Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

I still need to de-burr them, not sure how I will do it though as I don't really want to get rid of the machining marks, kind of like them.

 

[Kram]

Didnt get photo but cut peices for the melter lid hinge. Raining before I could stick them.

Playing with wax. Found these two unused sockets as a mould.

I filled a 300mm length of 36mm ID tube, plan to try carving stuff.
Parrafin wax is likely the wrong sort for lost wax casting but I have plenty of it, huge shrinkage as it cools!

 

[Edward Teach]

They are not knife edge, they have a flat on the top.

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Bead blast !

 

[Hood]

Bead blast !

Don't have such a thing but would that not destroy the machining marks and also the engraved name on the side, it is only 0.1mm deep.

 

[Hood]

Close up of the engraving, lower case letters are 2.3mm high and depth of engraving is 0.1mm so I think bead blasting would destroy that.

EDIT
Told a lie, just measured and they are only 2.1mm high

 

[Edward Teach]

Don't have such a thing but would that not destroy the machining marks and also the engraved name on the side, it is only 0.1mm deep.

Yes it would, more than likely,
Possibly 'tape them off', with gaffer tape,
Or re-machine them after

 

[Hood]

Seeing as I dislocated my finger yesterday I am not able to weld today (can't bend to hold a torch) so I decided to try with a needle file and it is surprisingly quick and easy to break the edges. Takes about 5-10 mins a peg, if it was a production job I would be looking for a better/faster method but for this one off it will be fine.

 

[Edward Teach]

Seeing as I dislocated my finger yesterday I am not able to weld today (can't bend to hold a torch) so I decided to try with a needle file and it is surprisingly quick and easy to break the edges. Takes about 5-10 mins a peg, if it was a production job I would be looking for a better/faster method but for this one off it will be fine.

Not good with the finger, ouch,
I was going to say,
Best get the file out then,
And thought I'd better not,
You might think I'm taking the p***
Job done

 

[slim_boy_fat]

EDIT
Told a lie, just measured and they are only 2.1mm high

I doubt anyone was going to call you out on it

Sorry to read about the digit, what's the prognosis? I'm kinda afraid to ask how you did it...

 

[Richiew]

It can't be that bad. He can still type away fine...

 

[Hood]

I doubt anyone was going to call you out on it

Sorry to read about the digit, what's the prognosis? I'm kinda afraid to ask how you did it...

I clicked it back in before it started to hurt
Was hurriedly sliding shut the doors of the Chiron before I got soaked with coolant and my finger got caught in the handle and bent it round.

It can't be that bad. He can still type away fine...

Amazingly I still have the others left to do that with.

 

[Hood]

Edges broken with the file, looks a bit rough with the close up image but looks fine to the eye

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Day two. Another early finish. 1 board of MDF short. Customer added a third robe in the previous room and used more than expected

 

[Kram]

Other members on here seem to get a hell of a lot done in a day, this simple looking hinge has taken me bloody ages.

Next to fill the lid insulation, turn a pair of spacers, and chop down the excess plate.
The lid is slightly smaller dia than the bottom half, giving an annoying step.

 

[MattF]

Other members on here seem to get a hell of a lot done in a day, this simple looking hinge has taken me bloody ages.

You're not the only one who thinks some must have a permanent rocket up their jacksy. How they manage so much is beyond me too.

 

[bricol]

You're not the only one who thinks some must have a permanent rocket up their jacksy. How they manage so much is beyond me too.

If its work, you tend to have the right tools, with industrial size and capacity, yo can get stuff done quicker - and if its earning you money, or costing you money to keep it in the workshop as its keeping other work out, there's a really good incentive to crack on.

On the hobby/DIY side of things, I often get a little irritated at how often someone I'm helping, or who has come to help me, has to keep stopping for a brew!

 

[Cheesie]

wall caps this week, first 5-6 was fun, normally only do small runs not so much fun by the time I got to 50

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

You're not the only one who thinks some must have a permanent rocket up their jacksy. How they manage so much is beyond me too.

Paid by the job not by the hour

Get what I need to done and go home to have at least some semblance of a life.

Probably why I don't do well on building sites. No time for bullshite while im working.
Crack on and get away

 

[Hitch]

Made some curved and radiused edge repair sections for the end of a cheese making machine this afternoon... made the same last week for 3 of the guys to go and fit this week at a customer on the Isle of Man.
Fair trek from Somerset.

They finished 3 days early, turns out they were supposed to be repairing both ends.
Knocked some more up pdq this afternoon, and someone trotted off to meet one of the site lads at the ferry terminal. Keep them busy over the weekend.

Expensive little oversight on someone's part!

 

[Memmeddu]

So not today but yesterday
I've welded for the entire morning to finish the shaft I've started working the other day.
After finished welding boss asked me to turn it to specs.
So put it in the lathe an turned down to 0.5mm to finished sizes so it's ready to grinding (shaft grinder? We use to remove material and polish bearing surfaces on crankshafts an pins )
Then I've had to go to the dentist , and now I can't sleep because of the pain .
Fortunately it's already Friday.
But I have got arc eye because of their "professional" welding helmet.
I have to weld a lot today I'll take my helmet with me .