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"making tools"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Mar-23-25 AT 11:56 AM (EDT)
 
As part of getting the Beetle ready to sell, we decided to change the oil. Mileage-wise, it didn't really need it, but it had been more than a year, and the computer was demanding it anyway, so what the heck.

Also, it's an excuse to use the lift!

While we were getting ready, though, we realized that now that we have the lift, we were going to need one of these things.

So, a trip to Harbor Freight or the like was in order.

Orrrrrr...

... we could just build one out of an old hydraulic-oil bucket, a spackle bucket, and some random plumbing supplies we had lying around the joint.

And it works!

Mind you, if you bear in mind the cost of a commercial one (ca. $200) and work out the man-hours Dad and I put into designing, building, testing, redesigning, and refining the thing (which is more complicated than it looks--there's some structural stuff inside the bucket to keep the mast standing properly), we probably would have been better off just buying one if we put any value on our time at all... but this was more fun. :)

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Spectrum
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1. "RE: making tools"
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   Nice to see the lift in action.

I imagine if it was just for oil changes you probably could've gotten away with a bucket on a ladder, but this seems obviously safer and more flexible.


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1790 posts		 Apr-01-25, 09:44 AM (EDT)
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2. "RE: making tools"
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   >And it works!
>
>Mind you, if you bear in mind the cost of a commercial one (ca. $200)
>and work out the man-hours Dad and I put into designing, building,
>testing, redesigning, and refining the thing (which is more
>complicated than it looks--there's some structural stuff inside the
>bucket to keep the mast standing properly), we probably would have
>been better off just buying one if we put any value on our time at
>all... but this was more fun. :)
>

Huzzah!

Sometimes the fun is the point more than anything, and how many people can say they've made an artisan hand crafted automotive beer bong?

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