Stuff you have made today

[bigegg]

This lot made this week, 10 stillages, dirty things to make compared with what I usually do, but a jobs a job.

The "mature" stock was supplied by the customer just to use it up, they are being blasted and painted so it will all look good when finished, made from 50 x 50 box section and 50x 50 angle. they will have a GRP open mesh base dropped in when painted.

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they'd make good bench bases.

do you fab the "feet", or buy them in?

 

[Paul.]

do you fab the "feet", or buy them in?

Pallet feet are bought items, dead cheap from Brundles.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Wasn't that the image which ended up as a Court case, someone [iirc, an animal rights 'advocate' ] was arguing the monkey held the copyright to the picture.

 

[Screwdriver]

Wasn't that the image which ended up as a Court case, someone [iirc, an animal rights 'advocate' ] was arguing the monkey held the copyright to the picture.

yeah, well, I did ask and he didn’t say no...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I just need to find somewhere to mount it now.

This is what I did with mine

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stuff-you-have-made-today.67127/page-253#post-1300573

 

[slim_boy_fat]

yeah, well, I did ask and he didn’t say no...

Iirc, the verdict went against the monkey - yes, my memory is better than I thought

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...wildlife-personalities-macaques-a7941806.html

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Today I made.....a [relatively] clean car. I hadn't washed her for several months due to a number of factors and was thoroughly ashamed Wheels are my spare set of alloys with Winter rubber fitted, before anyone says they need a refurb.



Not bad for 137k miles up at nearly 17 years old.

The clay mitt and the DA will have to come out when the weather warms up a bit more...9 degrees here today.

Some welding on a small 'project' should feature soon

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@slim_boy_fat

Did you take that half way through the wash?

I only ask, as the wheels look like they need a clean.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

@slim_boy_fat

Did you take that half way through the wash?

I only ask, as the wheels look like they need a clean.

No, after. The face of the alloys is chrome so didn't photo well - and because I was tired I couldn't be ar*sed fetching all the 'specialist' wheel brushes to reach into the recesses and inner rim surfaces.

 

[Hood]

Today I made.....a [relatively] clean car. I hadn't washed her for several months due to a number of factors and was thoroughly ashamed Wheels are my spare set of alloys with Winter rubber fitted, before anyone says they need a refurb.

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Not bad for 137k miles up at nearly 17 years old.

The clay mitt and the DA will have to come out when the weather warms up a bit more...9 degrees here today.

Some welding on a small 'project' should feature soon

Mine has been getting regular washes this last while, we have had much more rain than normal

 

[Aesgarth]

I've also been washing my car recently. Started green, ended blue.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I've also been washing my car recently. Started green, ended blue.

Are those metric rims on the e34?

 

[Dr.Al]

Long overdue, but a bit of scrap ply and 20 minutes playing around with a cone cutter and we have

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Pity the bottom right wandered, no idea why.

I just need to find somewhere to mount it now.

I put mine in a Bisley style filing cabinet thing. The drawers are plenty deep enough for the collets and it keeps them from getting covered in dust or swarf or whatever.

(they're just a couple of bits of thin aluminium plate with some plastic feet held onto the bottom with cap screws).

@Dr.Al Can you explain that nick in the corner.

The idea of it is that as the material bends up (with some radius that I didn't control especially tightly), there's somewhere for the metal to go. It's a very crude and not very accurate (due to my cutting ability, the plasma cutter's cutting ability and my bending ability) approximation of this sheet metal pattern I made in the free online CAD tool onshape - hopefully this screenshot explains the idea better than I can:

I'm very new to this whole metal bending thing so I was just picking something and trying it. It worked okay (obviously with a bigger gap than shown in the screenshot as I can't cut to a point with a plasma cutter) and welded closed very easily, so I don't think it was a bad choice of form.

 

[Mark 2]

Got ya, thanks.

 

[Ruffian]

I've also been washing my car recently. Started green, ended blue.
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Is that an s4???

 

[Cobbler]

5 gallons of beer made this afternoon, in the airing cupboard for about 5 days & about 3 weeks to clear in the shed, so ready about the beginning of May ........ might be offline for a while then

 

[arther dailey]

I put mine in a Bisley style filing cabinet thing. The drawers are plenty deep enough for the collets and it keeps them from getting covered in dust or swarf or whatever.

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(they're just a couple of bits of thin aluminium plate with some plastic feet held onto the bottom with cap screws).



The idea of it is that as the material bends up (with some radius that I didn't control especially tightly), there's somewhere for the metal to go. It's a very crude and not very accurate (due to my cutting ability, the plasma cutter's cutting ability and my bending ability) approximation of this sheet metal pattern I made in the free online CAD tool onshape - hopefully this screenshot explains the idea better than I can:

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I'm very new to this whole metal bending thing so I was just picking something and trying it. It worked okay (obviously with a bigger gap than shown in the screenshot as I can't cut to a point with a plasma cutter) and welded closed very easily, so I don't think it was a bad choice of form.

I like the draw marked random clutter ! pretty much sums up my workshop.

 

[Paul.]

I like the draw marked random clutter ! pretty much sums up my workshop.

I've got a drawer marked "gold bullion", never had any to put in it so until I do its full of cutting discs.

 

[Dr.Al]

I like the draw marked random clutter ! pretty much sums up my workshop.

I never could quite figure out what to label that drawer, so it seemed a good name! I've also got one for tools that I doubt I'll ever use again but don't want to throw away "just in case". It's labelled "Where Tools Go To Die".

 

[bigegg]

drawer, <snip> labelled "Where Tools Go To Die".

adam savage?