Stuff you have made today

[ihavenoidea]

Made a flower tray (and my first mig welds) today.

Edit: autocorrect changed the welding process

 

[Dev]

Made a flower tray (and my first wig welds) today.

That’s a good job, I can it can be a bit hairy.

 

[Geoffm]

Last weekends job was some forklift forks for the tractor. Unloading large bags of fertilizer with the silage forks destroys the pallets, threatens to break expensive tines and one day we will puncture a bag o fertilizer.
You can buy attachments ready to go, but this involves spending money and this causes farmers to break out in spots. They cost around $NZ1600 (about 800 pounds)
I got some second hand fork lift forks ($300), and a Euro Hitch bracket ($130) to fit the tractor loader and some steel (about $300 ish) for the frame. It is pretty hard to compete with Chinese imports if you have to buy new materials or your time is worth anything
The forks slide on a 75*16mm flat top and bottom. Most home made ones don't have the locking cutouts of real forklifts, but since I had a milling machine and 20mm cutter...
It is heavy, might have been slightly overbuilt. The frame is 100*10*4mm RHS.
I accidentally bought a couple of pallet loads of welding rods 30 years ago from a shipyard and i have used and given away a lot over the years, but still have lots of 4 and 5mm 6011 and 7014 rods so when I get heavy work, it is a chance to use some up.
Milled the locking grooves


Welded up the backing frame


tacked together and a test fit before welding caps on the open ends and fully welding the frame.

 

[ukracer]

3D printer has been busy. Wall mounts for the drill, driver, batteries and the charger. All out of the way on the wall and not having to pull out the box for the drill.
I know the colour does not match the drill, but that was in the printer at the time.

Where did you get the wall mounts for the drills and batteries from?

 

[Aff]

I made my home heating smarter
I can trigger it via wifi and measure the power consumption to flag any faults.
Now in addition to timers it can be activated, and deactivated based on the temp of any specific room.

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Any more info?

 

[northwest]

Well, today I did some actual real Mig Welding. For lots of reasons I decided to buy a Lincoln Bester Mig set. I am really pleased with it, it is lighter and smaller than the sets I was looking at and it fits in it's nook in the workshop just perfectly. These are some brackets for a target changer system we are trying to build and these are the prototypes. Welding is fine for a first attempt I think, I am happy with it anyway, it isn't going to fall off thats for sure.



Yes, it's a Binzel torch, the brand new never used Lincoln supplied torch will find itself in the For Sale section shortly.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This is my little travel camping stove. A nice bit of kit. Small light weight and burns very hot.
It uses paraffin as a fuel.



Allan, a useful friend, likes to go fishing. So this is good for him to use on his night of drowning worms.

Please note the following
Spare seals.
No leak.

Today Allan arrived at my place bringing gifts.
There was a catch, there is always a catch.



Can any one see why I was not happy?

Well done 2 leaks.
Fuel leak and air leak.

Fuel leak was from the Non return valve in the pump letting fuel back up into the pump body.
Not a unknown issue, but not something I find everyday.



This is what an air leak makes the burning paraffin burns. It syphon's the fuel up, not under pressure, so it does not vaporise and burn hot.

Further investigation found out that he had "Googled" what fuel to use. Oddly as a Paraffin stove it is paraffin.
He did not want to buy paraffin, so google told him mix 2 cups of petrol with 5 litres of diesel.

Modern seals this has no effect.
Original seals it eats them.

No choice but a full strip down.

New seals, modern versions. But I did extract funds for them.




Now, before any one jumps up and down.

STAGED.

But this is how this stove burns when up to operating temperature. Look close you can see the defector ring showing the copper colour.



Cap it as soon as it gets hot and you get the correct flame and flame spread.

makes a great Ratt Pack steam pudding.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Today an old hard working workshop friend finally gave up the ghost.

In my time it was worked hard, was used in a few MIS projects.
The above picture shows it working, a hot short flame.



This is it today. I must put up my hands to it's final passing.
I used Paraffin, it is a Benzene fuel torch. In theory that should not of made a difference, apart from the operating temperature.

