Stuff you have made today

[bricol]

Boddingtons cans are steel.

How old are your cans ?!?

I'm not aware of any plant in Europe still running steel - Spain converted in the last couple of years. Big thing at the moment is down-gauging - thinner and thinner aluminium. Causes havoc until you get things dialed in . . and then some clown changes something, runs less lube in the bodymakers, plays with redraw clamp pressures . . . or just tries running too fast with machinery originally designed to run much thicker material, a lot slower.

 

[bricol]

Alloy again and are weak.

But make a good metal over cork gasket material.
When you melt them down, you get a nice green flame, from the copper in the paint.

I'm not sure there is enough copper in the ink to cause much of a green flame - the ink is thin, very thin, compared to the over varnish and internal laquer.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I'm not sure there is enough copper in the ink to cause much of a green flame - the ink is thin, very thin, compared to the over varnish and internal laquer.

There is, as I have seen it when I have been melting alloy cans.

 

[RichardM]

Test piece for single point threading a new 5/8 x 10 tpi nut for my little mill.

 

[Mart63]

1:25 scale bench for architectural models.

 

[Dev]

Made an LCD display for my beer cooler. I’ve still to hide the power cable and make a better mount but it works as is and does what I want it to. The tap hand;e unscrews so when I get so,e time I’ll make something that has the screen look more incorporated than stuck on.

You can buy little magnetic pucks with the different beers on them for £5 each. The round LCD screen was £8 and I spent a morning learning how to get it to display an image - which I can change over wifi.

 

[Bki26]

Made an LCD display for my beer cooler. I’ve still to hide the power cable and make a better mount but it works as is and does what I want it to. The tap hand;e unscrews so when I get so,e time I’ll make something that has the screen look more incorporated than stuck on.

You can buy little magnetic pucks with the different beers on them for £5 each. The round LCD screen was £8 and I spent a morning learning how to get it to display an image - which I can change over wifi.

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Oohhhh share the link! I'm guessing it runs on arduino or something? Might make one for my friend if it's not too complicated.

 

[RichardM]

Phosphor bronze, yes I bought some!



Both parts tinned and soldered into the steel housing I made.



Tomorrow's job is to hopefully get it fitted. Std one is a bit tight to fit without removing the column so may have to grind a bit more from the housing side.

 

[Dev]

Oohhhh share the link! I'm guessing it runs on arduino or something? Might make one for my friend if it's not too complicated.

I’m running esphome on it - here’s the screen I’m using. There’s a touch screen version but this one’s cheaper:

ESP32-C3 development board 1.28 inch circular LCD display touch screen with wifi Bluetooth-compatible module - AliExpress 502

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At the minute I upload the image to flash memory when it compiles but you could just as easily point it to a local network share or URL and tell it to display a remote image. There’s also a button that could be used to scroll through images in a directory for example.

Oof course the ‘proper’ way to do it would be using LVGL but that was more than I could figure out in a morning.
Esphome is a bit more novice friendly. Here’s the GPIO and library details you need:

 

[RichardM]

Fitted, previously 0.35mm backlash, now 0.06mm.

 

[Bki26]

I’m running esphome on it - here’s the screen I’m using. There’s a touch screen version but this one’s cheaper:

ESP32-C3 development board 1.28 inch circular LCD display touch screen with wifi Bluetooth-compatible module - AliExpress 502

Smarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com

a.aliexpress.com

At the minute I upload the image to flash memory when it compiles but you could just as easily point it to a local network share or URL and tell it to display a remote image. There’s also a button that could be used to scroll through images in a directory for example.

Oof course the ‘proper’ way to do it would be using LVGL but that was more than I could figure out in a morning.
Esphome is a bit more novice friendly. Here’s the GPIO and library details you need:

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Thanks! I'm wondering if something similar to a 3d printing filament rfid setup could work, just load the keg and tap a rfid tag against a small esp32 scanner connected to the display so it loads the relevant image lol

 

[bourbon]

getting into these.

 

[Turbo]

getting into these. View attachment 502146

Surely you get on to a bench?

 

[Turbo]

And no, I'm not calling you Shirley!

 

[nickk]

Here’s the stainless steel mesh after folding up all 4 sides and welding the corners ,I tacked a sacrificial bar to the top former of the folder as a precaution.

 

[redlig]

While not approaching the normal standards expected here I give you todays masterpiece of inventive and precision engineering.
Cost in time 10 mins and zero in parts .Operational time ,less than 1 minute but saving a call out fee of approx £50.00 plus.
Anyone guess the use?

 

[DanZac]

Anyone guess the use?

Have you been chopping up a massive floater?

 

[MattF]

Have you been chopping up a massive floater?

Wonder how many of us thought log-chopper straight away? That was my first thought too.

 

[redlig]

Have you been chopping up a massive floater?

Nothing so exotic.
In any case i resort to Marigolds and the bread knife.

 

[CaptainPugwash]

Moving/ hooking onto a slipped roof tile or fascia or something?

I'm befuddled