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[Edward Teach]

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So that works thanks

Adder

 

[Hood]

We like Cats.
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Have 4 more then

 

[zx9]

That's all very well, but if you have a project car sitting outside between the house and the workshop, a demanding 5 yr old as well... recipe for a disaster.View attachment 289593View attachment 289595View attachment 289596a few images of things I''vet been doing recently. The side panel is a one (two) off converted Yamaha xj maxim, the clocks are old noisy diffficult to read Yamaha vmax and it's Virago replacement, and the blue tanked bike is a project Yamaha 650 Seca boughton a pallet minus loads of bits -runs sweet, but will need a complete stripdown and rebuild once I've ridden it.
Welding interest - the side panels were made by shaping the main bits then welding the returns on, the crankcase cover on the Seca had a crack in it, I veed it out and tig welded it back before filing and rubbing it down to paint it. I could have bought a used one on eBay, but why?

Back in the late 80's and 90's a mate of mine ran a XJ650, a very strong and much underrated bike.

 

[optima21]

anyone else wonder when person who started this thread and is the most prolific poster on the forum and has posted several times in this thread, will post some new pictures in this thread for us to have a look at

yea if you want to see me rotavating my back field and getting rid of crap apart from going to work i havent done owt i got a nice home made small steam stationary engine given as a present il take some pictures of it when i get chance

ohh have you had chance to take any pictures yet? well all like to see new pictures of what people are doing (if its engineering related), but dont just post things for the sake of it......remember quality not quantity.

I went to the local model engineers club last night for the the first time since Feb 2019. they were running radio controlled electric trains running on a 3.5" track to see how fast they could do 2 laps of the track. It turns out that the fastest one was just under 12 mph. there were more runs where the "trains" that did not complete the 2 laps than did ue to launching themselves off the track. I think there should be an award for the train that ended up in most pieces or that got launched furthest from the track. This is typical of one of the trains, seems like ducted fans was the way to go.

you'll be pleased to know that no live steam engines were damaged in the nights event, although they were running earlier in the afternoon.

took me back to the days when I qualified as a time and motion man, as somehow I ended up being the timekeeper.....its been a long time since Ive used a clipboard and stopwatch together.

and if that doesn't float your boat, Ive been doing some CAD work (cardboard aided design) on my radio controlled paddle steamer.

as there isnt much metal in this model rather than cluttering up this site with unrelated junk I set up an account on another more relevant forum to post it (although I have post small parts of machining parts on here).

if you want to see more pictures, have a look here.

Small Edwardian Paddle Steamer

Small Edwardian Paddle Steamer

www.paddleducks.co.uk

 

[Arc Tourist]

....................like to see new pictures of what people are doing (if its engineering related), but dont just post things for the sake of it......remember quality not quantity.

Revisiting tools coming out of storage. Precision angel set, quality and quantity in one photo.

 

[brightspark]

pictures just for optima . heres one of a cannon i built made from scrap metal and wood ., 1st i brought up a drawing of a cannon enlarged it to scale and printed it off then took 2 pieces of wood and glued them together with a piece of paper in between them. set it up on the lathe in 4 jaw and revolving center and turned it down to match the canon body . took it out drilled a holes in the sides and made some dowl trunnions and then split the pattern in 2 half's . had to make a core for the casting to save metal once done .the pattern was put in the casting box along with the core inside , furnace heated and a load of scrap bronze put in the crucible and when melted poured in the mold . wnen cold put it back on the late and took a few skims off and tidied it up . the carrage is made from and old oak kitchen door and cut by hand just from a sketch i drew that related to the size of the barrel . the wheels are made of 2 pieces so the grain crosses each other. cut out using a hole cutter then turned down on the lathe .the axles are solid oak about 15mm square and turned down either end to fit the wheels . the wheels were drilled and aluminium round head rivets fitted to look authentic

 

