Tools that younger people would not recognize.

[tphoyt]

I just put my speed wrench in a box labeled rarely used tools just a few weeks ago. I hadn’t used it in years and was always moving it around in the tool box. I got one of those fancy battery powered ratchets years ago and that’s what I use now. That speed wrench was king back in the day especially for valve covers.

 

[dwco5051]

Yesterday's project. All done with cheap Craftsman (Lowes) battery tools. This is my old shop that is on property I own 25 miles from home and hasn't had power for years. Once I used a long extension and breaker bar to give the lag bolts on the motor mounts a quarter turn they came out with a socket on a little 1/4" to 1/2" drive and a 3/4" socket on a 46 year old boat. I have cut a lot of it up already with a same brand sawsall and one battery charge pretty much lasted me all day. I guess I am adjusting to the 21st Century.

 

[ezbtr]

Push drill. We used these back in the day to drill pilot holes. Same premise as yankee screwdriver but with drill bits.

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Yankee screwdriver!

 

[matt167]

This one had the young guys thinking I was nuts when I put it together at work…. But I’m really not even that old.

 

[Chris1956]

That is one of those left-handed smoke sifters, right?

 

[chrisgt]

For the younger guys, RPN is Reverse Polish Notation. It was a way of ordering operators and operands to allow calculations by early computers and calculators. It kinda reminds me of roman numerals, where IV is four and VI is six.

The SR-50 was a great calculator. It had more capability than I ever used.

I always have an HP11C and HP16C on my desk, nobody ever knows how to use them.

I took the interns out to lunch earlier this year and they had no idea how to operate the crank windows in my car, had no clue what the manual transmission was, then stated that "wow this car is so much older than me." Thanks, that's my daily driver, now I feel REALLY old.

 

[Scott Danforth]

@dwco5051 , you could have just cut the transom off, and not needed to lift the motor that high since there are a few large chunks missing out of the hull.

 

[matt167]

That is one of those left-handed smoke sifters, right?

Brake adjustment gauge for fixed position Lockheed drum brakes. Even after explaining how it works I got a blank stare

 

[nola mike]

Brake adjustment gauge for fixed position Lockheed drum brakes. Even after explaining how it works I got a blank stare

I thought I was old because I recognized drum brakes.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Brake adjustment gauge for fixed position Lockheed drum brakes. Even after explaining how it works I got a blank stare

isnt there a spoon adjust slot in the back cover?

creative use of oil filter, my concern would be oilcanning and tossing your measurement off.

did you look up the thread pitch on the filter in a table (you would get a blank stare from most of todays youth for simply opening a catalog)

 

[matt167]

isnt there a spoon adjust slot in the back cover?

creative use of oil filter, my concern would be oilcanning and tossing your measurement off.

did you look up the thread pitch on the filter in a table (you would get a blank stare from most of todays youth for simply opening a catalog)

On the Lockheed brakes, they are fixed adjustment so the shoes do not float. The adjustments have cam eccentrics accessed in the back, but the gauge is needed to get them centered. Can’t do it with the drum on. There is a commercial tool available that is a nut and a bar welded together. I just happen to realize that a Ford oil filter was also 3/4-16” and made it cheaply

 

[chrisgt]

on my mercedes you have to adjust the parking brake THROUGH THE LUG STUD HOLE. Of course the hole is too small to fit a brake spoon, so i have a skinny flat blade screw driver bent just for this purpose.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

The odds of seizing stainless hardware is 98% no matter what methodology of loosing or tightening is used.

Use shortening on the threats they won't seize.

 

[cwella]

on my mercedes you have to adjust the parking brake THROUGH THE LUG STUD HOLE. Of course the hole is too small to fit a brake spoon, so i have a skinny flat blade screw driver bent just for this purpose.

That’s a pretty clever workaround! Mercedes has a way of making even simple jobs a bit more interesting sometimes. A bent, skinny flathead screwdriver is a great little custom tool for getting into that tight access hole. Definitely worth keeping in the toolbox!

 

[dingbat]

Use shortening on the threats they won't seize.

We've tried every concoction on the market, then some to prevent 3XXX series stainless hardware from gulling in application. The minute you heat cycle the connection, your done unless you get very lucky.