Stuff you have made today

[Shiny Steve]

It replaces this old thing I made years ago, all my useful off cuts just get poked underneath so the new version with baskets should be a revelation.

 

[magnet]

I'm making a slow combustion stove to put in my garage. It's an old design I half remembered from an old 1950s practical householder magazine. It a tube with a rotating ash pan that acts as a damper by covering a series of air holes at the bottom. Mine started life as an old c02 cylinder. It's a work in progress bit of a way to go but it's better than mouldering in the house tit deep in wrapping paper

 

[northwest]

Well, this has been on the go for a good few years and I have always made excuses to not do it in case I made a hash of it, so now as I am not rushed this last while, I decided to bite the bullet and just get on with it, came out far better than I could have imagined, a rose for my rose:



I decided to do it in stages, finishing one part before moving on to the next:



I decided to give the stem a bit more of a "rustic" look, on reflection I should have made a leaf or at least a couple thorns, next one for sure:



Then the actual fitting to the stem, I didn't fancy solder running everywhere and no superglue either (I don't have a track record of success with it) so I thought if I annealed the stem I could make a tool and upset it, this worked well I gripped it in the vice and gave it all a couple good belts, as you can see it worked:



By sheer chance I had a hole punch the same size as the stem so the petals were a good interference fit:



Then it was simply a matter of fitting the parts together and folding the petals up. I didn't anneal them which was a small mistake, I should have, but I did polish them up with a scotchbrite bobbin in the Dremel (I would have used the die grinder but I cannot find it and I have looked everywhere :-( ). Came out well I thought, certainly something I would approach with confidence next time:



I had bought a dome a long while back so a hole in the middle of the base and it's a proper job:



All now boxed up and wrapped. It's got to be worth a new benchrest rifle !

 

[Dr.Al]

That's really impressive. Top job that man.

 

[Brad93]

Nice work. I like the textured petals, I've never tried that approach.

I've made four for my Mrs now.

Stainless, Copper, Brass & Titanium.

 

[northwest]

Brass I can have a go at @Brad93 but Titanium? Really? My experience of Titanium is that it is really tough stuff, when you push it, it just pushes right back! Stainless is really hard to work too, with a propensity to slash my hands to bits.

 

[roblane65]

Had an hour in the garage at tea time to knock up a small gift for me best neigbours

bit of 4mm plate and some chain , it will be free standing a bit of tityvating tomorrow job done
guess what their names are ........... mind it looks dog rough in that picture actually

 

[Pete.]

I had to pull my hobber apart today because it was blowing the earth leakage trip. Spent all day on it in the end because I found that the hobber has a 1.5kw VFD and 1.1kw motor whereas the grinder has a 1.5kw motor and 1.1kw VFD, so I swapped the VFD's over now I don't have to worry about overloading the grinder VFD.

Anyway, one thing that really annoys me is dropping the quick-change washers down the hole into the motor cavity on the hobber. Its a really cool system where you loosen the nuts and slip the washer off then you can change the gears as they slide over the nuts, and pop the washer back in. Those washers like to head for the hole right underneath and there's no easy way to get them out.

So I knocked up a mesh screen to cover the hole and still allow ventilation for the motor, and there are times when the change-gear setup require the hole to be there.

 

[Maker]

Now I have no excuse not to finish sawing out these brass plates, who's purpose will be revealed shortly.

Finally finished these, unfortunately drilling an 8mm hole in 3mm brass, by hand with no real workholding led to a rather poorly aligned hole, I ummed and arred over how to fix it for a while but ultimately decided to just solder it together as-is, I can get better alignment when I machine it apart to fit longer bars when I run out of space.






It's a rack to organise the pliers in my jewellers bench, would have been a lot less effort if I made slightly less decorative end plates, but where would be the fun in that? Not that this was very fun, 3mm material is slow going, even with the coarsest saw blades I could find. Soldering came out a bit messy too, this is about the limit of what my Smith Little Torch will handle (And certainly not a skill issue on my part ). Still needs cleaning up, I'll probably get to that in another month.

 

[Puglet1]

Had an hour in the garage at tea time to knock up a small gift for me best neigbours
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bit of 4mm plate and some chain , it will be free standing a bit of tityvating tomorrow job done
guess what their names are ........... mind it looks dog rough in that picture actually

Karen and Dave ?

 

[roblane65]

Nope .......

 

[DanZac]

Nope .......

Keith and Douglas?

 

[roblane65]

Nope ......

 

[roblane65]

Had an hour in the garage at tea time to knock up a small gift for me best neigbours
View attachment 524159
bit of 4mm plate and some chain , it will be free standing a bit of tityvating tomorrow job done
guess what their names are ........... mind it looks dog rough in that picture actually

no spotted I've got the K upside down , it's ok they're not fixed yet might even swap em around .

 

[Puglet1]

No,No,No, It can’t be @Kram and @Dapph2 ?

 

[m_c]

I've been on the Christmas snack creation this evening

 

[Brad93]

Brass I can have a go at @Brad93 but Titanium? Really? My experience of Titanium is that it is really tough stuff, when you push it, it just pushes right back! Stainless is really hard to work too, with a propensity to slash my hands to bits.

Brass was possibly the most difficult tbh, because it just wanted to crack when overworked.

Yep a few cuts from the stainless and the titanium. If it was easy everyone would do it.

I can't find a picture of the titanium but I'll take one today.