Stuff you have made today

[Brad93]

another house sign

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Did a lhd and rhd heater valve for the MGZT260 owners club shop. Im extremely impressed with the mapp gas torch I bought the other week

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Tonight I'm making a dent in the homemade sloe vodka. All the better for being drunk out of the homemade glass!

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Have your falsies fell in it

 

[Wildefalcon]

Rivets for the mudflaps on my Landrover. Couldn't find the right size to turned down some to suit. Didn't spend long looking for the right size, mind. It was an opportunity to practice turning.

 

[Turbo]

Did a lhd and rhd heater valve for the MGZT260 owners club shop. Im extremely impressed with the mapp gas torch I bought the other week

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I wouldn't use mapp gas to do soft soldering, its too hot & its very easy to overheat the fittings & boil the solder & flux. You are better to use straight propane (black or red cylinders), they don't burn as hot & are much safer.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

I wouldn't use mapp gas to do soft soldering, its too hot & its very easy to overheat the fittings & boil the solder & flux. You are better to use straight propane (black or red cylinders), they don't burn as hot & are much safer.

Thanks Ill get a propane

 

[6ply]

Needed a chuck key. After setting the dividing head, thought I might as well make spares.

 

[Scalarocco]

One for each jaw plus a spare, just in case!

 

[500e]

Can we have a taper back off the square "aesthetically pleasing"

 

[Kram]

I wouldn't use mapp gas to do soft soldering, its too hot & its very easy to overheat the fittings & boil the solder & flux. You are better to use straight propane (black or red cylinders), they don't burn as hot & are much safer.

Its not that much hotter, just use a smaller flame. However propane is cheaper, and butane/propane mixes far cheaper if thats all the heat you need.
You can get butane mix to mapp adaptors cheap enough and works well so you can use he same torch.

 

[DAPPH]

Needed a chuck key. After setting the dividing head, thought I might as well make spares.
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As you get older & your hands aren't as clever as they used to be and you don't like bending your back to use the chuck keys etc . Now is the time to make two chuck keys , 400 mm long with half inch sleeves of aluminum epoxied on the handles to make them 16 mm in dia & 250 mm from tip to tip .

 

[Onoff]

As you get older & your hands aren't as clever

I find slightly loose trousers and an elasticated belt a boon if you're "in a hurry". No fumbling etc.

 

[Cheesie]

Another tool for the fly press this let's us use around 30 other punching tools that's lying around the work shop, I turned the adaptor at the top, then had the bottom part cut on a waterjet then bored out the centre for a snug fit a change from making bird cages

 

[Blobber]

Brake pipes, they must fit them on the car first and them put all the other gear in! not getting caught out this time so while its in the air im doing the lot! they havent done bad for 20 years

 

[Onoff]

Brake pipes, they must fit them on the car first and them put all the other gear in! not getting caught out this time so while its in the air im doing the lot! they havent done bad for 20 years
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Looks great! You clearly have a flare for doing it.

 

[Richiew]

He has a mechanical bent.

 

[Onoff]

He has a mechical bent.

South American?

 

[Richiew]

Corrected.


Phone typing.

It's too early really for crap puns but nevermind.

 

[Onoff]

Corrected.


Phone typing.

It's too early really for crap puns but nevermind.

Very clever, trumped by a Nirvana joke. Respect!

 

[Onoff]

I'm not getting the welder(s) out in this rain. The extent of my making today has been 4 rivnuts in my mate's camera bracket!

Too wet for the digger man to cross the lawn and do my earth pit too