Stuff you have made today

[Morrisman]

Won’t have the space,what you doing man,make a bigger shed FFS.

Yes, in 20/20 hindsight..... there is more garden left, but not a lot. And I do have a single car garage at the front.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Today I fitted more 'sensible' castors to my 'auxiliary' [] trolley - the small originals were making indentations in the costco foam tiles and became difficult to pull/move about when loaded. So, off with the old



and on with the new


Much easier now, and an indication of a lack of thought/forward planning initially...

 

[Melvyn Best]

Last went in 1976 , think I still have the beer mug

 

[Brad93]

Just get a spare correct sized spanner and keep it by the lathe . Or do like I have done , the four spanners that the lathe needs are hung on big nails on a beam of wood set about two foot three above the bed of the lathe within very easy reach without having to reach over a running lathe .. The beam also holds two lathe pointing white light LED floods and all the old fashioned spring calipers you used to find in a bench fitters tool box including a F type verinier before micrometers both analogue & digital became the norm .

I very rarely need to use any spanners unless I’m locking the carriage or putting the travelling steady on, so spanner’s stay in the drawer. Don’t need more clutter around a lathe.

 

[Dr.Al]

Do you want an 8 inch dia inch thick round of Black Delrin plastic to make the blocks . It cuts well on a band saw or with a fine toothed hand saw, can be bored & turned to a remarkable finish . If so PM me your address & I'll send you one FOC .

That's jolly decent of you, thank you!

PM on it's way momentarily.

 

[mtt.tr]

I make some bad walls in to nice walls. Really wasn't feeling like much today last 5 weeks have been non stop

 

[DAPPH]

Today I fitted more 'sensible' castors to my 'auxiliary' [] trolley - the small originals were making indentations in the costco foam tiles and became difficult to pull/move about when loaded. So, off with the old

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and on with the new

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Much easier now, and an indication of a lack of thought/forward planning initially...

True , I keep telling guys to plan for old age & incapacity and get everything on welded boarded frames fitted with quality bearing'd lockable 360 degree castors . I'd never be able to do half of what I can now I'm 80% disabled if everything hadn't been deeply thought about , planned and implemented .

It was a lot cheaper to do it 15 years ago as well

 

[DAPPH]

I very rarely need to use any spanners unless I’m locking the carriage or putting the travelling steady on, so spanner’s stay in the drawer. Don’t need more clutter around a lathe.

You got posh lathe with metric dials or CNC measuring then Brad ?

 

[cianh91]

Made and installed last week not sure if I love or hate the colour on the timber but it was to match an existing fence

 

[DAPPH]

View attachment 242129 View attachment 242130 Made and installed last week not sure if I love or hate the colour on the timber but it was to match an existing fence

Is the reason for the wooden fencing on the side wall to stop the postie others taking a short cut ?

 

[Brad93]

You got posh lathe with metric dials or CNC measuring then Brad ?

Metric disks and a micrometer does the trick for me. I have enough tool holders and mt tooling strewn around to have the spanner’s under the swarf too.

 

[cianh91]

Is the reason for the wooden fencing on the side wall to stop the postie others taking a short cut ?

It replaced a horrible single rail fence that was there

 

[DennisCA]

Today was jam making day, we bought about 15 kilos of strawberries at a good price (40€) and sorted them, cooked them (some, ~1/3rd was just crushed and sugared for an uncooked jam) and canned them. They will all be frozen.

Hopefully this will last us until next year, this goes in everything, in cakes, on pancakes, milkshakes, you name it. The ones in the square containers is the uncooked jam.

Bonus cat:

 

[rtcosic]

@slim_boy_fat The first picture doesn't show it well, But we used tyre gel which has worked a treat

Second picture was before

Tried the hot air gun trick?

Did this to Brother in Laws Transit and combined with a machine polish it looked very good.
I also cleaned out the interior - starting with a pitch fork and gradually coming down the grades.
SWMBO recovered the seats in some leftover materials.

He kept asking when we wanted to borrow it again - it also had a full fuel tank on return!

 

[mtt.tr]

Machine Polished my van with my brothers assistance! Came up really good

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Not bad for a 13 year old van

What polish did you use looks totally different

 

[Ashley Burton]

What polish did you use looks totally different

Meguiars

It looks like a totally different van, Red always seems to fade badly

 

[brightspark]

Meguiars

It looks like a totally different van, Red always seems to fade badly

its good stuff that's what I use on my vehicles

 

[Hood]

Today I made 20 port light toggles from 8mm dia 316 and some 16mm dia 316 bored out to 8mm and parted at 5mm thick on the lathe. Then welded them together.

Quick wire brush and they are ready for sending off to be fitted to the Waverly paddle steamer.

Next up I chopped up a couple of sheets of 5mm 5083 Aluminium and then tacked them together.

Fully welded and just waiting for the boatyard to open on Monday so I can get 3 tubes rolled.
It is a hopper to take the Mackerel from the Port and Starboard stripper boxes and then guide them into a fish box.

 

[bigegg]

Concreting: just 4x 3.5bag mixes as i'm taking it easy.
Got halfway through and thought "I'm sweating buckets".
Turned out it was insistent drizzle. (As in, insisting i got wet ) Never even noticed!

 

[Tangledfeet]

Another potentially simple wee project that I didn't really need to make but managed to go successfully totally bonzai overkill on. Wanted to make a wee stand for the three sizes of TIG filler rod that I keep, so used up some scrap bits and went to work with the angle grinder first of all, as I normally do, and then once overkilled the wire brush as I did so much TIG welding on it that there was so much heat it into it that went brown all over - I'd have been happy with just some nice TIG welding rainbows but I didn't stop at a sensible tacking to keep the bits in place as I was having so much fun with the new machine.

TIG Welding: ✓
Lots of undercut: ✓
Overkill: ✓
Had fun: ✓