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More metal mauling, a stainless steel waste bin
This is a project for a young man doing a design degree, his course requires him to design a product and get it made, so apart from a giving bit of advice to make the engineering more practical, I have almost no design input here but the metalwork is all mine, he asked for photos of the build for his write up of the project, and is happy for me to share them with the forum.
First roll a ring for the base, 16mm stainless bar all formed on the flypress,
Tig welded together and cleaned up
Next roll the body, this is 1.5mm stainless steel, its dull polished sheet so a bit of extra protection on top of the polycoating with some masking tape is in order,
Fitting the base, this was fabricated from a disk with a lip welded on, this was then edge welded to the body with Tig, you can never have too many grips when doing this kind of work.
Then fit the top plate, and polish out the weld,
Next carve it up to make it into a body and 2 doors, the long seam on the body is not welded, this makes the door joint.
Fit a closure strip, a few resistance spot welds do the job here
Fitting the stainless steel door hinges,
Doors fitted,
Next a top ring, this will slip on and retain the bin bag, and keep the doors closed
Welded and polished
Then we need a lid, handle is formed from 15mm stainless bar and polished, I dont want to weld on this so the screws hold it all together, a bead of clear silicone seals it up
The finished Item
This is a project for a young man doing a design degree, his course requires him to design a product and get it made, so apart from a giving bit of advice to make the engineering more practical, I have almost no design input here but the metalwork is all mine, he asked for photos of the build for his write up of the project, and is happy for me to share them with the forum.
First roll a ring for the base, 16mm stainless bar all formed on the flypress,
Tig welded together and cleaned up
Next roll the body, this is 1.5mm stainless steel, its dull polished sheet so a bit of extra protection on top of the polycoating with some masking tape is in order,
Fitting the base, this was fabricated from a disk with a lip welded on, this was then edge welded to the body with Tig, you can never have too many grips when doing this kind of work.
Then fit the top plate, and polish out the weld,
Next carve it up to make it into a body and 2 doors, the long seam on the body is not welded, this makes the door joint.
Fit a closure strip, a few resistance spot welds do the job here
Fitting the stainless steel door hinges,
Doors fitted,
Next a top ring, this will slip on and retain the bin bag, and keep the doors closed
Welded and polished
Then we need a lid, handle is formed from 15mm stainless bar and polished, I dont want to weld on this so the screws hold it all together, a bead of clear silicone seals it up
The finished Item