Stuff you have made today

[Hitch]

This has been on the go here and there for a month or so...just finished it off and put the led strip back-lights round this afternoon.

Will pre drill the wall this week, ready to hang and plug in on Christmas day.

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[Olderisbetter]

I built up a children's kitchen before christmas for a mate, but my OCD button was pushed in when i spotted the taps, 2 hot taps

 

[Munkul]

Acquired a slab of Ash very cheap as it was warped and cracking at the ends. Cut and sanded, some screws in the ends to arrest any further cracking, and oiled. It's to be a general purpose clothing shelf where flatness isn't important, but it should look cool

Also marked and cut some stainless sheets to fold up into firepit ash trays.

 

[MysterG]

More festive Dinosaurs

 

[Memmeddu]

Lost my verginity today.
First time using a lathe today.
Had to machine 6mm off an hydraulic cylinder rod nut.

 

[awemawson]

And did the earth nuts move for you . . . . . . . . ?

 

[Arc Tourist]

I remember my first time, I was 14 years old ( using a lathe ) and it was knurling a screwdriver handle in Junior High School metal shop.

 

[Seadog]

Was that an aluminium handle that you'd cast yourself?

 

[Arc Tourist]

Was that an aluminium handle that you'd cast yourself?

Yes, it was part of forge work. Heated and hammered a rod in the shape of a screwdriver, made a sand casting which the teacher poured in aluminium, and then shaped the profile and knurled it on one of the lathes. Those were good days back when I was a kid. Our school had Wood shop, Metal shop, Electric shop, Drafting and Print shop as elective classes.

 

[Seadog]

Same as me except I was allowed to make the mould and pour the ali.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Not sure if the screwdriver lurks somewhere in storage, but I still have the tap wrench I made around the same time out of 1/2" square bar.

 

[MattF]

C'mon. Where's the link, for the weak-willed amongst us?

You may as well just take a fat kid to a sweetshop, @Hood.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

You may as well just take a fat kid to a sweetshop, @Hood.

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Some people need some some shorter arms or deeper pockets far too easy for you to get your wallet out

 

[mtt.tr]

Acquired a slab of Ash very cheap as it was warped and cracking at the ends. Cut and sanded, some screws in the ends to arrest any further cracking, and oiled. It's to be a general purpose clothing shelf where flatness isn't important, but it should look cool

Also marked and cut some stainless sheets to fold up into firepit ash trays.


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I'd cut it and rejoint it, if done well you'd never know

 

[MattF]

Some people need some some shorter arms or deeper pockets far too easy for you to get your wallet out

It's never easy. I've simply learnt to live with my lack of willpower.

 

[Hood]

You may as well just take a fat kid to a sweetshop, @Hood.

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I bent up some 60mm x 5mm stainless today as inserts for it, it reduces the width of the V to about 25mm from the 33 as delivered, it lets you bend a tighter radius on thinner stuff and also lets you bend shorter distances between bends. Might even make more up to reduce the V width more.

I still have to dress off the tops of them.

 

[MattF]

I'll be fully unwrapping mine tomorrow, & hopefully having a play with it over the next few days. General quality etc. seems better than I was expecting, from a quick once over of it. Quite weighty too.

This is likely a tool I may not use oft, but there are multiple times in the past I could've done with one. Watch me not be able to think of owt I need it for now.

 

[Mick Annick]

Same as me except I was allowed to make the mould and pour the ali.

We were lucky enough to do the pour too - we had to make a hole punch - cast Ali body, mild steel base, handle folded up out of thin plate

 

[Craig-SM]

I bent up some 60mm x 5mm stainless today as inserts for it, it reduces the width of the V to about 25mm from the 33 as delivered, it lets you bend a tighter radius on thinner stuff and also lets you bend shorter distances between bends. Might even make more up to reduce the V width more.

I still have to dress off the tops of them.
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which folder is this?