So far I've been making my own out of 1/2" 4130 rod, turning my own tips out of nylon, high density poly and such on the lathe. I setup a system where a 1/4-20 studs sticks out of the end and I make internal threaded tips for it .... might change it over to internal threaded tool so I can just buy the tips and thread them in ... not sure what thread size they use though.
My stud system is stronger I think, I suspect the manufacturers use internal threads on tool because then the tips can just be molded with the threads in place. But my way is kind of tedious and time consuming.
My regular slide hammer is too big, so I'm going to make a smaller "precision" piece I think.
Pics of one of the curved tools and one of an outside "tapper".
