Stuff you have made today

[Lewis_RX8]

Did some cutting and sticking to an exhaust to keep all the silencing effect while shortening it

Shortened as it is just going to be used on my engine test bed that runs them out the car so no need for all the extra length to take to rear of car

The thin exhaust pipe I blew a few holes in but all in all went well

 

[3000alloy]

Redneck pizza oven in for its maiden run this evening

 

[Bobupndown]

Two wooden benches from scaffolding planks to go with an outdoor table we already had. They are not going to blow away!

 

[Aff]

Two wooden benches from scaffolding planks to go with an outdoor table we already had. They are not going to blow away!View attachment 296083

I like the colour, what stain did you use?

 

[Bobupndown]

It's a Johnstones shed and fence treatment, about £11 for 5 litres, good stuff and lasts a couple of years on outside wood.

 

[8ob]

Made myself and the lads very wet today dragging a Beech tree that decided to go for a swim out of a canal

No machine access, little capstan hauled the whole thing out of the canal and up the bank

Timber Winch

Needed a powerful portable lightweight winch that could run all day for weeks on end pulling willow out of a lake and onto an island complete with roots, nothing out out there readily available with the kind of grunt needed for less than 2k , we built a frame, mounted a S/H capstan landy winch...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

The winch has done well, think it deserves a coat of paint

 

[Dr.Al]

It's been too hot in the workshop by the time I finished work for the last couple of weeks, but today we had some rain which brought some relief from the heat and I did a bit more on my slow speed grinder. A few bits for the base enclosure, again with dimensions chosen to fit the material I already had:

One of the smaller pieces will gain a lot more holes in due course as it's going to have some switches inset, but I decided to leave that for another time.

 

[daleyd]

Yesterday I collected my Ravaglioli column lifts for the lorries, usually then come with 4 columns but mine has 6 and they were fitted with the wheel clamps so they slide directly under each lorry wheel and all plug together to the master control column.

I dismissed column lifts and was looking for a platform lift but there were none around, surprising as so many companies are going under with the pandemic, and a little research on the Ravaglioli site showed they had optional extras and you can unbolt the wheel clamps and convert them to a platform lift by using 4 columns, and it got better as they also had full engineering drawings of them, am I buying these? obviously not as I have full engineering drawings and the materials to make them.

Each column has a working weight of 5500Kg and four columns gives a lifting capacity of 22T minus the deck weight which is more than I intended and it operates in both modes.

Pics?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Pics?

Give google a chance Mr Tiff.

 

[nickk]

Hung those primered gates,the very ones featured in these pages ,earlier this week,where does the time go.

 

[m_c]

Been meaning to print one of these for a while-

A right pointing arrow.
I should really mirror it, and make a left pointing one as well.

 

[Gareth0123]

Often before I became ill I would undertake fabrication and welding work for local artists and sculptors, making the frames and armatures for them to go all artistic on. If they could afford me I would sometimes under their closely supervised direction make the sculpture for them: my metal working skills realising and bring into the corporeal world their inner-vision and artistic talent.

Over the last few days I have been making some cuboids for a local sculptress. Each of the cuboids has identical exterior dimensions, but are made from different materials. It has not been easy for me. My illness has slowed me down considerably and working on pre-rusted steel is not a straight forward task, which meant each cuboid took me about 1 hour to make but that 1 hour took place over the space of half-a-day.

I have stacked up the cuboids ready for collection; there is no artistic form here, just a convenient stack. They have also been lightly sprayed with a solution of vinegar and salt and left out in the current rain which will help with the artist's requirement for rusty surfaces. They will be installed tomorrow ready for the exhibition opening on Sunday at Halesworth in Suffolk, but I do not yet know how they will be installed or placed.

The exterior dimensions are 20" X 15" X 8"
Top to bottom:
8mmØ solid steel bar.
12mmØ solid steel bar
¾"Ø steel circular hollow section (CHS)
20mm X 20mm steel square hollow section (SHS)

 

[Olderisbetter]

Often before I became ill I would undertake fabrication and welding work for local artists and sculptors, making the frames and armatures for them to go all artistic on. If they could afford me I would sometimes under their closely supervised direction make the sculpture for them: my metal working skills realising and bring into the corporeal world their inner-vision and artistic talent.

