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TIG'd a butchered gas bottle key on the end of a T-bar this evening. Typically overkill as ever, but then I'd never want to disappoint! 
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How ........... Redskin !TIG'd a butchered gas bottle key on the end of a T-bar this evening. Typically overkill as ever, but then I'd never want to disappoint!
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Is the key for the lathe carriage lock or the locks on the rotating compound slide?
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Not strictly "made today" but I've made five of these over the past few weeks for the missus. She loves gardening but constantly bending and reaching out is getting difficult for her - so we are moving some of the garden up to "waist height" for her.
The first planter, the prototype is 1 metre long. I then made a 2 metre long version - and then a 1.5 metre version (Shown above). Then she asked for two 2 metre long planters to go under the windows at the front of our bungalow. I finished the second one a couple of days ago.
This is a 2 metre long planter outside the greenhouse. They are all made from 50mm x 50mm x3mm angle, with a bit of 50mm x 3mm flat for the centre rib and the feet. Wood is 4" x 1" sawn.
The latest 2 metre planter. I made the wood finish a littler darker on the last two of these. The frames are sprayed first with cold galvanising paint and then two coats of black Hammerite paint. I run the wood panels through the planer/thicknesser on one side only. They are then soaked with a solution of BlackJack thinned down with white spirit, with a preservative mixed in too. The planters are then lined with weed suppressant membrane before filing with a mix of compost and sharp sand.
The latest project is a 1.2 metre octagonal planter . . . . .
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Its for opening and closing the valve on BOC Argon bottles..! I strap the bottles to a sack truck and access to the back of the bottles with a normal bottle key is awkward and this makes it dead easy.
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Very nice indeed - they look lovely all planted up. Pls pass on my compliments to your Good Lady!
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Nice work, should certainly last longer than the one from the garden centres
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my two cents worth. Skinned the punt today
Both hull plates tacked and fully welded in, both side plates and transom completed. Good progress today, but the big items (hull plates)always make it look like the job is moving along very well! We have the keel cover to weld in, the two planing strakes and the doubler plates for the hull at the front, to do tomorrow and hope fully turn it back over in the afternoon. By the way 'Francis' performed well today
Both hull plates tacked and fully welded in, both side plates and transom completed. Good progress today, but the big items (hull plates)always make it look like the job is moving along very well! We have the keel cover to weld in, the two planing strakes and the doubler plates for the hull at the front, to do tomorrow and hope fully turn it back over in the afternoon. By the way 'Francis' performed well today
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Touched up some art 
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I thought it was a corkscrew then I looked closer and am now baffled. Ti's beautiful
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my two cents worth. Skinned the punt today
Both hull plates tacked and fully welded in, both side plates and transom completed. Good progress today, but the big items (hull plates)always make it look like the job is moving along very well! We have the keel cover to weld in, the two planing strakes and the doubler plates for the hull at the front, to do tomorrow and hope fully turn it back over in the afternoon. By the way 'Francis' performed well today
That looks really nice!
There is something about an aluminium boat that appeals to me - probably the very clean lines that they have. Would love to see more photos as the job develops.
It's something I want to do one day. I have a very similar dory in fibreglass that I built in a mould some thirty years ago, but I really like the idea of building one with aluminium.
What grade of ali sheet do you use? - is it a special marine grade or just 'ordinary' grade?
I'm assuming you built it over wood/mdf frames to hold the shape?
Malc.
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They are protected by a big acrylic shield, this one is just for the hands when they need to adjust settings and re-torque. You're right about the danger of fluid jets, nasty wounds to heal when surgeons have made their job.
