Homemade kludges and other bodged up tools

Me! But I don’t bother to cut the head off, my drill chuck has a void behind the fingers that’s big enough to house the head on a finishing nail.

I also cut plastic with a random piece of flat metal stuck in a sabre saw. The heat generated by rubbing on the plastic just melts its way through.

And I cut large diameter PVC plumbing (like, 3" and 4" DWV for toilets &etc.) on a table saw and polish the cuts with a bench belt, because I am too cheap to buy yet another pipe cutter (I already have three, none of which will do the big PVC).

Over in my electric motor rebuild thread I just bodged up a drift in order to avoid buying an inside bearing puller…

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