Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

Got the steering finished today, skipper will connect the pipes and bleed himself when the oil arrives.

a few pics.

Had to relocate the rudder feedback unit and make up a different pin arrangement for it. The long arm on it is something I made originally as they are meant for short tiller arms on a conventional rudder but as the motion on this is linear I had to make the slotted arm yup t accommodate the 12" linear travel., you can see where it was originally, the glass got pulled up with the silicon when it was removed, another job for the skipper

Good thing was I was able to reuse the short arms and joints on either side, just had to cut them shorter and reweld the ends.

 

[decca]

Got the steering finished today, skipper will connect the pipes and bleed himself when the oil arrives.

a few pics.

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Had to relocate the rudder feedback unit and make up a different pin arrangement for it. The long arm on it is something I made originally as they are meant for short tiller arms on a conventional rudder but as the motion on this is linear I had to make the slotted arm yup t accommodate the 12" linear travel., you can see where it was originally, the glass got pulled up with the silicon when it was removed, another job for the skipper



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Good thing was I was able to reuse the short arms and joints on either side, just had to cut them shorter and reweld the ends.



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That’s quite a cleaver arrangement. The more steering angle you have the more leverage you have to counteract the weight on the rudder (if I’m seeing it right).

 

[Hood]

That’s quite a cleaver arrangement. The more steering angle you have the more leverage you have to counteract the weight on the rudder (if I’m seeing it right).

Not sure, it is twin 150hp outboards so no rudder as such.

 

[decca]

Not sure, it is twin 150hp outboards so no rudder as such.

I know nothing about boats so I got it wrong. Thought that black bit on the ali bracket was attached to the rudder on the other end.

 

[Hood]

I know nothing about boats so I got it wrong. Thought that black bit on the ali bracket was attached to the rudder on the other end.

That is a rudder feedback indicator, basically it just tells the auto pilot the angle of the rudder. Because this is a twin outboard setup there is no rudder as the outboards themselves swivel. The rod that links the two engines moves in a linear motion and because the rudder indicator is meant for a rotational motion I had to make up the aluminium extension arm with a slot so that it can measure over the 12" of travel.

 

[northwest]

Well two things today, Remade the mount for the Spindle servo on the CNC Lathe, fortunately my Pal's Mig has plenty of juice:




A piece of laser cut 12mm.

THEN remade a cabinet to resolve the cockup I had made, some days it is just easier and simpler to stick your hands up and admit you ballsed it up, my first attempt at this was on the Pish, I am no Tinbasher though I do try, I gave the job to my Pal who has had plenty of practice, it came out perfic. Here he is working out the dimensions using the sheet of 2mm as a desk, my attempt at this , which does look good (but doesn't work) is on the left:


Yes, herewe are cutting one of the V blocksthat is tooling for the Hydrobrake to make one of the folds, I KNOW!:

This is the actual fold in question and those of you who know will see how he laid this out, he is very good at this:

Very talented fabricator who'se skills are not being passed on, well actually, he teaches me, but I am older than he is so how's that going to work?

 

[Kram]

My worst attempt at DIY! Everything went wrong. I'd bought two of these wall tray organisers.

I took down the wire basket, most of that stuff should be elsewhere.

I wanted to reuse a pair of existing holes but one wasnt going to work, It needed to be 5mm below. I drilled with a diamond tile drill to save stressing the wall, mixed the dust with epoxy go fill in the old hole. When I screwed it up, the brick cracked vertically

The trays were deep so needed a long pz2, borrowed one, didnt realise it was worn out. My screws got stuck! Needed to remove for painting. One head was destroyed, none of my hss drills would touch it, chipped a good carbide, burrs didnt help. I removed enough of the head to get the tray off the wall, but 6+ drills needing a regrind. Its in a rawl plug. Heat and melt it out, nope, it was getting hot but not enough to pull. Then I remembered the set of cheap diamond tile drills, got it done.

Painted, still wet.

