Stuff you have made today

[zx9]

After been inspired by @MattF in the relaxed turning thread, today I finished turning these.

Into a tool post drill guide.


And a better view of the guide.


The body was turned from a bit of scrap water barrel which is welded to a 10x 12.5mm mild steel strip, I should have gone 10x 15mm to give more room for the fillet or got more argon for the tig and done it a bit tidier. Not shown in the first photo are a couple of thrust bearings though really only the front one is needed as I shall be using the cross slide to put on the feed.
Last photo is the back locating ring with the first hole I have drilled using the drill guide, I just need a shorter 5mm grub screw to finish it off.

And this is why I have a sudden need for stub drills.

 

[David56]

Evening all. Just thought I was start a thread going about stuff we make and have made today. I made some mud guard brackets for a lorry. Not finished yet as got another two that need doing.View attachment 91965 View attachment 91966 View attachment 91967 View attachment 91968

 

[David56]

Evening all. Just thought I was start a thread going about stuff we make and have made today. I made some mud guard brackets for a lorry. Not finished yet as got another two that need doing.View attachment 91965 View attachment 91966 View attachment 91967 View attachment 91968

on Thursday i reversed my lorry over some very soft ground and the mud guard got caught under the wheel destroying one of the irons and bending the other one so it is unrecognisable. do you have any pictures and the angle of the brackets as i will need to make some new ones

 

[Brad93]

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nope wood and steel. @Welderpaul helped me out doing the steel structure.

Blimey that’s no going anywhere is it!

 

[badabec]

"pit wiring in and lights in. need a bit more wire to finish sockets..."

However many sockets you are putting in, double it and add one for luck

 

[qwakers]

3 doubles should be enough. i doubt ill use more than 1 at a time, tbh. i use air and battery tools far more than mains.

 

[indy4x]

From what I gather you would need building regulation aproval and probably need them to come and inspect it. For me it was easier to do it just under 30sqm

That would be correct

When a built my garage a few years ago I kept it at 30 sq m to avoid paying for building regs as I wasn't flush at the time

I did add an extension 2 years later that was about 7 sq m

 

[Geoffm]

I bought a ripper with a pipe layer attachment for the tractor, although I had been planning to make one for a while. We have a never ending number of water lines on the farm, many just lying on the surface where they get damaged, so there is a plan to bury them. I was going to make one, but for $NZ498 (250 pounds ish) new but shop soiled, it was worth saving a weekends work since it would be years before it got to the top of the list to be done…

I converted it to Cat 2 (25mm) pins from the standard Cat 1 (20mm) pins, and I have a quick hitch adapter on the small tractor that makes changing attachments easy – as long as they have the correct pin spacing. I turned up a pin and spacer for each end to suit from some 50mm bar, since I had it in the scrap pile.

 

[Geoffm]

And this last weekend, the project was a redneck Ditch Witch, and my entry in the farmer bodger awards

I have had this petrol powered walk behind chain trencher for a couple of years. I bought it “as new” when I needed to put in some effluent lines for an effluent hydrant system. I quickly found it was a cumbersome, extremely heavy thing that was hard work. It did work, but was slow and tiring, so went back in the shed and I hired a real Ditch Witch chain trencher for a couple of weekends. While it made easy work of it, the $NZ650 per weekend hurt a bit.

I have more waterlines to bury, and this thing has been a pain in the rear in the implement shed for to long, and it is time for it to go or earn it’s keep. Since I didn’t have any confidence that it would work, I cobbled up an adapter for the 3 point linkage and tacked on some RHS bits under the axle and a tiedown and took it out into the paddock to try it out.

We have had heavy rain for 3 days, so the ground was soft, but it worked better than expected. It really needs a tractor with a lower first gear or hydrostatic transmission as it is a bit fast, but as I don’t think it will get a lot of use, and it is paid for, so good enough.
I need to modify the fram as the lever that drops the bar down hits it, so the depth of cut is only 200mm. I also need to sort out the hydrualic top link on the tractor as an easy way to alter the angle and depth on the fly.
One disadvantage of it is that it doesn't have a scraper behind the chain so the trench is half full of dirt that needs scooping out.

 

[KimB]

That would be correct

When a built my garage a few years ago I kept it at 30 sq m to avoid paying for building regs as I wasn't flush at the time

I did add an extension 2 years later that was about 7 sq m

I could do similar to mine actually if I wanted to but I don’t think it needs to be fb much bigger now.

 

[Hood]

I could do similar to mine actually if I wanted to but I don’t think it needs to be fb much bigger now.

Aye, whatever, say that in a couple of years

 

[KimB]

Aye, whatever, say that in a couple of years

I’m going to build a little shed behind it haha and I have my other 3x4m shed

 

[Agroshield]

And this is why I have a sudden need for stub drills.

If the shank of the ER holder is drilled through, you can hold standard twist drills quite successfully by the flutes in an ER collet so they become any length you need.

 

[nickk]

The start of some railings.d

 

[zx9]

If the shank of the ER holder is drilled through, you can hold standard twist drills quite successfully by the flutes in an ER collet so they become any length you need.

Good point, it is an ER16 holder on a solid 12mm rod. I think I would have needed to go to ER20 to get the hollow spindle which though doable would be getting a bit over size for the little Dickson alike tool post on the Drummond M.
I also have plans for an ER collet holder for the Hauser mill which is still on the mental drawing board and wanted to keep to one set of collets.

 

[Fraserb]

Well after my gardening the other day I jokingly said I was going to tie the rake onto bens toy tractor, well one thing led to another and this happened.

 

[finyuk2005]

I bet that is one happy chappy!!

 

[Fraserb]

I bet that is one happy chappy!!

He was, we've battery charge issues currently.

 

[Tangledfeet]

@Fraserb I bet he'll be driving a tractor to school and back when he's 15!

We had a holiday in Cornwall once and saw several kids leave the school on old tractors - it was great to see!

 

[Fraserb]

@Fraserb I bet he'll be driving a tractor to school and back when he's 15!

We had a holiday in Cornwall once and saw several kids leave the school on old tractors - it was great to see!

He'd be driving one to nursery next week if he knew where the keys were kept.