Stuff you have made today

[RaceDiagnostics]

Kitchen tap repair, turned this.

Then picked it up when it was hot. Idiot!

 

[Hood]

Some bits for the prototype side stand, made two rods in case I decide a fixed foot is better than the ball joint one. My idea may come to nothing but you have to try

 

[Kram]

Found an old tube of contact adhesive, now appears to have gone bad but I used it anyway. Cut two rubber sheets, glued them on - which just stayed as a gooey mess.. Its just padding to protect it.
Battery now strapped securely in place.

 

[oldbikedavey]

Mild inroads into cleaning up my main work bench.
Some time after Easter, I may actually clean up the Colchester a bit beyond the level of the utter abomination that it currently is....

 

[northwest]

Well I am going to say it. Today I made nothing and did nothing, couple emails and one Snot_A_Gram then lunch with my pal. I'll do something tomorrow, probably.

 

[cheb]

I've built the unit for the kitchen sink and got the sink roughly installed. I might yet plumb it in tomorrow, I don't fiddle with the plumbing when the shops are shut or will soon be shutting.

 

[Memmeddu]

Today I've disassemble all the interiors of the 126p.
Back home for lunch
Back to my land but with the husky consaw for run it little bit and then run it out of fuel.
Back in town I went to fix a fryer.
Disassembled found the fault in the thermal protection.
Made a temporary fix till the new one arrives.
Got paid.
Then I took the vacuum cleaner back to my brother who lend it to me to clean the 126p little bit.
Back home put few things on the shelf.
Not even had dinner I'm currently going to sleep.
Tomorrow it's a working day and I'm extremely tired

 

[Tupers]

Two doors skinned twenty to go.

 

[Bullet2012]

Two doors skinned

Is that the Mini-mum .

 

[Barking Mat]

Nearly finished cutting up my probably oak cider press, as no one wants them nowadays, and it had been sat in a corner for three years.

Cut up into rayburn sized slices then split, bloody hard work, chainsaw was playing up too, but got coaxed back into life eventually.

I have a love / hate relationship with my chainsaw, I love it when it works, hate it when it doesn't. Did the job though.

 

[Barking Mat]

This is the second house I've bought with a cider press, you can't give them away over here.

Burns really really well after the effort.

 

[northwest]

Well, decided to wind up a pal today, this will make him curse :-)

Drawbar tops:



For thse of you who don't get it right away:



I have no idea how the one on the left ended up looking like it does?

I think it's funny though it may backfire, he could well make a spanner to fit.

 

[northwest]

Then I decided to make a start on some spring compressors using 1" 6065 bar, but needed to turn the surface off first, I was impressed with myself to be truthful:

 

[roblane65]

I've no idea what I'm looking at but I'm impressed too .

 

[Memmeddu]

Attempted to weld my Stihl Ms 361 engine block at work.
Various settings no way to succeed I seriously doubt it's made out of aluminum or magnesium alloy.
Because it acted just like magma zama or antimony do.
Welds were brittle, tons of porosity, greyish blue oxidation big craters and the arc acted just like when you forgot to put the ground clamp.
Next attempt would be put a piece of steel into the cavity of the casting, drill and tap through everything, a set screw and epoxy compound

 

[bricol]

Well, decided to wind up a pal today, this will make him curse :-)

Drawbar tops:

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For thse of you who don't get it right away:

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I have no idea how the one on the left ended up looking like it does?

I think it's funny though it may backfire, he could well make a spanner to fit.

any good:

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[northwest]

@bricol very good, it's a smart audience on here that's for sure.

 

[roofman]

This is the second house I've bought with a cider press, you can't give them away over here.

Burns really really well after the effort.

bet the chimney smoke has a nice aroma to it

 

[Blue Chips]

I think it's funny though it may backfire, he could well make a spanner to fit.

As I recall from many years ago when we lived out west, the cast-iron covers over the residential water shut-off valves that connected residences to the city water mains had five-sided bolt heads. I guess they figured it would add a level of security, although you could open them with a pair of pliers.

 

[droopsnoot]

As I recall from many years ago when we lived out west, the cast-iron covers over the residential water shut-off valves that connected residences to the city water mains had five-sided bolt heads. I guess they figured it would add a level of security, although you could open them with a pair of pliers.

The fixings that hold the MAF sensor into the housing on my daily driver are five-sided Torx security heads, for no reason that I can see other than to be a pain in the backside. I had to buy a set of different sizes, when I doubt I'll ever use anything other than the one size. Similarly, the bolts that allow you to change the brake pads on an Audi A5* are some sort of special tool, again for no good reason. Actually I say that - you lot know more about the selection of fasteners for specific jobs than I ever will, can any of you suggest a reason that they would just use normal fasteners of an appropriate size? Other than making it difficult for the amateur mechanic / non-franchised dealer to deal with, that is, but that's just me being cynical.

( * or it might have been an S5. I really like the A5 coupe shape, sort of a spiritual successor to my eighties Audi coupe, even down to looking like it's a hatchback but having a boot, but stuff like this might be enough to steer me away from one if I'm in the position to replace the daily while they're still around.)