1 Topic by Bender/StickFigureRacing (edited by Bender/StickFigureRacing 2010-02-16 11:31 AM)

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Topic: What's your best improvised tool?

So we all have our special tools for fixing what's wrong with our cars.
This is ours, a big bar and someone with really good balance.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0tq6LmDi_Fs/S … h/7865.jpg

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

We have one similar to that but with a 90* end. Works well for all sorts of things.

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

At the Stafford '09 curse, Jay told each team to send thier best mechanic and thier favorite tool.  I built this on the spot and it was instantly my favorite tool. 

http://schumachertaxiservice.com/staff09/slides/IMGP0938.jpg

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

I said tool....not weapon!
lemme guess that's a can opener.:D

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

Breaker bar extension.  It can also be used to flare fenders, bend sheetmetal back into place, lift suspension pieces, open stuck hoods/doors/trucks, etc.  Once made, it actually got a lot of use at the track and around my shop - until Nelson Ledges where we hacked it up to make a couple of harness bars for teams that didn't have them.

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

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This is my second favorite tool.  It (along with a welder) helped me remove all of the stuck screws in the Cessna wing so I could get the old fuel tank out.

My favorite tool is the giant 2-1/2" wrench we bought to tighten the sprocket nut on the downforce fan.  I'd include a picture, but it looks like any other combination wrench with the exception of it being 2 feet long.

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Re: What's your best improvised tool?

i have a 5' long PIT bar i got from the gardening section of menards. It was my "front clip repair tool" for the buick. it's weird now it gets packed with us everytime we race. maybe for some sort of barbarian ninja moves on cursed cars?