Windy Miller
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That’s the exact same video that I watched! Do you find them handy for general fabrication, or only for pipe work?
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That’s the exact same video that I watched! Do you find them handy for general fabrication, or only for pipe work?
Olderisbetter
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Not metal related unless you count derusting the screws and wing nuts but an old barley twist table on a skip badly painted and headed home with me took it back to wood then painted it with Bedec multi surface paint, grey with some white ghosted over to age it.
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I claim my special prize for spotting your deliberate error in that first pic.....
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Today I made a start on modifying an old towing eye for a neighbour.
He has a friend who is getting quite bad with Parkinson's disease and this is to be a pin so that he can easily fit /remove one of these to the drawbar of an old ride-on mower which has been sitting abandoned in a shed for a couple of years when he bought a new replacement.
I'm waiting for final sizes before any further turning - then I'll cut off the lower end excess, to leave only a short 'stub', through which I'll drill a hole for a linch-pin. All to make it easier for the chap to cope with and ameliorate the shake(s) he experiences.
As an aside, my neighbour was there today [some days the old boy isn't up to doing much of anything] and got the old mower running - I'll get the full story tomorrow.
The story so far [I don't know what this 'eye' is made of, but it finishes very nicely, even taking the smaller cuts of the ML7
- anyone know??]
The perspective in pic #1 makes it look huge
, but iirc it came from a Peugeot of some model.
He has a friend who is getting quite bad with Parkinson's disease and this is to be a pin so that he can easily fit /remove one of these to the drawbar of an old ride-on mower which has been sitting abandoned in a shed for a couple of years when he bought a new replacement.
I'm waiting for final sizes before any further turning - then I'll cut off the lower end excess, to leave only a short 'stub', through which I'll drill a hole for a linch-pin. All to make it easier for the chap to cope with and ameliorate the shake(s) he experiences.
As an aside, my neighbour was there today [some days the old boy isn't up to doing much of anything
] and got the old mower running - I'll get the full story tomorrow.The story so far [I don't know what this 'eye' is made of, but it finishes very nicely, even taking the smaller cuts of the ML7
- anyone know??] The perspective in pic #1 makes it look huge
, but iirc it came from a Peugeot of some model.
slim_boy_fat
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Some of you may remember my posts about my Babyliss for Men V1 hair cutter and my reported emails with the Company trying to establish what the rechargeable cell inside it was, so that I could either buy a replacement from them or source one elsewhere.
Having drawn a complete blank there, yesterday I thought 'nothing ventured, nothing gained' and decided to dis-assemble it [a bit like Wall.E]
Expecting it to be full of tiny screws, springs & pingfeckits I was pleasantly surprised to find that 4 small screws allowed access to this.....
Google + eBay found a direct replacement for less than £4 delivered, so with a bit of soldering [not my forte, sadly] I'll be good to go, after the initial 16 hours initial charge. With lockdown for me now 14 weeks in, I'll be glad to feel tidy again
Having drawn a complete blank there, yesterday I thought 'nothing ventured, nothing gained' and decided to dis-assemble it [a bit like Wall.E
]Expecting it to be full of tiny screws, springs & pingfeckits I was pleasantly surprised to find that 4 small screws allowed access to this.....
Google + eBay found a direct replacement for less than £4 delivered, so with a bit of soldering [not my forte, sadly] I'll be good to go, after the initial 16 hours initial charge. With lockdown for me now 14 weeks in, I'll be glad to feel tidy again
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It’s 4” t&g with a fencing paint finish
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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I claim my special prize for spotting your deliberate error in that first pic.....
Yes you get to spend 2 weeks with Norbert in his caravan.
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Memmeddu
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Knife making cause dependence
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Memmeddu
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I've made one only and I would make someothers for sureYou saying I’m a knife junkie?You could well be right!
Just need to find the right materials
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I’ve wanted to make one for ages. With the lockdown I had no excuse not to, a lot of spare time on my hands. Made a fixed blade first, then I decided to try make a locking knife. Got most of it done, get rid of the file marks, heat treat, put together, shape and fix scales on. Job done!
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I've made mine from scrap steel , it's not pretty but it works
Now I would like to make an hunting knife
10cm blade single edge, wooden handle , brass finger guard
That's a fair bit of weight up there.
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conifers "died"?
How many times did you feed them with diesel, ammonium sulphamate and glyphosphate before that happened?
