Stuff you have made today

Dcal · Apr 11, 2023

Today I made a rivet nut setting tool.
I needed to replace a 8mm rivet nut but don't have a setting tool or have much call for one so, I made a quick, simple tool to set it.
Bit of M16 thread bar with a 8.5 hole drilled through it on the lathe and locked two nuts on it.

Squared the ends so the nut would grip and oiled the rivet nut threads and under the 8m bolt head.

Held the 16mm nuts and turned the 8mm bolt with a ratchet spanner and it worked a treat.
I would have struggled to get a setting tool in so I'm pleased with how it worked out.
If I had a small thrust bearing it would have worked even better but perfectly serviceable for a one off.

redlig · Apr 11, 2023

Maker said:
Proper cutting oil works noticeably better than bog standard lubricating oil.

Slurry can also have an anti rust quality so no need for extra lube.
Not expensive if the stuff you use is watered down to use. I use Silkolene soluble cutting fluid that seems to last forever.

Memmeddu · Apr 11, 2023

Today after work and school (related to my job)
I've repaired a felisatti 230mm angle grinder
Which has been run over by a daily
So I've had to replace both switch and handle.
I've dismantling Various broken tools for parts so I've used an early 2000's Milwaukee handle and an early 2000's Metabo switch .
I've then assembled together a Milwaukee AG 20-230 from the same time period by salvage parts from other 2 same grinders.
And it actually works very well.
Need to find or make brush covers , replace the power cord with a longer one clean it up and find an auxiliary handle for it.
First one was a paid job second one it's just a tool of mine.
I still have many tools here for repair
Tomorrow a second round
Another felisatti I have here from August, various concrete mixers.
After that I can proceed with my projects, Money First

droopsnoot · Apr 12, 2023

Dcal said:
Today I made a rivet nut setting tool.
I needed to replace a 8mm rivet nut but don't have a setting tool or have much call for one so, I made a quick, simple tool to set it.
Bit of M16 thread bar with a 8.5 hole drilled through it on the lathe and locked two nuts on it.

When I needed to do this with some 3/16" UNF rivet nuts, I did something a lot more rough and ready - a high tensile bolt (not sure if it needed to be), a nut and washer, then the rivet nut, into the panel and a washer and bolt on the other side. Tightening the nuts towards each other was sufficient. Of course, that was a much smaller rivet nut so easier to collapse, and I had access to the back. I was putting them in a door skin because I wasn't about to stick self-tappers (the "correct" fixings) through my new paint. I'll keep this in mind though if I need to do bigger stuff.

bricol · Apr 12, 2023

droopsnoot said:
When I needed to do this with some 3/16" UNF rivet nuts, I did something a lot more rough and ready - a high tensile bolt (not sure if it needed to be), a nut and washer, then the rivet nut, into the panel and a washer and bolt on the other side. Tightening the nuts towards each other was sufficient. Of course, that was a much smaller rivet nut so easier to collapse, and I had access to the back. I was putting them in a door skin because I wasn't about to stick self-tappers (the "correct" fixings) through my new paint. I'll keep this in mind though if I need to do bigger stuff.

I've done similar - mainly because the die-cast rivet style tool I had for aluminium rivnuts would have simply snapped trying to pull up steel or stainless steel ones.

Martin Hocking · Apr 12, 2023

Anderson shelter farm mash up more or less finished

for now…

DAPPH · Apr 12, 2023

bricol said:
I've done similar - mainly because the die-cast rivet style tool I had for aluminium rivnuts would have simply snapped trying to pull up steel or stainless steel ones.

I ended up turning a 1. 24 x 3/4 dia noggin off cut of mild steel making it an 8,5mm tube , to slide a high tensile Allen key in to pull the rivinut up in a blind hole on my contractors saw bench fence arrangement . Held the tube in my big mole grips

Sergei Slovenija · Apr 12, 2023

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Some 20 years ago, German "fox holes", made of corrugated sheets, in perfect condition, found dozens in remote places. Locks on the edge of the sheet "thorn-hole". They were of various standard sizes. From covering the top of the trench to arranging a large dugout.

