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redlig
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What mess ? Didn't notice>
Just be careful with welding sparks and fire risk - never weld and finish, just in case you've a smouldering rag..
Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs.
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Yeah, always careful!
Spent my childhood fire watching inside cars while other people welded!
I wasn't welding this where it is, I tool it to a clearer space. That was mainly as I don't want weld spatter on the lathe ways though!
All good on warnings, can never be too careful!
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Made this thing today, emergency job for work.
Grabbed a 150mm long 100mm diameter piece of ally from my ally crate
Bored a 66mm hole though it.
Turned a shallow relief in the OD for a retaining system, then cut it in half with a mini grinder
Drilled a hole in the end of each half and fixed a loop of wire into the holes with epoxy.
Here's the finished article. Can you guess what it might be for?
Grabbed a 150mm long 100mm diameter piece of ally from my ally crate
Bored a 66mm hole though it.
Turned a shallow relief in the OD for a retaining system, then cut it in half with a mini grinder
Drilled a hole in the end of each half and fixed a loop of wire into the holes with epoxy.
Here's the finished article. Can you guess what it might be for?
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Ooh, good guess but no. Can see how you got there though, if I made one it would be something like that.
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Will we know tonight Pete?
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Will we know tonight Pete?
Why not
It's an adapter for a hydraulic concrete splitter. Normally you drill a proper sized (usually 48mm) hole, pop the splitter in and it cracks the concrete with 165tonnes of splitting force concentrated on a small area. It's anincredibly useful tool.
We have drilled a hole in some concrete down under the sea where there's no visibilty and it needs to be split, but it's not of a size that you can get any adapter shims for, plus there's no visibility and it's got to be used by divers who won't ever have seen that tool before and being divers, need it to be simple to use and line up.
So I made this split collar with a wire handle that the operator can load onto the splitter, secure the halves together with a few turns of gaffer tape, set the height by tying the wire loop off to a handle on the machine and show the diver how to judge the direction of pressure by lining up the off-set wire holes with the side handle on the splitter.
What could go wrong eh?
roofman
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Fantastic mate...well explained and understood tooWhy not
It's an adapter for a hydraulic concrete splitter. Normally you drill a proper sized (usually 48mm) hole, pop the splitter in and it cracks the concrete with 165tonnes of splitting force concentrated on a small area. It's anincredibly useful tool.
We have drilled a hole in some concrete down under the sea where there's no visibilty and it needs to be split, but it's not of a size that you can get any adapter shims for, plus there's no visibility and it's got to be used by divers who won't ever have seen that tool before and being divers, need it to be simple to use and line up.
So I made this split collar with a wire handle that the operator can load onto the splitter, secure the halves together with a few turns of gaffer tape, set the height by tying the wire loop off to a handle on the machine and show the diver how to judge the direction of pressure by lining up the off-set wire holes with the side handle on the splitter.
What could go wrong eh?
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Weapon of choice, innit? A good man with a steady hand, can churn out some precision work.Animal
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Remember when material was dirt cheap and every cat and their dog was plasma cutting out tacky wall art?
Back to the border crossing after Fridays work,it’s finished,the customer will clean and paint it,strengthening brackets to stiffen the posts,42tube 4mm thick.
The scrap pile shows the severity of corrosion,however,these rails date back to 1960! Bear in mind this tranquil brook flows over the top of the bridge sometimes,as the ground rises steeply suddenly to the source at 2200’
The scrap pile shows the severity of corrosion,however,these rails date back to 1960! Bear in mind this tranquil brook flows over the top of the bridge sometimes,as the ground rises steeply suddenly to the source at 2200’
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Sun shining means only one thing doing a of whittling. Following on from my raft a few weeks back iv done a surfer from a scrap of firewood and a bit of slate for a keel.
He's away down the wansbeck this afternoon that's my local river.
Here are a couple of my homemade whittling knives. The one on the left made out of a scrap of spring steel and the other from a flake of en9 both with pallet wood handles. Oh I'm cheap
redlig
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Not cheap , resourceful ! Nice work . just shows we don't always need a machine shop full of equipment.View attachment 407797View attachment 407798View attachment 407799
Sun shining means only one thing doing a of whittling. Following on from my raft a few weeks back iv done a surfer from a scrap of firewood and a bit of slate for a keel.
He's away down the wansbeck this afternoon that's my local river.
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Here are a couple of my homemade whittling knives. The one on the left made out of a scrap of spring steel and the other from a flake of en9 both with pallet wood handles. Oh I'm cheap
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Messing about with the laser I got yesterday.
Decided to see how good it would etch stainless steel so brought home a scabby bit left over from plasma cutting some other bits.
Very happy with the results.
For an idea of scale the top Africa Twin text is 100mm wide.
Going to be handy for etching stainless panels if I ever need to do such a thing again
Decided to see how good it would etch stainless steel so brought home a scabby bit left over from plasma cutting some other bits.
Very happy with the results.
For an idea of scale the top Africa Twin text is 100mm wide.
Going to be handy for etching stainless panels if I ever need to do such a thing again
