Stuff you have made today

[Bki26]

And voilà!



I know for a fact that each side of the plate are not perfectly parallel (like 0.01mm over 70mm which equates to 0.008°) so not an issue for my hobby stuff. Haven't tested the runout yet but I'm fairly certain both spigots are concentric and if not it'll only be a tiny bit.

Overall it was much cheaper than buying a new plate/plate+chuck and a nice experience (apart from the sharp as f*** end mill cuttings which I have to thank for my phone fingerprint unlock not working till they heal...)



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Now I'm done with this I can get back to finishing of my diy turbocharger based jet engine!

 

[Dcal]

Today I made a shaft for a hammer.

I found this 2lb hammer a while ago and needed to put a shaft on it.
I already have a 2lb hammer but the shaft is shorter than I'd like so decided to put a longer shaft on this one.

I have some Greenheart timber kicking about and often wondered what it would be like for a hammer shaft.
It was used back in the day for fishing rods so it is flexible but it is very prone to splitting along the grain.
Anyway only one way to find out.

I have a small ball pien hammer with a shaft that is really nice to use, so I modelled the shaft on that. The extra strength of the greenheart should compensate for the smaller cross sectional area and might also introduce a bit of spring, but we will see.

I turned the shaft roughly to shape on my wood lathe and then did the final shaping / thinning with one of @hotponyshoes old rasps which are fantastic for the job.
I haven’t put a wedge in it yet because I'm not sure of the final shape and I might round it off some more, so final sanding is still to do, however I quite like how it feels as it is.

 

[selectedgrub]

Now I'm done with this I can get back to finishing of my diy turbocharger based jet engine!

Nuclear powered no doubt.

 

[Bki26]

Nuclear powered no doubt.

Could do something like this, just need a few hundred smoke alarms for the Americium-241 and build the diy version of this

Though mine will actually run on a diesel/petrol mix or kerosene and uses an 85mm tv8101 turbo.

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Might as well link my build thread for anyone interested https://jetandturbineowners.proboards.com/thread/1398/build-thread-finally-garrett-tv8101

 

[Hitch]

Made up yesterday, afternoon, but delivered today.

Custom order, because none of the 25+ others were the right colour Typical.

Really pleased with the depth or the red.

 

[awemawson]

Every year about this time we have our private sewage system (Klargester) serviced and the sludge pumped out. A few years ago their two big trucks managed to break one of my manhole covers, (which they denied having seen) so now I put traffic cones on them so there is no excuse. This year when placing the cones I noticed that two adjacent aluminium 'rodding eye covers' had been cracked at some time - probably not by them so I needed two new covers. I can buy the complete assembly for about £25 but NOT spare covers.

Handy having a CNC Plasma Table - turns out that the covers are true mathematical ellipses so easy to draw in Autocad - would have liked to cut them from 6 or 8 mm aluminium tread plate but none to hand, so the plate of 1/4" mild steel that was on the machine got used. A coat or two of cold galvanising will delay rusting a few weeks (!) but I'm sure they'll be fine for years.

 

[Dexy]

Fitted DRO on the old Triumph makes things a bit easier

 

[Anguz]

Fitted DRO on the old Triumph makes things a bit easier

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i hope your calipers are more reliable than the set i bought to do the same... i should have spent more than a fiver

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Fitted DRO on the old Triumph makes things a bit easier

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Fellow triumph owner nice ,Very clean machine and neat DRO installs.

 

[Kram]

The pot is measuring about 2-6% moisture so Im calling that good for a 3kw test later today. Trying it as a rod oven..

 

[The Artilleryman]

A few more bits done on my power hacksaw.

Mounting points welded on and 2 coats of red lead primer.

Then a disaster as I was putting it on the frame, cover repaired with super glue and belt fitted to the next pulley.

Major rewire of the control cabinet ( I can definitely say I've mastered swa glands done 10 of them). 90deg. elbows on the bottom and then cables trimmed to length.

Next job will be a hydraulic oil reservoir, them it will be working again (oil leaked when it fell off the frame).

 

[Tupers]

I can’t get the Vickers nibbler close enough to the wall to hardwire it in so I stuck an appliance inlet on it so I use a gurt big extension lead.

The grind on the cutters was way off so I get them corrected but I need to buy a finer grade wheel for future sharpening.

Now with the correct shape ground in it chews through 1.2mm mild like it’s nothing so I guess the tin snips can take a break.

 

[Onoff]

A carport...

 

[Beeezer]

A carport...

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delaminating ply doors, just another job to do……

 

[selectedgrub]

Printed another ball

 

[minimutly]

Fitted DRO on the old Triumph makes things a bit easier

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What's the green and yellow box then, lower right?

 

[Dexy]

What's the green and yellow box then, lower right?

Drive for table on mill

 

[minimutly]

Drive for table on mill

Ahh, the pic makes it looks like it's a drive on the end of the Triumph.

 

[Kram]

Testing has begun!

Temporarily using old blocks of perlite from my previous gas attempts. With the long element tails, its reduced to 3.2kw, but should be 3.7kw when done.

Quite happy with rate of heating.

 

[Bki26]

Testing has begun!
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Temporarily using old blocks of perlite from my previous gas attempts. With the long element tails, its reduced to 3.2kw, but should be 3.7kw when done.

Lol the no.7 tig cup