Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

I have only had the Hartford Super Spacer for 25 years or so, bought it at a roup. The indexing plunger is supposed to be spring loaded but it was missing the plug and spring and also the lever itself could pull out due to the dog point being broken off the screw. It works fine and has done so for all those years but I have always been promising myself I would sort it and today was the day

Took out the screw, was going to make a new one.

Instead I took the lazy option, I bored out the end, threaded m5 and put a set screw in then turned the threads off.

Next up was the plunger spring and cap. Found a spring and put a bit of 8mm dia stainless inside it to act as a guide then turned a thread and bored out a bit of 1" dia steel, it is a UNEF thread, 1"-20TPI.

All back together and working great, shame it took me 1/4 of a century to get round to it

 

[Lewis_RX8]

I finally got some time to make a remote for the Raglan lathe
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So what do the fancy buttons other than red and green do , Sure the prime minster carries something like that in a brief case around linked to the trident missiles

 

[minimutly]

I finally got some time to make a remote for the Raglan lathe
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Jeepers, what exactly can you control with all that?

 

[MattF]

Jeepers, what exactly can you control with all that?

The lathe?

 

[My Old Landy]

So what do the fancy buttons other than red and green do , Sure the prime minster carries something like that in a brief case around linked to the trident missiles

Er, yeah, he asked me if I could knock something up..... The top three are reverse/stop/forward and the other two are jog reverse/forward in that order

Jeepers, what exactly can you control with all that?

It is for the Raglan lathe

 

[MysterG]

Not made as such but installed 2x 100W solar panels on the shed roof, feeding a battery in the garage via cheap PWM controller. Had it all for a while but the weather has not been conducive to installation!!

Only done as a bit of a play with solar. At some point MrsG wants a shed for her down the bottom of the garden and it will have to be solar powered, so might as well learn on mine

 

[Arc Tourist]

I finally got some time to make a remote for the Raglan lathe
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Nice setup. I needed something different, so rather than hardwire the machines in I made up a box to house two inverters which cover the horsepower requirements of the motors on three of my tools. It's an easy matter to switch plug's as necessary and also provide a quick connection for future equipment if required. Plug in and play.

 

[Hood]

I made 72m of 1" SHS into a smaller bits.

Then just before I came home I turned up the start of an adapter for a seacock to fit a water hose to so the engine can be run up whilst on dry land. The thread is weird, 11tpi so I reckoned 2-1/4" BSP but it is smaller than that but bigger than 2" BSP.

 

[Seadog]

2-1/8" ?

 

[Hood]

2-1/8" ?

Do you get that?

 

[Barking Mat]

Do you get that?

Go on 50 mm ?

 

[Hood]

Go on 50 mm ?

? Not sure what you mean. I think it is actually a 2-1/2 " 11 tpi special.

 

[Kram]

After yesterdays successful brass test I was going to have another go with a bag of brass swarf. This was yesterday:

Metal Melter

Two more from yesterday

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Landlord was not going to be out long, and with higher temperatures it still has a habbit of tripping the RCD. I stuck it on high power, 2.5kw upto 500c to speed things up. Hoping for it to trip sooner, to help diagnose.. It didnt make 500c! Element survived, the SCR unit did not. The fuse holder got hot enough to desolder itself from the pcb. The 10A fuse survives

This may be my fault for thinking the fuse under rated and previously trying to get a 13A fuse in there, bending the holder a bit The unit is listed as 4000w...

Good thing is with the control box apart, Ive worked out how to fit the power meter inside, it will save lots of messing about with extension leads.

I then sieved/filtered 20 litres of water/clay for use as greensand binder. It will be about 6kg clay when dry.

 

[Seadog]

Do you get that?

Not a standard, but 11tpi goes from 1" to 6"

 

[Hood]

Not a standard, but 11tpi goes from 1" to 6"

I have certainly never come across 2-1/8 BSP.
As said in my previous post I actually think it is just a special thread as it is very close to 2.5" dia, measures 63.3mm on the thread and 63.5mm would be 2.5"

 

[paulmitchell1984]

Was asked if I could repair this grill from a lad at works tractor (nope I do t know what type) and nope I don't know what it's used for apart from crashing into things obviously.

I explained the time it would take to "repair it" would outweigh the time it would take to replicate..so I hoped to it..2 and abit hours later this is where I'm at,
Still got the holes to drill in, (fully aware now I should have done this before welding them in), and the two bends just to tidy up.

For some reason I had no 50mm angle kicking about and since it was the only piece not really damaged, I just re used it

 

[Seadog]

I misinterpreted your post, 2 1/4" for 2 1/4" bsp. 2.587" is 2 1/4" bsp.

 

[Maker]

After yesterdays successful brass test I was going to have another go with a bag of brass swarf. This was yesterday:
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Metal Melter

Two more from yesterday

www.mig-welding.co.uk

Landlord was not going to be out long, and with higher temperatures it still has a habbit of tripping the RCD. I stuck it on high power, 2.5kw upto 500c to speed things up. Hoping for it to trip sooner, to help diagnose.. It didnt make 500c! Element survived, the SCR unit did not. The fuse holder got hot enough to desolder itself from the pcb. The 10A fuse survives
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This may be my fault for thinking the fuse under rated and previously trying to get a 13A fuse in there, bending the holder a bit The unit is listed as 4000w...

Good thing is with the control box apart, Ive worked out how to fit the power meter inside, it will save lots of messing about with extension leads.

I then sieved/filtered 20 litres of water/clay for use as greensand binder. It will be about 6kg clay when dry.

I had one of those 4000 watt SCR things, returned it the day it came as it all appeared too crappy, thanks for confirming my suspicions.

 

[Hood]

I was thinking it was 2-1/4" BSP but it was too small but also too large for 2" BSP but measuring it is close to 2.5" (not BSP) so I think that is what it is, just a special thread 2.5" nominal dia and 11tpi (Whit threadform)

 

[MattF]

Weld the f***** on. It's becoming confusing.