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A little something for someone special 
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Outside taps and backing
My Old Landy
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Nice solution
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You wanna get them sold on etsy you'll make a fortune ! btw that brickwork needs tidying up !
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.....you must not be on a water meter
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Nicking that look, got hot and cold feeds also with easy accessible isolators inside but nothing that flash on the outside.
Although I would have to get a blue leaver for the cold - that would bug me both being red
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Some maths followed by a tiny bit of milling
The brazed and aligned result. I used center drill in chuck to set the tool holder height then flipped the bar around and rotated until the tip was on center. The insert angle looks about what I was aiming for so quite happy with that.
What are you machining?
It’s a Vauxhall Carlton 24v head. You are correct. Lopping two cylinders off and mating to an omega A 2.4 bottom end to create a 16v CIH aka manta 400 incarnation. They were cast strictly as a 16v but this is a way of doing it on a moderately better budget. Still not cheap by any stretch but...
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The brazed and aligned result. I used center drill in chuck to set the tool holder height then flipped the bar around and rotated until the tip was on center. The insert angle looks about what I was aiming for so quite happy with that.
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I have a blue lever in a box, there are isolators inside and a thermostatic mixer on the hot, i always keep old bits of 22mm barrier pipe to use as sleeves for the 15mm copper.Nicking that look, got hot and cold feeds also with easy accessible isolators inside but nothing that flash on the outside.
Although I would have to get a blue leaver for the cold - that would bug me both being red
@roblane65 its getting pointed and a coat of slurry next week so it will hide the bad bits, but yes its a mess.
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Not exactly made today and not by me but by my late Mum. Probably 50 years ago. She was a seamstress by trade having been pretty much adopted by a Jewish family when she fell on hard times after coming over from Eire at 15.
Anyway...as a kid I liked anything to do with Action Man. Not having much spare money, this was Mum's take on a German army uniform:
The dexterity she had was pretty amazing. Gutting when dementia got her
Anyway...as a kid I liked anything to do with Action Man. Not having much spare money, this was Mum's take on a German army uniform:
The dexterity she had was pretty amazing. Gutting when dementia got her
Onoff
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Perhaps she could have got a contract with Palitoy!
You'd have ended up as a child labour "machinist" running up loads of AM uniforms after school!
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Not without a nice little lamp above them.You wanna get them sold on etsy you'll make a fortune ! btw that brickwork needs tidying up !
Onoff
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My dad was a cobbler and lots of my AM stuff was home made, tiny boots and holsters the best things in life are free or home made, still got lots of AM stuff.Not exactly made today and not by me but by my late Mum. Probably 50 years ago. She was a seamstress by trade having been pretty much adopted by a Jewish family when she fell on hard times after coming over from Eire at 15.
Anyway...as a kid I liked anything to do with Action Man. Not having much spare money, this was Mum's take on a German army uniform:
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The dexterity she had was pretty amazing. Gutting when dementia got her
Maybe we need a toys i used to have that made me the welder i am today section.
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Onoff
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That's a nice job and a great find. However I can't help but appreciate the irony. Taken in by a Jewish family, German uniform?
Go back a couple of generations and I'm German on both sides anyway.
On Mum's side some came over in the early 1700s fleeing religious persecution. Gets proper complicated.
