Stuff you have made today

[Dieselman 63]

Aye, never enough time and the older I get the less there is

You get a better selection of toys essential machinery as you get older though!

 

[lotus 30]

Been playing push Bikes for a change made this over the christmas break just to see if i could this part is no longer available so i made one. 26TPI that i found hard to get right got it on the MK3 LOL.11 tooth cog

 

[Hood]

Got a few hours at the workshop tonight, this is the only time of year I get peace to get stuff done for myself

Skimmed 2mm off each of the inner segments of the wheel and welded the first section in place, hopefully in the right position

Bolted the 4 sections together then welded them together.

Removed the bolts then fitted things up so that I could work out how much I needed to remove from the cast housing, threw that into the chiron and took out the sides.

Then flipped over and milled out a larger circle for the wheel to pass through during assembly.

Another test fit to make sure it looked fine.

Then took it apart again and assembled things on to the gearbox/motor.

Temporarily fitted back up, unclamped the turret and checked I was getting correct rotation with nothing fouling, all seemed good so headed home.

 

[Hood]

Made the bracket up for the proximity switches today, it is not pretty but the angles and distance are about right (I hope ) Didn't have a power supply and also turns out I only had 3 prox switches and one of them is a normally closed so although I could use it I would prefer all of them being normally open. I have ordered a couple from a UK supplier so they should be here this week or early next week hopefully.
I will take a small power supply with me tomorrow and test to see if I have the positioning correct, I should have cut a window into the housing so that I could easily view them for adjustment, may yet do that but it will be with a hole saw as I don't want to dismantly the turret again.

Ok pic of the bracket, as I said it is not pretty but it won't be seen anyway and it looks to be functional.

 

[Pete.]

I needed a means to map the faces on my HLV saddle for scraping and for that I needed fine adjustment, so I knocked up three little screw-jacks. They are about an inch tall each.

And this is what they are for, the turcite I am scraping HAS to be dead parallel to the shiny ground face on the right. I used the 0.0001" indicator to sweep the face end to end and across and adjusted it level on the jacks.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

@Pete. How would one go about checking flatness on a cast surface plate? I've just acquired one cheap, it looks pretty clean but I've no way to check if it's OK still. I'd love to scrape it but I assume you need a larger known flat surface to use blue with?

 

[Pete.]

No1 way is simply to put it onto a known good larger plate with some blue. You could use a known good straight edge to check it in a pattern similar to our Union Jack flag too, it's called the Moody method of checking. Have to make sure you de-burr the edges first, cast iron plates pick up bumps on the edges really easily.

 

[Maker]

I put power and RCA sockets on the back of a turntable and made up a long (Maybe 25 foot) cable to connect it to an amp in the other corner of the room.



It's for my nan, doubt she'll ever use it.

 

[Tangledfeet]

@Maker Just curious.... won't the voltage drop / signal loss in that length of cable become noticeable over that distance?

(Aside from that, nicely done!)

 

[Maker]

I have no idea, hopefully the amp will sort it. If not, I've seen turntable preamps on eBay, maybe it needs one?

 

[zx9]

@Maker Just curious.... won't the voltage drop / signal loss in that length of cable become noticeable over that distance?

(Aside from that, nicely done!)

I have no idea, hopefully the amp will sort it. If not, I've seen turntable preamps on eBay, maybe it needs one?

If it is straight off the cartridge, no chance but if it is pre amped in the turntable to line level you will be fine.
Turntable pre amps both lift the level and apply equalisation so you can input to a line level input on the amplifier. Traditionally you would input the turntable to a low level input equalised for moving coil or moving magnet cartridge.

 

[Maker]

There's nothing inside it. I'll try it just in case but it'll have to be an eBay cheapie. I wish I'd known it needed that before I cut the old cable off.

Oh well, I suppose I could take the circuit board out and tuck it away inside, power it off the 9v input I've just soldered in rather than use a silly battery too.

 

[zx9]

There's nothing inside it. I'll try it just in case but it'll have to be an eBay cheapie. I wish I'd known it needed that before I cut the old cable off.

Oh well, I suppose I could take the circuit board out and tuck it away inside, power it off the 9v input I've just soldered in rather than use a silly battery too.

Yes try it you might be lucky or your Nan might not notice all the background noise from the amp being wound up to eleven but I think you already have plan B lined up

 

[Maker]

It works! Amp turned all the way up though, it's fine if you're in the living room with it but she wants to hear it from the kitchen so a preamp is on the way.

 

[Tangledfeet]

Drum roll please... first project using my new TIG welder; before yesterday I'd not done any TIG - aside from trying and then promptly giving up on lift-TIG several months ago.

It's a fixed 45deg grinding rest for the sharpening system I use for my woodturning tools, quite pleased with the outcome though the TIG welding was mixed! Baby steps...

 

[pressbrake1]

Nothing clever, some hinges for the workshop fitted with pu bushes. Can’t stand rattly hinges.

Other pic is en24 meeting 35kw milling machine

 

[zx9]

It works! Amp turned all the way up though, it's fine if you're in the living room with it but she wants to hear it from the kitchen so a preamp is on the way.

I expect you will need to go into one of the line inputs CD / Tape something at a higher level than the usual turntable input else it will be very loud.

 

[Dcal]

Drum roll please... first project using my new TIG welder; b

Great job @Tangledfeet, told you you would really like TIG,

Great first effort and waay better than it needs to be for the application.

I think it's important to realise we can't all be "welding gods" like @richard and @Brad93 and lots of others on here (that takes 10,000 hours of practice) but you can get a perfectly serviceable weld that will never break if you set out to do the best you can.

Well done and it only gets easier..

 

[Parm]

Great job @Tangledfeet, told you you would really like TIG,

Great first effort and waay better than it needs to be for the application.

I think it's important to realise we can't all be "welding gods" like @richard and @Brad93 and lots of others on here (that takes 10,000 hours of practice) but you can get a perfectly serviceable weld that will never break if you set out to do the best you can.

Well done and it only gets easier..

I’m in that same boat, my welds work but don’t look pretty

 

[Gregwalker1981]

Wee spare hour in the shed knocked this up

Trailer extension arm 2.5m long can be split to 1m for launching the boat in deeper water