home made shop tools etc?

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by ETsC10

The wealth of information your dad gave you so you could even
identify these tools is astounding!

Please continue...I'm lovin' this thread!

I have used, and continue to use, most of these; but you are right - I certainly appreciate both the knowledge and the hardware that my dad passed to me.

Here's a few more:

The aforementioned homemade cam degree wheel:



This is a homemade stand, used to hold a burette (like you might see in science class) while cc'ing cylinder heads:



And, these are PVC pipe construction but are slipped over axle shafts during storage, to keep them from getting coated with dirt and fuzz:

[Keith Seymore]

Found a couple more.

This is a spacer, used as a fixture for widening a steel wheel.







The length of the spacer corresponds to the final wheel width.

We used to widen wheels by preserving the front half (thereby keeping the dimensional integrity between the wheel spider and the front face of the rim) and by cutting the back portion off the wheel.

A new back portion, from a different wheel and with an additional 2", would then be fixtured to the front face/spider, using this spacer as a checking fixture.

A small plate was affixed in four locations, allowing for minute adjustments of the donor portion. Once the radial and lateral runout are within spec then the two halves can be welded together.




Here is a finished sample, a 10" Corvette rally with the front spacing preserved and the 2" added to the rear.