Stuff you have made today

MattF · Feb 21, 2022

What is it?

Blobber · Feb 21, 2022

Battery box?

Cheesie · Feb 21, 2022

MattF said:
What is it?

Battery box

Fraserb · Feb 21, 2022

Made a start on another metal origami project.

Kram · Feb 21, 2022

While messing about with melter I did a round tuit on lathe and made up 6 pins for dinse 10-25 plugs to be brazed on. Then stuck the 3 I can find with silver solder.

I dont have any original 10-25's so not sure what size the pin should be turned to, 4 or 5mm square is probably ok.

Roger440 · Feb 21, 2022

Ali said:
Coat rack finished, apart from making 20 odd hooks, that’s the last time I’ll see it now.

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Spot the mistake?

I rather like that. Simple and effective.

Munkul · Feb 22, 2022

Kram said:
While messing about with melter I did a round tuit on lathe and made up 6 pins for dinse 10-25 plugs to be brazed on. Then stuck the 3 I can find with silver solder.

I dont have any original 10-25's so not sure what size the pin should be turned to, 4 or 5mm square is probably ok.

Good effort, I bet the cost of material was similar to buying ones off the shelf

prepman · Feb 22, 2022

badabec said:
I only ever see single shoes at the side of the road.

One legged races? :whistle:

God mode restorations · Feb 22, 2022

Now that the crap weather has passed I was able to do a bit. Got the shoots done. Made a start on the handles.

Hood · Feb 22, 2022

Few of todays jobs,
2" BSP thread to be welded onto the top of a water tank.

Welded up a mast from bits I cut and bent last week.

Couple of speaker boxes for under a shelter deck.

Cuthy246 · Feb 22, 2022

Machinery restorations said:
Now that the crap weather has passed I was able to do a bit. Got the shoots done. Made a start on the handles.

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Don't weld it on with the magnet in place :laughing:

are all the chamfers done by hand? The way everything lines up next to that g clamp is almost pornographic

God mode restorations · Feb 22, 2022

Cuthy246 said:
Don't weld it on with the magnet in place are all the chamfers done by hand? The way everything lines up next to that g clamp is almost pornographic

Magnet is just to hold it in place so I can step back to get a visual. Everything is done by hand. All I use is a 0.8 cutting disc. Flap wheel and files.

Cuthy246 · Feb 22, 2022

Machinery restorations said:
Magnet is just to hold it in place so I can step back to get a visual. Everything is done by hand. All I use is a 0.8 cutting disc. Flap wheel and files.

Top notch work as always :thumbup:

God mode restorations · Feb 22, 2022

Cuthy246 said:
Top notch work as always

Thanks cuthy.

Dcal · Feb 23, 2022

Today I made a set of forms for making 100mm long louvers.
All made out of scrap using various grinders.
Started by cutting a bit of 10mm plate to size with a 4.5 inch grinder then shaping it with a flap discs.

Then squared an edge on an off-cut of 25mm plate, marked the rough shape and made a few cuts with a slitting disc.

Ground the middle out with a 4 inch and did the corners with a 2 inch grinder

FInished off the shaping with a die grinder.

Then tack welded a short piece of 5mm x 25 flat to close off the end of the die. This would probably be better if it was 25 square bar but it will do for a test.

And tacked a bit of heavy flat bar to the other form.

Cut a slot in a bit of scrap and tried it out.

I need to be a bit more particular in cutting the slot and clean up the sharp edges but it seems to work ok.

Edward Teach · Feb 23, 2022

Dcal said:
Today I made a set of forms for making 100mm long louvers.
All made out of scrap using various grinders.
Started by cutting a bit of 10mm plate to size with a 4.5 inch grinder then shaping it with a flap discs.

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Then squared an edge on an off-cut of 25mm plate, marked the rough shape and made a few cuts with a slitting disc.

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Ground the middle out with a 4 inch and did the corners with a 2 inch grinder

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FInished off the shaping with a die grinder.

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Then tack welded a short piece of 5mm x 25 flat to close off the end of the die. This would probably be better if it was 25 square bar but it will do for a test.

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And tacked a bit of heavy flat bar to the other form.

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Cut a slot in a bit of scrap and tried it out.

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I need to be a bit more particular in cutting the slot and clean up the sharp edges but it seems to work ok.

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I don't comment often on this page,
But this is worth commenting on,
Brilliant, time consuming, top work.

Dcal · Feb 23, 2022

Edward Teach said:
I don't comment often on this page,
But this is worth commenting on,
Brilliant, time consuming, top work.

Thanks @Edward Teach it took a good two hours to make.
It helped that I have more grinders than any sensible person should ever need but sometimes having the right tool really helps.
Now I'm not saying a grinder is the ideal tool for a job like this but it's surprising what you can make with simple tools if you put your mind to it.

Hood · Feb 23, 2022

It is indeed amazing what you can make with basic tools, I remember lots of things and think how the heck did I manage with this or that. I have loads more tools now and can make things better but the biggest difference is time.

God mode restorations · Feb 23, 2022

Today I made more brackets.

Hood · Feb 23, 2022

I have a job coming up that I need 4 accurate holes bored into. The Chiron does a reasonable job at interpolating circles but it is 35 years old and probably had a hard life for at least half of that and it has a wee bit of backlash, about 0.02mm on the X and a bit less on the Y.
I needed a boring head but had given my good ones away years ago thinking I would never need them :doh:

but I did have one for the Beaver NC5 that looks to be a home made one, a decent one though and it had been properly hardened.
So strip it down and into the Triumph.