As the list of vehicle projects grow, the budget for new tools seems to shrink, although I have most of what I need already.
I was impressed with my old neighbours growing up, some had been through the depression of the 30's and then the war, where there was zero dollars for new tools at home and the work still needed to be done. I recall my neighbor's father built a large shop bandsaw from scratch, my own gramps built a tablesaw from scratch as well; both were relatively common projects for that era.
Although those tools are available new or used nowdays for much less than the effort to build them, I have found a few resources to motivate maximum return for minimum budget.
Of the older Popular Mechanics magazines, they had a yearly "shop notes", that had many handy DIY tool projects. Most of the prewar copies of these are available free as PDF, but I expect the postwar years are most likely to be useful.
As well, reprinted books like the Canadian " Farm Workshop Guide, 1947 " are full of ideas, although not all of those projects should be pursued nowdays.
I was quite impressed with the discovery channel TV series " Cuban Chrome ", which detailed how they were making out on the island keeping wrecks on the road with very limited resources parts, tools, and little to no money. As with most TV shows there was some unnecessary drama added into the technical side.
Archive.org is a free resource with many old tool manuals, how to guides.
Any other major quality resources i'm missing?
I was impressed with my old neighbours growing up, some had been through the depression of the 30's and then the war, where there was zero dollars for new tools at home and the work still needed to be done. I recall my neighbor's father built a large shop bandsaw from scratch, my own gramps built a tablesaw from scratch as well; both were relatively common projects for that era.
Although those tools are available new or used nowdays for much less than the effort to build them, I have found a few resources to motivate maximum return for minimum budget.
Of the older Popular Mechanics magazines, they had a yearly "shop notes", that had many handy DIY tool projects. Most of the prewar copies of these are available free as PDF, but I expect the postwar years are most likely to be useful.
As well, reprinted books like the Canadian " Farm Workshop Guide, 1947 " are full of ideas, although not all of those projects should be pursued nowdays.
I was quite impressed with the discovery channel TV series " Cuban Chrome ", which detailed how they were making out on the island keeping wrecks on the road with very limited resources parts, tools, and little to no money. As with most TV shows there was some unnecessary drama added into the technical side.
Archive.org is a free resource with many old tool manuals, how to guides.
Any other major quality resources i'm missing?