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General Car Chat / Re: This Week in Wheeler's Workshop
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Turned this pile of junk

which is a length of scaffold pole, four discs left from the handrail I built and some oval tubing I scrounged from a skip into this:

which is a stand for the bead roller:

the large handwheel used to be a base for a garden seat, that was also scrounged from a skip.
The short length of angle welded to the upright was added after I finished the stand to allow the easy mounting of both my folder

and the shrinker/stretcher

via this complex fabrication

All of these tools are now easily usable, which has never been the case for the twenty years
I've owned them.
I've also made several of these spike and fid sets using the M16x100bolts shown and a scrap length of 15mm copper pipe.

They're used for splicing and adjusting bell ropes.

which is a length of scaffold pole, four discs left from the handrail I built and some oval tubing I scrounged from a skip into this:

which is a stand for the bead roller:

the large handwheel used to be a base for a garden seat, that was also scrounged from a skip.
The short length of angle welded to the upright was added after I finished the stand to allow the easy mounting of both my folder

and the shrinker/stretcher

via this complex fabrication

All of these tools are now easily usable, which has never been the case for the twenty years

I've also made several of these spike and fid sets using the M16x100bolts shown and a scrap length of 15mm copper pipe.

They're used for splicing and adjusting bell ropes.