If you have old pliers, pliers or side cutters with broken sponges lying somewhere in the corner, you can give the instrument “with the experience” a second life. For example, from old pliers you will get a good marking compass for metal, which will always find application in any home workshop.
Perhaps someone will say that the game is not worth the candle - it’s easier to bother with ready-made compasses and not bother. If easier, please. This option is aimed at those craftsmen who do not throw away the old tool, and are used to doing everything with their own hands.
First of all, it will be necessary to remove the plastic or rubber pads on the handles of pliers or pliers. In the place where the hinge is installed, you need to drill a through hole on the drilling machine. You can try with a drill. The main thing is that the hole be drilled as evenly as possible.
The main stages of work
We clamp each half of the pliers in a vise, heat it in the middle with a gas burner (or you can heat it in the furnace, if any), and then align it on the anvil or other surface, and give it the desired shape. As a result, the handle of the pliers should turn into the legs of a marking compass.
Next, cut the jaws, and weld a piece of a stud or bolt to one of the halves. We collect the compasses and wind the wing nut onto the hairpin. Then it remains only to grind the ends of the legs on the angle grinder. As an option, you can solder the victory tips to draw on any surface: glass, hardened steel, etc.
A step-by-step master class on making homemade marking compasses for metal can be viewed in the video on the website. Write in the comments below the video, did you like this homemade product?