So a quick strip down.



The seals have gone. It happens sometimes when you dismantle an old item like this.
But the needle point has worn and so has the removable jet.

So has it warms up, the pressure leaks away and no heat is generated.

A quick phone call and the future was soon chosen.

The cost make sit not worth it.
Shame, but it worked hard.

So.



Shinnyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Allan brought this today, as a gift.



STAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here you see the second test.
As soon as this was taken, the Meths. was put out and we went outside.

First test is to see if the pump works, it did, ish.
Then you immerse it in water up to the neck nut and check for leaks. No leaks.

It fired and worked well.
Normal issues.

Stripped down, new seals, jet cleaned and a wipe over to remove any oil dirt.



This really doesn't do it justice.



This does.

Yes the nozzle is glowing red hot.

Allan may be forgiven.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I did something today I would not normally do.

Had two open flame devices going in the workshop.

yes, 2.


No other reason, than I could. Allan is a small member of the human race not to panic in a fire situation. Plus I know he can use a Fire extinguisher.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Nearly finished lining the shed, can't wait to be done with it and get back to uni.
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There's a bigger gap than I'm happy with on the left where the ceiling meets the wall but it'll get hidden with trunking when I wire the light in properly. I'm blaming my tools, would have came out perfect if I had a tracksaw. At least the nailgun is earning it's keep.

Expansion gap dear boy.

 

[Dev]

Any more info?

Ended up hijacking a thread about something else (sorry Hitch)
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/smart-dimmers-plugs.105002/

I have actually done some welding too, I swear. Shelving brackets from some recycled dexian

 

[nickk]

Start of a new job,ordered in may,this is the second one I’ve done,atm replace perimeter base angles with this 60/60/10,as my generator has failed it’s 80m of cable and hope for the best,however it runs the 9” grinder,so it’s off with 40 rivets,11/16” diameter and replace with 16mm bolts,and a cross bar as it’s collapsing in at the doors,then lift onto the prepared pad,then make some internal glass sliding doors after the woodwork is done.
Ooh and get the ironing finished!

 

[onlymeagain]

Where did you get the wall mounts for the drills and batteries from?

Battery holder, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2959089
Charger mount, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3688254
Drill mount, trying to find it......

 

[m_c]

I made a couple flats on a bit bar, while the bar was still spinning, as I finally got the new lathe fully working tonight

That was just the example I created for testing the machine, so now I need to decide how I'm going to juggle tools for the proper parts I need to make.

 

[Tupers]

More shelves, you can never have too many shelves!

 

[Maker]

while the bar was still spinning

Polygonal turning? Very cool.

 

[m_c]

Polygonal turning? Very cool.

Yeah.
It's something that always fascinated me, but the main thing is, it now saves me a second op in the mill to create the flats.

 

[Country Joe]

I made a couple flats on a bit bar, while the bar was still spinning.....

How?

I've not really used a lathe since the 70's, (back at school) but they never covered anything like that - unless I've forgotten more than I realised!
At first I thought you were joking, as I'd assumed it would have to be done on a mill.

Having said that - I also suspected that @Maker was just joking too, whaen he referred to it as "polygonal turning"!
But now I'm swaying the ther way, and thinking maybe it was done on a lathe?

Mainly because this sounded less "jokey"

It's something that always fascinated me, but the main thing is, it now saves me a second op in the mill to create the flats.

All the Best,
CJ

In my defence, it is quite late & I'm quite tired!

 

[Brad93]

How?

I've not really used a lathe since the 70's, (back at school) but they never covered anything like that - unless I've forgotten more than I realised!
At first I thought you were joking, as I'd assumed it would have to be done on a mill.

Having said that - I also suspected that @Maker was just joking too, whaen he referred to it as "polygonal turning"!
But now I'm swaying the ther way, and thinking maybe it was done on a lathe?

Mainly because this sounded less "jokey"



All the Best,
CJ

In my defence, it is quite late & I'm quite tired!

It’s a CNC Lathe.