Stuff you have made today

[Brad93]

Over last few days an memorial book for a friend who had a client who died (they work in special and additional needs education).
3mm ply, engraved and stained with a mix of Burmese teak and light oak stain to give it a nice warmth. Sanded multiple times and then sanded a little more to give some aging and depth. The paper was cut with the laser to ensure that it was a perfect fit.


Might not be metal but I made it.

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Harry Potter fans would love that

 

[Tupers]

After melting one of the contacts in my new Elliott drill press I ended up rewiring it and making a bracket for the new switch.

Now that the old Fobco is surplus to requirements I thought I’d modify the stand I made years ago to fit my bandsaw. I might still add casters I’m not sure though.

 

[qwakers]

made a modular exhaust setup for quick change between a cat and decat on my track car..

 

[Fraserb]

Thought I'd better keep the other half of Glasgow happy as well.

 

[ihavenoidea]

Made some last minute Mothers Day present.
Two Trellis for the Garden.
(Upside down on the picture...)

 

[selectedgrub]

Might not be metal but I made it.

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Beautiful.

 

[Kram]

8mm copper lengths for compressed air cooler. Wanted a 180 degree bend in them. Have a cheap tube bender tool which works fine when Ive tried on brass tube. On copper it seems to twist/kink/flatten the tube instead
I hammered the bends back into a semi round shape. Might chop them off and buy some elbows.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

You need one of them bending springs you put in the tube, or pack with sand.

 

[minimutly]

Don't think you can get an 8mm spring. I made a bending mandrel out of aluminium on the lathe years ago. Works a treat.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Don't think you can get an 8mm spring. I made a bending mandrel out of aluminium on the lathe years ago. Works a treat.

You can, i have a set of small bending springs i bought years ago. I'll try to find a link for you.

 

[DAPPH]

Don't think you can get an 8mm spring. I made a bending mandrel out of aluminium on the lathe years ago. Works a treat.

Put , " 8mm pipe bending spring " into Google .. there are loads both , internal & external springs .

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

What a day. Negative sleep, lots of coffee.
But it is what it is.

So, ambles to workshop, with fresh bread. Some thing pleasant about making bread by hand.

So, a good Cd on the player, fired up a heater and started to sort out stuff.



Pair of King dicks adjustable.
Due to a mistake they had been left in a citric tank for 7 days, along with other bits.
So dump the mess and made a fresh mix up and paced it on the heater.



Striped when still hot, then placed on a hot plate to dry out.



Found a name stamped in, so I highlighted it with bee's wax stained with ink.




When it was still warm, I rubbed in bee's wax and Linseed oil. The metal drank it up for about 6 applications. Then a nice finish started to show up.


This breast drill came my way, what drew me to it was the jaws.

It is designed to take a square shank drill bit, normally used in Bit and brace sweep drills.



Gratt issue image of tidy work bench and the tools used to strip it.



Oh yes the handle was split from the rust, removing it showed it had dry rot.
Early morning fire, but I left the cat that lodges with me enjoying it.





Removed the old paint with hot caustic soda and re painted with rattle can paint. The rest of the metal was cleaned up with citric acid and a wire brush.



Finished, new side handle made from a old file handle.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

lots of coffee.

Too much of that stuff is part of the problem.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I was board, I was left unsupervised.



Part 1.



Part 2.



Part 3.

All scrap or dead items. But I can rebuild them, give me $6,000,000. (1970's joke www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CPJ-AbCsT8 )

Step one.



The meat grinder was not pleasant, so it was first cleaned in hot caustic soda, the chains in hot washing soda. The spanners, left in citric acid.



Cleaned, painted, clear coated and waxed.

Put them all together and what do we get?

A spanner holder.
No.

A chain maker?
No.

A fun item?
Yes.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dum1WJXJMA

I was left unsupervised, I had coffee, I had no sleep.

 

[4String.]

Nowt exciting, still sqaring my new toys up and getting to grips with them so I made a simple jig for cutting wedges on the bandsaw and it works a treat:




And it nicely uses up small offcuts .

 

[Hood]

Headed down to the workshop this evening to get stuff ready for taking with me tomorrow and while I was there I made a quick and dirty cover for the scale I have on the tailstock and it doubles as a tray for bits and pieces.

Cut that fast that I only just got the phone out and recording on the last part

 

[nickk]

The steelwork I fabricated earlier in the year is all erected for our neighbors restaurant,later in the year I have a disabled access ramp/stairs to make.First time I’ve tapered girders.
It’s going to be hot dining,when it’s all glazed!
All made from plans only,no fabrication drawings,that’s what I blame my 3 errors on.

 

[Fraserb]

Managed 10 minutes on the bbq, its about the only thing this weekend I can show pictures of.

 

[Kram]

The steelwork I fabricated earlier in the year is all erected for our neighbors restaurant,later in the year I have a disabled access ramp/stairs to make.First time I’ve tapered girders.
It’s going to be hot dining,when it’s all glazed!
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Thats a lot of overhang Whats going underneath?

 

[Kram]

Fit some file handles. I was quite happy using without handles but now I have more, I need some way to hang them. Now I need some where to hang them.

Chopped up a scrap ebony fretboard blank, I plan to glue it up and should make a decent hammer handle for the lump of tungsten I aquired last year

Making adaptor plate for the clamp knurler to fit the new knurling holder. I do not know why I drilled the second pair of holes cordless when I could have used the lathe much easier