Stuff you have made today

[droopsnoot]

I needed to run a bead along a section of engine bay surround that I'm making for my project car - the original had quite a few rust holes in it. First of all I made the repair section, got it curved in both directions spot on, then tried to add the bead (it's like an angled step rather than a bead). First problem was that all the step dies are far too big - this is around 12mm x 7mm. I had a go with the cutting pair, but it wasn't much good. Ended up using the hand joggler, and it was all over the shop.

Next I tried the bead roller on a new piece of steel, put the step into the steel and then tried to fold it up. This was OK, but I really struggled to get the bead straight. A couple more test goes showed that I just can't do that by hand. I've been intending to make some sort of back stop for the roller for ages, and kept over-thinking it. As I've recently salvaged some thicker steel from the scrap pile, I ended up with this:

Currently it has to be clamped into place, but I might try to do something about that. It's not ideal for the job I made it for because it means using a much-oversized strip of steel, but there isn't a way to put it any closer to the rollers, and the extra width makes the steel easier to handle. First test piece through was spot on, folded up in the right place and is now tacked onto the car. You can probably see that the welds on the back stop haven't penetrated fully, which I suspect might just be my welder not being up to it. If I get trouble with it I'll have a go at moving the welder so it's not on a 65' extension cable, or drill and tap a couple of holes for screws.

 

[GRW]

This am I bought 25L of old-school Coal-Tar Creosote, and larruped about 2/3 of it over about 80% of the roof timbers & A Frames of the roof I'm going to try & repair, membrane, batten & slate.
The idea being of course to protect this outbuilding roof from any more woodworm or decay.
Stinky horrible stuff, but it works.

 

[RWD3M]

Stinky horrible stuff, but it works.

What do you mean, I find it fragrant and beautiful!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

What do you mean, I find it fragrant and beautiful!

Want some coal tar soap?

 

[Mick Annick]

Want some coal tar soap?

You have a source?

 

[sardine]

Coincidentally, I really needed a square too.
I thought I’d copy yours but didn’t have any metal so I used the same as you have in the middle of it.
What do you think ?

I can let you have the middle bit, I don't need it and it'll only go to waste.

 

[selectedgrub]

Coming along

 

[Memmeddu]

Coming along

Well what's that?

 

[badabec]

It's obvious

 

[Seadog]

 

[dobbslc]

You've dyed a Koala bear blue?

 

[Melvyn Best]

Well what's that?

Patience, all will be revealed.

 

[badabec]

As the monkey said when he pooped behind a door.

 

[MetalMonkey]

As the monkey said when he pooped behind a door.

It wasn't me.

 

[jmp49]

Thrashing to finish rebuilding a spa for my wife's 50th and had bought a secondhand chinese spa that didnt work with the plan to replace all the naff unsafe chocolate block wired chinese electrics with balboa controller/heater/pumps I already had, done properly.
The best place for the controller/heater was inline with the separate circulator pump circuit which was on 1.5" unions, but the balboa one used 2" ones but really tight on space so couldnt use normal parts, and no time to get imperial sized specials shipped in. Couple of SPA shops looked at us like we were aliens needing these so solution make a adapter sleeved with 2" imperial thread on the outside, and 1.5" on the inside, that added no extra length but used standard o-rings. Used a large plastic 2" nut as a collet to hold the threaded external bit snug without damaging the threads.
Set up the lathe changegear's and box and cut them, after screwing one up making a internal lh thread, I did manage 2 perfect ones, which threaded nicely onto a existing part used as a go/no gauge, and blue glued them in position. I have a norton box on the leadscrew, with doubler and other lever adjustments & 6 speeds on the main gear lever, and a full set of changewheels with driven idler on the side gears, so if I can find the right lever positions, it generally can cut that pitch, though gear selection is so complicated I have to use a spreadsheet calculator to work everything out.


Dont look too bad, I eyeballed the thread form angle, but it worked really well anyway.


Happy to report the spa was done and dusted for yesterday and no leaks and all working. Weather forcast now is its going to thunder and storm for a week though.

 

[Bullet2012]

See, now I need a lathe

 

[MattF]

Made the first of the new gib screws for the shaper. Need to knock the pip off the head from parting off, but I'll do that when they're all made so that I'm only swapping collets once.



¼" BSW thread with a 5/16“ head. An original on the left.

 

[magnet]

A quick coffee table for the deck. Made from one of the sawmill waste slabs. Its been so useful that timber i got a ton of it for 20 squid. Bargain!!

 

[Bki26]

A quick coffee table for the deck. Made from one of the sawmill waste slabs. Its been so useful that timber i got a ton of it for 20 squid. Bargain!! View attachment 496923

I can't be the one one who sees a squished sheep

 

[Bki26]

Well what's that?

If I was to guess it looks like a pressure cooker with foreign writing and image search says I'm correct with it being an old Asian aluminium pressure cooker (or bomb if it was made in China )