Stuff you have made today

[Blue Chips]

Last night I was drawing up an outboard engine stand that I am to be making shortly, well it will be 2 that I need to make, not folding so that simplified things and just castors but it is for slightly larger engines, 150HP Yammies.

The folding feature did make it more complex and required tighter tolerances to make sure that all of the holes lined up in all positions, but indoor space is at a premium at our place, so I try to make things as compact as I can. We have been "boatless" for the past few years (except for our canoe), but that might change this summer, so I might be building a heavier variation on this stand, depending on what kind of powerplant the boat has. I've just been using this small motor to move our floating dock back and forth between our property and the nearest landing when we move the dock in and out of the river for the season.

 

[Barking Mat]

Today I made lots of swearing sounds.

These turned up earlier than expected and as some things that were expected hadn't turned up I thought I might as well get on with these.



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They are segmented grabbers for a Capto tooling block. A real nightmare to fit.
They are No 6 in the below diagram. Trying to get them all held whilst I tried to get the O Ring on, then the split collars and all the time struggling for room due to the dished washer and spring. I would get 4 or so in place then fitting the next one a previous one fell out, took me a couple of hours.









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Completed and ready for putting back into the body.




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I then hacked up a VDI capto adapter I had made and welded it to a wedge holder, I faced off the wedge holder, some lovely fireworks with that.



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Once done I had to mill a circular pocket in the top so I could get the adjuster in.

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And fitted to the lathe with a threading bar inserted.




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What's going on in this photo? And what is that tool please ???

 

[Hood]

What's going on in this photo? And what is that tool please ???

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Just facing off some hardened steel.

 

[pressbrake1]

Blades back from hardening so finish ground on plough grinder (Blanchard)

 

[Barking Mat]

Blades back from hardening so finish ground on plough grinder (Blanchard)
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Pretty.

 

[Maker]

The EK43 is a serious grinder.

With a serious price tag to match! It turns out though, a set of 98mm burrs aren't exactly cheap anyway.

 

[Fraserb]

A couple of fire pits.

 

[Barking Mat]

A couple of fire pits.

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Burn baby burn, disco inferno.

 

[Memmeddu]

Survived the dentist part 2 ,1st round won
Killed a tooth , next week it will be rebuilt .
I've won the fear of anesthesia and Dremel .
Didn't felt any pain
Once there I was terrified, asked to the dentist to be patient with me because I have no problem with pain because of my kidneys , but a lot with needle .
Once calm down , anesthesia .
He asked I have had allergic reaction to some kind of medicine .
My answer let's find out .
Little bit of panic and struggle for the first minutes then , closed my eyes and shut off the brain or better imagined to be somewhere else doing other .
Come back to the real when he used an instrument heated up to white glow (I presume over 1200°C ) to burn the nerve .
Only moment when I felt something .
Opened my eyes and seen smoke and this thing cherry red .
Overall it's been funny
Hope that next time wouldn't be much different .

It has been a pretty stressful day and that it's only the easy part of it .

 

[Cheesie]

Finished 2 nights ago

 

[Memmeddu]

Small direct drive air compressor stator winding insulation repair

Edit 17:40 finished , customer is on the way to pick it up

 

[James1979]

Small direct drive air compressor stator winding insulation repair

Edit 17:40 finished , customer is on the way to pick it up

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Did you repair the wire or rewind it?

that’s a quick turnaround

 

[Memmeddu]

Did you repair the wire or rewind it?

that’s a quick turnaround

Repaired the insulation , soldered the broken wire .
Used cotton tape, insulation paint e cotton wire .
It works

 

[Mr Fro]

Made a quill feed handle/lever thing.

I could have bought one but I wanted it NOW!

I probably won't use it for an age now I've said that.

 

[Hood]

The bearings eventually arrived for the roller so got them fitted and a pin made, also made up an acetal wear spacer for the bottom but it is not in this pic and the reason why the roller looks low.

The 45 degree stainless fitting also arrived so I got that welded to the flange.

After a wire brush.

Got the valve etc fitted and cut a curved plate on the plasma for a support and got it welded.

Also turned the insert round in the capto block so that the threading bar is at a better orientation for a manual lathe.

 

[nickk]

A wee bridge,customer has to clad in chicken wire to meet building regs,just for the visit.

 

[KemppiFrog]

Nothing special, a little hand rail, but I have worked in worse places

Rail is simple, but goes down the steps at the bottom of the garden to...

This.

Weather a bit dull, so pix not so good.
St. Palais-sur-mer.
KF

Hood, some really nice work there. Chapeau

 

[Am333rcr]

hi

nothing fancy its for the mrs. supposed to hold a pony back in horse float.

 

[pcwizme]

Over last few days an memorial book for a friend who had a client who died (they work in special and additional needs education).
3mm ply, engraved and stained with a mix of Burmese teak and light oak stain to give it a nice warmth. Sanded multiple times and then sanded a little more to give some aging and depth. The paper was cut with the laser to ensure that it was a perfect fit.


Might not be metal but I made it.

 

[johnakay]

eventually got round to making my bench planer.
its roughly about 18" long and 10" wide. work a treat easy to store and its not heavy.
the plate on the base is for when I clamp it to the bench.