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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 $100 weekly prize. Tool tips and tricks should go in the Tool Tips and Tricks subforum.

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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Best Homemade Tool of the Week - $100 weekly award

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  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: Thousands of homemade tool plans

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  1. Quick Defroster Plate

    Started by tony b, Sep 12, 2020 10:15 AM
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  2. Moved: Building a Dustless Vacuum Blaster

    Started by tony b, Feb 21, 2020 06:57 PM
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  3. Moved: Motorizing my Bead Roller..Cheap

    Started by tony b, Oct 15, 2019 06:20 AM
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  4. Slide Hammer Safety Modification

    Started by tony b, May 23, 2020 07:47 PM
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  5. Moved: Bead Tubing on your Bead Roller

    Started by tony b, Jan 4, 2020 09:52 PM
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  6. Building a Compact Material Rack for Metal

    Started by tony b, Sep 30, 2020 08:46 PM
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  7. Moved: Vintage style shifter

    Started by tony b, Jan 18, 2020 04:41 PM
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  8. Moved: Welding Helmet Light

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  9. DIY Automatic Transmission Lifting/Holding Fixture

    Started by tony b, Dec 10, 2019 02:30 PM
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  10. Moved: Outrigger Leg for English Wheel

    Started by tony b, May 13, 2020 07:49 PM
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  11. power hammer plqns

    Started by TONY2012, Nov 24, 2015 09:31 AM
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  12. Moved: Home made horizontal milling machine.

    Started by tonyfoale, Dec 16, 2016 04:14 PM
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  13. Moved: Grinding machine for drum brakes.

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  14. Welder trolley.

    Started by tonyfoale, Jan 12, 2017 11:06 AM
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  15. Moved: Adding a morse taper to drill press.

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  16. Moved: Inverting an hydraulic jack for a workshop press.

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  17. Moved: Tailstock alignment.

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  18. Moved: Cylinder boring without a cylinder borer.

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  19. Moved: Piston crown thickness measuring thingie.

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  20. Moved: Why crowned pulleys and bandsaw wheels?

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