Stuff you have made today

[James1979]

Quick and dirty paperwork holder for the truck.

Five minutes on cad. Plasma cut. Bit of foldin.

Will hold the clipboards and books and things I have in the cab.

 

[Maker]

My girlfriend found a nice, solid wood desk with no legs in a charity shop, and some legs that with no top in another, but then got stuck conveniently just before I visited.

Of course she lives far from my stash of tools and hardware, but we found a Ferrero Rocher box of plasterboard screws and a mystery hex bit which sort of fit them, five snapped screws later and she's got a decent desk at last. The corners where the original legs mounted want something to fill them in but it'll do for now, not bad for nearly free.

 

[DAPPH]

This should be stuff I've cocked up today....
So I went to rebuild the reduction gearbox for my bandsaw conversion. Now it's been some months,since I stripped this - actually, thinking about it, it was allready stripped, in a box, with knackered bearings. So I'd bought two new tapered rollers for the output shaft, and one new biased ball bearing for the twin start worm. Straight away I wondered which shaft needed to go in first. I had a fiddle around, and it looked like there was enough room for the wheel to drop in. So I built up and fitted the worm, and tapped in the bilnd oilseal. Mistakes 1 and 2...
Then I pressed off and fitted the two tapered rollers, cleaning as I went. Now to drop in the output shaft - bugger... it wouldn't go in. So I had to spike the oilseal, pull it out and the worm, circlips, spacers etc.
So then I tried fitting the output shaft first, but it wouldn't, without removing the new end bearing. So I popped off the outer race to see if it would help (mistake 3). This is when 11 shiny balls flew all over the floor.
So that sort of shot the fox. Until I decided to do something I should have done in the first instance (mistake 4, or should it have been 1?). Fit the output shaft to check endfloat. Bloomin heck, it was slack, and the only shims I had were the gaskets. I'm not sure why, but the side cover bearing recess machining was really poor. So now I have to shim the bronze wheel. But which side? Do I go for half and half? Ie guess it? Anyway, new bearing and seal needed before I try again....

Can you use engineers blue to find the best engagement ?

 

[minimutly]

Can you use engineers blue to find the best engagement ?

Well, I made some progress. Fitted the whole lot back together, removed som 3.5 thou plastic gasket shims, and it only just has zero play. If I take the last shim out it tightens up. The backlash between the shafts is still there, so I’m going with it as is.

 

[Martin Hocking]

If they were designed for WW2 type warfare I recon you need to go a trifle lower for todays ordinance ,say about 30 meters.

Scary isn’t it. Mind you with all the ww2 activity at work I’ve been reading up about barnes Wallis. Fascinating bloke with some quite literally devastating ideas…

Dont know if you've seen this . Quite good.

Anderson Shelters – All about Britain's WW2 Anderson Shelters

andersonshelters.org.uk

Thanks magnet I hadn’t, those are some really interesting shelters with some great history.

there are anderson shelters still in existence that the germans used, i have been in one

That’s interesting Anguz was there a German design or were there some that found there way over there?

 

[Anguz]

Scary isn’t it. Mind you with all the ww2 activity at work I’ve been reading up about barnes Wallis. Fascinating bloke with some quite literally devastating ideas…

Thanks magnet I hadn’t, those are some really interesting shelters with some great history.

That’s interesting Anguz was there a German design or were there some that found there way over there?

british through and through, still have the makers mark showing on them...
were there behind when the islands were captured.
will see if my mate has any pics

 

[leadpig]

Not bad for a afternoon in sun
5 inch grinder is not much fun though on 5mm x 100mm box section

 

[Hood]

Tuesday and Wednesday I chopped up a load of stainless and made some hand rails, slow going doing Tig

Today I was to put a fuel level sender unit into a tank and see if I could sort out the leak, F knows what size of rods had been used to weld the fittings, certainly put a nice shape into the plate, no wonder it wouldn't seal even with 2 cork gaskets

Tank hopefully without leaks and a sender fitted.

 

[Hitch]

Anyone got any machinery that's currently not working?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Made with beer yeast, salvaged from the bottom of a home brew container.
Then left to raise in the sun today, in the cast iron pot. Then cooked in the pot in a wood fire.

 

[tigdlo]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Show us your crum shot!

 

[Onoff]

MK4 Mondeo clutch inc slave cylinder.

Tbh couldn't have done it without the BiL and nephew's help. BiL had been "doing" cars since he was 15 and is nearly 70 now. He just has the knack! He backs up knowledge with grunt when needs be. The 3D printed clutch alignment tool and subframe alignment pins worked.

All back together now save for the arch liners and under tray. I jet washed them and under both front wings then whacked a drop of Procote cold galv spray on little scabby bits here and there.

 

[nickk]

Loads of windows at the moment,fixed and top/side hung,for a holiday cabin in the hills,30/30/5 & 30/30/4 Tee.

 

[Fraserb]

Planted some oats.

 

[Hood]

Simple number plate for my house, anodised the plate black and the number just clear anodised.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Planted some oats

Years ago we would sew wild ones!

 

[Onoff]

Years ago we would sew wild ones!

Sewing an oat, wild or otherwise would take some dexterity!

 

[Onoff]

Simple number plate for my house, anodised the plate black and the number just clear anodised.



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I'd have to colour those outside screws in with a black Sharpie!

 

[DAPPH]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Show us your crum shot!

Are such shots allowed on this family site?

Sewing an oat, wild or otherwise would take some dexterity!

If you saw the size of his needle and the position of it's eye you'd understand better .

 

[Dr.Al]

Gently reintroducing myself to the workshop after a business trip to Hong Kong and a week in bed recovering from covid caught on said business trip. I'm still feeling very weak but at least (as of today) I'm testing negative so don't have to isolate myself from my other half.

I thought a nice introduction back to workshoppery would be to make a new screw for a Veritas router plane (the existing one has a habit of coming loose in use, which is really annoying).

I didn't remake the (arguably pointless) sprung plunger, although I was tempted to so that I could throw away that countersunk screw and not have to use an imperial allen key any more.

The new screw is a LOT bigger than the old one, so hopefully will be easy to tighten down more firmly than the original: