Stuff you have made today

[Kram]

Grinder chopped a few lengths of 40,30 and 25mm chrome plated bar lathe food, into 250mm useable lengths.

Little holder for the die grinder bits.

Planning some new way covers after melting the abs sheet. Ive cut, flattened and annealed the copper after photo but not decided if I will use vice or try making a wooden form to bend the V. It will fold up onto the saddle with some extra bits brazed on.

Now turning some usacut55 making a mini er11 die grinder collet chuck, 6mm shaft so I can hold the smaller bits, without them constantly pulling out!

 

[DAPPH]

Just recovering after some serious mattress action with my wife.

There was grunting, several positions. She even reached between my legs.

Also rope and knots. Hell, even scissors made an appearance. We also considered duct tape at one stage.

We had to make a rolled up mattress as Fife Council won't take away the old one unless exactly that.

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Here in England & Wales if you drill down into the recycling & waste disposal regs. I gather that there is a requirement for the seller of new mattresses etc. to take back the old scrap stuff .
Our new Tempur mattress shop's supplier gave us a massive thick poly bag for our old mattress and they took the old bagged up one away when they delivered the new one for the princely sum of £ 20 a few years ago .

 

[DAPPH]

You *really need to stick a pair of old boots out of the bottom of that before you leave it out

A Taffia funeral ?

 

[Tangledfeet]

I gather that there is a requirement for the seller of new mattresses etc. to take back the old scrap stuff

Yup, IKEA Would normally do so but aren't at the moment due to COVID.

Clicky linky

 

[Screwdriver]

Here in England & Wales if you drill down into the recycling & waste disposal regs. I gather that there is a requirement for the seller of new mattresses etc. to take back the old scrap stuff .
Our new Tempur mattress shop's supplier gave us a massive thick poly bag for our old mattress and they took the old bagged up one away when they delivered the new one for the princely sum of £ 20 a few years ago .

About a year or so ago a neighbour asked me if I would like a free... "YES!!" I interject... sofa bed.

Friend was staying over on occasion so it would be handy despite taking up precious room. Cut to the chase, the mattress inside it was rubbish and would collapse to nothing. I took the sofa apart for the materials, mostly the foam cushions. Eventually managed to dispose of the steel framework, coverings etc. but the mattress persisted.

Never mind, I'll chop it up into bits and sneak the parts out in the rubbish over a couple of collections. NEVER AGAIN! My god that was a chore. The thing became enormous. A zillion useless springs clipped onto thin metal strips. Too fragile to cut with a grinder, everything clipped together with fiddly bits of bent steel I had to chop it apart with bolt croppers. Even then the sections of springing took up a huge volume. I had to wrap them individually, tie them up, stuff into a bag and vacuum form it to hide it in that weeks rubbish collection.

It took forever to dispose of.

 

[MattF]

Just recovering after some serious mattress action with my wife.

There was grunting, several positions. She even reached between my legs.

Also rope and knots. Hell, even scissors made an appearance. We also considered duct tape at one stage.

We had to make a rolled up mattress as Fife Council won't take away the old one unless exactly that.

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If that'd been mine, it would've been the most action the mattress had seen.

 

[Edward Teach]

Just recovering after some serious mattress action with my wife.

This made me LOL, at what may follow

 

[Screwdriver]

Just recovering after some serious mattress action with my wife.

I cut mine into little pieces and disposed of it in the rubbish.

 

[JMS1972]

I cut mine into little pieces and disposed of it in the rubbish.

Your wife?

 

[Screwdriver]

Your wife?

Err, well that was the joke yes...

Slightly bemused it needed to be explained.

 

[awemawson]

There was a case a couple of years ago on an industrial estate at St Mary's Cray (south of Bromley) where a firm had been taking in vast quantities of mattresses, presumably due to this regulation, and they were piled sky high and overflowing everywhere. I think to company just upped sticks and de-camped and the local council had to clear up the mess.

 

[Farside]

There was a case a couple of years ago on an industrial estate at St Mary's Cray (south of Bromley) where a firm had been taking in vast quantities of mattresses, presumably due to this regulation, and they were piled sky high and overflowing everywhere. I think to company just upped sticks and de-camped and the local council had to clear up the mess.

"Take my advice, Dave. When there's a pile of rubbish, there's money to be made."
"Yes, Arfur. Usual, is it?"

 

[JoeyD0287]

Time spent posting 12k plus responses on a website.

Haha

 

[dobbslc]

I put this in the 'cats' thread but thought it would be useful here too.
I needed a small Acro to hold the cat flap tunnel up while the morter set but had nothing that would fit so I made this...

 

[mtt.tr]

I put this in the 'cats' thread but thought it would be useful here too.
I needed a small Acro to hold the cat flap tunnel up while the morter set but had nothing that would fit so I made this...
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Unstrut nuts?

 

[MCKDAVID]

Unstrut nuts?

Also known as. "Zeb's" in the trade...

Zebedee's, look up magic roundabout for the younger generation

 

[dobbslc]

Yep! 10mm stud and 2 springless Zeb's.

 

[Windy Miller]

Finished the compound bolt. Found I will need a 2mm washer for the toolpost nut. Id forgotten how bad this compound is. Might add some thrust bearings to the screw. It is a pain to clock in!
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I could use ideas to improve the mounting. I was going to make a more substantial plate but I'd really like to knock 3-5mm off the height.

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Would this do ya?

Post in thread 'Stuff you have made today'
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stuff-you-have-made-today.67127/post-1793621

 

[DAPPH]

About a year or so ago a neighbour asked me if I would like a free... "YES!!" I interject... sofa bed.

Friend was staying over on occasion so it would be handy despite taking up precious room. Cut to the chase, the mattress inside it was rubbish and would collapse to nothing. I took the sofa apart for the materials, mostly the foam cushions. Eventually managed to dispose of the steel framework, coverings etc. but the mattress persisted.

Never mind, I'll chop it up into bits and sneak the parts out in the rubbish over a couple of collections. NEVER AGAIN! My god that was a chore. The thing became enormous. A zillion useless springs clipped onto thin metal strips. Too fragile to cut with a grinder, everything clipped together with fiddly bits of bent steel I had to chop it apart with bolt croppers. Even then the sections of springing took up a huge volume. I had to wrap them individually, tie them up, stuff into a bag and vacuum form it to hide it in that weeks rubbish collection.

It took forever to dispose of.

I've done the strip & bolt crop the metal work too but my metal work went to the scrappies when I'd got a couple of cwt together .

 

[selectedgrub]

They will never find the body.