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made today, in fact most not but some fitted today.
Swivelling handrail in closed and open position.
Aluminium console for hydraulic spool valve, bow thruster control and helm.
Bait box.
Horizontal roller to keep rope lower in hauler sheaves.
Swivelling handrail in closed and open position.
Aluminium console for hydraulic spool valve, bow thruster control and helm.
Bait box.
Horizontal roller to keep rope lower in hauler sheaves.
It's Déjà vu all over again.
Finally finished this one today.
Just to prove I'm not trolling you, here it is in front of the previous one.
This one's a little bit smaller than the last, designed to fit a particular spot, unfortunately plans have since changed in the months since starting the build. There's plenty of space for it still, just not in the place it was designed for.
It's been a pretty rubbish build, this one. I should have been getting better with practice, but instead I regressed. The mitred corners for the top of the frame didn't come out very well. I thought I could square it up nicely by leaving gaps to weld up but things didn't go to plan. I can live with it though. One part of the build did improve slightly. I learned to make the drawer fronts separate to the drawers themselves. They are screwed on to the drawer carcass from the inside. This made lining up the fronts with the steel frame and each other rather easy using packers, regardless of how the drawers themselves are sitting.
Finally finished this one today.
Just to prove I'm not trolling you, here it is in front of the previous one.
This one's a little bit smaller than the last, designed to fit a particular spot, unfortunately plans have since changed in the months since starting the build. There's plenty of space for it still, just not in the place it was designed for.
It's been a pretty rubbish build, this one. I should have been getting better with practice, but instead I regressed. The mitred corners for the top of the frame didn't come out very well. I thought I could square it up nicely by leaving gaps to weld up but things didn't go to plan. I can live with it though. One part of the build did improve slightly. I learned to make the drawer fronts separate to the drawers themselves. They are screwed on to the drawer carcass from the inside. This made lining up the fronts with the steel frame and each other rather easy using packers, regardless of how the drawers themselves are sitting.
A special punch for knocking tube rivets out at work instead of fighting with an undersize parallel punch.
I'd try pass it off that I left the knurl only partially developed for a very pertinent reason, but I only have fine wheels on a push knurling tool and it felt too barbaric trying to get a full knurl in EN30b*. I'd already hardened the working end too. The scissor knurler would probably have coped, but it's plenty grippy as it is.
*It was EN30 not for any particular design optimisation or constraints but because I had a bag full of bar ends of known material and I knew it would torch harden adequately.
I'd try pass it off that I left the knurl only partially developed for a very pertinent reason, but I only have fine wheels on a push knurling tool and it felt too barbaric trying to get a full knurl in EN30b*. I'd already hardened the working end too. The scissor knurler would probably have coped, but it's plenty grippy as it is.
*It was EN30 not for any particular design optimisation or constraints but because I had a bag full of bar ends of known material and I knew it would torch harden adequately.
They look nice. How did you thread up close to the shoulder?
Must be a big mug!
Hood
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Did the threads on the CNC lathe
Erie Fred
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Today I made a workbench, finally!
36mm birch ply (2x18mm bonded), and decided to stop torturing myself figuring out how to make DIY legs out of scrap metal, just buy some £18 Vevor legs (much better than I expected them to be!) and get it done.
It ain't pretty, but it works. Very happy with how everything is slotting together and being closer to being able to call this box my 'workshop'.
36mm birch ply (2x18mm bonded), and decided to stop torturing myself figuring out how to make DIY legs out of scrap metal, just buy some £18 Vevor legs (much better than I expected them to be!) and get it done.
It ain't pretty, but it works. Very happy with how everything is slotting together and being closer to being able to call this box my 'workshop'.
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Spent roughly 4 hours maybe more to turn this
Into this
Minifig to better understanding the sizes of this thing
2009 Lego City set #7632 crawler crane
679 pieces
From when Lego still made big and "realistic" City sets
Not even comparable to nowadays ones
Loved to have one when I was 10 only managed to get one maybe a year ago but only found the time to build it only today.
I have now to seek for roughly 200gr of lead fishing weights to place them into the side compartments as ballast.
So I can put it up here
And hang a plane or chopper from the lifting hook
Into this
Minifig to better understanding the sizes of this thing
2009 Lego City set #7632 crawler crane
679 pieces
From when Lego still made big and "realistic" City sets
Not even comparable to nowadays ones
Loved to have one when I was 10 only managed to get one maybe a year ago but only found the time to build it only today.
I have now to seek for roughly 200gr of lead fishing weights to place them into the side compartments as ballast.
So I can put it up here
And hang a plane or chopper from the lifting hook
Made recently, but painted today. I've made 2 of these now.
Low profile base for a lathe cabinet. Being my usual tight self, I used some scrap c channel to make an h-shaped frame for the cabinet and added some home made tuffnol rollers.
Here's another one. Can't have too many lathes.
Low profile base for a lathe cabinet. Being my usual tight self, I used some scrap c channel to make an h-shaped frame for the cabinet and added some home made tuffnol rollers.
Here's another one. Can't have too many lathes.
Memmeddu
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I understand it's some kind of revolver lathe but I can't understand really how you're able to actually set tooling to specific finished workpiece dimensions cause I don't see any cross slide.
It looks like center, drill, champhering
I've got multiple cut off slides, compound slides, lever operated slides, and tailstocks. The capstan unit can do whatever you tool it up to do, including drilling, chamfering, tapping, face cuts and sliding cuts, etc. I'm in the process of making additional tooling.
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There are "knee turner" attachments when you want to take a cut on the O.D. from the turret.
Already got one. I want to make a couple more. I'd like an adjustable one like this...
