Stuff you have made today

[Munkul]

Started at the weekend, finished last night

9m beam made from 3 offcuts butt-welded together. And triple sliding door rails cut and bolted into pads. Will get painted and installed on Saturday hopefully, and then straight onto making the doors to suit.
It doesn't look like much, but there was a fair bit of work went into making this!
And as you can see, we had a welder-off Miller vs Lorch. I still love that Miller set, glad it's still around.

 

[Hood]

Decided to try and make a pair of pegs for the bike.
First I chopped a bit off some 4" x 4" aluminium.

Faced it off to a couple of 4" x 35mm x 50mm bits.

Clamped in the vice and milled the profile.

Flipped 90 degrees in the vice.

Milled the top.

Then repeated for the other.

I have to now measure up for the part that fixes to the bike and get that milled, might manage to measure tomorrow.

Here it is alongside the oem one.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Started at the weekend, finished last night

9m beam made from 3 offcuts butt-welded together. And triple sliding door rails cut and bolted into pads. Will get painted and installed on Saturday hopefully, and then straight onto making the doors to suit.
It doesn't look like much, but there was a fair bit of work went into making this!
And as you can see, we had a welder-off Miller vs Lorch. I still love that Miller set, glad it's still around.

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That Henderson track and trollies is mega expensive, last few we had were nearly 50 quid a trolley!

 

[nickk]

Garden arch,oops forgot to take it prior to loading.

 

[roblane65]

Today I made it mobile !
not very proud of me self to be honest , I had the afternoon off and wanted to push on with cart /trolley ( to be known now as franketsteel )

I cut down a wheelie axle for under the bottle carrier and bent an angle out of the off cuts and boxed the the upstand on the base which took out 90% of the flex.

two squares of 6mm plate for the front castors and welded straight on . 90% of the welding is utter pants I was losing get feed up with not enough room to swing cat !!!!!,

I'm gonna have to spend loads of time cleaning it up before It's painted plus other bits to finish , and the old chestnut of struggling to see where I was welding even with a good lid. I suppose I'm gonna need a die grinder now to clean up the hard to get bits . In hindsight it would of been easier to have made a new one , but I'll know I've bodged it

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I've seen poor whales stranded trying to eat these things.

Or get them to work?

 

[MattF]

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

I really want to know what you're growing in that locked shed of yours. I want some.

 

[Munkul]

That Henderson track and trollies is mega expensive, last few we had were nearly 50 quid a trolley!

27m of that 320 series stuff, 6 trollies, 12m of the lighter gauge stuff and 4 trollies, about £1500 ish (off the top of my head)
another 450 ish for steel for the doors themselves too, plus making...
Dad was near crying, but its what you need

 

[MattF]

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

Just realised what that reminds me of. One of Miss Peregrine's children creations.

 

[Kram]

Melter control box a little more complete. I added an illuminated double pole "Water Heater" switch so that the element can be isolated.

 

[Dr.Al]

Just realised what that reminds me of. One of Miss Peregrine's children creations.

It reminded me of "Babyface" from one of the Toy Story films

 

[Maker]

It reminded me of "Babyface" from one of the Toy Story films

That's where my mind went too.

 

[Memmeddu]

I'm currently working on a mini excavator 80cm bucket.
Replacing the cutting edge , repairing some cracks and straightening it.
Unfortunately I'm not allowed to make photos ,I might ask to make one once finished up.

 

[MattF]

That's where my mind went too.
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This's the one, (on the right), it reminded me of.

 

[Memmeddu]

Almost finished to weld the bucket.
Boss has seen how I was working on it, and found my way to approach to the job interesting (making in practice years and years of experience and ideas learned via watching videos mainly cutting edge engineering Australia in this case)
Anyway he asked me at end of the day if someone did helped me.
I've done all alone.
He said that I have a good hand and that with practice I'll become good enough to take the place of an employee that retired few months ago.
So everything welding , cutting and fabrication related would be my specialization in the shop.
I believe it's positive for me , I'm gaining a position I guess.

 

[Bki26]

good enough to take the place of an employee that retired few months ago

Make sure you get the pay of the employee too, can't be doing multiple jobs for the same pay

 

[Memmeddu]

Make sure you get the pay of the employee too, can't be doing multiple jobs for the same pay

Whenever this will happen ,it would be something I'll have to talk about.
Now I'm limiting myself, I'm flying low to let them know me and what I'm able to do , trying to stay as humble as possible.

 

[Kram]

Mostly finished control box. Brazed some 2mm offcuts to tap m3. As its thin sheet I tried sifbronze, silverflo would have been much easier and quicker!

Wiring mostly complete. Plan to add this NO switch on the relay control signal later on.

Check it works. The SSR has an LED to show when its triggering. Some kind of light guide would be useful to make it visible from top.

 

[northwest]

Whenever this will happen ,it would be something I'll have to talk about.
Now I'm limiting myself, I'm flying low to let them know me and what I'm able to do , trying to stay as humble as possible.

This is a good tactic, nobody likes a smartass.

 

[northwest]

Not my finest work but with the weekend on top of us it was a fast_a_ you_like job. The last couple of months of a weekend the local lost souls society have gathered at the playing field where the scout hut is located, and once in a while someone has seen fit to kick the soil pipe to smithereens so I was asked if I could "make something to go around it" and here it is, once again the Fincords made me look good, I am not with vertical welding but it passed muster and it is now ready for the weekend onslaught, pic of my pal Doug grinding any sharp edges off in case the little Dahlings hurt themselves:




I fitted it around the Soil pipe and welded the end on, It is not my finest work but I fully expect to be replacing it within six months.