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DIY: Homemade Motorcycle Tools

Discussion in 'General' started by caferace, Feb 6, 2017.

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  1. caferace

    caferace No.

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  2. Sabre699

    Sabre699 Wait...hold my beer.

    Expected some real hack but most are real cool. Thanx.
     
  3. RM Racing

    RM Racing Tool user

    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.
     
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  4. Phl218

    Phl218 Lemme ask my wife

    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
     
  5. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds

    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.
     
  6. 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.
     
  7. RM Racing

    RM Racing Tool user

    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.
     
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  8. I always end up making Ducati tools. Clutch basket holders, half ring setting tool, etc.
     
  9. 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.
     
  10. CharlieY

    CharlieY Well-Known Member

    Very cool stuff....thanx Jim.
     
  11. diamondj

    diamondj Well-Known Member

    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... :crackup:
     
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  12. cm1744

    cm1744 Well-Known Member

    Definitely worth a browse through there, if only to admire some of the work. Thanks!
     
  13. 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.
     
  14. Yepper. It's very time consuming to say the least. A good machinist is worth their weight in gold.
     
  15. The case splitter was great. A putty knife :)
     
  16. Dan Dubeau

    Dan Dubeau Well-Known Member

    I'm quoting this just because it needs to be quoted again. :beer:
     
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  17. homemadetools

    homemadetools New Member

    Hey, I know that site! :D

    Thanks for the link; saw the traffic coming through. Cheers to you guys, and keep on making homemade tools [​IMG]
     
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  18. stk0308

    stk0308 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  19. homemadetools

    homemadetools New Member

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  20. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

    lol, a bot.
     

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