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Some of you have already seen my 2" riser hole-saw:

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Perfect for cutting accurate holes through a soffit and straight up through the roof.....




Here's another: An accessory I make for my CreepZit (Other outfits are making these sticks nowadays, but LSD was the first. LSD now offers this little gizmo in an accessory kit, but I had to make my own years ago), and it works slicker than snot on a doorknob.

Took a brass toilet overflow stand-off from the plumbing department, cut it shorter and rethreaded it. I also smashed it down a bit to give it a narrower profile. 6-32 thread, because that's what the sticks use (they're not anymore if you buy a new set... more like 8-32 or 10-24), and attached a steel lamp chain. Not aluminum or stainless steel, just plain steel. That way, I can push it down/up/across a stud/joist cavity, and use the flexible magnet to 'catch' it and pull it out. Perfect for fishing wires into boxes in finished walls, etc.

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Anyone else got home-made tools they'd like to share?
 
480sparky said:
Some of you have already seen my 2" riser hole-saw:

DSC_0480a.jpg


DSC_0478a.jpg


DSC_0479a.jpg


Perfect for cutting accurate holes through a soffit and straight up through the roof.....




Here's another: An accessory I make for my CreepZit (Other outfits are making these sticks nowadays, but LSD was the first. LSD now offers this little gizmo in an accessory kit, but I had to make my own years ago), and it works slicker than snot on a doorknob.

Took a brass toilet overflow stand-off from the plumbing department, cut it shorter and rethreaded it. I also smashed it down a bit to give it a narrower profile. 6-32 thread, because that's what the sticks use (they're not anymore if you buy a new set... more like 8-32 or 10-24), and attached a steel lamp chain. Not aluminum or stainless steel, just plain steel. That way, I can push it down/up/across a stud/joist cavity, and use the flexible magnet to 'catch' it and pull it out. Perfect for fishing wires into boxes in finished walls, etc.

Creepzit2.jpg


Creepzit3.jpg


Creepzit1.jpg




Anyone else got home-made tools they'd like to share?
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thats a damn good idea with the magnet....sometimes its hell fishing into the box...can't wait to try this
 
Not real exciting, but I made some drift pins for joining bus sections in gear from ceiling pencil rods....just grind/taper the end to a point :D
 
Nearly all of our tools are custom made, but I dont think anyone would care to see them, plus they are trade secrets so I would probally get canned for posting them.
 
zog said:
Nearly all of our tools are custom made, but I dont think anyone would care to see them, plus they are trade secrets so I would probally get canned for posting them.
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Posting about not being able to post items we probably don't want to see.

I love it.:smile:
 
480 I use those flexible magnets all the time. I also have a set of old fish sticks, 24 feet total. I have been fastening a steel ball chain to a drilled bullet end, I'll have to make one like yours. The one that came with my rods had about 6" of chain on it and it was cheaply made, once it broke there was no way to fix it.

I have gotton real good at dropping it into existing boxes. My helpers will try and say "It's not there" then I'll grab the magnet from them and pull it up to the KO, then grab it with needle nose.

Once I dropped the steel chain on the floor and it landed right where the drill was plugged into the extension cord (with a gap of course). Shorted across both blades, had to get a new chain that day.

One other good tool for fishing is seismic (grid) wire.
 
Another time I had a hole drilled thru 3 wall studs from the end of the wall where it butted against the hallway where they wanted a light. There was a recep in the 3rd cavity. I put a length of 1/4" copper tubing thru the holes, fed in the 1/8" ball chain to the 3rd cavity and dropped it to the recep. Mounted a turn switch sconce on a pancake in the hallway and didn't have anything to patch.
 
These are a couple homemade tools. The ground rod pounder is solid steel except for the slide base,very heavy. I now use a demo hammer to pound them. The wire bender doesn't look good but works well. Hope to see something good i can copy. Jason
 
NolaTigaBait said:
ok ok...what is it?
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Oh dont mind if I do now that you asked!!!!!!!!!!!!:smile:. Tape the head of the see snake to the end of a j hooked fish stick so you can see the hook in your camera view a couple of inches ahead of the camera. Baby it is mad genius. Reach in and guide the fish hook by see snake camera. It is arthroscopic fishsticking. I use it all the time now..
 
quogueelectric said:
Oh dont mind if I do now that you asked!!!!!!!!!!!!:smile:. Tape the head of the see snake to the end of a j hooked fish stick so you can see the hook in your camera view a couple of inches ahead of the camera. Baby it is mad genius. Reach in and guide the fish hook by see snake camera. It is arthroscopic fishsticking. I use it all the time now..
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that's pretty good... glad i asked
 
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