I started filling the trays with my good taps, drills, small screws, all the small sods will have a home, leaving the cabinet draws for bigger stuff. Needs a proper tidy tomorrow.

When I finished, the newish door handle broke off! That is going back to wickes tomorrow and might get thrown at them, its die cast shiet!

 

[selectedgrub]

Glue some gears on it, call it steampunk.

 

[My Old Landy]

Glue some gears on it, call it steampunk.

Brilliant, now sell it for $1,000's

 

[AndersK]

Glue some gears on it, call it steampunk.

Did you actually post something of plastic?

 

[selectedgrub]

In my defense someone had left it on the beach.
I've seen poor whales stranded trying to eat these things.

Unfortunately the owner had only gone for a swim.

 

[Hood]

^^^^^
the reaction above was for the last line not the previous one, that needs a

 

[selectedgrub]

We hear you good man.

 

[Porkypine]

Glue some gears on it, call it steampunk.

Or create several and make a film of their adventures ( and lucrative merch franchise )

 

[selectedgrub]

Or create several and make a film of their adventures ( and lucrative merch franchise )

You maybe on to something there
Have you seen his pet?

 

[DAPPH]

Actually not that need. Hard to cut out nicely but it’ll work anyway

Here is how I did my wife's three leaf Bonsai tool case 10 or so year ago using a new fairly large aluminium equipment case & using closed cell foam . ( A thick used former gym mat IIRC off freecycle )

One leaf in the top of the case , one in the bottom and another in the middle . I drew the outlines with a fine point Sharpie on the 15 mm thick hardish foam
Use a trigger pack with water in it to dampened & deep freeze the foam . Like that it carves out well , cuts well with a fret saw or carefully use a half moon router bit in a battery drill to remove the waste . It took several freezings over a couple of days , once done & dried I glued the cut out masks to a whole foam backing sheet and then used 10mm wide strips of soft plant Velcro to make retaining straps by going through both thicknesses of each leaf . Using spray carpet glue to fix the upper & lower leaves into the lid & the base by spraying the back of the foam leaves then inserting the leaf rather than the spraying the inside of the case & getting glue every where..

 

[DAPPH]

Take a piece of hot tungsten that just formed a bit of collyflower on the tip and it's done in a fraction of a sec. You hardly feel it. 5 minutes ago. The bacon smell made me hungry, time to call it a day. View attachment 329521

Old engineers advice .. " Never put your finger or thumb where you wouldn't put your C**K

 

[DAPPH]

Well two things today, Remade the mount for the Spindle servo on the CNC Lathe, fortunately my Pal's Mig has plenty of juice:

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A piece of laser cut 12mm.

THEN remade a cabinet to resolve the cockup I had made, some days it is just easier and simpler to stick your hands up and admit you ballsed it up, my first attempt at this was on the Pish, I am no Tinbasher though I do try, I gave the job to my Pal who has had plenty of practice, it came out perfic. Here he is working out the dimensions using the sheet of 2mm as a desk, my attempt at this , which does look good (but doesn't work) is on the left:
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Yes, herewe are cutting one of the V blocksthat is tooling for the Hydrobrake to make one of the folds, I KNOW!:
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This is the actual fold in question and those of you who know will see how he laid this out, he is very good at this:
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Very talented fabricator who'se skills are not being passed on, well actually, he teaches me,.

He dies first ?

 

[AndersK]

" Never put your finger or thumb where you wouldn't put your C**K

Thats a very good advice

Guess a brand new 3,5 mm Presto drill falls under that

 

[DAPPH]

Can't shout too loud ... five years ago or more I was cutting some thin ply on my bandsaw .
Even though there was a red marker pen inked zone to warn me not to put my fingers any nearer to the moving blade , for some reason I did whilst trimming up a small piece of the ply .

End result a nice painless neat profusely bleeding cut from the tip of my left hand's middle finger to about half way down the nail just scraping the bone as the finger was bent over when it happened . It took almost three months to grow out & stop catching on everything .