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ryoken

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my occupation definitely lends itself more to this than most, but this can apply to anyone from an electrician to a maintenence guy to a weekend wrench...

what kind of odd tools have you found to be helpful? obviously I'm not talking phillips screwdriver and 9/16 combo wrench here. but odd varioations of said could apply...

some may remember me mentioning the videostick i have... sure it's not a $1000+ Snappie boroscope, but for $300, it gets used a TON.. and never on cylinders, go figure....

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one of the others i love, tho i don't use it as nearly as much as i did in the past, and i've never seen anyone else use is


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syphon sucky cleaning tool....

anyway, i have tons of very strange implements of repair that i use... heck, i keep a paper clip in my bag for "tricking" icemakers into cycling for winterizing... :haha: i'll post some more later...

oh, here's another, retractable jumper leads... tiny pic..

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so what odd tools have you found useful? :popcorn:
 
well I'm sure you can testify to this.... ever price out Snappie boroscopes? they start about a grand and go upwards of 10 g's..... well, they did at one point....

the first video one i saw was about $600.. my Mac guy had this one for $350, and I knocked em down 50...

for my job, it's rediculous how invaluable it is... possibly leaky rear main, BURIED in some twin I/O boat, PERFECT... serial #'s on said blocks, perfect... behind walls, etc, etc....

I love the syphon tool, haven't used it in awhile.... killer for douching out a motor on a stand....

heck, I make my own sanding blocks for bodywork...

oooh, how about encapsulated wire wheels? it's THE best tool for removing seam sealer...
 
The Milwuakee one is great for home improvement uses, and that is what it is intended for. It doesn't state it there, but the thing is 14mm wide at the camera end. that is too big to go into a cylinder if you ever want to.

Like Ryoken said, the main uses of these video borescopes have NOTHING to do with going through a spark plug hole. I've used them with customers going down through pushrod holes to inspect lifters and look for debris. Looking under and behind intake manifolds for leaks. The uses are darn near endless. Going into a cylinder is just a trick in comparison to most of the uses.

The Videostik is available in a 10mm head and 6.5mm head. The 10mm is a memory whip, that holds the shape you bend it into. The 6.5mm one is just flexible and doesn't retain memory so that is only for the small holes you may need to go into.


My person absolute 100% favorite "Unusual Tool", is the Induction Innovations Mini-Ductor. I know I have mentioned it before and I will again, the thing is AWESOME. Anywhere you would use a torch to just heat something up, this thing is the ticket. Even places you've never dream of using a torch, you can safely do with it.

It creates an field of current flow that heats metal from the inside out. Not just ferrous metals either. The thing works like a champ! I used to carry a SBC Main bolt around in a pair of vice grips to demonstrate the tool. I'd plug it in, and in 30-45 seconds the bolt would be glowing red! It saves on consumables(Oxygen/Acetylene) and all it takes is 110V power for the time you are using it. You can more evenly heat things like bearing racers, exhaust pipes, and shafts. No more "chasing" the heat around like you do with a torch. This thing is a MUST have. I would especially think for you Ryoken, down in the hull of a boat you probably are limited as to wear a torch can be used.

They came out with a new more streamlined Mini-Ductor II now that has LED lights on the end. It sells for between $400-500 and in my opinion is worth every freaking penny.
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yeah, mines the 6.5

if I still worked on mixers, I think I'd really want that inductor thing...

how bout hose pick's...

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i must own a dozen, from the new long radiator ones to oldschool cotter pin pullers..... before Snappie knew to call it that... :haha: boats have a million and one hoses... makes a nice weatherstrip tool too...
 
I lucked out, I got my 10 mm videostick for $199 from my MAC man before he went belly up.
 
ryoken said:
yeah, mines the 6.5

if I still worked on mixers, I think I'd really want that inductor thing...

how bout hose pick's...

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i must own a dozen, from the new long radiator ones to oldschool cotter pin pullers..... before Snappie knew to call it that... :haha: boats have a million and one hoses... makes a nice weatherstrip tool too...
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I own $3 worth of picks after that kragen in house tool sale.....and can't BELIEVE how much i have used them since.
 
smalltruckbigcid said:
I got a set of torque adapters When the socket has to go around square corners these are the ticket.
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I'll be buying gearwrench indexing wrenches for that this spring when they come out. Set the angle of the box to like 10 increments any direction.

Other than that my tools are all normal...
 
No pictures but I made a tool for the getting carrier bearings off using a normal gear splitter, drilled some holes in the gear splitter, made 2 or 3 plates to go on top of it. It will pull a carrier bearing with no risk of damaging said bearing.
 
I bought a standard and metric set. My reason was for doing block heaters on Cummins ISX engines. The front bolt is sort of hidden behind a water tube.
 
They come with instructions that give you the formula to correct for the offset of them. You measure the length of the adapter, plug it into the formula with your desired torque spec, and it tells you what to set your torque wrench to so you can reach that spec.
 
sled_dog said:
They come with instructions that give you the formula to correct for the offset of them. You measure the length of the adapter, plug it into the formula with your desired torque spec, and it tells you what to set your torque wrench to so you can reach that spec.
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Got it. Cool!
 
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