Martin Hocking · Apr 13, 2023

Sergei Slovenija said:
Some 20 years ago, German "fox holes", made of corrugated sheets, in perfect condition, found dozens in remote places. Locks on the edge of the sheet "thorn-hole". They were of various standard sizes. From covering the top of the trench to arranging a large dugout.

That sounds fascinating sergei I didn’t realise they had specific patterns for different types, very organised, very German.
Not sure I quite understand what you mean by “thorn-hole” though. Is that like a notch so they join together easily?

sako243 · Apr 13, 2023

A netting unroller from junk. I had the A frame already from a previous project (PTO powered duck plucker). Scaffold tube from a dilapidated swing the previous owners left. Hub and half shaft from a Defender and finally a bit of sheet to support the bottom of the reel.

Sergei Slovenija · Apr 13, 2023

Martin Hocking said:
That sounds fascinating sergei I didn’t realise they had specific patterns for different types, very organised, very German.
Not sure I quite understand what you mean by “thorn-hole” though. Is that like a notch so they join together easily?

In the video, the biggest one. I dug narrow ceilings built into trenches (half ellipse), with a very thick layer of zinc. Yes, I meant a hole and a reciprocal spike (they form a lock when the reciprocal parts are closed). Around the holes from bullets and shrapnel, rust spots are natural. I came across fox holes tens of meters long. When I was younger, my hobbies were archeology and military archeology.

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R-D-R · Apr 14, 2023

Been a while since I posted, yesterday I up cycled a bed frame into a load partition for the car…

Martin Hocking · Apr 14, 2023

Sergei Slovenija said:
In the video, the biggest one. I dug narrow ceilings built into trenches (half ellipse), with a very thick layer of zinc. Yes, I meant a hole and a reciprocal spike (they form a lock when the reciprocal parts are closed). Around the holes from bullets and shrapnel, rust spots are natural. I came across fox holes tens of meters long. When I was younger, my hobbies were archeology and military archeology.

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That’s amazing Sergei! I can’t imagine what finding something like that must be like, looks like real wilderness, in the UK you’d be 3 minutes walk from a car park!
I must admit the only thing I knew about Slovenia until this morning was that it was where akrapovic came from. Seems to have a very interesting history…

Sergei Slovenija · Apr 15, 2023

Martin Hocking said:
That’s amazing Sergei! I can’t imagine what finding something like that must be like, looks like real wilderness, in the UK you’d be 3 minutes walk from a car park!
I must admit the only thing I knew about Slovenia until this morning was that it was where akrapovic came from. Seems to have a very interesting history…

The video was filmed beyond the Arctic Circle in Russia not so long ago. Video as an example of fox holes and modifications.

My fox holes were near Leningrad, "Sinyavin Heights". Endless abandoned peatlands, swamps and a layer of human bones in plowed fields.

Slovenia has a great legacy of fortifications from the First World War. Local "Little Verdun", Battle of the Isonzo River, Alpine War of Mountain Jaegers etc

James1979 · Apr 15, 2023

Is that your channel Sergei?

Sergei Slovenija · Apr 15, 2023

James1979 said:
Is that your channel Sergei?

No. No. I live in Slovenia and my channel is sketches from work.

Martin Hocking · Apr 15, 2023

Sergei Slovenija said:
The video was filmed beyond the Arctic Circle in Russia not so long ago. Video as an example of fox holes and modifications.

My fox holes were near Leningrad, "Sinyavin Heights". Endless abandoned peatlands, swamps and a layer of human bones in plowed fields.

Typical I say I know nothing about Slovenia, and then go and back it up by completely misunderstanding the video you posted!
I have to say I admire your commitment to searching out history, sinayavina sounds horrendous now. God knows what it was like then…
Thank you Sergei.

blackolive (Ste) · Apr 15, 2023

Finished building and erecting my new antenna. I think its going to be a good un, worked into russia with it pointing at god. Oh and I found my claw hammer :thumbup: