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Fraserb
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Stones gottwn a crazy price now, we did a shed in 2015 that needed 12000 ton of fill, would hate to price that now.
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I started on @s410man 's washer. I didnt have a suitable offcut, so it was a slice off the 2.5" bar. Small grinder doesnt have the reach, hacksaw practise...
Bore and face done. This stuff turns nice. I didnt think the next bits through - I can grab the ID in my small 4 jaw, but theres no way to clock it in. I'll turn a 43mm mandrel and superglue it on instead.
Bore and face done. This stuff turns nice. I didnt think the next bits through - I can grab the ID in my small 4 jaw, but theres no way to clock it in. I'll turn a 43mm mandrel and superglue it on instead.
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Nick its worth rattling the cages of the local grab loader guys for hardcore, you should be able to get it for free.
Bob
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Was that a kit or did you make the whole thing?So todays myself and @mtt.tr assembled my 1t hoist. Very pleased. Can lift 1t anywhere in my garage
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Looks like the sort of thing I could do with. I like it because it low profile. I don’t have tons of headroom. About 10’
As an apprentice I must have cut off literally thousands of foundation bolts with a hacksaw, usually laying on my side in a puddle of hydraulic oil
.I was also encouraged to practice using hacksaw and files left handed, which I still do to this day.
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So was it built or bought?!It's bloody brilliant, I have a great level of envy
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I built it with another forum member. The garage was designed around the gantry. The two rails coming through the ceiling are bolted to four arches.
Then out of two bits of angle either side we made up trollies which hole the four wheels to run the length of the garage. That also fixes the two UC’s which allowed me to keep the hoist up high.
The hoist is mounted onto a trolly made from channel section, that had four bearings in each corner running across the top of the two UC’s. This obviously allowed for max head room. Whilst not losing any capability around the room.
I have been doing a video for this for the last couple months. I’ll try and get it out next weekend maybe. Still a load to finish.
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Last week (ish) I bought some soft jaws for my lathe:
They looked like this when fitted:
Today I cut them in half:
Then put them back in the lathe and skimmed them until they were about 0.2 mm proud of the chuck face
I then drilled four holes in each before reaming two of them and tapping two of them. I didn't take a photo of that bit. I've got a few bits of 20 mm-ish square-ish steel (including the offcuts from trimming the jaws) that I'm going to mill square and add holes to allow them to be attached to the new mini-jaws so that I've got bits that are sacrificial without damaging the teeth.
I wasn't in the mood for all the milling involved in making the jaws (not that it'll take long once I get started), so in the meantime I got on with some lathery.
Before getting these soft jaws, I've used some simple hex jaws that I made out of some brass bar:
These have been used a lot and there's not much usable material left on them. Unfortunately, the design of these (with the screw holding the bar onto the jaws) means that there are only three usable "teeth" per hex piece. They also take a while to make as a result of boring the big hole in the middle and then drilling and tapping the mounting holes.
Today I made six new hex jaws out of the same brass bar.
These were much quicker to make as they only have a simple counterbored hole through the middle and nothing else. They also have six usable corners per set.
In place:
I might get on with the steel jaw "uppers" this afternoon. Or I might not, who knows?!
They looked like this when fitted:
Today I cut them in half:
Then put them back in the lathe and skimmed them until they were about 0.2 mm proud of the chuck face
I then drilled four holes in each before reaming two of them and tapping two of them. I didn't take a photo of that bit. I've got a few bits of 20 mm-ish square-ish steel (including the offcuts from trimming the jaws) that I'm going to mill square and add holes to allow them to be attached to the new mini-jaws so that I've got bits that are sacrificial without damaging the teeth.
I wasn't in the mood for all the milling involved in making the jaws (not that it'll take long once I get started), so in the meantime I got on with some lathery.
Before getting these soft jaws, I've used some simple hex jaws that I made out of some brass bar:
These have been used a lot and there's not much usable material left on them. Unfortunately, the design of these (with the screw holding the bar onto the jaws) means that there are only three usable "teeth" per hex piece. They also take a while to make as a result of boring the big hole in the middle and then drilling and tapping the mounting holes.
Today I made six new hex jaws out of the same brass bar.
These were much quicker to make as they only have a simple counterbored hole through the middle and nothing else. They also have six usable corners per set.
In place:
I might get on with the steel jaw "uppers" this afternoon. Or I might not, who knows?!
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Cheers Kim. I’ll look forward to seeing that
Made another shelf in the gap above the wood storage rack:
It's made good use of an otherwise empty corner and provides an area to keep all the woodworking power tools and consumables in one place, subject to making some kind of flat storage divider for sandpaper.
And the empty shelf it's created will help in decluttering the benches.
It's made good use of an otherwise empty corner and provides an area to keep all the woodworking power tools and consumables in one place, subject to making some kind of flat storage divider for sandpaper.
And the empty shelf it's created will help in decluttering the benches.
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Variation on a theme
I did this one a couple of years ago.
Free hand plasma on 1mm stainless stuck to a white plastic backing.
I printed the numbers, cut them out to make a stencil, drew then on with a felt tip and did my best to keep to the lines.
It's rustic, but I quite like the effect (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) and seems to have lasted pretty well
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I'm sure everyone on here already knows this but I've found people that don't know that hacksaw blades come in different TPI, a 14 ( with cutting paste ) will make a big difference in effort on a big cutting job like that, probably save you half the time.
| 14 | Large profiles, aluminium, softer metals |
| 18 | General workshop projects |
| 24 | Steel plate up to 5/6mm thickness |
| 32 | Hollow sections and steel tubing |
