One of my Favorite tools,,I thunk it up, out of frustration!
So, let me know what you guys think on this one,,,
I made this tool about 4 years ago, for new wiring and looms.
I was wiring an entire dune buggy. I was using the ribbed, split wire loom (like in the pictures) and my fingers were getting completly raw from feeding together yards AND YARDS of several strands of wire into the looms. And, of course there were many different wiring looms of different sizes, going many directions through the project. I had never figured out a better way to get this job done.
Gloves don't work either cuz you need to feel the wires as they are routed into the loom. It is frustrating too, because after you have a length of loom and wires together, then if you don't handle it right, you can easily undo several feet of the work you just completed, very easily! AARRRRRGGHH! I hate when that happens!
I am probably preaching to the choir on this one,,anyway,,
After many hours of tedious, frustrating wiring,,,,,,the whole time I am thinking to myself this sucks, there has to be a better way,,,,,EUREKA,,I thunk up this tool.
I litterally stopped my wiring project, grabbed a block of Delrin and a Die grinder and started freehand grinding, gouging, shaping and drilling,,IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MAGICAL TIMES IN THE MAN CAVE I will never forget!
Made the rest of my project a breeze. Since, I have used it many times,,It is incredibly fast and works perfect.
After you initially feed the wire and the loom onto the tool, you can just grab both of them in one hand, the other hand goes on the tool, YANK,,,,and,,,BAMO!, you have just installed 5 to 6 feet of mulitple strands of wire into the loom.
For a while I was going to see if it would be a money maker,,I have abandoned that idea because I have been down the patent road on other stuff and I will be busy with those patents for along time. I would love to get your feedback on this one. Maybe its been done and I am just off in left field,,,
The only thing close that I have seen or heard of is a screwdriver type tool ,,where the shank is hollow and the hole goes all the way through the handle,,that one is good for feeding stuff through firewalls etc. and it does work for the scenario I have just described, but it does not work as well, the loom wants to slide off the shank, it requires a third hand/helper etc. Additionally it turns out that on the one I made, the loom does not come "undone" easily.
Anyway there you go,,one of my little inventions.
I have found MANY of us have great ideas for inventions. May even be a good idea for a thread?