be talking about a gib.

[Ironbearmarine]

Here’s another shop made tool. Its rough and bodgered together, but it works and might give Rube Goldberg a chuckle, God rest his merry soul.
Having at one time a full on blacksmith shop, i had decided i needed a small smithy as part of my current evolution. So saying, i pulled an anvil out of storage and acquired a little set of tongs and hammers. I made a gas forge from a propane tank and some plumbing. All was well. Then i decided i needed a small powered hammer. In the past i owned a couple of industrial hammers, and i have the wherewithal to build one of the many welded up pneumatic or mechanical hammers, but i wanted to cobble up something archaic, fun and made from stuff laying around the shop. So here is my interpretation of a Da Vinci cam hammer. The heavy posts are black locust and the pillow blocks are lignum vitae. The cam is built up fir blocks and plywood and the bearing surface is a strap of 16 ga. white brass. The anvil is 4130 steel and the anvil can be changed out for swages and dies. I started with a 10 pound single jack, but later switched out for a 20 pound jack. A combination of pulleys brought the speed of the cam to about 70 rpm. The motor is mounted to a hinged frame which extends forward and terminates as a foot treadle. Depressing the treadle tensions the drive belt and away we go!

[Bruno Mueller]

If you think you are being clever and humourous with the use of "yews" you are sadly mistaken.

@ Pensioner
He comes from the Cyrillic speaking area. This can be Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine or Russia. Please look up this small translation error.
Surely he means the right thing, namely the vice jaws.

[Arcane]

@ Pensioner
He comes from the Cyrillic speaking area. This can be Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine or Russia. Please look up this small translation error.
Surely he means the right thing, namely the vice jaws.

Oh, that explains it then. Thanks for clearing it up and my apologies to pensioner for misinterpreting his use of the word.

[mickeyf]

fun and made from stuff laying around the shop

My kinda stuff! The fact that the hammer is practical does not keep it from being a hoot!

[J Harp]

I like it. Good old practical making do with what you have to make do with.

[flathead4]

Here’s another shop made tool. Its rough and bodgered together, but it works and might give Rube Goldberg a chuckle, God rest his merry soul.
Having at one time a full

I like it. My only negative comment is that it looks like you could push it over from the side. Is it just plain heavy enough that it is not the case?

[pensioner]

Guys, I realized that Google translated my message as "Chinese instructions for their product", and I have no offense, and you do not bother me. I am from Ukraine and I use google translation.

[Bruno Mueller]

@ Pensioner
I use the Deepl Translator, which is much better than Google.

https://www.deepl.com/translator

oh sorry the program does not translate Ukrainian.
Русский язык переводится во всех случаях.

[Mcgyver]

If you think you are being clever and humourous with the use of "yews" you are sadly mistaken.

so what is a yew anyway that caused a reaction like that?

[Bruno Mueller]

so what is a yew anyway that caused a reaction like that?

A yew is a tree in the German-speaking world.
The Latin term for it is "Taxus baccata", similar to a cypress "Cupressus".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_baccata

[Dave C]

This was much ado about nothing

[outlawspeeder]

I needed a larger snap ring tool.
The pins are recycled broken mill ends. The rest is scraps I had sitting in the shop.