Stuff you have made today

[Prajna]

Started cladding it today but had to quit when it started raining Saharan mud. Got you some piccies though:

All the spots on the last pic are rain spots from the big dust cloud from the Sahara desert that has been oppressing us for the last day or so. Note the gorgeous welds. Not all of them were that perfect but even some of the fillets look pro. The bolts don't poke through far enough to warrant grinding off.

 

[Nick DV]

Started cladding it today but had to quit when it started raining Saharan mud. Got you some piccies though:

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All the spots on the last pic are rain spots from the big dust cloud from the Sahara desert that has been oppressing us for the last day or so. Note the gorgeous welds. Not all of them were that perfect but even some of the fillets look pro. The bolts don't poke through far enough to warrant grinding off.

Nice work , and that Sahara rain has messed up three brand new white cars here today

 

[MysterG]

Further to my Solar panel install of yesterday, I took my old stereo currently plugged into the mains. Whipped off the battery compartment and discovered that it takes 8x 1.5v cells
Took a few minutes to identify the battery terminals that were at the 'ends', but once found ran some cable from them to the load output on the controller.

Free, off grid, music .... as long as you ignore the couple of hundred I've spent on the solar set up ...

 

[Stueeee]

Recovering well from my recent hip replacement operation, but having to take it easy in the workshop for the moment. So have taken a bit of time to fix some storage of some awkward shape necessities.

First off organising my 'every size except the one I need for this job' ball hones:

Secondly, my motley collection of 'bigger' micrometers, till now, these have usually ended up laying in the chip tray of one of the lathes waiting for something big and heavy to fall on them.

 

[Kram]

First off organising my 'every size except the one I need for this job' ball hones:

Interesting, not seen that type, what are they for?

 

[Hood]

Finished off the seacock lid/adapter.

Started joining up the aluminium I chopped up yesterday.
Raining today so used my bench, otherwise known as the bandsaw.

6 main sections done but I will have to wait until there is no rain to finish as it is too big to do any more in the workshop.

Cut up some 6mm steel on the plasma but had issues, not sure what the problem is but not only are the edges corrugated but the sizes are 1mm out, outsides too big by 1mm holes too small. Thinking it may just be a bad nozzle, well I am hoping that is the problem

 

[Mick Annick]

Made this a few months ago but installed today, note the roof of the house bottom right, it’s a long drop…

 

[Fraserb]

A couple of weight box plates.

 

[Stueeee]

Interesting, not seen that type, what are they for?

They're flexible hones. Each one does a range of sizes, across about 6-9mm range with the big ones; but no more than a couple of millimetres with the small ones. Used in a pistol grip drill whilst moving the hone up and down the bore and applying plenty of fine lube. They produce a good surface finish very quickly and are good for final sizing where a reamer would be a bit of a blunt instrument like new small end bushes and valve guide bores.

 

[bricol]

They're flexible hones. Each one does a range of sizes, across about 6-9mm range with the big ones; but no more than a couple of millimetres with the small ones. Used in a pistol grip drill whilst moving the hone up and down the bore and applying plenty of fine lube. They produce a good surface finish very quickly and are good for final sizing where a reamer would be a bit of a blunt instrument like new small end bushes and valve guide bores.

You've got a fair few quid on that wall!

 

[Memmeddu]

Started to rebuild a big excavator bucket, and when I say big I mean big enough to sleep inside of it .
Many hours of oxy propane cutting and gouging .
Tomorrow too many hours of grinding .
Hopefully I'll weld it.
I've already convinced them to buy a cheap needle scaler , and we are all excited about , they didn't know it and they didn't expect it was so powerful and time saving.
Tomorrow I'll teach to my boss son (which is my boss too) to weld using E7018 he will teach me to start Tig welding.
I'll take a few carbon electrodes too hopefully I'll convince them to buy an arc welder and an arc air Torch

 

[Fraserb]

Also made some cubicle beds for some cows, and drank coffee.

 

[Kram]

Fitting the power meter on control box. Need to make a clear bezel and a button pusher.
Decided I will anodise the lid, if it stops raining!

 

[Richiew]

3/4" transfer punch.





It's for my disc sander build.

Found my centre.
Put a little punch mark in it.

The 3/4" bar stops the pulley slipping off centre while centre punching marks for bolt holes. There's a post on the machining thread about making that.

All drilled, bolted together and set up for a quick test. This is not the finished item, obvs.
Squeeky bum time. An extension cord was used to power the thing up which kept me well away from it.
My chainsaw helmet made an appearance too. Normally I use the sockets to the right of the picture but I'm not standing there to switch this on.

The test works! Yay! Nobody died. There's a guard to be made of course, plus a load of other bits. The replacement power cable arrived today but I'm still waiting for the on/off switch before it all gets wired properly.

 

[MattF]

That's something I've been considering doing. I have a 1½, (I believe), HP motor in the workshop. It'd be perfect for a 12" sander.

 

[Richiew]

This one's 1 hp. But it's a big, heavy old English motor.

 

[MattF]

This one's 1 hp. But it's a big, heavy old English motor.

That one I've got is a modern motor. Got it secondhand, but unused, a few year ago. It's still never been used for owt.

 

[Richiew]

My project is like that. Use what I've got and/or bought cheap. My motor was a Facebook marketplace purchase. It was too local and cheap to ignore.

 

[Tupers]

I was supposed to be bodyworking a Mini but instead I made a start on a twin 4” stainless generator exhaust system. I have many hours at the metal bench ahead of me.

 

[Stueeee]

You've got a fair few quid on that wall!

Yes, They aren't cheap. Thankfully, the bulk of those flex hones were bought in the US while I've been over there. The UK prices of these are an absolute p**s take; it's usually cheaper to import them, but occasionally when I've had an urgent job I've had to pay the UK prices.