DIY: Homemade Motorcycle Tools

No Shervin.

There is some dreck, and plenty of diamonds. Definitely worth a bookmark.

http://www.homemadetools.net/category/motorcycle

-jim

 

Expected some real hack but most are real cool. Thanx.

 

I couldn't keep browsing for long. Some of the stuff is actually tools you can buy. I have 53 tools hanging in my shop that could go on that site.

 

built a tire changer (like no-mar) out of aluminum profiles and put the bar together out of 1/2" pipe.

got a no-mar for cheap and ditched the DIY-one

 

I made the tool for Ohlins cartridges out of a piece of pipe I had in the shop because I didn't want to wait on the real one.

 

I have about 15 and I don't do what you do. I make a lot of my own stuff, mainly due to poor planning but I also like to make stuff. If I make something that works good and I'm making a final aka prettier one I'll make 3-5 of them as most of the shit that's specialty people will ask to borrow. I just give them away as needed.

 

I wish I could afford to give tools away. I find a process that needs a tool and make a prototype, then tweak it after using it and inquire around about demand. Because a lot of them are motorcycle specialized, demand is small. I'll make ten or twenty and end up sitting on eighteen of them for a long time. I have a shelf with that stuff on it. Curved wrenches for inaccessible shock adjustments, engine building tools, fork tools, clutch holders, bearing drivers, etc. I make them because I need them. Friends say, "that's cool!" Then nobody buys them. At least I have them to make my life easier.

 

I always end up making Ducati tools. Clutch basket holders, half ring setting tool, etc.

 

Like I stated, we are in different worlds. I make my own tools because I like to, not have to. I am also lucky to have access to a great machine shop as well as free material so that makes it easier. If I made them to sell them it would not be worth making because it would be no fun to me.

 

Very cool stuff....thanx Jim.

 

Yes - if only there was someplace on the web where motorcycle people gathered that you could cheaply place a classified ad with pictures to sell some of your tools to like minded people... some sort of message board perhaps. Ah well...

 

Definitely worth a browse through there, if only to admire some of the work. Thanks!

 

The problem is, is that nobody(or very few) wants to pay enough to make it worth while. Machining/machinst are probably the most undervalued skill on the sidework market. People will pay 80-90% of going market rate for electricians, body men, plumbers, all stuff they can do themselves, but they want a machinist to make a trinket for $20 that would take hours to make, not including designing part.

 

Yepper. It's very time consuming to say the least. A good machinist is worth their weight in gold.

 

The case splitter was great. A putty knife

 

I'm quoting this just because it needs to be quoted again.

 

Hey, I know that site!

Thanks for the link; saw the traffic coming through. Cheers to you guys, and keep on making homemade tools

 

I stand to inherit a whole pile of "speciality" tools my father has made during his career as a car/truck/motorcycle mechanic these past 50 some years.

 

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