Stuff you have made today

[Paulbarrett]

Knocked up this tailpipe for one of my employees on his jacked up landrover disco monster truck. thing lol. I’m no welder by any stretch but have all the gear and….. Not my cup of tea but Itl keep him happy as a sand boy for a while.

 

[My Old Landy]

I made this today for a colleague as he sent me the picture. The material is a 300mm long slate platter.

 

[Memmeddu]

Lost my place in paradise this evening.
Tomorrow my car has MOT.
I've had to repair the exhaust pipe.
Unfortunately the bolts are rounded off, I should cut and drill under the car, and weld new ones.
Not enough time or will power to do that.
I'm extremely tired on the last period, I've had health problems, plus a whole lot of work in the machine shop.
Even today it has been a hard day , with a lot of work to be done in a hurry.
Anyways
Lifted the rear end of my car, placed the columns under the sill and the rear suspension just in case.
Left the car lift holding part of the weight .
Not enough space for the trolley.
So put the good old cardboard under the car so at least I wasn't laying on the hot asphalt.
I've bought one of those CRC exhaust repair bandages .
Useless waste of money .
Practically a thin sheet of aluminium you have to wrap around the hole ,then a rigid theoretically self adhesive carbon fiber bandage, which has to be wrapped onto the aluminium patch .
This thing is hard as hell ,it would not wrap around the pipe without breaking .
It doesn't have any adhesive on it so it will not stay in place .
Then you have to use steel wire to secure it, well again not enough wire length to secure it properly.
Ended up using zip ties.
It has to last few hours then it can even get lost on the road, I don't care.
It would have been faster if I had cut a patch out of a coca cola can and mig welded in place.
Another thing is done .
A lot of other things to do

 

[JMS1972]

Bit of an upgrade for the Denford Micromill. The original motor is FUBAR so the previous owner made an adapter plate from Mild Steel so they could use a palm router this weighs 1.1kg!

I've made an Aluminium replacement this afternoon should save about 660g. Its more in keeping with the Sherline Milling machine which uses ally for most of its parts

Hopefully should prevent the odd Z axis issues the previous owner mentioned.

New part on the machine old part in foreground did I mention it's weighty!

 

[nickk]

Installed my latest staircase today,I rarely spray paint,this was my best spraying I can remember,good finish,cover,colour and rock hard in a few hours,watch this space for balustrading,architect hasn’t decided what style yet

 

[Tupers]

Flung some paint around. Most of it went where it was supposed to.

 

[sg66]

20mm styrofoam and 3mm ply backing, lightweight camper kitchen worktop, just got to build the rest

 

[ajlelectronics]

then a rigid theoretically self adhesive carbon fiber bandage, which has to be wrapped onto the aluminium patch .

All the ones I have seen need the bandage soaked in water before use.

 

[Memmeddu]

All the ones I have seen need the bandage soaked in water before use.

No-one told me this .
Instructions were unreadable cause paint drop on it

 

[Memmeddu]

All the ones I have seen need the bandage soaked in water before use.

Here the instructions.
I'm kinda thinking it was expired or damaged.
Cause I'm serious it was like wrapping a coil spring

 

[ajlelectronics]

Here the instructions.
I'm kinda thinking it was expired or damaged.
Cause I'm serious it was like wrapping a coil spring

I wasn't suggesting that you were wrong, it is just my experience that they needed to be wet before they would conform. Clearly there are different brands and I have never seen one with 'Carbon fibre".

 

[Seadog]

I remember using similar 40 odd years ago. You ended up with hands covered in sticky goo. Rather like when using Denso tape.

 

[Memmeddu]

I wasn't suggesting that you were wrong, it is just my experience that they needed to be wet before they would conform. Clearly there are different brands and I have never seen one with 'Carbon fibre".

I supposed I was, because it could be.
Without instructions I thought something was wrong but it didn't .
Just the tape's not good anymore.

I remember using similar 40 odd years ago. You ended up with hands covered in sticky goo. Rather like when using Denso tape.

This one was bone dry .
Anyway I'll replace the entire exhaust eventually.
Both because I don't feel the engine since there's no vibrations from it and now even no sound .
And because both me and my mother don't like it so quiet.

A new muffler and mid pipe .
I'll cut open the muffler and make an internal bypass with cable controlled mechanical valve .

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Denso tape.

You GIT.
Going to have a lot of beer to get over that memory.

 

[Cobbler]

I remember using similar 40 odd years ago. You ended up with hands covered in sticky goo. Rather like when using Denso tape.

Denso! I still have bad dreams about that stuff. Used it on GPO (BT) to protect lead cables if jointing chambers required demolishing & rebuilding. Yuk. It was bad enough putting it on, removing later was horrible. It was always referred to as Gas Tape.

 

[Hood]

Still use Denso all the time for covering hydraulic spool valves and hose ends on the fishing boats. messy stuff but it works great

 

[Memmeddu]

My car passed successfully MOT this morning
Went to buy tools in a nearby town this evening
After a good 20km at constant 3000 RPM in fifth gear , while driving on a steep slope uphill I've heard a can crackling sound and a big pop from the exhaust .
My car is sounding normal again.
The tape served its purpose this morning, and gave up this evening .
I'm pretty upset because of the pain it was to put in place but at least I've had not go beneath the car to remove it .
I'm pretty confident the cat is dead cause I'm burning gasoline in the tail pipe but I'm not concerned about at least for the next 2 years ,when it will have MOT again

 

[finyuk2005]

Still use Denso all the time for covering hydraulic spool valves and hose ends on the fishing boats. messy stuff but it works great

what do you do when it dries oot? just replace it?

 

[Hood]

what do you do when it dries oot? just replace it?

The top couple of layers dry out but it tends to stay good underneath and is still messy to remove years later.

 

[Farside]

The top couple of layers dry out but it tends to stay good underneath and is still messy to remove years later.

Huh, tell me about it. Me, and all the other unlucky gubbers who had to hack the old shyt off to repair joints.