Stuff you have made today

[brewdexta]

A friend dropped by with a couple of old airplane instruments. Evidently they used to belong to his wife's father, so sentimental value. He wanted holes drilling in a manky bit of nail ridden timber to mount them in, it had to be thick timber as the gauges are 90mm deep. He wants to make a surprise present for the wife.

So I talked him out of using his timber, mainly to save my tools, I told him to leave it with me, he also liked a bit of leather I had that he thought may give it the old plane cockpit feel. It looks like a bit of old 70's bomber jacket to me but I don't think it looks too bad. I was going to put a bit of dark American walnut as a surround but I think I'll leave the rest to him.

It's a bit of Douglas fir I had left over that I used as a general workshop chock. Not sure if he's wall or table mounting it.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Used a bit of angle and flat plate to make a jig i can follow welding up corners on a box section, i am not ill i am just a crappy welder

 

[Kram]

How do you remove it after (my welding is worse)

 

[Olderisbetter]

It is just held in place with a clamp

 

[Barking Mat]

This morning I cut a hole in a RSJ to pass a drainage pipe for the upstairs bathroom, using my plasma cutter.

And I didn't set fire to anything!

Then I put the first layer of floor down provisionally. It will all come up again tomorrow, for the water pipes to be jointed and the drain pipe heights to fettled.

Not a huge amount of fun, but advancing, slowly.

 

[Munkul]

Used a bit of angle and flat plate to make a jig i can follow welding up corners on a box section, i am not ill i am just a crappy welderView attachment 231384

Fair enough, those diagonal welds are always tricky to get straight for some reason.

 

[Fraserb]

Today I tried to slow down a crop of Rye

View attachment 225907

We definetely sloed the crop down today

 

[Cuthy246]

Further progress in the garden. Still waiting for slabs to arrive but had to have a look with the furniture. Also needs another coat of stain. So much painting .

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

For a possible idea I am having, I needed to stamp out a lot of oval washers.
Making the Wad Punches was easy.




But I found that my off cut of tree stump was to low and rotten to be of use for the job. So, using some 4x4.



4 parts cut to a decent height. Top and bottom sides supported with more off cuts. It is hoped to stop the sides from splitting out.

For a bit of fun, 2 metal bands.

It was very pleasant in the sun cutting out the washers.

 

[Dr.Al]

Today I started putting stuff on the shadow board on the woodworking end of my garage. Too hot to do anything else.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Dr.Al
A simple tip.
Loosen the wedges on the planes. Stops them from jamming.

 

[Brad93]

One of the gates I installed today. Custom length bottom hinge due to the existing post being as ****** as the tower of Pisa.

Back tomorrow to paint the post. There’s a few bits going to the galvanisers like the slam bracket (currently in red oxide), a plate that goes to the right hand side of the post, and a little infill to the top right.

 

[mtt.tr]

@RobCox made me feel bad as my eagle grinder i put a single phase motor on.

Well that motor is now on the belt linisher so i dug out the star point on the original grinder motor which will allow a vfd which will also mean i can slow start the grinder which is good as it will stop the stone from slipping

 

[wyn]

Started a bit of a repair to a cast iron gate post.
It had been repaired once before.

4 steel/wrought straps had been fixed to it (now rusted away).
A steel plate with a hole in it had been cut in half then fixed around the bit in the ground. This makes me think the post was still standing at the time.
This plate was bolted to the large flagstone that the post went through. The rusted straps were bolted to this plate.

A pic of the bit in the ground might have been better to describe it.


Found a tube to go up the post. Had to burn away part of the old repair to get it to fit.
The customer wants to keep the rusty bits as it shows a bit of the history of it all.

Welded a base plate to the tube and drilled a couple of holes in the cast,to weld through to the tube.

There were a few gaps to fill between the casting and the base. Used bits of scrap welding it to the base. Then stuck it all together with cast rods.
The base plate will be welded to the plate fixed to the ground

 

[Aesgarth]

A trolley for the new table saw...

 

[Mark 2]

[QUOTE="Cuthy246, post: 1575319, member: 32307"View attachment 231430[/QUOTE]

What's the length of that mate? I have a 4.5m span to cover and am wondering what sort of dimensions on the timber.

 

[Cuthy246]

[QUOTE="Cuthy246, post: 1575319, member: 32307"View attachment 231430

What's the length of that mate? I have a 4.5m span to cover and am wondering what sort of dimensions on the timber.[/QUOTE]
Posts are in a 2.5m square. Roof is a 3m square. Timber is C16 6x2 or 150mm x 50mm

 

[AdrianH]

Well I finished my 'milli-Watter' amp, more heat than sound, but has been fun to do.

I had to rewind the mains transformer to get HT and 6.3 for the heaters and wind two output transformers, so kept me busyfor some time.



Made up another slightly larger chassis as well so a bit more TIG welding, found it a lot easier with a square lumps of brass as heatsink behind the aluminium, then a few more amps and move faster!

So will have to think of my next old tech project.

Adrian

 

[Seadog]

Today I turned some odd pieces of bronze into these

Which makes this

Any the wiser yet?

It replaces these two bits of bent tin

A much neater solution I feel, and, of course, very much over-engineered

And, for the first time ever, I got to use three springs from the RS instrument spring kit that I got work to buy me in 1990. That was money well spent...

 

[Seadog]

And, I finally restored my garden shovel that was bought by my father.

The attractive rust-brown finish is, rust. It was a lovely shade of grey when I left it to dry last night, after spending a few hours in hydrochloric acid to get rid of the cement, and I hoped, wrongly, that it would be the same colour today. Still, it's had a good coat of linseed and it'll see me out, I'm sure.