I am a machinist, any ideas of what to make?

no kidding....I was gonna buy my TWSS a light bar/mounts for christmas. figured the mounts would have been $20-30...nope! $100+ easy.

 

Very cool... love it!!

 

Easy lesson: spend the thousand bucks on that light bar in the mall you park in and save the $100 on a bracket for a light that is ghey.

 

I've drawn two for my Dad's previous Streetrods a '39 Chevy and a '41 Merc. He had them both machined at our local community college for the cost of the material plus a donation. Everyone wins!

 

I'd buy a shift knob.

 

Careful asking for knob around these parts.

 

Yep there way overpriced.

Did that make sense to anyone else. .

 

Windsheild brackets that say tacomaworld.com on sides

 

TacomaWorld emblems?!

 

I was adding to my previous post..

And Cut tacomaworld.com into sides of brackets

 

I meant like door or tailgate emblems

 

I'm not a machinist and wouldn't know but seems the easiest and cheapest to mass produce would be the most profitable. Ie: spacers and brackets (lean spacer, rear view mirror bracket, sway bar brackets, CB drop down spacers, etc).

 

Made this today. Deciding on if I like it or not

 

How about a billet oil filler tube/neck with the TRD logo on the side?

 

Don't mean to be a downer but you've kinda got a solution in search of a problem here.

I too am a machinist, and I too subscribe to the don't make it if you can buy it philosophy. Not saying I don't make things but there has to be a good reason to justify the time.

With that being said, here's a couple of randoms on my truck...maybe some ideas for you.

Light bar mount to factory roof rack:


Overly complicated and not worth it shock clamps (another set below not visible):


My bedrack bars. Pocketed the angle aluminum to mate up to the 1" x 3" 8020. The crappy brackets shown hold my tent cot like a roof top tent (need to revisit these)


tent cot mounted:


Shift Knob:


Super bump mount / spacer for flipped Ubolts:

 

Spacer to move steering wheel out a inch, or two.
Fn sitting position designed for tiny pandas.

 

Beefed up front recovery point that can accept a shackle, for those of us with sport and sr5 models. I have one and I am sure plenty of persons would be interested.

 

I like the spacer for the super bumps! Looking for something similar to use with sumo springs.

 

See my thread here. I've been trying to get a taller mount to use with the Sumo Springs. Others have inquired about a bracket or spacers to use with a U-bolt flip kit.

 

i'll 2nd both these posts. I love making stuff for my vehicles or r/c trucks but finding the time away from the family to so and for a reasonable material cost. the last thing I made were mounts for my jack out of sheet metal scraps between machine cycles