Dremel Bliss, falle two balde Torque tools...Alternatives..

[Hyperion]

Hey all

The other day I went out and got myself a Dremel and a case of extra ends of varying shapes/sizes etc...

Well I cannot stress enough first of all how much of a, MUST! is one of these.
Believe me there is no better machine hand tool for shaping picks and torque wrenches in my mind.

There are millions of ends for it, and most are ideal for the intricate shaping that is required for making picks..

"Well bought my man", is what I say to my self

Anyway onto the falle two blade Torque tools..

With my dremel and junior hacksaw blades, [again i prefer the junior ones to standard ones] I have been fashioning my own set of tools.

After looking around the house for any pieces of metal that I could sue as well as the hacksaw blades I bought, I came across what most of us PC users will probably have lying around somewhere.

If you're like me and build your own computers or just add to them with expansion cards and what not, then you will probably have old sound cards, graphics, and so on.

Well right at the end of the old graphics or sound cards is a long strip of metal attached to the card via two screws usually and shaped at one end to attach to the computer case.

Well these pieces of metal are ideal for fashioning into a, one blade Torque tool similar to the falle ones.

With the dremel you can grind away and fashion it into a perfect torque tool.

It does need thinning out shaping obviously, but with the dremel it's easy.

I hope to post some pics once I get my camera setup...

Anyway just thought I would let you all know that the metal ends to PC expansion cards make ideal starting blocks for torque tools of varying shapes

Regards Hyperion

[salzi684]

Can't wait to see your falle renditions.

[silent]

that metal is a little bit soft, unless you have a freaky case

[Hyperion]

Yeah the metal is a little bit on the soft side...

After looking at the falle tools a little more closely...

Why are those tools called two blade torque tools??

Is it because two blades go into the key hole one at top the other at bottom, hence two blade?

Or is it called two blade because they have two tools one at each end of the strip of metal?

Regards Hyperion

[iworathong]

i dont know for sure but i think its because theres a blade at the top of the keyhole and one at the bottom but then again your guess is as good as mine =)

[Rick-the-Pick]

I thought i was the only wally with a dremel type tool, bought a similar from b&q a couple of years back!
I found it an absolute must for repairing worn car lock's and shimming down wafers!
Wouldn't like to shape picks with one! you would get through to many bits!

[mcm757207]

I am currently having a variable tension wrench (falle style) professionally made at a machine shop... I can't wait for it to be done

[stick]

Pictures! I demand pictures!

[mcm757207]

Pictures! I demand pictures!

Of what?

[stick]

Of the tool Hyperion has made and the tool you're waiting on.

[mcm757207]

Of the tool Hyperion has made and the tool you're waiting on.

I would scan my design, but he has it and is using it to make the tool. I'll take some pics once it's done...

[alias]

As far as I know, the two-blade torque/tension wrenches are so named due to the two blades of metal used in their contruction versus the one blade of metal in the fixed Falle wrenches.

The non-adjustable wrenches have tools at 'both ends' and also make use of the same two-prong insert into the keyway so that'd rule out either "two blades go into the key hole one at top the other at bottom" or "wo tools one at each end of the strip of metal" as the justification for naming.

Then again, maybe I'm wrong and the name 'two-blade torque wrench' also refers to the non-adjustable ones.....