Mick Annick
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Lovely scroll work Nick, do you run training days?
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Lovely scroll work Nick, do you run training days?
Mick Annick
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A marquise (porch!) I made for a friend, installed today, just glass to fit now, it’s 2.2m x 1.1m. Not keen on the scrolls but it’s what he wanted
Melvyn Best
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More like Steptoe's house
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As it happens I need some balls, if you have a spare pair
Mine were about the right size after I had my hernia op and a lovely shade of black and blue
Some of those outbuildings look pretty old - hope they are not mutilating them!
No ,job to cope with workload as it is ,have often been asked,maybe when I’m older and need more rest from the physical.
sako243
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Protecting them!
The building attached to the archway is going to be my electronics workshop / office / machine shop. The other barn has an old, decommissioned blacksmiths forge which will either be storage, wood working or perhaps a climbing wall.
Ditches are for French drains around the back.
Olderisbetter
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I made a nice fire in the night as i was very bored and i love a good burn up.
fixerupper
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I made a cart for moving the little genny I use to power the olive harvesting kit and other things mostly it stays on the truck but I have a few trees that I can't get the truck near enough so I have to carry the genny a bit nearer . I'm getting fed up with carrying anything I don't have to so I made this ... the wheels are off the rotivator that was nicked last year ..so I re -purposed them, and the wheel bearings are old cambelt tensioners from the truck ....
fixerupper
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I just gave it a lick of paint and a trundle around with the genny on board ...but did not take any photos ...sorry ...Edit ...This was made without buying anything, just bits of old stuff that I fill up my life with ...I love that ....
Hood
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Jasic in blue clothes responsible for that
jerrytug
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The hide is easy 5 mm thick, and it put up a fight.. whatever animal was wearing it, I wouldn't like to meet it down a dark alley!
I cut, drilled and sewed it dry, next is to saturate it in Neatsfoot Oil.
The paint is 2 coats of non-ferrous metal primer, followed by 2 coats of Dulux white gloss. The white gloss is tricky, it takes several days to go hard, next time I will try thinning it but you aren't meant to.
The metal shoe is hardened steel with bronze eyes welded on, hence the 'special metals' primer.
Slightly chuffed with my virginal leatherwork so far..it could be habit-forming!
Also, the leather smells intoxicating and I can't stop sniffing my fingers
So these are the 19 year old ones,wife’s repainted the gates and fence,interesting that the worst corrosion is around the latches,rather than ground area.
Seadog
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I've had these since 1991
Together with soap and, I was certain, a pigtail. But have I been able to find it these last 25 years?
I recently got this
Alas, when I got it home and had a close look it was obvious that it would not fit on the left hand side of my spindle. (Work it out).
I have, like many people on this forum, several of these collecting dust
Damned tough bits of steel from I forget whom.
Anyway, after an afternoon I ended up with one of these
I just need to drill and tap a couple of holes for retaining screws because the idiot that made the spindle (No, not me) put a right handed thread on it
Pity my pillar drill is in pieces awaiting new bearings...
Together with soap and, I was certain, a pigtail. But have I been able to find it these last 25 years?
I recently got this
Alas, when I got it home and had a close look it was obvious that it would not fit on the left hand side of my spindle. (Work it out).
I have, like many people on this forum, several of these collecting dust
Damned tough bits of steel from I forget whom.
Anyway, after an afternoon I ended up with one of these
I just need to drill and tap a couple of holes for retaining screws because the idiot that made the spindle (No, not me) put a right handed thread on it
Pity my pillar drill is in pieces awaiting new bearings...
Brad93
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Interested as to how you made the thread?I've had these since 1991
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Together with soap and, I was certain, a pigtail. But have I been able to find it these last 25 years?
I recently got this
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Alas, when I got it home and had a close look it was obvious that it would not fit on the left hand side of my spindle. (Work it out).
I have, like many people on this forum, several of these collecting dust
View attachment 235671
Damned tough bits of steel from I forget whom.
Anyway, after an afternoon I ended up with one of these
View attachment 235672
I just need to drill and tap a couple of holes for retaining screws because the idiot that made the spindle (No, not me) put a right handed thread on it
Pity my pillar drill is in pieces awaiting new bearings...
Hood
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Easiest way would be if you had a taper attachment.
Seadog
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As Hood says, with a taper attachment. But it was well outside the range so had to set and clamp using toolmaker's clamps as you can see here
