12-10-2008, 02:17 PM
If you have attempted to align your favorite Philco chassis, you will quickly realize that they weren't kidding in the alignment instructions when they said to use the Philco Fibre Wrench to adjust the trimmers. Anyway, I finally decided to do something about that the other day. I made a homebrew version. I grabbed one the many ball point pens in the jar (you know, the jar of pencils and pens, half of which don't work, 
). I removed the ball point cartridge and cut the end off at a point where the body was wide enough to make the wrench. I double-nutted a 6-32 by one inch screw and clamped it in the vise. Using the heat gun, I slowly warmed the plastic on the end of the pen until it was soft enough to fit over the two nuts on the 6-32 screw. Presto! A new Philco Fibre Wrench (well, OK plastic). But it works well nonetheless and the price is right - nothing.
Homebrew Fibre Wrench
[Image: http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/...Wrench.jpg]
Ed
). I removed the ball point cartridge and cut the end off at a point where the body was wide enough to make the wrench. I double-nutted a 6-32 by one inch screw and clamped it in the vise. Using the heat gun, I slowly warmed the plastic on the end of the pen until it was soft enough to fit over the two nuts on the 6-32 screw. Presto! A new Philco Fibre Wrench (well, OK plastic). But it works well nonetheless and the price is right - nothing.Homebrew Fibre Wrench
[Image: http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/...Wrench.jpg]
Ed
