Stuff you have made today

[slim_boy_fat]

That’s 1” plate as it was that or 3mm ‍

That's impressive!

 

[Hood]

Made some trestles from 2" x1/4" wall SHS aluminium and some 5" x 2.5" x 3/8" x 1/4" channel.
They are for putting under a Cheetah Cat when it comes up the slipway on the hoist, it will then be lowered onto the trestles so that the hoist can move out of the way.
Wood will be put in the channel but that is not my job, I don't bother wood

 

[Gragson]

Really nice @Hood hope they make the wood channels to suit and not just **** them in

 

[Onoff]

The tang bit for these intergrips...

I cut the slot at 1mm. Broken hacksaw blades are measuring up about 0.6mm, penny washers over a mm. I've also some 1mm sheet.

???

 

[Woody.v8]

A clean engine and a start to the next project, must be mad......

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A clean engine and a start to the next project, must be mad......
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You missed a bit.

 

[RichardM]

New back made



Panel mounts welded in.



Door re-sized.



Hinges fitted.



Just need to make the connector panel, fit the door lock, mounting holes, quick bit of filler and paint!

Then I can start to fill it

 

[Onoff]

My daughter likes a bit of miniature clay modelling when she puts her mind to it. Takes her ages to make all the parts individually like each tooth. Not sure who it's supposed to be...

 

[Hood]

Cut off the rusted bars and welded some new 20mm bar on to chain links for end weights. Last time I used the mig at the place I did them, I just used the stick this time as I don't have Argon mix and actually don't even have a mig torch as I just use push pull guns. I also have a few boxes of 4mm electrodes so good to use some up as I hardly ever do steel stick nowadays.

 

[Blobber]

Cut off the rusted bars and welded some new 20mm bar on to chain links for end weights. Last time I used the mig at the place I did them, I just used the stick this time as I don't have Argon mix and actually don't even have a mig torch as I just use push pull guns. I also have a few boxes of 4mm electrodes so good to use some up as I hardly ever do steel stick nowadays.

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20mm bar, those links must be huge!

 

[Hood]

The cross section is about 3"

 

[Richiew]

@Onoff, Frank Sidebottom reimagined by Tim Burton.

 

[Munkul]

A clean engine and a start to the next project, must be mad......
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Mazda 1.6\1.8?

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Made this rack for my Stanley sort master boxes between jobs this week. Pull out shelf at the bottom to sit a box on and peruse contents.

Also finished this handrail off, was an absolute pain to get right.

 

[DAPPH]

I paid 50 p several years ago for a rusty & painted silver pair of grassshears . they have rarely been used , daugther asked me if I still had them .. can we have them dad .
So today I rediscovered where they had been hiding , stripped them down found the hinge pin was a domed 1/2 round bar then ground to 3/8 square then threaded for a 5/16 Withworth staked nut & Thackeray washer .
As I set about giving them a racing tune up & full de paint & rust I found that they were made in 1968 with a NATO part number . Where the hinge pin went through I discovered that the holes hadn't been de burred so had produced a bit of swarf .at th two flat faces ... no wonder hey were difficult to use . that filed and rubbed flat I set abut putting on a new cutting edge at an angle . , cleaned every ting off added silicone grease to the wear points and faces then re assmbled them . they cut a single strip of printer paper as if they were new razor blades .


Just about to pack thing away for the day when I noticed a bit of a mismatch at the tips , so ground them equal as a closed pair on the 9 inch grinder .. what lovely sparks they gave off.

Here my friends is what seems a cheap way of getting some reasonable quality flat steel for a few projects including knife making as there are often several pairs on sale at car boot sales .

 

[Woody.v8]

Mazda 1.6\1.8?

Yeah the 1.8, I acquired a few bits but I could do with a complete mot failure really for the rest of the bits and id.

 

[Cobbler]

Yeah the 1.8, I acquired a few bits but I could do with a complete mot failure really for the rest of the bits and id.

We’ve got quite a few bits of a left hand drive one that we broke in the shed, drive shafts, rear suspension both subframes, uprights & hubs, this sort of thing. Shout if you need anything & I’ll see what we’ve got.

