Stuff you have made today

[Memmeddu]

Those 950's came new with a tube of snotty brown grease which was very runny. They were ok in their day but not a patch on modern stuff like the Hilti 1000 which is an awesome hand breaker.

I think the 900 was hammer only and the 950 was hammer & drill.

yep I have a few 900 kangos you need the special grease in the piston and slider tube with them, its still available on ebay but few and far between they will not work if theres insufficient grease in them and it has to be the proper stuff here https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=kango+grease+&_sacat=0

I personally don't like Hilti hammers because reasons
Anyway yep K950 is a rotary hammer capable to drill up to 56mm
The K900 is straight hammer
They still produce it (Milwaukee)
Not too much different designs

I will have to replace the grease using Makita special hammer grease (it's cheap and it does work)

 

[badabec]

I've been kicking up a stink with glassfibre making a radiator fan shroud for my 1974 Citroen DS. First picture is the original, made from unobtanium (2nd hand, bought from Germany for nearly 90 quid). Then the split mould I made from it. The wobbly finish is the gel coat I applied before laying up the glassfibre cloth. Third picture is the finished article. I'll make two more. One for my other DS, and one to trade. All the angles are quite sharp, that is why I used cloth, it follows the contours more easily that chopped strand mat.
My wife can't stand the smell of polyester resin so I have to strip off in the garage then run indoors. Good job we don't have neighbours.

 

[Fraserb]

Pretty much got this finished, really struggling to get photos to come out decent, I now know the struggles the OH has photographing her work.

 

[Tupers]

Technically two years in the making as this icosahedron was the first big thing I built when I taught myself to TIG but I rattled the test off over that last few weeks.
All the numbers were stencilled on and cut by hand with a grinder and carbide burr which was surprisingly easy to do. For a gauge of the size each triangle is 35cm across the flat.

 

[Wedg1e]

Today I made some "fingers" for my sheet metal bender

It was one of those jobs that took longer to make a jig and set up for cutting than it did to actually machine the 50 × 15 mm aluminium bar to size.

Aluminium, in a bender? Won't it, er... bend? Or at least distort out of shape under load?

 

[Dr.Al]

Aluminium, in a bender? Won't it, er... bend? Or at least distort out of shape under load?

Maybe, but it's what I had available (and a lot easier to mill on my little mini mill than steel) and most of what I'll be bending will be 0.8 mm sheet. Young's Modulus of aluminium is about one third of that of steel, but the thickness of the aluminium is much more than 3 times that of the bent sheet. The taper does mean it's weaker at the tip (although it doesn't taper to a point, there's a flat for a bit of added strength). If it's a problem, I'll buy some steel of the same size; the bulk of the effort was making the fixture to mount it on the milling machine so making new fingers will be quite quick.

 

[pcwizme]

Technically two years in the making as this icosahedron was the first big thing I built when I taught myself to TIG but I rattled the test off over that last few weeks.
All the numbers were stencilled on and cut by hand with a grinder and carbide burr which was surprisingly easy to do. For a gauge of the size each triangle is 35cm across the flat.

That is awesome,

 

[F.J.]

Made two step frames for a pair of truck mount cherry pickers. Got one more to do but as it’s close to finishing I’m going to do it in the morning.

The steel is cut so won’t take long then off to BOLTON to drop them off.

 

[northwest]

Chambered a .45 ACP barrel and used my new MARS reamer stop, probably more suited to cutting repeat chambers of the same calibre but also handy for sneaking up on a finished size:

 

[jimbo84]

Switch plate for the garage area of the father in law's self build motorhome. 2mm ali, I don't like working with ali.

 

[tflnemesis]

After 2 days, 19 revisions and 7 test prints I finally printed this today:

Designed with fusion 360, its a key helper for SWMBO. Inspired by another key helper i found on thingiverse but felt that it was far too big and bulky.
After breaking both her wrists in a motorcycle accident we had a few years ago she has trouble rotating her hands and finds keys difficult to use.
It is clamped around a standard Yale key with 3x m3x10mm screws. I did think about just modelling the threads into the bottom part but I doubt they would hold up in everyday use so modelled in cups for nuts instead.
I printed in ABS so I could vapour smooth it.
I didn't manage to get a pic of the finished article because Swmbo wanted it on her key straightaway. The pic looks better because I have purple ABS on my printer atm

 

[jimbo84]

A mess,


Into a bit less of a mess, still quite a lot to do.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Using off cuts and random bits i made a built in unit for the toilet at my shop the toilet roll holder is a off cut of ABS 1" 1/4 pipe, It used to be a window now blocked up form the other side, 2 coats of Bedec multi surface paint and it was ready to use.

 

[4String.]

My life a lot easier...




Fitted a new 12S towing socket to the back of the trailer and wired it to the side light circuit, to replace the craptacular block connector that our lot seem fascinated by . No more messing around trying to connect the cable from the marker board lights, just plug it in and away we go .

 

[slim_boy_fat]

My life a lot easier...


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Fitted a new 12S towing socket to the back of the trailer and wired it to the side light circuit, to replace the craptacular block connector that our lot seem fascinated by . No more messing around trying to connect the cable from the marker board lights, just plug it in and away we go .

