Stuff you have made today

[sako243]

Weld up a mt4 adaptor to a spare toolpost holder.

What spare tool post holders...

I'm going to see if I can chuck it up in the 4 jaw when that job comes out of it and turn the shank down to an MT3.

 

[RichardM]

I'd be more worried about it overloading the tailstock. How about finding a cheaper version of this.

https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/00187435

 

[Maker]

The 3" stainless pipe I found in a skip ten years ago has finally found a use, just needed a flange on one end and a 25mm hole in the side.




Excuse the spaghetti, it was a bit of a faff to set up the chiller to use both product lines.

 

[Memmeddu]

Ok after having understood that it's time turn something myself and upload over here ....
Too many lathe jobs uploaded in these days over here.
Here's what I did today

Painted spare rail covers and an angled grip.
Blued screws and springs but unfortunately no pictures of them because I was in a hurry.
Anyways I've used the rust blueing method started from them being already little bit rusty and believe it or not I've just cleaned, boiled them in water and applied little bit of WD-40

We are talking about the grip and cover black parts they came out almost perfect. can't wait to actually blue something bigger from a polished and buffed surface to see the results.

Anyways installed the painted parts on the ICS M4A1 and now starts to look good.
I'll probably end up swapping the grip on the lower for a Magpul replica and I'll seek for another stock to paint it in the same colour of the front parts.
Yes I know they already sell stocks of the right colour but I want another one identical to this because it has an hinged buttstock plate and keeps the battery well protected inside the tube

 

[sako243]

Well a little bit more bored out on the bracket and the bush is a very nice tight slip fit.

And now the 4 jaw has been freed up I've found that it's big enough to get a decent hold on the drill. Just need to source an MT3 live centre to support the other end and I should be able to turn down the taper on the big drill.

 

[Memmeddu]

Well a little bit more bored out on the bracket and the bush is a very nice tight slip fit.
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And now the 4 jaw has been freed up I've found that it's big enough to get a decent hold on the drill. Just need to source an MT3 live centre to support the other end and I should be able to turn down the taper on the big drill.
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Put a can foil on the cutting edges of the drill to avoid damages both to the bit and the jaws

 

[sako243]

That's a good idea. Was going to do cardboard but that will work better. Or I've got some thin Ali sheet somewhere I can wrap around it.

 

[Windy Miller]

Today I finished the drill rack that I’ve been making over the last few evenings.

Made from 8mm round bar (too big really - 6mm would have been ample) and a bit of 40x5 flat bar.

Unfortunately a couple of the hoops moved slightly while I was welding it, so there’s a slight misalignment there.



One of the gaps was slightly too large for my little 18v Bosch drill, but a bit of orange gas pipe slit down the length and slipped over the bar narrowed it down nicely.

Drill bits, spare batteries, and chargers on the shelf above.

 

[David_W]

First of four telegraph poles lifted into a vertical position. Going to be a tree house for the little one now he's getting the hang of ladders...

 

[Gragson]

One of the gaps was slightly too large for my little 18v Bosch drill, but a bit of orange gas pipe slit down the length and slipped over the bar narrowed it down nicely.

Thats called a feature in my book nicely done.

 

[Maker]

I made this old air pump suck twice as much.
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I've had it in my treasure pile for years waiting for a use. It occurred to me today it might work for vacuum filtration, so I stuck a gauge on it and the needle was bouncing between about 375 and 500 Torr, which dropped back to zero almost immediately. I took it apart expecting to find the diaphragms all perished and leaky but luckily they were fine, the reed valves however were seriously manky:
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The tar came off easily enough but the sealing faces were corroded and pitted so I cleaned them up with wetstones, working up to 8000 grit, much better now (I didn't bother cleaning the pitting off the back face).
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Tiny drop of light oil should keep them sealing tight, all back together and it easily pulls 625 Torr, which takes a few seconds to bleed back down to zero now. I put another gauge on the output and it makes it to 40psi before the PRV opens, not bad at all. No idea what it's rated for, where it came from or what it was used for, quality little unit though. There's a small leak where the diaphragm meets the casting, it's not a machined face so I might pull it apart again and see if a light skim on the lathe can get it to seal, maybe get a few more Torr out of it.


I of course had to try filtering something so had a rummage around and found a cute little side arm flask, a bung that didn't fit it and a narrow stem funnel (Exactly the type you wouldn't use for filtration). Cut a circle out of a coffee filter, filled it with cutting fluid, fired up the pump and it pulled it through in less than a second.

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Looks like my cunning plan is gonna work, next job will be to make a big special Büchner funnel, something like this:
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Stay tuned.

Only took three years, I reground the threading tool and cut and O ring groove in the funnel;



Then excitedly set up the vacuum pump only to get an eyeful of white dust...


Full of corrosion, the steel reed valve is totally ruined. I think I need to add a dessicant tube to the inlet once I repair it.

 

[Blue Chips]

Installed a small wall-mount compressor with a 1/2-gallon tank to operate the safety pawls on my new scissor car lift, added some 2x4s behind it for a more secure mount, and made a new air hose to connect it to the lift. This frees up some floor space (which is bound to get crowded before long), and also frees up another compressor for other purposes. The compressor is portable and can easily be lifted off the wall mounting bracket.

Our other garage (my shop) has a 60-gallon plumbed-in air compressor, and I might eventually install the same sort of thing in the new garage, but for the time being this little compressor should do the job.

The compressor came with a separate quick-connect in-line pressure regulator, but I didn't like it, so I put together an upgraded in-line regulator for it, which you can see sitting on the wall base plate under the compressor. The air pressure regulator for the lift is inside the control cabinet, so the in-line regulator isn't needed for the lift, but it would be attached if the compressor is used for other purposes, such as an inflator or some low-air-volume tool.

I also moved the hydraulic hose covers over about 3" to allow enough room for wheel removal if a vehicle is only lifted enough for the tire/tyre to clear the floor.

I plan to cover the rigid foam insulation on the foundation wall with FRP when I have a chance. You can see some sheets of light-gray FRP leaning against the wall at the left side of the photo.

 

[magnet]

Little folding whittling knife made out of the scrap pile.
Blade from a spring steel surgical corset bone. The metal for the handle is from a computer case and the wood from the hazel tree in the garden

 

[Dr.Al]

More details in the build thread.

 

[RichardM]

That's a good idea. Was going to do cardboard but that will work better. Or I've got some thin Ali sheet somewhere I can wrap around it.

I use aluminium beer can sides.

 

[bricol]

I use aluminium beer can sides.

Going to struggle to find anything but aluminium beverage cans these days.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Going to struggle to find anything but aluminium beverage cans these days.

Boddingtons cans are steel.

 

[Pete.]

Going to struggle to find anything but aluminium beverage cans these days.

Every try the John Smith's can crush challenge back in the day? Those cans were super tough.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Every try the John Smith's can crush challenge back in the day? Those cans were super tough.

Alloy again and are weak.

But make a good metal over cork gasket material.
When you melt them down, you get a nice green flame, from the copper in the paint.

 

[sako243]

I use aluminium beer can sides.

Beer in cans?!