Stuff you have made today

[Dr.Al]

I'm making some screws for my bandsaw with integrated sliding tommy bars. To fit them, the tommy bar will have to be slid back and forth to avoid various bits of vice etc that will get in the way. Once they're tightened, they should only need to turn 1/4 turn or less to loosen them up enough to adjust whatever they're clamping, so the tommy bar won't need to slide. Given that the bandsaw vibrates a fair bit when its cutting, I thought it would be a neat solution to have a little brass knurled screw in the head of the main screw that tightens down on the tommy bar and holds it in place.

I'll hopefully finish the main screws this evening so I'll post some photos in case that doesn't make any sense. The bodies are already done and marked up with the angle that I'd like the tommy bar to sit at when its tightened; just need to cross drill the hole for the tommy bar and add the M6 locking thread for the brass screws.

Here they are:

More photos (including some with the screws in place) in this post on the bandsaw restoration thread.

 

[Cobbler]

a British lady to tell to the butcher what she wanted to buy.
So I got also little bit of English conversation today.

Always nice to help someone, your written English is very good & improving all the time, it’s good to know the Forum is useful for English language as well as welding

 

[zx9]

Learned to keep the car braked using clutch and throttle while driving uphill (I don't remember how it's called this condition)

'Holding it on the clutch' would be one expression.

 

[Memmeddu]

Always nice to help someone, your written English is very good & improving all the time, it’s good to know the Forum is useful for English language as well as welding

Yep I'm thankful for every time you all help me to get better with my English

 

[Memmeddu]

'Holding it on the clutch' would be one expression.

Thanks , I will keep that in my toolkit

 

[optima21]

Ive recently been making a tube bender, as I need some tight radius bends in some 3/16" copper pipe and some bends in some 3mm stainless steel tube.

with a 2" length of 3/16" brake pipe clamped in place.

and with the former in place on a handle to make the bend

showing the former after the bend has been completed

and the completed items, the need more work doing to them though

why do these "little" jobs seem to take so much time to do? and if you hadn't guessed what they are for, they're for part of the boiler to go with my next model steam engine. Now that I have made these parts I can now draw the plans for it, as I wasn't sure I'd be able to make them, but where there's a will, there's a way I guess.

 

[Memmeddu]

I've forgot to mention that this evening I've cut down a dead tree using the famous 7Hp Active chainsaw
I had to check it yesterday because my buddy said me that it was bogging down while cutting hard wood.
Sharpened the chain , little bit of carb tuning because was set for warmer weathers ,and ordered a new clutch and clutch bell .
But it's enough functional to do the job now

Unfortunately I've not any pictures of this chainsaw but that's a link to Google images took from the producer site
https://images.app.goo.gl/DxTVybJDkhWWVxd66

 

[Memmeddu]

why do these "little" jobs seem to take so much time to do? and if you hadn't guessed what they are for, they're for part of the boiler to go with my next model steam engine. Now that I have made these parts I can now draw the plans for it, as I wasn't sure I'd be able to make them, but where there's a will, there's a way I guess.

Smaller the parts you are working on higher the skill to make the job done with pretty good looking results

 

[Brad93]

Ive recently been making a tube bender, as I need some tight radius bends in some 3/16" copper pipe and some bends in some 3mm stainless steel tube.

with a 2" length of 3/16" brake pipe clamped in place.

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and with the former in place on a handle to make the bend

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showing the former after the bend has been completed

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and the completed items, the need more work doing to them though

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why do these "little" jobs seem to take so much time to do? and if you hadn't guessed what they are for, they're for part of the boiler to go with my next model steam engine. Now that I have made these parts I can now draw the plans for it, as I wasn't sure I'd be able to make them, but where there's a will, there's a way I guess.

That’s great. How did you make the little dies?

 

[optima21]

the circular die for the 3/16 I used tiny milling and grinding spindle in my lathe, and the 3mm die used a form tool, I would have ground a form tool for the 3/16 tube, but this way was quicker.

the straight dies were done by drilling a hole in the die and then milling the face down to leave half the hole. this is an earlier version using a 3/16 drill to check the fit with the straight die and circular die

the clamping block had the 3mm and 3/16 holes drilled in them and then were cut with a slitting saw (again on an earlier version) to keep the alignment correct

 

[Melvyn Best]

Pipeaid pliers from Sykes Pickavant make really tight curves in brake pipe , quickly and easily

 

[Turbo]

Ive recently been making a tube bender, as I need some tight radius bends in some 3/16" copper pipe and some bends in some 3mm stainless steel tube.

with a 2" length of 3/16" brake pipe clamped in place.

