Stuff you have made today

[Windy Miller]

Drilling Jig

I have a job for Mrs Miller that requires about 25 right angle brackets, about 30x8x180 (before bending) with 4 5mm countersunk holes in each.

Didn’t fancy measuring, marking, and centre punching each hole so I made up a jig.








Just a few bits of 25x3 flat bar I had kicking about, and a bit of 6x2 left over from the bench build. Which was in turn left over from the shuttering for the shed build in the last house. I like recycling stuff!
The clamp was picked up from a flea market about 35 years ago.

The idea is that you pop the workpiece up against the stop at either end, clamp it down and drill it. Then release the clamp, slide it to the other end, clamp and drill. Then flip it over and repeat the whole process.

Swarf extraction system for the countersinking

Certainly seemed to work ok. I have another batch of larger brackets to make up soon, and there’s plenty of room on the same bit of timber but next time I’ll drill some holes at either end to let the swarf fall through as it tends to mess with the positioning somewhat.

 

[My Old Landy]

I made a thing thanks to @Seadog for the 24v soldering iron

 

[jimbo84]

Milled a T nut



And modified a bolt


To make a new post


To mount the new quick change toolpost.


It started out life as one of the metal plates for a maglock on a door

 

[sako243]

Wifey made some wild garlic butter a few weeks ago

But we're not veggies so...

 

[JOEPRO]

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Just watch you don't end up recreating the Fargo wood chipper scene! That's an awfully tall ladder

 

[Kram]

Just watch you don't end up recreating the Fargo wood chipper scene! That's an awfully tall ladder

In normal mode instead of A frame it goes 3x higher. Im ok at this height!

 

[RichardM]

This is the cover:


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As it doesnt actually do anything other than hold the line stationary over the clock wheel it is not mission critical.

What is going to be a deal breaker is this small idler wheel that I need to transpose onto the new housing. Snag is, it is tight and I don't know whether it screws all the way through, Left hand Right hand, also it is brass. Any suggestions anyone @pressbrake1 do you have any suggestions?

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Screw is on the outside:

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Slightly better shot of the idler:

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Does the hole in from the edge carry a pin do you think?

All helpful suggestions gratefully received.

Have you got it out yet? Is the hole an oiler for the gear wheel and the screw retains the shaft?

 

[northwest]

Nope, still stuck there. I was hoping someone could give me a clue as I am clueless

 

[Bki26]

I made a mosfet reach 150°c in 10s lol.

I attempted to repair a perfect draft PCB as mosfet had fried and after spending several hours sorting wire jumpers as the tiny horrible traces kept ripping I managed to get it all set and good to go however it appears something else is fried on the board as just instantly blew these mosfets even though I ordered 50a versions to replace the original 30a.

Oh well time to find a donor machine!

 

[droopsnoot]

After trying three times to get a straight bead along a replacement section of bonnet / windscreen surround on my project, I finally gave in and made a rudimentary back-stop for the bead roller. Now I've got a lovely straight bead, and have to bend up a ninety degree bend in exactly the correct spot, or have to do it again. I've already made the piece and got it spot on (it curves slightly in two directions) but didn't put the bead in it, ruined it by trying to do it freehand with the joggler, and tried a couple more times. Let's hope I can get the curves back in it.

 

[nickk]

I bought a 3” grinder,which I reported here recently,I’d always planned on making an adapter nut to use worn 4.5” cutting discs as they are within RPM ratings,so as I received a free replacement as the original had a wonky clamping nut,I faced off the spare drive nut flush,then welded the spindle hole of a spare m14 nut,bored it to suit the m10x1.0 3” grinder spindle,with a 0.9mm x22mm step to take these. Penny pinching resourcefulness.

 

[Memmeddu]

Replaced the internal components on my AEG, hopefully it will be a little below 1J.

I've put new cylinder and piston heads, and more powerful spring.
Check again for smoothness of the moving parts discovering a problem on the tapper nozzle wich is 7.20mm in diameter while the hop up chamber was 7.09mm avoiding the nozzle to close on battery, consequently most of the air leaked through the magazine instead of flowing into the barrel.
I've had to break out my decimal bits set and manually reamed out the hop up chamber till the tapper nozzle finally moved freely into it.
I've then installed the An-Peq 15 and the EOTECH replica just to see how the look like on it.
Honestly I have to replace the fore grip, real covers and butt stock with tan or coyote brown ones yet but I'm kinda not sure about how it would look like.

 

[sako243]

I made a mosfet reach 150°c in 10s lol.

I attempted to repair a perfect draft PCB as mosfet had fried and after spending several hours sorting wire jumpers as the tiny horrible traces kept ripping I managed to get it all set and good to go however it appears something else is fried on the board as just instantly blew these mosfets even though I ordered 50a versions to replace the original 30a.

Oh well time to find a donor machine!

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Probably be the gate drive circuitry. If the part is rated for it (bear in mind that suppliers often quote misleading numbers) then either it's not sinking heat effectively enough or it's not being turned on fully and thus acting in a resistive manner.

MOSFETs are generally used either fully on or fully off. If they aren't turned fully on then the drain source connection had some non negligible resistance and thus heats up when current flows.

 

[minimutly]

Drilling Jig

I have a job for Mrs Miller that requires about 25 right angle brackets, about 30x8x180 (before bending) with 4 5mm countersunk holes in each.

Didn’t fancy measuring, marking, and centre punching each hole so I made up a jig.



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Just a few bits of 25x3 flat bar I had kicking about, and a bit of 6x2 left over from the bench build. Which was in turn left over from the shuttering for the shed build in the last house. I like recycling stuff!
The clamp was picked up from a flea market about 35 years ago.

The idea is that you pop the workpiece up against the stop at either end, clamp it down and drill it. Then release the clamp, slide it to the other end, clamp and drill. Then flip it over and repeat the whole process.

Swarf extraction system for the countersinking

Certainly seemed to work ok. I have another batch of larger brackets to make up soon, and there’s plenty of room on the same bit of timber but next time I’ll drill some holes at either end to let the swarf fall through as it tends to mess with the positioning somewhat.

Vacuum cleaner!

 

[Windy Miller]

Vacuum cleaner!

Yep - a good old Henry. Rescued from my neighbour’s car boot just before it ended up at the tip! Just needed a replacement switch.

 

[Bki26]

Probably be the gate drive circuitry. If the part is rated for it (bear in mind that suppliers often quote misleading numbers) then either it's not sinking heat effectively enough or it's not being turned on fully and thus acting in a resistive manner.

MOSFETs are generally used either fully on or fully off. If they aren't turned fully on then the drain source connection had some non negligible resistance and thus heats up when current flows.

Yeah I think it might have lost a component the first time it's overheated since it melted the solder, just keeping an eye out for as cheap second-hand machine or a new board is about 70 euro from France

 

[Maker]

Yeah I think it might have lost a component the first time it's overheated since it melted the solder, just keeping an eye out for as cheap second-hand machine or a new board is about 70 euro from France

What's the machine?

 

[Bki26]

What's the machine?

Phillips perfect draft hd3720

 

[nickk]

My old digging bar snapped for the third time,it’s been spliced then welded enough times,so I had a much heavier snapped bale spike given to me years ago,time to forge it to a slow point and attach a handle,

 

[sardine]

I decided I needed a square thing so I made one in case I need one .