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Arc Tourist
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Wouldn't it be easier put a couple of plugs on an end to fill with water, so you can adjust the weight for the soil conditions; a fixed weight can bog down in mud after heavy rains.
Maybe although its fairly thin metal i have made it from, old 3mm ventilation pipe scrap fill it with concrete it will be a bit more substantial that, it will be around 1.2 tone when done being pulled by a MF590 the land is fairly light any way should be okay
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With water filled you either want it empty or full, anything else and they slosh about shoving the tow vehicle, on a horse paddock it's probably a quad or a 4x4. Obviously a tractor of any decent size isn't going to be shoved about by 1t of water.
1978 massey ferguson 590 will be the tow machine, concrete filled will be okay I think personally more practical than water filled for my use.
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Could you give us some dimensions of it please. Diameter and length. Concrete is about 2.4 tonne per cubic metre (1000 litres) so the volume would be about 0.5m^3 for that weight.
It is indeed 600mm diameter 1950mm length. 0.55 cube so around 1.4 ton total steel and concrete (my estimation was a tad out but not bad for the top of my head)
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590 will have no problem with it.
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Ant maze. Or modern equivalent to the old prisoners' 'H' blocks...?
Depending on scale, obvs.
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My dad was a director of Pyrène and then Chubb Fire, gave me a summer job at the Factory in Feltham when I was 15, I used to unload those from the service engineers vans and chuck them in a skip, hundreds and hundreds of them...
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Sadly so many went that way.
What I am after is the Chrome plated Pyrene one. Then I want the Kaki drab ex Army one.
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The metal wall mount is not an easy item to find.
I have a few hidden away. But they are still in the original wrappings.
So I made one for my new to me one.
The only change from the OE is the wall fixing holes are Metric now.
A combined Made/Aquired photo:
I finished painting a few today. A couple of Fire Tigers and a general experiment, "What happens if I follow this colour with this unlikely colour for a fish?"
The lighthouse board has a story. End of last Summer we managed a quick break in Cornwall. We always have been in the habit of picking up any odd plastic/litter from the beach and binning it. One day I found this very tatty piece of marine ply with an odd piece of metal bolted to it. Somehow it ended up in the back of the pickup rather than in the bin.
Fast forward a bit and my artistic daughter painted a quick lighthouse whilst trying to incorporate the tatty paint into the sky/sea/foam. A few 50mm brass pins with the heads cut off and I have a few more places to hang half completed lures from.
I finished painting a few today. A couple of Fire Tigers and a general experiment, "What happens if I follow this colour with this unlikely colour for a fish?"
The lighthouse board has a story. End of last Summer we managed a quick break in Cornwall. We always have been in the habit of picking up any odd plastic/litter from the beach and binning it. One day I found this very tatty piece of marine ply with an odd piece of metal bolted to it. Somehow it ended up in the back of the pickup rather than in the bin.
Fast forward a bit and my artistic daughter painted a quick lighthouse whilst trying to incorporate the tatty paint into the sky/sea/foam. A few 50mm brass pins with the heads cut off and I have a few more places to hang half completed lures from.
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Wifey's Pop hotrod project needed a new thermostat housing to change the pipe direction and also change size (to match the uprated Pop radiator). I didn't have a chunk of ally big enough so made it in two parts. It still produced a lot of swarf though.
Here it is part way through with the original for comparison.
The flange was parted off from a lump of bar that had a large hole through it then cut to shape on my bandsaw. I made the connection a press fit and welded the back (machined prep)
Faced the base off and cleaned it up.
All my tidy up two days ago ruined
Here it is part way through with the original for comparison.
The flange was parted off from a lump of bar that had a large hole through it then cut to shape on my bandsaw. I made the connection a press fit and welded the back (machined prep)
Faced the base off and cleaned it up.
All my tidy up two days ago ruined
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Remade the hotplate box for Ivor (-the-tank-engine), our woodburner. Originally it had a plate just tacked on the top of the gas bottle, which, of course, conducted very little heat. A friend modded it by dropping the plate down into the bottle and welding on a load of short rebar studs, which worked better but drastically reduced the size of the firebox. So I cut that out and rebuilt it like this:
Then I fired it up and boiled a kettle, after which I wiped it over with linseed oil. I'm very pleased with it. Please don't zoom in too close on the welds, it's a good seal all round but the welds are not of the quality I aim to achieve with a bit more practice.
Then I fired it up and boiled a kettle, after which I wiped it over with linseed oil. I'm very pleased with it. Please don't zoom in too close on the welds, it's a good seal all round but the welds are not of the quality I aim to achieve with a bit more practice.
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Prototype for a set of bar clamps - this one uses a very short bar (made from some offcuts of box section and threaded rod); the final ones will be four just over a 1 metre long and four about 1.8 metres long. It's been a while since I've done this much TIG welding; I thought I'd got through the "dipping the tungsten all the time" phase of TIG welding, but it seems to be back in earnest!
I think that M16 thread on the right-hand jaw might be a bit long given that the left-hand jaw can be moved in increments of 1.75 mm...
I'm glad I made a prototype: lots of things had to be tweaked during the process of making it. Hopefully it'll go a bit smoother when I make the final ones.
I think that M16 thread on the right-hand jaw might be a bit long given that the left-hand jaw can be moved in increments of 1.75 mm...
I'm glad I made a prototype: lots of things had to be tweaked during the process of making it. Hopefully it'll go a bit smoother when I make the final ones.
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A square
it’s an adaptation of a public domain design. I have tweaked it a bit and will do a bit more I think.
Nowhere near as good as pressbrake’s but it’s square. It was also low cost enough so if it’s on site and some monkey kills it I won’t be that angry.
it’s an adaptation of a public domain design. I have tweaked it a bit and will do a bit more I think.
Nowhere near as good as pressbrake’s but it’s square. It was also low cost enough so if it’s on site and some monkey kills it I won’t be that angry.
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Sorry to be the one to break the bad news to you but that is a triangle
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You never know, he may have another hidden just out of camera shot and thus it really is a square.And to think that I resisted the urge to point that out
