Stuff you have made today

[Kram]

I silver solder mine, works really well.

I'd be interested what method you use? I've done a few searches, a few mention grinding a scarf joint for silver soldering.
How do you clamp it up to keep alignment, without it sticking or distorting?
I'll chop off this bad tig joint and test silver solder before I try the good blade.

 

[DAPPH]

When he was alive I saw an inch scarf on my brothers ancient Coronet combi bench saw blade , where the edges had also been carefully ground to 45 degrees for a greater seam ..it was beautiful .

He had several other bigger blades chopped down & silver soldered for it by a retired jeweler who also played wood after he retired .

Use an asbestos backing pad , line up the blade with a thick straight edge , clamp twice either side of the scarf leaving a 0.5 mm gap , recheck the alignment ..silver solder using a cooks mini gas fired blow lamp or a super small neutral flame mini OA torch .

I'm not sure but I suspect the jeweler had used a bit of soaking wet wood to quickly quench the teeth area then let the remaining heat in the blade flow back to temper the teeth .

 

[Ton-up]

Just line them clamped on a 18” piece of box section with a couple of pieces of 1/8“ plate between to give space underneath. I grind the ends square but with a 45deg chamfer and leave a gap of about 1 to 1.5mm. I silver solder using a fine oxy-acetylene flame. Clean any silver solder off faces after.

 

[Farside]

Made my cab a bit cleaner, will get the outside tomorrow.

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Lovely machine.
Did you hear about the Russians who looted a John Deare dealer in Ukraine?
They got the high-end stuff back to some craphole in the east, but J-D disabled everything by sat link.

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[Fraserb]

Lovely machine.
Did you hear about the Russians who looted a John Deare dealer in Ukraine?
They got the high-end stuff back to some craphole in the east, but J-D disabled everything by sat link.

Yeah I had heard about those machines.

 

[Fraserb]

Ready for grass now.

 

[Am333rcr]

so clay trap foot pedal broken so made a hand operated one.

It is made from some sheet steel and a quick and dirty paint.

i have the remote parts arrive so thats the next project. To mske a wireless one.

its fits my hand ok

 

[Am333rcr]

Ready for grass now.
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so we will see you on the forum in. november

 

[Myles1970]

Ok well maybe not today….











…the gate is in constant use - keeps the hens from pooing around the house. The letterbox hasn’t passed QC

 

[Newlands]

Finished today, took a couple of weeks all told. Bought the hydraulics from Flowfit. Had to fit a return line to the hydraulic tank, which took about ten minutes, but to get to that stage I had to drain the oil, which involved removing the fuel tank and dismantling the seized-up handbrake mechanism, all of which had to be cleaned and sorted before it was put back. And because the hydraulics on the Leyland are a bit strange I have to take the bottom links off and lock them up in the raised position, otherwise the splitter gets confused!

 

[James1979]

Lovely machine.
Did you hear about the Russians who looted a John Deare dealer in Ukraine?
They got the high-end stuff back to some craphole in the east, but J-D disabled everything by sat link.

They did that to a farmer up here I know when he stopped paying his finance.

Scary really.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

They did that to a farmer up here I know when he stopped paying his finance.

Scary really.

Soon tesla will make their cars drive back to their dealer if finance isn't paid

 

[Fraserb]

so we will see you on the forum in. november

Well, we've around 2500 acres of grass to chop, 150 ish of wholecrop to chop, 1000 acres to combine and bale, a few thousand acres to spray and fertilise, a gew million gallons of slurry to spread, a few 1000 ton of muck to spread, then 1100 acres to cultivate and drill, oh and a couple of sheds to get fitted out, so might be december this year

 

[Other Daniel]

Well, we've around 2500 acres of grass to chop, 150 ish of wholecrop to chop, 1000 acres to combine and bale, a few thousand acres to spray and fertilise, a gew million gallons of slurry to spread, a few 1000 ton of muck to spread, then 1100 acres to cultivate and drill, oh and a couple of sheds to get fitted out, so might be december this year

 

[Myles1970]

They did that to a farmer up here I know when he stopped paying his finance.

Scary really.

It’s funny when it’s an aggressive superpower that gets screwed. Not so much when it’s someone hitting hard times and trying (and failing,obviously) to make ends meet.
That’s one big paperweight all the same…

 

[Cheesie]

a cube, need to work on them finishing corners using the fiit remote

 

[anto44]

Lovely machine.
Did you hear about the Russians who looted a John Deare dealer in Ukraine?
They got the high-end stuff back to some craphole in the east, but J-D disabled everything by sat link.

Great publicity stunt for john Deere to distract from the fact that John Deeres sat link boxes are being robbed off the top of tractors on a regular basis and they've been able to do absolutely nothing to stop it.

GPS equipment worth thousands stolen from tractors - Farmers Weekly

Thieves are targeting GPS guidance systems – stealing equipment worth thousands of pounds from John Deere tractors in southern and eastern England. Eight

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[DAPPH]

Two days ago my wife got a double bowl cat feeder that is openable via a 1.5 volt motor Simply set the dials to when ( up to 48 hrs ) you want to feed moggy and when the dial aligns with the spring loaded trigger release the lid pops open .( LIDL £15 ish ) .

Ads there is no on off switch you have to remove the AA battery when it is not in use. The battery compartment lid is a nightmare , secured down a hole with a 3 mm X point headded screw of unknown design , none of my small X points fitted the head well , the screw was so tight it was screeching as I undid it . That tight I was expecting it to shear off inside the insert nut .
Today I crossed it off my Round Tuit list .
I turned a half inch brass rod down to 6.6 mm for about six mm , knurled the bar enough so the whole height of the new screw head device was below the feet of the feeder , 11mm deep centre drilled the brass rod to a2.5 mm hole then parted it whilst also file champhering the sharp edges by the knurling before it fully parted .

Popped the brass turning in the vice and gingerly tapped it through to 3 mm ..using WD 40 as a lubricant and flushing fluid . Ran the tap through the brass nut insert inside the feeder , it was very free so I concluded the plated X point screw was too big
Washed the new brass fastener head & a couple of inches of precision 3 mm stainless steel rod in aerosol contact cleaner to degrease & flush out any " flour " brass , wound the rod in from above and stud locked the last six threads .

Then wound it in to the correct length , wiped it clean of stud lock then snipped the excess rod of and hand files the stub nearly flat then wound the threaded rod in almost level with the top face . hope fully it ain't going to come out . flat.

 

[Fraserb]

Great publicity stunt for john Deere to distract from the fact that John Deeres sat link boxes are being robbed off the top of tractors on a regular basis and they've been able to do absolutely nothing to stop it.

GPS equipment worth thousands stolen from tractors - Farmers Weekly

Thieves are targeting GPS guidance systems – stealing equipment worth thousands of pounds from John Deere tractors in southern and eastern England. Eight

www.fwi.co.uk

It's only recently they've made the GPS domes pin protected so they're dead without the pin number. The live monitoring is seperate to the GPS system, JD link let's you connect to the tractor remotely and you can basically see what the dashboard shows on your phone or computer screen, let's you look at all error codes and such as well.