 

[Dr.Al]

Some of you may remember that a little while ago I made a handle to make shooting stuff more comfortable:

More info here: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stuff-you-have-made-today.67127/page-1093#post-2055351

It works really well and has been an almost permanent attachment to my low angle jack plane. However, it has two (arguably rather minor) problems:

1. Firstly, while it gives the gap between thumb and forefinger something comfortable to push against, it doesn't give the rest of the hand something comfortable to hold on to: you're still gripping the side of the plane.
2. Secondly, it has to be removed if I want to put the plane away:

I was in a machining mood yesterday so I decided to have a go at making a new version, which I finished this morning.

Here it is in bits:

Another view:

The body and knurled nut are brass; the handle is 303 stainless steel; the pivot screw is EN3B mild steel, the pin is EN1A mild steel (the hole in the end is tapped M2.5 to help pull it out of its hole if required). The flat strip is 1 mm thick aluminium, used to stop the grub screws from damaging the side of the plane.

Partly assembled:

Fully assembled and fitted:

This is what it looks like in use:

Undoing the knurled knob allows the handle to pivot 90°...

... which means the plane now fits on the shelf with the handle attached (and also means the handle doesn't stick out the side of the plane while I'm using the plane for non-shooting stuff):

 

[Maker]

I made this old air pump suck twice as much.
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I've had it in my treasure pile for years waiting for a use. It occurred to me today it might work for vacuum filtration, so I stuck a gauge on it and the needle was bouncing between about 375 and 500 Torr, which dropped back to zero almost immediately. I took it apart expecting to find the diaphragms all perished and leaky but luckily they were fine, the reed valves however were seriously manky:
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The tar came off easily enough but the sealing faces were corroded and pitted so I cleaned them up with wetstones, working up to 8000 grit, much better now (I didn't bother cleaning the pitting off the back face).
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Tiny drop of light oil should keep them sealing tight, all back together and it easily pulls 625 Torr, which takes a few seconds to bleed back down to zero now. I put another gauge on the output and it makes it to 40psi before the PRV opens, not bad at all. No idea what it's rated for, where it came from or what it was used for, quality little unit though. There's a small leak where the diaphragm meets the casting, it's not a machined face so I might pull it apart again and see if a light skim on the lathe can get it to seal, maybe get a few more Torr out of it.


I of course had to try filtering something so had a rummage around and found a cute little side arm flask, a bung that didn't fit it and a narrow stem funnel (Exactly the type you wouldn't use for filtration). Cut a circle out of a coffee filter, filled it with cutting fluid, fired up the pump and it pulled it through in less than a second.

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Looks like my cunning plan is gonna work, next job will be to make a big special Büchner funnel, something like this:
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Stay tuned.

I've finally had a go at this. I turned a plug to fit inside some 4" stainless tube so I could hold it in a chuck without deforming it, just to get clean, perpendicular ends and a tidy chamfer. The Perforated mesh was cut somewhere close with shears, then hot glued and pressed between two bits of plastic and machined to size, which absolutely ******** my last Seco insert. It turns out I didn't have the material thickness to get the bottle thread on the funnel but I thought it would work without it, the vacuum should pull the gasket tight.



Unfortunately when I drilled into the side for the vacuum line, the drill bit broke though the bottom, and also through into the middle hole, totally ruining it. I tried wedging bits of PVC tubing into it but couldn't get it to seal.





I think I'm gonna put it back on the lathe and turn the bottom off so its just a shallow funnel, then cut out another piece of plastic, machine the bottle thread* and drill it for the vacuum fitting, then glue it all together. I also need to find a big O-ring and machine a groove, to seal the stainless pipe to the funnel.

*I want it to fit an ISI cream whipper, the bottle has a 50x3mm trapezoidal thread, I need to grind a tool and remind myself how to cut metric threads on my lathe. I was hoping I could make it work without the thread but there's only gonna be any real force to compress the gasket (The white thing in the last image) when the filter is blocked, it'll be much easier to use if I can just screw it on, it'll save having to hold it in place and I won't have to worry about it sealing.

 

[Woody.v8]

Yeah the 1.8, I acquired a few bits but I could do with a complete mot failure really for the rest of the bits and id.

Well that escalated quickly