Stuff you have made today

[nickk]

I made a corten shaped eagle as a remembrance plaque for a Falklands cliff face nearly a year ago,anyone remember?
Any way recently the commemorative regiment celebrated a naming ceremony as it was sited.

 

[Dcal]

Today I made a 2 inch cube out of 10mm flat bar.

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Well it's almost a cube, it's to split the top ball joints on an Alfa 159.

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I started off with a tig root and finished with 2.5mm 7018 stick, because why not.

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The uprights are alloy with a steel insert, so my normal method of hitting to them with a big hammer doesn't work well.
With a 16mm nut welded to the underside it did the job with ease.

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The top arms on these seem to be made of chocolate, the last ones haven't done 10,000 miles and they failed the mot. There wasn't a clunky but there was a tiny bit of lift.
I decided to make a few tools to speed up replacing them.

Your supposed to remove the strut, but if the mounting bolts can pass between the coils of the spring it can be left in place.
I've harder springs and the bolts have a big head so there is no chance of passing through, so another tool had to be made up for spreading the spring.

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This also worked and let me get the wishbone out.

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It took far longer to make the tools than it would have taken to remove the struts, but it was good welding practice and if I keep the car it will be used again (and again)

All in all a fun little project.

Follow up on this, today I replaced the two front upper wishbones.
First one took over a week but that included making the tools and getting the arms delivered.
I bought them from Alfashop as they were a good price and should be reasonable quality (SKF with 2 year warranty.) However that no longer deliver to NI, yet another Brexit benefit, so I had them delivered to a site in England and had one of the lads take them home with them as hand baggage.

I thought it would be a great idea to use a cap head bolt to allow the bolt head to fit between the spring coils next time, but I couldn't tighten the bolt on one side without slacking the whole strut.

So I had to reverted to the original Torx head bolts and used the tool I made to spread the coil spring.

Second one took 35 minutes. It would have been quicker if I had a ratcheting torque spanner but still fine.

Slacken the bolts.

Spread the coil spring

And fit the wishbone.

For £50 and half an hour a side I can live with it, if they last two years.
Still, it's a bit pants for a replacement part.

 

[bricol]

I've got to admit, I don't remember removing the shock being too much of a problem on mine. I was changing the springs to Eibach (cheaper to buy a set of four than two rear ones for my Q4) so they had to come out anyway. The rear ones though - half the rear of the car coming apart to get 'em out, although I was changing the handbrake cable too, which meant removing the other half of the rear of the car.

I'd be terrified of my fingers being close to that spring with that tool wedged in though

 

[4String.]

A "Heath Robinson" inspired stand for the newly acquired Chinese diesel heater.



Not the most elegant of constructions but it does the job, the next task being to sort out some lightweight ducting to get rid of the exhaust fumes. Overall I'm very impressed with the heat output, admittedly it sounds like a Rolls Royce RB-211 when it's wound up full but I can live with that. In fact I'm so impressed with it I'm looking at buying another to mount permanently under the passenger seat of the van as part of its camper conversion.

 

[nickk]

A bosh for a customers forge,2mm ,alignment and flange to flange distance was critical,his shop is remote and off grid,only accessible by 4wd tractor. That Tuyere dwarfs mine.30 litre capacity.

 

[Hood]

Another roller.

 

[Memmeddu]

Scared to death an idiot who tried to scare me
Just parked next to a door exactly 1 meter off the door
There was another car in front of the door.
He said that if I wanted no damages to my car I should have left space...
I've took off my breaker bar off the car and very gentle said.
If you have to do something to the other car be aware that my car is next to it and it's like a daughter for me pay attention to it .
I'm very disgusted about things are going on in my neighborhood lately.
Every week happens something, what used to be a peaceful neighborhood is becoming a ghetto.
Addicteds breaking windows hitting the drivers, people fighting in front of home, graffiti on the walls
Last week a girl has been beaten up by an addicted who smashed her car window and she dragged him for several hundreds of meters hanging from car.
I don't feel safe anymore even at home.
We(everyone In the neighborhood) used to leave the houses doors opened till night.
And now we are living almost incarcerated at home .
Disgusted

 

[Tupers]

I made lots of of paint fall on the floor today.

