Stuff you have made today

[KimB]

Well it isn't metal but the last week I have been rebuilding my car port. From a crappy plastic thing to one that is now made from solid oak. View attachment 310615
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Please post more pics. You’ve given me some great ideas. That looks great .

 

[fizzy]

Born and brought up there, this is what it looked like in the late 1950's. Those two collieries, the Park and the Dare killed 126 men between them, without the numberless who were maimed or suffered from a host of industrial related illnesses. Of my grandfather, father and his six brothers, only one lived to retire.
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An people used to call them the good old days
Mate lives very near there. For some reason I love the valleys - built with blood, sweat and tears!

 

[Farside]

Those two collieries, the Park and the Dare killed 126 men between them, without the numberless who were maimed or suffered from a host of industrial related illnesses. Of my grandfather, father and his six brothers, only one lived to retire.

There's a fertiliser factory near here, where the fatality rate from various cancers seems to be around 90%. A local I know was reminiscing about his time working there and listing all the blokes he worked with that popped their clogs early. Sounded a right dodgy place to work.

 

[Arc Tourist]

..................... For some reason I love the valleys - ...........

Me to. There is a good feeling here compared to other places I've lived in the world.

 

[Agroshield]

Blobbed too much rod where I shouldn't - it is hard and takes ages to file back.

I think I read somewhere that you can put Tippex on the bits you do not want the solder to run onto.

Another option is to cut off the amount/length of rod you need for the joint and lay it on top.

I am not sure sooting it up as you do for whitemetal bearings would work as the flame would burn it off.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

.It was either that or a hernia.

Or a sledgehammer?

 

[toddy]

Please post more pics. You’ve given me some great ideas. That looks great .

once i am finished i will put a post up with all the pic's

 

[Barking Mat]

Slowly winning.

 

[redlig]

Or a sledgehammer?

Problem was that it's full of herbs and I couldn't face replanting them .

 

[redlig]

Slowly winning.

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Are you putting it up or pulling it down? Just wondered.

 

[Barking Mat]

Are you putting it up or pulling it down? Just wondered.

Emptying it, and putting in a concrète floor, then renovating it, to make my workshop.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Are you putting it up or pulling it down? Just wondered.

Drinking wine, chilling out as well.

Emptying it, and putting in a concrète floor, then renovating it, to make my workshop.

When will you start?

 

[Kram]

Quick test with induction coil and the wp20. No leaks, not the highest flow rate with the torch but it'll be adequate.

 

[Seadog]

Slowly winning.

That's a vast improvement.

 

[mtt.tr]

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Quick test with induction coil and the wp20. No leaks, not the highest flow rate with the torch but it'll be adequate.

Not sure you will get enough flow

 

[Hood]

Welded up some chain link for end weights. Normally there is only 1 16mm bar on them but the ropes can get trapped in the rough cut so it was decided that three bars would stop the swivel rotating round and hopefully prevent that happening.

The young skipper decided he would like a go, he doesn't lack confidence
Made a good enough job for a first ever go at welding.

 

[Farside]

Slowly winning.

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It's like a 1940s Citroen 2CV version of a shed.

 

[Barking Mat]

It's like a 1940s Citroen 2CV version of a shed.

Only badly thought out and constructed.

But it'll do for me.

 

[nickk]

Finished the handrail along the riverbank,bent in situ with a pipe bender,with tubular formers,so have convinced myself to make some flat bar ones,another hot day today,so an obligatory dive off the bank in boxers completed a long slog.

 

[Blobber]

Finished the handrail along the riverbank,bent in situ with a pipe bender,with tubular formers,so have convinced myself to make some flat bar ones,another hot day today,so an obligatory dive off the bank in boxers completed a long slog.View attachment 310912View attachment 310913View attachment 310914View attachment 310916View attachment 310917

Looks like a great place to work, when the suns out anyhow!