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Reader Find: A Three-Prong Earring Holder

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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I’ve always been a bit interested in jewelry making — who wouldn’t love to be able to weld, braze, and otherwise work with such valuable materials on such a small scale? — but it’s something I know almost nothing about.  On the subject of homemade tools,  reader Lee wrote in with this cool jewelry-related find: a custom made tool to hold three-prong earrings.

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Monday, December 11th, 2006
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Rick writes: “I came across this tool on one of the BMW boards I frequent.  Like the poster said, it’s not pretty… but it gets the job done.  I thought it was pretty ingenious and I was curious what other home-grown tools the Toolmongers out there have created and/or come across.”

According to the original forum post over at bimmer.info (link below), a guy made this tool to get the 22mm banjo bolt out while replacing the power steering hose on his M5.  It’s a shortened 22mm combo wrench with a 1/2″ drive socket welded on.

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