Stuff you have made today

[northwest]

Finished my enclosure today. The hinges were "difficult". I bought 50mm ones as I wanted things to be in proportion. What an ar*e of a job, I will get the bigger ones next time I need some as my sausage fingers were burned a few times fiddling with them. Off to the powder coater's tomorrow and then I am nearly ready for a trial run.

Just to re-iterate, only the Jabber Wocky welding is mine, though I did all the fab work. It all lines up too when bolted together, amazing....



Really pleased with the doors because there is plenty of space and access when they are opened because of the pivot points being so far back. It is a great design feature even though I say so myself.

 

[DennisCA]

Dennis
Would this not be worth putting in it's own thread?

Could be very useful for someone and it seems a pity to bury the information in such a huge thread.

I suppose I can put the next update and my previous posts in a new thread later on.

Last night I made a new grate for a cat carrier since we're gonna need it this week, pretty beefy compared to the original.

 

[dobbslc]

Tiddles won't be biting through that!

 

[Maker]

Just finished this deck;

That's Baloo guarding the shed, he's been "helping".

 

[northwest]

Bits back from the powder coaters, just need the polycarb sheeting now and I am good to go:

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Just finished this deck;

Very neat. How do you/will you access to trim back those neighbour's bushes?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Very neat. How do you/will you access to trim back those neighbour's bushes?

Long handle loppers?
From the roof?

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[Maker]

Very neat. How do you/will you access to trim back those neighbour's bushes?

Climb up on the roof with long handled loppers, I've literally just jumped down.

 

[Hood]

Got a stub shaft in today to see what I could do with it. I have never seen anything like it before in my life and I have seen some rough jobs
I forgot to take a pic of it complete but here is the shaft after I had bored it out of the flange.
Instead of a keyway and key it had a series of screws.

Also someone had tried to weld the cast taper lock bush onto the shaft, not going to be very successful at the best of times but these welds didn't stand any chance

New shaft pressed in and welded.

Into the lathe and turned down to 1 3/4"

Then into the Chiron to cut the keyway.

Ready to go.

I then had a cutlass bearing to turn down. It was a real PITA to do as it had to be fairly true over the full length, I got it within 0.01mm over the 10 or so inch and will flip round tomorrow and do the bit held in the chuck.

 

[steviec_lj]

I suppose I can put the next update and my previous posts in a new thread later on.

Last night I made a new grate for a cat carrier since we're gonna need it this week, pretty beefy compared to the original.

Is this cat domesticated?!? Or is Shere Khan coming to visit?

 

[Onoff]

not going to be very successful at the best of times

Not as unsuccessful as me trying to weld a bit of BRASS angle to a steel box section a couple of hours ago.....

It involves a sleepless night, dirty glasses and working in a shady place.....

 

[Parm]

Dunno about everyone else but I can look at a spanner and tell what size it is with a very high success rate.

Not me, have to get most of the similar sizes out before I get the right one, luck I don’t need this skill to make a living

 

[Windy Miller]

... I got it within 0.01mm over the 10 or so inch and will flip round tomorrow and do the bit held in the chuck.

Will you be able to achieve that same accuracy when you flip it in the three jaw chuck? I only ask as we're led to believe that a 3 jaw isn't so accurate.

 

[brightspark]

Will you be able to achieve that same accuracy when you flip it in the three jaw chuck? I only ask as we're led to believe that a 3 jaw isn't so accurate.

there not . the jobs accurate once you have taken a cut but not once removed and re fitted .a 4 jaw is needed and clocked up

 

[Hood]

Will you be able to achieve that same accuracy when you flip it in the three jaw chuck? I only ask as we're led to believe that a 3 jaw isn't so accurate.

Soft jaws dear boy

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Not me, have to get most of the similar sizes out before I get the right one, luck I don’t need this skill to make a living

I just set my calipers and check at the drawer these days. My spanner drawers would give some here nightmares

 

[Hood]

Will you be able to achieve that same accuracy when you flip it in the three jaw chuck? I only ask as we're led to believe that a 3 jaw isn't so accurate.

Also worth mentioning, even the hard jaws are pretty accurate in that chuck. It is not a scroll chuck Or at least not a conventional one.

 

[Memmeddu]

Also worth mentioning, even the hard jaws are pretty accurate in that chuck. It is not a scroll chuck Or at least not a conventional one.

You can't say that without make us curious
Please tell us more about , which kind of chuck you use ?

 

[DennisCA]

Is this cat domesticated?!? Or is Shere Khan coming to visit?

It's what I had at hand to work with, we also got two of them, the other transport cage is fine though. Don't actually use them since they like to drive in the car, but we're taking them to the vet tomorrow to get them neutered.

 

[Hood]

You can't say that without make us curious
Please tell us more about , which kind of chuck you use ?

It is a Forkardt F type chuck, pic below of the internal mechanism, basically it is a manually operated wedge chuck.