View attachment 209932

and with the former in place on a handle to make the bend

View attachment 209930



showing the former after the bend has been completed

View attachment 209931

and the completed items, the need more work doing to them though

View attachment 209933

why do these "little" jobs seem to take so much time to do? and if you hadn't guessed what they are for, they're for part of the boiler to go with my next model steam engine. Now that I have made these parts I can now draw the plans for it, as I wasn't sure I'd be able to make them, but where there's a will, there's a way I guess.

You can make bending formers for brake pipe using mudflap washers mounted on a bolt. You use several of a smaller size for the curve radius & a larger size either side of these as the guides. For larger curves use discs cut with a hole saw from plywood.

 

[northwest]

Today (okay, yesterday) I faced, drilled and tapped the Bolt Carrier Groups that arrived the day before.
To do this you need a pair of largish Cahones as these are hardened and you need to be really careful, this stuff really destroys taps but as we can only have single shot centre fire's you need a simple way of cocking the gun for each shot. I make cut knurled Titanium cocking handles, it is a simple solution:

 

[Munkul]

Today (okay, yesterday) I faced, drilled and tapped the Bolt Carrier Groups that arrived the day before.
To do this you need a pair of largish Cahones as these are hardened and you need to be really careful, this stuff really destroys taps but as we can only have single shot centre fire's you need a simple way of cocking the gun for each shot. I make cut knurled Titanium cocking handles, it is a simple solution:

For AR15 receivers?
Do you do all that practical rifle stuff then? I was very interested in all the mods that people started to develop after the SLR ban to make the AR15 platform a decent straight pull system. No experience of it whatsoever, but quite interesting to see.

 

[pcwizme]

Totally not welding or metal or even wood work related.... But in 2008 I found I have an intolerance to garlic, this lead to a change of diet, eating out became almost impossible unless having ham egg and chips or a steak.

Over time I managed to find things I can eat to replace most things, but not a good old donner kebab. So finally today I made one and it was glorious

 

[Farside]

Totally not welding or metal or even wood work related.... But in 2008 I found I have an intolerance to garlic, this lead to a change of diet, eating out became almost impossible unless having ham egg and chips or a steak.

Over time I managed to find things I can eat to replace most things, but not a good old donner kebab. So finally today I made one and it was glorious View attachment 210044

Yebbut, did you get lashed and drop it on the pavement?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Totally not welding or metal or even wood work related.... But in 2008 I found I have an intolerance to garlic, this lead to a change of diet, eating out became almost impossible unless having ham egg and chips or a steak.

Over time I managed to find things I can eat to replace most things, but not a good old donner kebab. So finally today I made one and it was glorious View attachment 210044

My pal has exactly the same as you, only he becomes violently sick within minutes of eating anything with garlic in it. He ALWAYS get the waiter to check with the chef if a dish has garlic in it, mostly he has to settle for fish & chips, but some even add a little to beer batter for instance.

Also, if you read the ingredients list in many things of the s/market shelves you'll find 'garlic salt' mentioned.

 

[Hopefuldave]

I've been making red things...



Dave H. (the other one)

 

[Tupers]

I drained the evaporust out of the Daimler bores and it did a lovely job of cleaning them but the pistons are still massively frozen so it’s time for heat.

On the plus side I got a much needed shelf made to stack all of my metal off cuts on.
Just a simple frame from scrap 40mm galv box with 2 welds per joint and chipboard shelf’s from an old cabinet.

 

[pcwizme]

My pal has exactly the same as you, only he becomes violently sick within minutes of eating anything with garlic in it. He ALWAYS get the waiter to check with the chef if a dish has garlic in it, mostly he has to settle for fish & chips, but some even add a little to beer batter for instance.

Also, if you read the ingredients list in many things of the s/market shelves you'll find 'garlic salt' mentioned.

Or you get the "Spices" in the ingredients, I have to take that to mean garlic as it is often garlic oil