This is the opposite to Ted's post.
Rather than tools you've bought and used once, how about tools you've made and used several times over.
I'll start this off. Home made sump plug key. I was changing the oil on the Renault 11 that I had at a garage I worked for. I didn't have a square sump plug spanner. All the mechanics bar one (supervisor) had gone home, and the supervisor didn't have a square plug spanner. Saabs used the hexagonal type.
So we found an M13 bolt, ground it to a square and used that on the end of a socket.
It's still in my toolbox today, next to the hexagonal one I bought for another car.
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A set of Ford radio removal keys made from an old metal coathanger.
I also improvised a tool to wind the Golf rear calipers back in out of a flat washer and two self tapping screws. Used in conjunction with a large G clamp and a pair of long nose pliers. Not slick, but effective.:)
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Quite a few.
For the Jowett, a plug spanner made from an old box spanner with a socket welded in the top.
regular plug sockets won't go in the plug well....too thick walled Also a short length of a 3/16 Whit open ender welded at right angles into a slot in the end of a foot long 1/2 inch square bar.....Can do the valve adjusters without a hand being in the way of your sight.
From a Lada toolkit, 2 box spanners, about 6 inches long, 10mm and 8mm. Welded together to make one...a foot long. used it today on a Xsara.
Ted
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Home made tools used time and time again - DP
