That is a good idea. I usually stick an ice pick in one hole, pull or pry in on one end, get a screw driver under it and pry up and then walk it around until the snap ring goes off flying in some random direction.
Could have used rails for that. But you gave me an idea for making a pair of pliers. I need some for clips on my atvs ball joints and I dont have a pair
Yeah that is nice a couple of hardened roll pins would work nice . The movement is nice it's almost like a sliding movement rather than a rotating one nice ..
Seems like I just ground down one side of the point so I still had the needle on the end of the snoot. And when you took the temper out of those Chanel-lock looking pliers I thought all you'd have to do was lay them out in the sun a few minutes, but I suppose the plastic on the handles would've melted off.
That's a great idea, maybe a couple of dowel pins ,they're quite tough and even if you dill a few hole sizes you could accomodate even more snap ring formats...
Thanks! Not too long of a think, actually. My inspiration came from trying the pins with the vise grip, and after a little bit of fiddling, I thought how welding it on to the vice grips would work so much better. On the drive to the hardware store, I was hit by the idea of drilling holes in pliers.
if you need a longer drill, you can use another drill to drill a hole in the soft end and bond in an extension.The idea of a soft end is allow the hardened jaws of the chuck to grip. Hard jaws don't grip hard things too well.
Very clever, and just cost you a little bit of gas. You're definitely becoming a townie, popping in to the hardware shop now it's nearby, before making your own tool ;-)
That technique is called a "spanish windlass." It's a very interesting idea but I've never gotten it to work on a circlip. The problems were: (1) not enough space in the snap ring holes to run enough loops of wire, considering the strength/stiffness of the snap ring, and (2) not enough space to spin whatever you need to twist the wire.
I think you are confusing Greenland with Iceland (a common occurrence). I'm up here with the "Eskimos" and if you google "volcanic activity in Greenland" you'll read that there is zero. I am though happy you read my comment and replied. Look that tupilaq straight in the eye and tell it you are sorry. hehe
@@jimmilne19 I get Greenland and Devon Island mixed up when trying to figure out which one NASA is using to fake the Mars missions. I wonder where NASA got the petrified moon rocks?
@@justtisha It's a bit of a science. Generally, I heat the steel until it turns purple, then let it cool slowly. Often just leaving it to cool on it's own is fine but sometimes it needs to be buried in something that will keep it warmer longer, like wood ash or a welding blanket. Some times the steel has to be heated to the point of it starting to turn red, then allowed to cool very slowly. If you have something hard that needs a hole drilled in it, start by heating it to purple, let it cool naturally, then try to drill it.
Too bad you used the old pliers. If they were hardened, they're better than any you could buy today. I would have restored them and used newer ones instead.
I've seen that idea in the form of a pin spanner. www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=313352 I made one of those and I prefer it to the real thing now. I expect the same will happen when I make one of these 😃