 

[Hood]

Made some steering joints today.
Now that I am making replaceable Acetal inserts it means I don't have to use bronze for the housings. Stainless however brought up a problem as doing the pockets 18mm deep with a 4mm cutter would be a pain so I redesigned them to be two halves at 12mm each so the pocket in each only needs to be 9mm.

Previous version in bronze, there was a 2mm thick lid that screwed on to keep the ball end captive.

New version in stainless with acetal inserts.

 

[Hood]

Made some acetal inserts for the steering joints.

 

[Kram]

A big rashed up pile of green, and the logs. From pruning 3 old apple trees, lots of ivy removed and a laurel bush.

Was quite dark so didnt finish, still a bit to be moved and cut on the pile. Didnt get an after photo.

 

[Memmeddu]

Starting to see the moment to assemble the Stihl MS361 I'm restoring.

Finished to paint the white parts
Exhaust and handlebar still need to be painted (have to repair the handle)
Other than that
I have to clean the crankshaft so I can put it into the freezer and then I can put parts together
If everything goes well I'll complete this restoration on Saturday night.
Pretty happy with the results so far, not perfect by any means but it doesn't have to be honestly, I'm making a video out of it but my restorations are aiming to get things back in working conditions and in so much better looking than the starting point.
It's not a display tool It will get used

 

[nickk]

Some stone carvers trollies,he calls them bankers,swivel castors and ply top to be added. I was planning on fitting diagonal braces to all 4 sides,but no,not now,it’s as stiff as.

 

[Blobber]

This is work in progress, still a bit light headed after me hospital stay but stuff needs doing so a bit more to do on the hedge flail, when the arm extends out the unit twists on the 3 point linkage, Bomford supply an additional link set up that triangulates from the top link to the bottom links, ive got part of the set up which is that yellow bracket up top, as a temporary get me going thing I lashed a bit of tube down to the bottom link which helped but wasnt going to last

The missing parts are like half a top link on a adjustable bar but with 28mm eyes on the bottom, Bomford were helpfull but the missing bits were going to be about £500 per side
So starting with an old top link chopped up

This is the 1st time ive used the lathe for anything proper so its a big win for me, a cheapy chinese boring bar got the end opened up with nothing broken or bleeding

Which gets me something like this, just got to weld the bits together tomorrow, chop the cat2 end off and attach the 28mm end, I should then have something useable which will have saved £1000

 

[magnet]

Made this shovel to riddle the duff out of the coal. We were bringing a lot in with the coal. Now it'll drop through the shovel and d stay in the coal house.
Made up from what was in the scrap pile.

 

[Memmeddu]

Another little step on the chainsaw restoration project
I'll upload the video on next Friday because unfortunately I've just discovered I've got wrong parts for it
So I have to get them.
The biggest and hardest part it's done.
I've already put the crankshaft and new bearings into the freezer to shrink fit the in the crankcase.
I only have to assemble it practically.

 

[redlig]

Made this shovel to riddle the duff out of the coal. We were bringing a lot in with the coal. Now it'll drop through the shovel and d stay in the coal house.
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Please stop referring to the parts dept / raw material store as a scrap pile.

 

[northwest]

Had a Umarex MP5 come in, broken cocking handle, then another one, so I figured there must be more out there and get on and make half a dozen and advertise them, new ones in 416 stainless, originally made half rice half ally:



New tap cut the 2.5mm threads just perfect. Need to source some proper screws as the originals are soft as chocolate!

 

[Memmeddu]

Had a Umarex MP5 come in, broken cocking handle, then another one, so I figured there must be more out there and get on and make half a dozen and advertise them, new ones in 416 stainless, originally made half rice half ally:

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New tap cut the 2.5mm threads just perfect. Need to source some proper screws as the originals are soft as chocolate!

GBB ,AEG ,or HPA?

 

[Memmeddu]

Replaced discs and pads on my colleague Fiat 500, oil change and used part of the wasted oil to add a cover on my machinery