Stuff you have made today

[mr migwire]

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This nice old Railway lantern.

Was in good condition, lightly restored and complete.

Didn't need my to repair and get it back to use. Just a good clean with Meths. to remove some sort of wax finish on.

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The wick holder has 2 wicks fitted, But only the longer and thinner one is adjustable. It does work and adjust in a smooth manner.

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It is made by:
Lamp Manufacturing & Railway supplies Ltd.
London.

I think this lantern dates from about 1840.

Fuelling with modern lamp oil (thinner than the old stuff) showed a small weep on the bottom copper plate. But a old copper soldering iron was used to repair it with some plumbers solder.
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I know I could of used a modern Iron and modern solder, but were is the fun in that?
I had to old tools they may of used in the past.
Besides it was fun.


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Finished and working.
Now to find space to show it off.

a signal lamp that would be placed inside a semaphore signals lamp holder we ahve a few here and i am now restoring a lattice signal post with lamp holder to hold one of these, they look the part when polished and the wicks trimmed just right.

 

[Woody.v8]

Big hole in that o/s tyre,is that the job to start?

No holes in the tyres, its a water patch

 

[Dcal]

Today i made an adapter so my ancient compression tester would work on 12mm plugs.
I could have got one in Halfords (only place open when I discovered it didn't fit) but they wanted a penny off £40 and a compression tester kit and it would have taken me longer to go and get it than I spent making the adapter.

 

[jordhandson]

There some clever stuff being done above love it,

Not today but been working as and when for a few nights. Its not my normal run of the mill but doing a favor for one of my customers kids his toddler broke his steering wheel so , as you do I said drop it of I will sort it I know I could have bought on cheaper and fitted it in less time but we are what we are boys with tools so I decided to make him a wood steering wheel hope the picture tells the story if quicker than writing..,,








All ready for staining before varnishing its going on this little beauty




Cheers

 

[zx9]

There some clever stuff being done above love it,

Not today but been working as and when for a few nights. Its not my normal run of the mill but doing a favor for one of my customers kids his toddler broke his steering wheel so , as you do I said drop it of I will sort it I know I could have bought on cheaper and fitted it in less time but we are what we are boys with tools so I decided to make him a wood steering wheel hope the picture tells the story if quicker than writing..,,

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All ready for staining before varnishing its going on this little beauty
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Cheers

I liked how you have made the steering wheel it reminds me of the steering wheels we made for the karts which we raced in the early eighties when we took part in the Shell National Schools Karting competitions.

 

[henry Kadzielski]

Good morning gents my two cants worth, just the last few days

Turned this

Into this

haven't passivated it yet, but you get the picture. This rusty bracket, out of 5mm steel angle was holding a spherical bearing with a taper lock shich was taking all the thrust from the prop shaft to the vessels keel. It was also held down with 6 only 8mm by 40mm coach screws. What possesed the original boat builder to do this is beyond me. Nevertheless he did. The new owner got a rope caught in the prop which just peeled this bracket off the keel. Imagine that. This is still not what I would do, I would at least through bolt this bracket through the keel, but the vessel is in the water and has a concrete keel underneath. Anyway will be passivating the new bracket tonight and installed on saturday

 

[captain-destructo]

Good morning gents my two cants worth, just the last few days

Turned this
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Into this

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haven't passivated it yet, but you get the picture. This rusty bracket, out of 5mm steel angle was holding a spherical bearing with a taper lock shich was taking all the thrust from the prop shaft to the vessels keel. It was also held down with 6 only 8mm by 40mm coach screws. What possesed the original boat builder to do this is beyond me. Nevertheless he did. The new owner got a rope caught in the prop which just peeled this bracket off the keel. Imagine that. This is still not what I would do, I would at least through bolt this bracket through the keel, but the vessel is in the water and has a concrete keel underneath. Anyway will be passivating the new bracket tonight and installed on saturday

could you not drill the concrete and resign some threaded bar into it? obviously avoiding drilling all the way through!!!

 

[Dcal]

Hilti RE500 works underwater and should give you all the capacity you need (assuming enough good uncracked concrete)

 

[henry Kadzielski]

Good morning gents, Just finished pasivating and it looks a bit 'shinya' Aussi talk. For those that don't understand more shiny. No idea what the concrete is like underneath so am not going there, the keel is also bolted up through the ribs going over the keel 'strange arrangement'. In my humble opinion the keel should be lowered and the bracket through bolted

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I recently acquired this fine example, well it was fine until I managed to catch it on a vice and damage it.
Bent bezel, broken glass and the silver painted metal ring creased. A Good job.
First job, strip it down.



It was then placed into hot caustic soda, as we know not a present job. But with regular washing off and re-submerriging had the paint off. Plus some 2 pack glue holding bits on.


