Stuff you have made today

[Olderisbetter]

My front rim for my Suzuki is polished and laced up now. It still needs a little work truing it up but it was a much quicker job than the first one.

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Moggy million bonnet?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Uni cycles ........... like doing a wheelie but for much longer ?

I can take the front wheel off my mountain bike and ride around for as long as you like.
I tried unicycling. I wasn't great. Completely different experience.

Must get it back out soon.

 

[Tupers]

Moggy million bonnet?

Moggy traveller bonnet in Millionaire Pink.

 

[steviec_lj]

in Millionaire Pink.

Sexy..

 

[Munkul]

They do look good right enough, we never got on with them though, all jcb at the moment.

Really? I tried a new MX420 and thought it was fantastic.

I love the manitou JSM joystick, it's more ergonomic than pretty much any of the others on the market and partly why I persuaded Dad to buy one over any other make. Not as smooth in operation as a JCB though, and the transmission is a bit jerky for tiny smooth movements, but it's not a dealbreaker for our use.

Only thing that lets ours down is the starter motor in the mercedes engine, it takes some turning over sometimes... keep meaning to buy the iskra upgrade from ACE engineering but the old one keeps going...
Oh and it uses a LOAD of fuel in the winter, feeding silage out!

 

[Fraserb]

I love the manitou JSM joystick, it's more ergonomic than pretty much any of the others on the market and partly why I persuaded Dad to buy one over any other make. Not as smooth in operation as a JCB though, and the transmission is a bit jerky for tiny smooth movements, but it's not a dealbreaker for our use.

Only thing that lets ours down is the starter motor in the mercedes engine, it takes some turning over sometimes... keep meaning to buy the iskra upgrade from ACE engineering but the old one keeps going...
Oh and it uses a LOAD of fuel in the winter, feeding silage out!

Where dad works has a manitou with that joystick and he said it took a bit of getting used to but good when you do get used to it. Ours like a but of fuel as well, although a couple of them do close on 3000 hours a year so they'll need it.

 

[Munkul]

you might laugh... We went from a MF 185 with a muck grab, to the manitou 634-120 with shear grab 2 years ago... used to fill the tiny 185 fuel tank once every 2-3 weeks in winter... similar amount of work means the manitou gets abut 3x the amount in a week and a half but we don't begrudge it, it's faster, easier, the pit face stays cleaner, we feed out into trailers as well as direct-to-face (old fashioned setup) and there's far less waste.

 

[Brad93]

you might laugh... We went from a MF 185 with a muck grab, to the manitou 634-120 with shear grab 2 years ago... used to fill the tiny 185 fuel tank once every 2-3 weeks in winter... similar amount of work means the manitou gets abut 3x the amount in a week and a half but we don't begrudge it, it's faster, easier, the pit face stays cleaner, we feed out into trailers as well as direct-to-face (old fashioned setup) and there's far less waste.

All the emissions they have to meet nowadays, doesn’t do fuel economy any favours

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Made some mounts for my bodgit rack
Soldered up the new patchbay ready for installation.

Will add more inputs in the future.

And tested. Only one error didn't quite bridge a solderpad for the internal routing. All good now. Should have done this ages ago.

 

[Fraserb]

All the emissions they have to meet nowadays, doesn’t do fuel economy any favours

Yeah it's a load of nonsense, to make them cleaner we're burning more fuel.

 

[bigegg]

A temporary welding/woodworking bench - in the place where a permanent one is going.

I *may* have overestimated when i bought 20 of these (20mm thick) plates.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

n the place where a permanent one is going.

Shouldn't that be 'next to the place where the permanent one is going'? Otherwise you'll have to move it out of the way when the time comes......

 

[Windy Miller]

A temporary welding/woodworking bench - in the place where a permanent one is going.

I *may* have overestimated when i bought 20 of these (20mm thick) plates.

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It's one of those very plates that i need to cut when I asked about the 9" cutting discs in another thread!

 

[bigegg]

Shouldn't that be 'next to the place where the permanent one is going'? Otherwise you'll have to move it out of the way when the time comes......

That would seem a good idea, but i have my reasons:
They're not as difficult to move as i expected.
I want to test that the permanent place is the *correct* place.
Theres not really many other convenient places for it.

 

[doubleboost]

 

[Brad93]

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Proper job john

 

[selectedgrub]

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Awesome.

 

[Anguz]

Not just today.. an hour or so most evenings this week
New crossslide nut for my hembrug lathe
Gone from about 100thou backlash to around 3

 

[dobbslc]

Darkside rear for the GS850

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@Farside how do you get round corners with that on?

 

[Farside]

@Farside how do you get round corners with that on?

Easily.
Just get off and push while turning the handlebars.