[My Old Landy]

pictures just for optima . heres one of a cannon i built made from scrap metal and wood ., 1st i brought up a drawing of a cannon enlarged it to scale and printed it off then took 2 pieces of wood and glued them together with a piece of paper in between them. set it up on the lathe in 4 jaw and revolving center and turned it down to match the canon body . took it out drilled a holes in the sides and made some dowl trunnions and then split the pattern in 2 half's . had to make a core for the casting to save metal once done .the pattern was put in the casting box along with the core inside , furnace heated and a load of scrap bronze put in the crucible and when melted poured in the mold . wnen cold put it back on the late and took a few skims off and tidied it up . the carrage is made from and old oak kitchen door and cut by hand just from a sketch i drew that related to the size of the barrel . the wheels are made of 2 pieces so the grain crosses each other. cut out using a hole cutter then turned down on the lathe .the axles are solid oak about 15mm square and turned down either end to fit the wheels . the wheels were drilled and aluminium round head rivets fitted to look authentic View attachment 293685View attachment 293685View attachment 293685View attachment 293685View attachment 293685View attachment 293698

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I like that, cast in bronze too! Super job

 

[brightspark]

a couple of small steam engines built by brother. he has built about 6 all together for his family

 

[MattF]

Revisiting tools coming out of storage. Precision angel set, quality and quantity in one photo.

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I see no wings.

 

[Arc Tourist]

I see no wings.

Yeah, I caught that transposition a bit to late to edit. Should be spelt " angle".

 

[optima21]

ive noticed a lot of folk make things and comment on stuff but never show any pictures. in this day and age everyone and his dog has a camera phone and can upload them to the forum . it makes the posts a lot more interesting . coments welcome

thanks for posting the pictures, its seems only fair that you posted some when you look at your opening post on this thread, when you're having a whinge about people not posting photo's. took you long enough to get your finger out and get it done though....

and isnt there that old saying "picture saves a thousand words" and we do like looking at other peoples work.

 

[brightspark]

thanks for posting the pictures, its seems only fair that you posted some when you look at your opening post on this thread, when you're having a whinge about people not posting photo's. took you long enough to get your finger out and get it done though....

and isnt there that old saying "picture saves a thousand words" and we do like looking at other peoples work.

thanks for that ive been busy at work and at home not had time for anything and when i have im 2 knacked to do anything .one of the joys of working for yourself . i do like to see what people are making or doing it makes the forum interesting

 

[selectedgrub]

thanks for posting the pictures, its seems only fair that you posted some when you look at your opening post on this thread, when you're having a whinge about people not posting photo's. took you long enough to get your finger out and get it done though....

and isnt there that old saying "picture saves a thousand words" and we do like looking at other peoples work.

Yes thanks for posting something.
I just realized 3 of my last picture post were viewed a staggering 16 times.

 

[Bullet2012]

A picture of a post.

 

[daleyd]

I don't either so you're not alone and it comes down to more than your workshop as I have 3 large barns which have been recently filled.

I read a nice article about the scams and it turned out scammers in Spain were rifling through pictures to glean information such as car number plates to get addresses from, and any other useful information such as property in your home and what type of alarm system you had so they could get the engineers codes to disarm them, and many random pictures contained lots of useful information to a thief.

They disected this information and sold it to British crooks who went and burgled your house and according to the article the Spanish police were told not to arrest these gangs as they were leasing offices in prime Spanish locations and filling the Spanish revenue coffers, ahh, money again.

Between those Spanish fraudsters and the owls dropping down dead everywhere I’m not surprised you never post any pics…

 

[Slowcoach]

I misplaced my appendix very late Wednesday/Thursday.
Here is probably the most appropriate pic.

 

[daleyd]

But I am not surprised by your snyde remarks as usual.

Mee neither

 

[brightspark]

ive got all the security going .but if they realy wanted they would be in and out in 5 minutes unless i was within 2 miles from my house ... and if i was in and it happened they would possibly be sorry they had il just leave it at that

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Mee neither

@daleyd it is hard to take pictures in a coal mine.
You and mee should know that.