Improvised tool

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Oct 13, 2021, 11:58 AM
mklotz

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Improvised tool

Making new tools is good exercise for creativity skills. Improvising tools from available materials can be equally educational - and entertaining as well.

My wife has a cake transporter - effectively a large plastic dome-like shape that attaches, via clamps, to a tray that serves as the base for the cake. She wanted to know how tall a cake she could carry in it.

After some mental design work with combinations of yard sticks and tape measures I hit on a much simpler method. I stuck a telescoping pocket magnet to a steel disk and set this upright on the transporter base with it extended to a length greater than the height of the cover. Then it was simply a matter of putting the cover on the transporter, thus compacting the magnet. Remove magnet and measure comfortably with a ruler.

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Oct 13, 2021, 11:20 PM
schuylergrace

Well, that's thinkin' with your telescoping pocket magnet! Now, we know why she married you!
Oct 14, 2021, 04:35 AM
DIYer


Thanks mklotz! We've added your Cake Transporter Height Gauge to our Measuring and Marking category,
as well as to your builder page: mklotz's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

<div id="blocks"> <div class="block b1 pngfix"> <div class="bimg"> <div> <a href="https://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-cake-transporter-height-gauge"> <img src="/uploads/251322/homemade-cake-transporter-height-gauge.jpeg"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="head pngfix"></div> <div class="left pngfix"></div> <div class="right pngfix"></div> <div class="blockover b1 pngfix"> <div class="title"> <a href="https://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-cake-transporter-height-gauge">Cake Transporter Height Gauge</a> <span> by <a href="https://www.homemadetools.net/builder/mklotz">mklotz</a></span> </div> <div class="tags">tags: <a href='https://www.homemadetools.net/tag/magnet'>magnet</a>, <a href='https://www.homemadetools.net/tag/height-gauge'>height gauge</a> </div> </div> </div> </div>