Over the last few days I have been making some cuboids for a local sculptress. Each of the cuboids has identical exterior dimensions, but are made from different materials. It has not been easy for me. My illness has slowed me down considerably and working on pre-rusted steel is not a straight forward task, which meant each cuboid took me about 1 hour to make but that 1 hour took place over the space of half-a-day.

I have stacked up the cuboids ready for collection; there is no artistic form here, just a convenient stack. They have also been lightly sprayed with a solution of vinegar and salt and left out in the current rain which will help with the artist's requirement for rusty surfaces. They will be installed tomorrow ready for the exhibition opening on Sunday at Halesworth in Suffolk, but I do not yet know how they will be installed or placed.

The exterior dimensions are 20" X 15" X 8"
Top to bottom:
8mmØ solid steel bar.
12mmØ solid steel bar
¾"Ø steel circular hollow section (CHS)
20mm X 20mm steel square hollow section (SHS)

I have some old light duty scaffolding going rusty looks just like that

 

[3000alloy]

Redneck pizza oven in for its maiden run this eveningView attachment 296069

Turned out very good indeed. Food coma here I come!!

 

[Gareth0123]

I have some old light duty scaffolding going rusty looks just like that

Some rusty old self erecting scaffolding cut down and with new rectangular feet welded on made up the first part of this job for this sculptress, but I did not photograph it when I did it for her last week.

 

[Prajna]

A monkey (as it's known amongst sappers) or a post basher, as it's more commonly known. We already had one but it is only 500mm long and has a nasty habit of falling off the top of the post and taking casualties; got me twice, SWMBO once (don't ask what she was doing with a monkey! Oh alright then, we were prepping for a festival in northern Portugal), and it also gave Sapper Mike a good clout as well. Didn't have big enough pipe to extend the old one so I cut up an old acroprop and made a new one 1m long. I particularly enjoyed designing and welding the mitre bevels on the handles. I could have paid a little more attention aligning the handles but hey.

 

[Mick Annick]

Hung those primered gates,the very ones featured in these pages ,earlier this week,where does the time go.View attachment 296124

Love those levelling jacks…

 

[nickk]

Love those levelling jacks…

Remember those galvanised tote boxes,all the best factories had them?
I’ve one in my van rammed full of offcuts from the saw,every profile of steel bar in a size up to 100mm,including a box of shims 8 thou to 80.

 

[Dr.Al]

A bit more progress on the slow speed grinder today. I started by making the four pillars that hold the gearbox assembly above the electronics housing. That enabled a quick test fit:

I then put one of the plates on the mill and hogged out a load of metal to allow me to fit the switchgear.

With hindsight, I should have thought about this a bit more (or modelled it in the CAD or something)...

A quick test fit of the electrickery onto the plates:

If was at this point I remembered that the spinning disc hangs down over the bottom panel and hence would hit the potentiometer.

Back onto the mill and I drilled another hole so the pot could be fitted the other way up. I then made a little hole filler out of some aluminium round bar.

Et voila:

It's a bit cosy inside around the front panel, but it's not too bad:

I still haven't modified the table to give a bit more clearance and I need to make a cover before fitting the table. In the meantime, I couldn't resist a little play using the reference surface (which I'd previously adjusted to be level with the grinding disc) with a honing guide to reshape and sharpen an old chisel.

I had a play putting a secondary bevel on (I'm not sure why, I was just experimenting) by putting the honing guide on a steel rule. I should have picked a wider rule as I wobbled off the edge so the secondary bevel is a bit wonky, but it worked and that's the main thing:

 

[Morrisman]

Today I mainly made a mess.

I needed to swap out the master cylinders on my hot rod. They are mounted up under the dashboard, which I thought was a really clever idea, when I built it. But now the dashboard is in, wiring, seats, gearshift, steering column etc, I’ve realised it is physically impossible for me to get both hands in and do the necessary to get them changed.

So I broke out the grinder and hacked a hole in the cowl, which made it possible. All I need now is to fashion some sort of removable cover out of alloy sheet, with a few rivets, maybe a little air scoop to cool the brakes.....