Stuff you have made today

[Dcal]

Nobody has a clue what @selectedgrub does until it's finished.
I'm not even sure he does, can't see him working it all out on cad in advance.

Always worth waiting for though.

 

[Hood]

Today I made an extension for a rotary spool valve, forgot to take a pic of the top handle part.

A delrin cover with seal for where the extension exits the housing.

Chopped up 12m of 50mm x 1.5mm wall 316 tube, some with single angled ends, others with two ends angled and some just straight, also some 40mm x 5mm flat bar which I rounded the end corners and some angled support webs.
All for the Mackerel stripper boxes which I will hopefully get back to on Monday.

Vid of the Chiron boring and rounding the flat bar.

 

[zx9]

Nobody has a clue what @selectedgrub does until it's finished.
I'm not even sure he does, can't see him working it all out on cad in advance.

Always worth waiting for though.

I think he has subscribed to one of those 1000 part build magazines where you get a kit of parts each month, this is month one of the BMW R80GS kit.

 

[lincoln2013]

This morning

Is it a shape sorter for a heavy handed child.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I made a mess, a series of flamingos up and a small fire.

 

[RWD3M]

I made a start on a pedestal for my recently acquired 8" Bench Grinder.

I finished trimming the sheet metal I had guillotined yesterday...


...bent the flanges over and checked all the pieces line up...



... and clamped the top and bottom in position.





Hope to get a few tack welds on tomorrow and then finish off incorporating some ideas given in my other post on the subject.

Hope you're all having a great weekend!

 

[Migmac]

I have made a set of soft jaws for the vice. Just used what was lying about

 

[My Old Landy]

I made some progress on a cross slide for my ancient lathe. It is probably not the way it should be but if it gets it to be able to remove material it's good enough for me!

 

[m_c]

I made some progress on a cross slide for my ancient lathe. It is probably not the way it should be but if it gets it to be able to remove material it's good enough for me!
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That assembly looks like it'll do the job, but that leadscrew looks far too course for a cross slide.

 

[My Old Landy]

That assembly looks like it'll do the job, but that leadscrew looks far too course for a cross slide.

I agree, it was the only thing I could get that was close to acme. It's from a 3D printer!

 

[Fraserb]

More tig welding, I did start just joining scrap together but I figured I may as well pra tise on something useful, some are terrible and will be ground out and rewelded tomorrow some are OK I think, all seem strong enough though, the 5mm plate was bending well before any weld was breaking.

Things I've learnt when comparing tig to mig.

1. Tig is so much quite and less spatter and sparks.

2. With tig it's easy to get over confident, I'd lay a bead or two down decently then get to confident and start the next one without getting properly ready and end up snagging on something or not being able to move enough to complete the bead.

3. Initially I thought tig was a good bit slower but I think on a lot of the things I make there will be considerably less clean up with tig so maybe even up.

4. If your fit up isn't bang on the mig is miles ahead, we'll it is at the moment don't know if tig will catch up when I improve.

Photos aren't the best but happy to here any constructive criticism.

 

[doubleboost]

More tig welding, I did start just joining scrap together but I figured I may as well pra tise on something useful, some are terrible and will be ground out and rewelded tomorrow some are OK I think, all seem strong enough though, the 5mm plate was bending well before any weld was breaking.

Things I've learnt when comparing tig to mig.

1. Tig is so much quite and less spatter and sparks.

2. With tig it's easy to get over confident, I'd lay a bead or two down decently then get to confident and start the next one without getting properly ready and end up snagging on something or not being able to move enough to complete the bead.

3. Initially I thought tig was a good bit slower but I think on a lot of the things I make there will be considerably less clean up with tig so maybe even up.

4. If your fit up isn't bang on the mig is miles ahead, we'll it is at the moment don't know if tig will catch up when I improve.

Photos aren't the best but happy to here any constructive criticism.

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Have You got a DFX file for the letters

 

[selectedgrub]

I think he has subscribed to one of those 1000 part build magazines where you get a kit of parts each month, this is month one of the BMW R80GS kit.

And I'm missing quite a few months.

 

[Fraserb]

Have You got a DFX file for the letters

Yeah I can send it to your email

 

[doubleboost]

that would be great

 

[Fraserb]

that would be great

Should be there now.

 

[minimutly]

I made some progress on a cross slide for my ancient lathe. It is probably not the way it should be but if it gets it to be able to remove material it's good enough for me!
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Is that a rh thread or left?

 

[doubleboost]

Land Rover axle "shims" in stainless

 

[doubleboost]

Should be there now.

Thanks

 

[Shox Dr]

I made some progress on a cross slide for my ancient lathe. It is probably not the way it should be but if it gets it to be able to remove material it's good enough for me!
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How are the vertical legs held in the tee slots?