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I tend not to work in my shop when it's 8 degrees out. :D As far as using wood to press a sheetmetal version - wasn't there some thread somewhere saying that the thin adapters leaked? I don't think you could make one thick enough and still use wood to press them. If a person had an aluminum...

I think the whole key is - Are people going to copy current designs and make parts to sell? No one is as far as I can tell, at least I'm not. So the folks who already sell them are in no danger. But - if folks who have the tools and the skill to make parts themselves ask for help, others of us...

Or maybe I'll just design one and give the information away.

While it's clear that the parts that folks are selling are nice and well designed/built, I would highly doubt that their designs are patentable. Even if they were, the cost of otaining a patent would probably wipe out a good share of profit.

I don't question my ability. When I am working on a project, I work slowly. I am not going to be in any hurry on this. Maybe you feel the need to rush. I don't.

Once you have designed round parts, making multiple copies on a turret lathe is a snap. I've got such a machine, and that is what I plan to do. Besides, when it's your hobby, it's not about being paid for your time, is it? Here again, it sounds like you are telling us we MUST buy the kits that...

I do, when I can machine them for maybe $20 worth of aluminum and a bit of hex steel stock plus my time to design them. And when I'm done I have the satisfaction of knowing that I did it. That's worth something to me.

Right, but I can't enjoy my truck when parts of the engine are apart.

They are $200 now.

That's the plan. Although I would rather get a spare filter housing/oil cooler to do it with. Way easier to have the thing on the bench than in the truck.

No one is stopping them from asking whatever price they want. No one is saying that they should not make a profit. What I am saying is that no one should be made to feel like they can't make their own parts. No one should be made to feel that they can't design their own parts and then share...

Not too long ago I bought a spin-on adapter for my Honda GL1000. Cost me I think $60 and it was pretty much the exact same design only smaller, but not that much. The machining was identical to the deuce parts from what I can tell looking at the pictures. It was a really decent looking piece and...

OK - I can see that. It really looked like you were comparing me to the Japanese and the Chinese. I do think, however, that when the price of a product is so much that people are thinking that it makes more sense to build their own than to buy one already made then the price is probably too...

Excuse me, but if I design and build my own, just what do I owe the folks who sell their filter kits? If I designed my own and decided to publish the design, so what? I am a reasonably adept machinist, and this is not rocket science. I never said I was going to copy anything. On the contrary, I...

One reason to make your own is that the ones for sale are way overpriced, in my humble opinion. On ebay every now and then someone sells an LDT465 oil filter housing assembly. I tried to buy one not long ago just to use as a mockup to design my own filter adapter. Alas, the guy broke it and...