Here is my Harbor Freight hack. It's my poor man's tool balancer: 3 janitor-esque key reel things and zip ties. It holds my cheapo heat gun up out of the way, yet at the ready. It's ugly but fun to use. I need to add one more reel to it, but other than that it works perfectly!
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Nice! At work, the slaughterboard has the brisket cutter on an industrial version of that kind of thing. We have a branding iron attached to one during bobbycalf season, downstairs.
I'm guessing Harbour Freight is similar to Bunnings, or Mitre 10?
Quote from: alanp on April 24, 2014, 11:34:45 PM
Nice! At work, the slaughterboard has the brisket cutter on an industrial version of that kind of thing. We have a branding iron attached to one during bobbycalf season, downstairs.
I'm guessing Harbour Freight is similar to Bunnings, or Mitre 10?
Harbor Freight = all things built cheaply in China. I consider it a great place to buy tools that only need occasional use or are so cheap the cost to replace is negligible. For example, I bought some metal punches there for punching holes for tube sockets in a chassis for an amp build. A set of 4 punches was like $15. The real deal Greenlee punches start at about $40 a piece! I'm sure I wouldn't be able to punch more than a dozen holes before they are useless, but I got what I needed out of them already.
That's a nice hack! In many production lines they hang air tools and powered screwdrivers the same way.
Quote from: rullywowr on April 25, 2014, 02:34:38 AM
That's a nice hack! In many production lines they hang air tools and powered screwdrivers the same way.
Yeah, I used to build inkjet printers on an HP assembly line and we had lots of cool tool balancers. I would use a real one but they start at about $50. This is like $4 worth!