04-10-2019, 08:49 PM
(04-10-2019, 09:54 AM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: This is not answering your question to Simon but this is what I use - fabricating something similar would not be too difficult. I use grease to hold the collets in the pliers: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/v...-245505312Ruairidh, thanks for that photo,
I had a good ratch through my tools and found a suitable pair of pliers to modify (butcher), so I set to and achieved the correct holding of the collets but I needed to shorten the nose to enable the priers to be positioned within the chest.
I set to with the disc grinder and then it happened I SLICED MY INDEX FINGER length ways through the knuckle
not recommended. A quick trip to A&E where once cleaned they found I'd gone down just above the tendon but thankfully not damaged it, so lots of steri-strips and super glue and now I'm sitting here with a great big bandage over the finger.
One advantage of living in the sticks I was in and out of A&E within 45 minutes. So your quote of not to difficult to fabricate was not quite correct, but I'll get there and next time keep my finger out of the way.
