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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">That tool is pretty cool! And to have a tool your father made is even cooler!</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Now that I see it I can imagine times when I'd want it instead of one of the other prybars I already have. </span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Do you have any idea how he made it? I'm asking about how he bent it - the ends could be done by an angle grinder. My first thought for bending it would be heat but that would take out the springiness, wouldn't it?</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thanks for sharing!</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Mark</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">1956 Daimler Regency Mk II '104' patiently awaiting attention</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">1995 Buick Century - my 'modern' daily driver ;-)</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">2001 Ford E150 Traveler van with wheelchair lift - almost 80,000 miles - obviously we almost exclusively use it to transport our handicapped son - I'm more worried about this dying due to lack of driving than getting worn out</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">A couple of other transportation pods (2005 Toyota Corolla, 2007 Ford Fusion)</span>
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Now I have a set of MG TF leaf springs that I removed and I do not know what to do with them.
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I still have the wrecking bar my father made out of a car spring. Probably in the 1940s or 1950s. It is very useful for trim in houses and as a foot-lever for hanging doors.
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