Stuff you have made today

[DAPPH]

A whole day overtime on this one. 6 days on the tiling.

Odd size tiles that don't divide well.
Extremely brittle. Won't dry cut so every cut on the bridge saw.
Only have to look at them for them to chip. Even pulling out a tight spacers did it for them.

And the plasterer obviously didn't have a level straightedge or square just to make a difficult job harder.
Only 2 full tiles. Everything else is cuts

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We have tiling like that in our wet room of almost identical colour & finish.
I guillotined loads of fairly thick solid cardboard into inch by half inch strips for the tiler to use as spacers instead of the plastic stuff, it worked well .

Pity he didn't evenly spread the tile adhesive evenly over the nicely flat finished walls as in several places there is 1 /4 inch undulations across the wall at several tile joints

 

[DAPPH]

Insurance job. They don't want to spend their own money. That's why I have cheap crappy tiles

We took our insures up on that for our wet room and demanded equal like for like replacements & reinstatement which more than quadrupled what they initially offered as they also had to include the old floor screed & remaining tile removal as the old floor was covered in thick waterproof tiling adhesive & leveling compound as well as some of the remaining salt glazed floor tiles which wouldn't let the floor dry out.

I took advantage of that to put in an underfloor trace heat matting system before the new slightly cheaper slip resist Pilkington tiles were laid.

 

[DAPPH]

That would be me with my own kitchen. Anywhere near Milton Keynes?

Is he offering you full B&B with evening meal and as much Guinness as you can neck each day & night FOC as well as paying you for your time and travel with separation allowance thrown in for good measure?
If not tell him to shove it.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

We took our insures up on that for our wet room and demanded equal like for like replacements & reinstatement which more than quadrupled what they initially offered as they also had to include the old floor screed & remaining tile removal as the old floor was covered in thick waterproof tiling adhesive & leveling compound as well as some of the remaining salt glazed floor tiles which wouldn't let the floor dry out.

I took advantage of that to put in an underfloor trace heat matting system before the new slightly cheaper slip resist Pilkington tiles were laid.

Other way around. Dirt cheap kitchen and tiles previously.

 

[ihavenoidea]

Gave the CNC Plasma a new Control Cabinet.

It gave me a riddle:
Is it a Bird or is it a Plane?

 

[selectedgrub]

Totally off but another piece of art for the shop.

 

[Maker]

Bit of knurling today. 20 adaptors to make

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It's amazing how much better a cut knurler does, just a shame they're so expensive.

 

[striker]

Pls can someone educate on knurlers? I thought clamp type best for lighter lathes. I've never seen one like johnnybravo's. What's a cut knurler?

 

[Kram]

It cuts and removes material rather than displacing and forming the knurl. It cant be used to increase a shaft size for example.

Good description and details of how to make one here

Cut Knurler

 

[Newlands]

Don’t buy Christmas cards any more. English oak on the right and Japanese cherry on the left, all cut from firewood logs I liberated from the log shed. A bit of red string to hang them up with et voila!

 

[Kram]

A quick test of the 30mm steel bar that many of us bought. Ignore the rough finish As I havent used lathe for ages. I've forgotten how to manually feed while dodging swarf

Good stuff, plenty of carbon in it!

 

[redlig]

It's all going to fall down but that's not my problem, that's the girlfriends issue now


We did bed it down, to be fair another beam and a bit of flooring (but might make this removable) and it'll be fine.

Famous last words.

 

[MattF]

It's amazing how much better a cut knurler does, just a shame they're so expensive.

What's the difference, wheel wise, between cut knurler & displacement knurler?

 

[awemawson]

The edge of a cut knurl is sharp, sometimes hollow ground.

 

[Shox Dr]

Way guard for a M300


The ears hold it in place

 

[striker]

I made a couple of chip shield or swarf guards today. A couple of cheap dti stands from Amazon less than £15 each, and two a4 size sheets of 4mm lexan polycarbonate £14 the pair from eBay. A little bit of drilling and some lathe work.

I can position these on the mill or lathe and should speed up clean up.

 

[Maker]

What's the difference, wheel wise, between cut knurler & displacement knurler?

Cut on the right, displacement on the left;


The cut knurler has a sharp edge, and a straight wheel like that produces a diagonal knurl, you get diagonal ones for cutting straight knurls.

 

[selectedgrub]

A bit more on that stand.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

Console for the filter, in haste. There has been no response from the filter manufacturer for a week now. Judging by the prices for the second version of the bracket, this is made of gold painted black. Cut partial threads M6 in smooth holes and changed the method of fastening

 

[Onoff]

When I think what other folk make in here...

Anyway, my poor offering, rock cakes with / without fruit. From The Dairy Book Of Home Cookery. Mind you I can never get them like the MiL used to!

Made three lots the other day, regular, without fruit and vegan with fruit for one of the kid's mates. Forgot the sugar in all three lots!