You're spoiling those new employers, looking after their wagon so well.

 

[Farside]

Today, I made a better-sounding zorst.

 

[Dr.Al]

Today I made something that was incredibly simple and took very little time, but which I was rather pleased with anyway. I was reading another thread on this forum and saw a comment by @Yorkshirelad that chimed true with me. I have a few different scribers I use, but the one I use most is one copied from a design by Chris from Clickspring - a simple brass handle with a needle (or in my case a pin) inserted in the end. Like @Yorkshirelad observed though, keeping it in one's pocket is a recipe for puncture marks in one's hands.

I've also got one with a carbide scribe tip that can be reversed so it can be put in the pocket more safely. Do I ever reverse it before putting it my pocket? What do you think?!

On my desk at work I had a ball pen. I don't use ball pens / Biros much - I far prefer roller balls if I have to use ink but mostly just use a pencil. This is the ball pen (Zebra F-701 I think in case anyone cares). It's got a stainless steel body, so shouldn't suffer too much from all the oily rubbish I tend to have on my hands in the workshop.

This is what it looks like with the cartridge removed:

I took a bit of 5 mm mild steel out of the drawer, drilled a 0.8 mm hole in the end to a depth of about 7 mm, then turned the outside profile to match the ink cartridge, but about 3 mm shorter at the tip end.

Here's the metal "ink cartridge" along with the original one. There's also a dressmaker's pin in the photo - I've cut this off 10 mm from the tip with some side cutters:

The short bit of pin then got glued in the end of the steel "cartridge" with some Loctite 603 - close-up of the result:

End result - an easily retractable scriber. Now you see it...

Now you don't...

Like the brass one I was using before, when the tip gets blunt or bent (the brass one tends to last me about a year), I can heat the "cartridge" up until the glue smokes its way out and then replace the tip.

On an entirely unrelated note, today I also made a tetrahedron out of a cylinder of aluminium, but explaining why is a long story so I'll skip that and just leave a photo here.

Incidentally, you can see most of the brass scriber I was talking about in the top right of that photo.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Back in November I visited a top man. See my post 5/10/19. In Today I acquired , post number 17838.

I was allowed to liberate this pump. and motor.
The Motor was goosed, to say the least.
But the pump looked like it had potential.
Looks are cheep, parts are not.



Looks like a Lister. But it is a Broadwall item. A Godwin pump.
Sadly, no details are available as they files were lost in a fire.

It has lived outside for many a year. The frost did for it. As well as I think it was running when it seized.


Turns out the con rod was bent. More damage was to be found later.




Oh dear.



The broken parts were cleaned and a grove cut into the cracks. Then brazed up. A jig was made to hold the parts in place. The heat exposed for cracks, these were brazed up as well.



It bits.
The damage and the age are showing.
The one way valves are shot, springs and pins just crumbled.
The push rod from the con rod, through the large brass, onto the washers. Mid LHS. Was bent.
The Crank, from pulley to con rod was also bent.

Parts are very hard to find, or very expensive. Or on back order.



So.
We de-rusted it all, removed the paint.
Replaced what parts we could. With parts at hand. Using left over paint we gave it decent finish.



To de rust the insides of the items. This simple and effective method was used.



Rebuilt.
Will need some fettling, if I can find parts I will consider rebuilding to be fully working.
Time will tell.



Oh look @Chillitt

That water logged and abandoned pump almost fits and almost works.
It would work, if I had a V belt.

 

[Chillitt]

Back in November I visited a top man. See my post 5/10/19. In Today I acquired , post number 17838.

I was allowed to liberate this pump. and motor.
The Motor was goosed, to say the least.
But the pump looked like it had potential.
Looks are cheep, parts are not.

View attachment 216613

Looks like a Lister. But it is a Broadwall item. A Godwin pump.
Sadly, no details are available as they files were lost in a fire.

It has lived outside for many a year. The frost did for it. As well as I think it was running when it seized.
View attachment 216614

Turns out the con rod was bent. More damage was to be found later.


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Oh dear.

View attachment 216619

The broken parts were cleaned and a grove cut into the cracks. Then brazed up. A jig was made to hold the parts in place. The heat exposed for cracks, these were brazed up as well.

View attachment 216615

It bits.
The damage and the age are showing.
The one way valves are shot, springs and pins just crumbled.
The push rod from the con rod, through the large brass, onto the washers. Mid LHS. Was bent.
The Crank, from pulley to con rod was also bent.

Parts are very hard to find, or very expensive. Or on back order.

View attachment 216617

So.
We de-rusted it all, removed the paint.
Replaced what parts we could. With parts at hand. Using left over paint we gave it decent finish.

View attachment 216623

To de rust the insides of the items. This simple and effective method was used.

View attachment 216622

Rebuilt.
Will need some fettling, if I can find parts I will consider rebuilding to be fully working.
Time will tell.

View attachment 216618

Oh look @Chillitt

That water logged and abandoned pump almost fits and almost works.
It would work, if I had a V belt.

You will need a generator to go on a Lister D so you can rally it...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

You will need a generator to go on a Lister D so you can rally it...

We will need to look in your sheds, for a working one then.

Simplz.