How about a home built or cheap tool modification thread?

[pat mccarthy]

not many photos of it but here is the green monster .i made it to hone engine bores after i bore them or just a clean up a good used bore or opening up a bore less then .015 . it has honed evey thing from a lycoming jugs to many harley davsons jugs and many big bore v8 i lost count just this years it done over 70 bores easy. it very basic but been trouble free . machine was built from scratch . a used hone like this cost $5000. and up so i built this machine .i pick up a used a Dc motor and speed controller .the motor is in back of the head runs threw two gear drives for max tq .oil pump in the bottom of machine to pump honing oil. not really a copy of any machine other then the box size . you can see it in the back of this one photo it.s the green machine it is not hard to get bore finsh like the bottom photo