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made today, in fact most not but some fitted today.
Swivelling handrail in closed and open position.
Aluminium console for hydraulic spool valve, bow thruster control and helm.
Bait box.
Horizontal roller to keep rope lower in hauler sheaves.
Swivelling handrail in closed and open position.
Aluminium console for hydraulic spool valve, bow thruster control and helm.
Bait box.
Horizontal roller to keep rope lower in hauler sheaves.
It's Déjà vu all over again.
Finally finished this one today.
Just to prove I'm not trolling you, here it is in front of the previous one.
This one's a little bit smaller than the last, designed to fit a particular spot, unfortunately plans have since changed in the months since starting the build. There's plenty of space for it still, just not in the place it was designed for.
It's been a pretty rubbish build, this one. I should have been getting better with practice, but instead I regressed. The mitred corners for the top of the frame didn't come out very well. I thought I could square it up nicely by leaving gaps to weld up but things didn't go to plan. I can live with it though. One part of the build did improve slightly. I learned to make the drawer fronts separate to the drawers themselves. They are screwed on to the drawer carcass from the inside. This made lining up the fronts with the steel frame and each other rather easy using packers, regardless of how the drawers themselves are sitting.
Finally finished this one today.
Just to prove I'm not trolling you, here it is in front of the previous one.
This one's a little bit smaller than the last, designed to fit a particular spot, unfortunately plans have since changed in the months since starting the build. There's plenty of space for it still, just not in the place it was designed for.
It's been a pretty rubbish build, this one. I should have been getting better with practice, but instead I regressed. The mitred corners for the top of the frame didn't come out very well. I thought I could square it up nicely by leaving gaps to weld up but things didn't go to plan. I can live with it though. One part of the build did improve slightly. I learned to make the drawer fronts separate to the drawers themselves. They are screwed on to the drawer carcass from the inside. This made lining up the fronts with the steel frame and each other rather easy using packers, regardless of how the drawers themselves are sitting.
A special punch for knocking tube rivets out at work instead of fighting with an undersize parallel punch.
I'd try pass it off that I left the knurl only partially developed for a very pertinent reason, but I only have fine wheels on a push knurling tool and it felt too barbaric trying to get a full knurl in EN30b*. I'd already hardened the working end too. The scissor knurler would probably have coped, but it's plenty grippy as it is.
*It was EN30 not for any particular design optimisation or constraints but because I had a bag full of bar ends of known material and I knew it would torch harden adequately.
I'd try pass it off that I left the knurl only partially developed for a very pertinent reason, but I only have fine wheels on a push knurling tool and it felt too barbaric trying to get a full knurl in EN30b*. I'd already hardened the working end too. The scissor knurler would probably have coped, but it's plenty grippy as it is.
*It was EN30 not for any particular design optimisation or constraints but because I had a bag full of bar ends of known material and I knew it would torch harden adequately.
