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Talk about homemade tools and ideas for homemade tools in this forum. If you post any of your homemade tools, they'll be automatically added to the HomemadeTools.net directory of homemade tools, and credited to your username. The best tools are awarded a $250 monthly prize. Tool tips and tricks should go in the Tool Tips and Tricks subforum.

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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Thousands of homemade tool plans

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  10. Lightbulb Welding table from scrap 25mm steel plate

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    gear cutting, gearbox, gears
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  16. Moved: DIY VISE STOP FOR MILLING MACHINE

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