Stuff you have made today

[badabec]

If that is traditional and was used in Britain back when the Romans were here, then yes, I will use it

Roman numerals all point to the centre, Arabic numerals are aligned vertically

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The hands should be bananas

 

[DAPPH]

Have a look at Coningsby church clock ( Lincolnshire ) it's the largest one handed clock around ( or was) .

 

[Blake's 7]

I'm making a mould for cap stones on my gate pillars. I cheated and used CAD rather than do the math. The edges on the triangles are all cut at an angle. Some 3D printed supports. Too dark to jiggle all 4 bits in tonight. Fettling tomorrow!

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Nice work, Please post some photos of the finished cap stones when they're made.

 

[AndersK]

Nice pond .. hope you don't get a visit by mink or otter s... my pond has been cleaned out twice by one or the other ... it's getting filled in this year.

Not heard of minks around here for many years. Had visits from some big birds that came for a free meal though.
Put up a couple of fishing lines above the pond. They tried once after that, never again in there years now

 

[KemppiFrog]

Any body know what time it is? Bit of confusion about here. ME, off to beddy buyz..

 

[Onoff]

Nice work, Please post some photos of the finished cap stones when they're made.

Will do. Going with 4 parts washed plastering sand, 1 part white cement and 1/2 hydrated lime. Probably a bit of mesh halfway up, maybe chuck some fibres in. Haven't got a poker so I'll use and SDS held against the mould.

 

[Maker]

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I like this one, it's slightly less rigorous, mind.

 

[Morrisman]

Oozes coolness

Coming from you, the master of ‘releasing the inner metal beauty’, that is a great complement.

 

[Onoff]

that is not cheating, that is called evolution

Tbh I think the Evolution chop saw contributed to any inaccuracies!

(Rough and ready stud wall/shed building type that I am, followed by the odd scaffold pole, I wouldn't swap it though).

 

[Agroshield]

....Going with 4 parts washed plastering sand, 1 part white cement and 1/2 hydrated lime.

On the section through the mould you drew, if the part between the bead and the edge is covered over, it will trap air, no matter how much excitation you give it. If you can suspend the bead another way, such that the full perimeter is exposed to the air, you can trowel it to keep your arris sharp.

Consider casting in a couple of closed-ended tubes. You can then have stainless dowels projecting from the top of the pillar on which the cap sits to help locate and secure them.

 

[Onoff]

On the section through the mould you drew, if the part between the bead and the edge is covered over, it will trap air, no matter how much excitation you give it. If you can suspend the bead another way, such that the full perimeter is exposed to the air, you can trowel it to keep your arris sharp.

Consider casting in a couple of closed-ended tubes. You can then have stainless dowels projecting from the top of the pillar on which the cap sits to help locate and secure them.

Thanks

I'm going to drill a series of holes atop the bead and use admix to deaerate it.

The sticky out section will sit inside the piers to guard against lateral movement.

 

[AndersK]

I like this one, it's slightly less rigorous, mind.

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Why complicate things

 

[redlig]

Why complicate things


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exactly!

 

[DAPPH]

Will do. Going with 4 parts washed plastering sand, 1 part white cement and 1/2 hydrated lime. Probably a bit of mesh halfway up, maybe chuck some fibres in. Haven't got a poker so I'll use and SDS held against the mould.

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If you have a decent mains pistol drill or a drill press on the table, fix the drill securely and put as big an Allen key as you have in the chuck ..long leg free out of chuck tighten the chuck by hand then go to tightening each hole in the chuck in succession of a line of six holes , so you get it as tight as humanely possible ....they make good oscillating vibrators and can leave you hands free whilst you fill the mould .

Question :-
Why do you need a shoulder at the base of the cap ..if it is flat you can press round bar frame with small centralizing spigots on the outer edge / or use half round beading into the wet mix to make the rain lip

 

[DAPPH]

Why complicate things


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I get it ............. Is it Diane Abbots clock showing fifteenty seven ?

 

[DAPPH]

On the section through the mould you drew, if the part between the bead and the edge is covered over, it will trap air, no matter how much excitation you give it. If you can suspend the bead another way, such that the full perimeter is exposed to the air, you can trowel it to keep your arris sharp.

Consider casting in a couple of closed-ended tubes. You can then have stainless dowels projecting from the top of the pillar on which the cap sits to help locate and secure them.

Put the bead on a welded up removable frame so you tap /push it down in the the filled mould as it's vibrating then clamp it & stop the vibrator once it flat across the base oft he cap leave the frame in place for 36 hrs till the mix has gone off

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I was going to try getting a few of these laser engraved but never managed. [have the clock movements too]

 

[KemppiFrog]

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I was going to try getting a few of these laser engraved but never managed. [have the clock movements too]

Of course! You would need special movements for that face.

Limbo??

 

[Tupers]

A few more bits of steel from the offcuts shelf, a trampoline spring and a bit of weld mesh and we’re done. I just need to pick a colour now.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Limbo??

You've lost me