Home Made Circular Tension Tool

by **melvin2001** » 12 Oct 2006 23:10

I made a guide for anyone who wants to try their hand at making a circular tension tool. Feel free to PM me with suggestions or post them here or whatever.

Click Here For the Guide

by **machinist** » 12 Oct 2006 23:23

cool, creative and all made from stuff I have sitting in my closet right now. Nicely done.

by **5thcorps** » 13 Oct 2006 9:08

I'd love to make one but right now I don't have any root beer.

Otherwise looks inventive, Nice job!

by **Shrub** » 13 Oct 2006 9:11

Well done and welcome to the site,

Another idea you may want to try is to get a large ballrace and with a spring and two bits of wire you can make a sprung circular tension wrench,

by **Pickitup** » 13 Oct 2006 9:19

You need one for each Keyways size........

by **melvin2001** » 13 Oct 2006 15:39

paperclips are pretty flexable... just bend them to fit different sizes. it will probably wear down after awile, but whatever it cost like $2 to make one of them. As long as you save all your bottle caps you can just make new ones when one breaks. (if you dont mind waiting for the JB weld to set up)

by **Romstar** » 13 Oct 2006 21:15

I was quite impressed with the ingenuity of this design.

Simple, relatively easy and quite usable.

Congratulations.
Romstar

by **melvin2001** » 13 Oct 2006 22:08

another mod you could do is solder the paperclips on the top side a little bit... makes them not bend so easy. (thats actually the original reason i sanded the top of the cap...)

by **unbreakable** » 14 Oct 2006 10:33

Ahh, another great idea melvin!

Personally, I love the guide, I think I may be making som soon if I can only find a beercap...

Is there any reason for using JB weld? COuld I use another normal epoxy?
I don't see why not...

Unbreakable

by **UWSDWF** » 14 Oct 2006 10:46

unbreakable wrote:Ahh, another great idea melvin!

Personally, I love the guide, I think I may be making som soon if I can only find a beercap...

Is there any reason for using JB weld? COuld I use another normal epoxy?
I don't see why not...

Unbreakable

cause drilling a hole through normal epoxy might end up well not so well

by **melvin2001** » 14 Oct 2006 11:36

yeah JB weld is like a high heat, high strength, sandable, drillable plastic. It bonds well to metals...

it was also the only thing i had laying around.

by **unbreakable** » 14 Oct 2006 11:50

Ok, thanks to both of you!

by **melvin2001** » 14 Oct 2006 12:12

I think it bears noting that the only reason I even started working on this is that my fiance basically told me that if i spent $25 on a "peice of metal with a hole in it and two paperclips" she would... well... withold certain aspects of our relationship.

by **unbreakable** » 14 Oct 2006 17:10

melvin2001 wrote:I think it bears noting that the only reason I even started working on this is that my fiance basically told me that if i spent $25 on a "peice of metal with a hole in it and two paperclips" she would... well... withold certain aspects of our relationship.

How Wonderful. Quite a vicious threat, is it not? :roll:

Unbreakable

by **cL4y** » 15 Oct 2006 6:49

its a cool design, and you get a free drink!

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