Stuff you have made today

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Bit of fun the last few days.
I got this penknife a few weeks ago, it sat around for a bit, so the last few days I have striped it and cleaned it up. Only to find a surprize.




The case was swollen with rust, the loop was broken and the blade was curved from years of sharpening.



Broken down into bits and left in Citric acid for a few days.



When the metal parts were cleaned up a Government Broad arrow, a date stamp, a name and a Ships Book number was found, on different parts.
Plus some soft metal bars to make new rivets.
RHS Third and fourth parts form the blade springs. The look identical, but they are not. So it is best to make sure you know what spring goes with what blade.



Assembled and new edges onto the blades.
The Royal British Legion have ben sent an E mail to see if we can get more details on the owner, with luck return it to the family.

 

[bourbon]

Not made, but fixed. Next door neighbours go Litter picking. The grabbers break. I fix them, The one today was a pin lost from the trigger. It took me longer to print my 'FIXED BY DAVE' sticker than it did to put a bolt in it. I don't charge them. I make noise, they don't complain.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Last weekend I was given a lot of tools and other fun stuff. The MIS are not fully open, so we have been fixing the items up at my place..
Means we have a laugh and I get lots of biscuits.

A quick look at the power tools showed they all needed some urgent safety attention. None past a PAT inspection.

The B&D planer was a good example. But being of a certain age a repair is easily done, with little or no cost.



This is what was wrong with this tool and why it faied the PAT.



There is a scary unknown horror under this mass of tape. I am betting the cable was "planed".




Not even soldered. There is a bit of T&E in this picture, that was used as a brace for the repair.

This is frustrating, as theses B&D tools are easy to repair.




A No.2 Cross head screwdriver will have the case in parts, as you can see lots of room and screw fixings for the switch.
Modern B&D switches can be re wired if you know the rick
All I did was re make the cable and test.




Reassembled, not PAT inspected as a new plug is required. Before it goes to MIS or a tool charity it will have one fitted.


Oh, we found out why the soldering iron was not used.



It gets worse.



The iron was re cabled and tested.

We did find the original receipt.

 

[nickk]

Slotting for a lock case.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

More fun with dead tools.

An assortment of adjustable shifters.
Plus a crow bar.
These make a good place to start to show people how to restore tools, using different ways.



The Stillsons show little or no wear, the springs are still strong, so stripped and de rusted using citric acid paste.



Washed off with warm water and wire wool. Then dried to drive out any trapped water.




All finished.

The other two were de-rusted using electrolysis.



The results, not as good as I hoped.
But with wire wool and wax/oil we ened with this.




The crow bar was used to educate a new MIS member what can be done with a 4 1/2 grinder.

They have gone and brought one for them selfs.



Made use of the sun and the empty cloths line.



A nice No5 Plane, but in need of some TLC.



The rust was on all parts, but the blade was sharp. The wooden parts were the parts that needed a lot off attention.



Stripped and cleaned. The blade, cap iron and Leaver cap were cleaned with brown scotchbrite pad with wax oil. Same with the Frog.

The body was cleaned with 800 grit grinding paste on a small sheet off 8mm sheet glass.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Before and after shots.



The sole of the plane before the grit and glass. The trick is the push it back and forth across the glass.
But with out extra pressure, just let the weight of the body do the work.

 

[daedalusminos]

Just thought I'd share some small scale production techniques. I need to make a number of these folded metal items from 1.5mm CRS


This was a prototype cut from sheet using an angle grinder and folded with a box pan folder. The small upturn was folded longer and then trimmed afterwards.

The final product..


And here's how it was done (parts are laser cut)..

(Apologies for the handheld camera!)

 

[Jan-DIY]

Not that Instagram style weld but that is also not my job.

 

[Jan-DIY]

After welding I will test my Surfox cleaner or etcher.
this will show what it can do because not that best welder is present.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Few more things that has had me entertained.






Couple of Hammers, both heads were loose on the shafts.
Both had nails forced in against the soft metal wedges to try and keep them tight.

So both had the nails removed, shafts cleaned up. Heads were cleaned with a bench grinder wire wheel.
The hole in the head was cleaned up, then 80grit paper was used to give a rough surface.
New Hardwood wedges made, then the heads refitted.



This 1/2" hand masonry drill has had a good deal of use.
Blunt, head mushroomed and a damaged flute.



I had time so why not.



I even redressed the tip. The information was in a Home improvement book, from the 1950's.

This square was one of those small jobs that was done to fill in time between the others.



The is the best side. The other was covered in white paint. That was easily removed with modern paint stripper. But the blue paint was some sort of Hammer finish, added in it's life.

Hot caustic dip had that off, then a clean up of the blade with a brass wire brush. The square faces had the rust removed with 800 grit wet and dry on a glas sheet.



All done. Just a few more coats of hard wax needed.

 

[nickk]

Some more lock rebates for steel framed doors and windows.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I even redressed the tip. The information was in a Home improvement book, from the 1950's.

Is the green Plastidip?

 

[Beeezer]

Cut some reinforcement sections last night and was left with some medieval weapon offcuts

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Nocking out some rakers?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Is the green Plastidip?

Not this time.
The finish is green paint. Left over from a Mamod rebuild.

 

[Cheesie]

It's the only colour I use...

You should come over to N.Ireland on the 12th of July you'll see plenty of orange

 

[Munkul]

Nocking out some rakers?

Some haunches for rafters Is that what you call a raker?

 

[Beeezer]

Some haunches for rafters Is that what you call a raker?

Down these parts we call them rakers and yes those are known as haunches what you’ve cut.

 

[DennisCA]

Made a scythe for mowing the ditches and other areas around the yard, dislike firing up the weed whacker and much prefer this.

Norweigan carbon steel blade, homemade snath in eastern european fashion with a single handle and wedge style attachement. I need to work on the handle ring yet, didn't get it the proper size for the snath (which is hand carved so not perfectly round or straight all the way). Had to resort to some shims to make it fit for now. I have made it so you turn the handle to tighten the ring around the snath. The idea is you will be able to easily move the single handle to where you want it without tools. I might make it into a two handle setup yet though.

Had to reinforce the snath, it broke more than once. Fir isn't the ideal material... But cheap and light. I should probably weld up the whole side, would look better.

 

[James1979]

These

Bent them

They became these

3950 to do…..

 

[Brad93]

These

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Bent them

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They became these

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3950 to do…..

How did you form them in the end?