What is your favourite implement.......?.

Out of idle curiosity I am interested in what kind of odd things people keep
in their toolboxes or close by because they are particularly useful even
though they were never designed to be used as tools. For example, I have
become very fond of an old CX500 fork stanchion that works a treat as an
extender bar for spanners and socket handles - ideal for those hard to move
nuts and (so far) completely unbendable. What inventive uses have people
found for other spare bits and pieces?

 

I keep a spare rear wheel spindle for a Honda CD175.

If I'm removing a swingarm pivot, or another wheel spindle, I use it as
a drift.

It's particularly useful if I only want to remove one part of a rerar
wheel assembly, like a brake plate or caliper bearing plate, because I
knock it in from one side, the genuine spindle comes out, and I leve the
CD175 spindle part-in, so all the silly things like chain adjusters and
spacers don't fall out of place.

 

TMack wrote

A bunch of keys, which make a handy knuckle duster to use against cunts
who can't keep their prying eyes out of my toolbox.

 

Oddly I keep a CX500 carburettor to drift in R80 fork seals
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A shite old Volvo for taking broken stuff to a man wot can.



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*Excellent*.
How appropriate.

JB

 

TMack says...

TOG keeps a shite old trailer as a ground anchor for locking CB500Ts to.

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I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

6ft scaffold pole

Useful as a tweaking bar, lever, roller, spacer, prop and handy when a nosey
**** pokes their hands or head inside my van looking at things they aren't
supposed to.


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A mobile phone so I can ring someone more knowledgeable than I to
translate the HBoL.

 

Spare inspection pit - you never know when it will come in useful

.... and when not in use, it folds away into virtually nothing, after
all, it's just a hole

 

Cnut.

 

4lb club hammer. I've had it since I was an apprentice and it's never
let me down.

Cheers

Paul.

 

A Zippo lighter.

 

...and an electric blower to fan the flames...

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Moto Guzzi fork stanchion and a slightly smaller MZ one - for stuff.

MZ issue C spanner - does loads.

6" length of plastic curtain track - holds MZ pistons in position when
fitting gudgeon pins. Although now usurped by the "Eaton Inserter".

Various dead bearing races used as seal drifts.

Various spindles used as drifts.

Assorted bits of dexion for locking engines.

Thin aluminium strips for locking MZ engines.

 

There're the big lumps of wood (about 12" by 18" by 2-3" thick)
acquired off a building site that act as chocks, supports, chopping
blocks, very short stools, mini workbenches and even soft mallets when
there's nothing else to hand.

That's about it, really.