Here you see it striped of paint and rust. It had distorted a bit in the hot caustic and hot Citric acid. But when I was using a gas torch to lead solder the metal parts it allowed me to bend the lantern as true as possible, without creasing the tin plate.
You can also see the ring used to hold the glass is now dressed back to shape. I used a few light hammers, wooden forms and clamps to gently ease it back. Sadly it had stretched, but that was only noticeable when I came to re-glaze it.

Using a Dermal I cut out the braze joints to allow all the parts to be removes and painted. I then tin solder the joints back together, after painting the internal glass frames.

The colour glass handles are secured by "D" rings. 2 had suffered badly over time. But removing them, heating red heat and allowing to cool slowly allowed me to re shape. Then headed to red heat and quenched into cold water means they are reused.



First of the top coats. It had grey primmer, then a filler primer. Sanded back between coats. Final coat was a clear lacquer.
The thin metal moves so easy, so extra car had to be taken. To reform the glass frames and 3mm thick bit or perplex was heated and bent to the shame curve and was used as a former.



The wick holder and tank. This is an original unit, Good condition. But the wick gear needed a dress with a file to make it grip the wick. I using a modern lamp oil, what is meant to have an additive to keep bugs away.
Also you can see the new glass bedded in. Not with linseed putty, but a modern form in a tube.
It turns out the original glass was not circular, but oval. So my attempts at cutting a circle were a lesson in cutting glass.
But £2 got me a new lens cut locally.



The silver you see is "Silver" leaf. Not a good finish. Not due to the leaf, but what it was attached to. The roughness of the ring means it does not look shinny from any distance. Apart from up close. The copper bezel did not buff up. It is shinny, but looks dull

Only new parts was the glass, the putty and the paint.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

And some more progress.
Turned some m6 bolts into round slots last night then went for measurements for mounting holes.
Cant get those until I line up the pulley.

Problem is it didn't fit.

Found a 1" hardened bar and set to it.
Drilled to 12mm then bored out to just shy of 14mm
Left some meat on the bottom and turned it down to 16mm Locates into a ridge on the motor shaft and the pulley sits snug on it. Also gave me somewhere I coukd grip it well in the chuck.
Getting better. Perfect fit on the shaft and bore.
Loctite and pressed into the pulley then get the persuader out and tap it on the shaft.
Il align and mark the mounting holes tomorrow then make the new feet look less like slabs of billet.
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Well that was anticlimatic.
Slots milled and fitted in place.
Plug the vfd in. Motor chugs but no movement
Dig out a manual and check the settings.
Still as they should be. Was fine when tested last year
Cba tonight. Il check wiring tomorrow.

 

[Woody.v8]

Aaahhhhh bisto, body can go back on tomorrow, can't say I enjoyed it

 

[Slowcoach]

Do you need an o license to keep that at home.

 

[Woody.v8]

Do you need an o license to keep that at home.

No not if it's private hgv or recovery plus you can keep what you want at home as long as it's not operating from there, I used to keep my 26 ton truck at home plus a few coaches years back.

 

[Slowcoach]

No not if it's private hgv or recovery

Thanks.
Recovery don’t need to run tachos either do they.

 

[Woody.v8]

Thanks.
Recovery don’t need to run tachos either do they.

Within a 100km radius of base

 

[Ruffian]

Today I made prototype wooden bracket version 1.0 for my brake conversion on the street twin.

It's not perfect but being nice and close enough. Even threaded so the bolts hold it in place to make sure it fits well.

Next step is to get it 3d cad/scanned ready for cnc and billet.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Well that was anticlimatic.
Slots milled and fitted in place.
Plug the vfd in. Motor chugs but no movement
Dig out a manual and check the settings.
Still as they should be. Was fine when tested last year
Cba tonight. Il check wiring tomorrow.
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Picked this VFD motor combo up from a member last year.
Tested it briefly and popped it away for future use.

After the above aborted test tonight I unmourned it and brought it inside to look it over.
It's definetly been apart before. Looks like the rotor was dropped but didn't damage anything vital.
Next checked all VFD end connections again all good.
Popped open the motor terminals for a look and I find its been wired star despite being run from a 240v inverter.
Rewired correctly and tested again. Still cogging but could get it to spin up by hand. Didn't sound to healthy.

Started wondering if PO had ****** around with the settings to get it running while wired star.
Reset to defaults and Boom.

Vibration is lid not torqued down. Refitted the fan and ready to go on the scroll saw.

 

[roofman]

Today I made prototype wooden bracket version 1.0 for my brake conversion on the street twin.

It's not perfect but being nice and close enough. Even threaded so the bolts hold it in place to make sure it fits well.

Next step is to get it 3d cad/scanned ready for cnc and billet.

Whats making you use a radial caliper and all the extra bracket needed...i bet a refurbed blue spot would of dropped right in there

 

[Gareth0123]

I made yet another shish-kebab grill this afternoon.
That's five of them I have manufactured in the last three weeks.
840mm X 620mm exterior frame made from 30 x 30 x 3 box section.
Qty 44 of 12mmØ m/s bars @18mm centres creating a 6mm gap between the bars.