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A while back, I'm sure I saw where one of you resourceful fellows made your own wire hose clamp tool. I can't find the link now. Cant even remember which forum ot was on. Anyone remember where I saw it? Google hasn't been much help.

Looks like this:

I bought 3 sizes of the same tool from the individual that was first out with them, I gave one to my nephew carry the stainless one you pictured in my truck and have the large model and another same as pictured in the shop at home. They are a nice little tool, very handy at times. I was not so cheap as to not pay the fellow for his development. m Just google wire clamp tool and you will find lots of info. tom

Perhaps here: http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads...take-on-it

Watch the video.

(08-10-2012, 01:05 AM)TOM REED Wrote: [ -> ]I bought 3 sizes of the same tool from the individual that was first out with them, I gave one to my nephew carry the stainless one you pictured in my truck and have the large model and another same as pictured in the shop at home. They are a nice little tool, very handy at times. I was not so cheap as to not pay the fellow for his development. m Just google wire clamp tool and you will find lots of info. tom

With all due respect, I take offense to your characterization of me as cheap. For one thing, those tools have been around for years. In my search for the article about building one, I ran across an reference in a 1951 issue of Popular Mechanics where a guy built one. But it didn't include plans. So I don't know who you bought 3 from, but most likely, you paid a guy that stole the idea from someone else. For another thing, cheapness has noting to to with it. I'll probably have more invested with time and materials that the $30 they cost to buy. But that's not really what this hobby is about is it? If we all just bought the tools we wanted, why bother owning a lathe or mill? You could just buy what you want to build, or pay a machine shop to do it. I suppose you've never made a tool just for the fun or experience?


My tool collection is meager compared to many of yours. But I have upwards of $30,000 worth of tools in my shop that I've been collecting sine I was a teenager. They are for my hobby. I wonder why a cheap guy would spend so much on tools? To make things he could easily buy from others.

(08-10-2012, 06:12 AM)Highpower Wrote: [ -> ]Perhaps here: http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads...take-on-it

Watch the video.

Thank you for a non-judgmental and non-insulting answer. That is exactly the thread I was looking for and couldn't find. I wonder if all the guys on those forums know how cheap they are for making stuff they could have bought.

(08-10-2012, 07:42 AM)Nitsuj Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder if all the guys on those forums know how cheap they are for making stuff they could have bought.

It is just that some guys just like to make "stuff". I have made "stuff" I could have bought and in some cases better than what I have made

There can be a lot of fun in just making it.

DaveH

I am sorry my reply was not meant to be insulting, I have even made a copy of the same tool to see how well I could make it and believe me in time it was way mor expensive in time than buying the tool. My objection is to the others that copy and sell such as LEE VALLEY and even the Chinese have one nearly the same. I wonder, especially since I have a couple of patentable original products that in the future I plan to develop, patent and have produced, how one can protect his product best.
Once again after rereading my post I can see how you took it as an insult, I will have to be a little more careful with my wording, I have many times in my 63 yrs opened my mouth before putting brain in gear.
I for one have always looked at products I buy and wonder how one can improve on them, this tool as marketed is exceptionally well made and very handy in many occasions, I have used it to help myself and many others with truck trouble on the road and over the past 5 yrs that I have had my tool and I have referred at least 20 truckers to his product.
Again sorry no insult intended. tom

There was another post recently on one of the other forums but can't recall which one. They're a neat little tool, was given one at Christmas. To be honest haven't needed it yet but its in the arsenal.

As I rear my naive little head again, I must ask just what it's for?

The wire clamp I mean.

I know what my heads for, to put a hat on of course!

Jerry.

Nutsuj, I'm sorry you perceived Tom's reply to be an attack on you. I know the gentleman and I assure you, as he mentioned, he was not attacking you.
This forum is very open and very relaxed, that's why I'm here, sometimes the written word can carry a different meaning to the reader than intended. Please just chill, kick back and enjoy the exchanges.