Stuff you have made today

[Richiew]

are u going to make an ajustable sliding fence for it for sanding angles

The slot is there on the table. Probably will buy something like this off ebay and make it fit. Less than eight quid to my door.

 

[Anguz]

Not all of them !

Defintly not mine

 

[brightspark]

there brilliant for sharpeing hss lathe tools

 

[4String.]

I can't get over how some people work in a midden .

 

[brightspark]

I can't get over how some people work in a midden .

its easy. work in em most days trapling over rubble floorboards up and gear all over crap and dust

 

[MattF]

I don't mind clutter, but what does amaze me is how a lot of folk treat their tools. Especially when they rely on them for their job. I can't even guess how badly you have to treat something to get it to the state some can manage with ease.

 

[Hood]

I don't mind clutter, but what does amaze me is how a lot of folk treat their tools. Especially when they rely on them for their job. I can't even guess how badly you have to treat something to get it to the state some can manage with ease.

 

[Bki26]

I like that alot

Was a pretty easy task once I made the nut and bolt bender, just designed it in cad then printed and used as a template to bend the wire till it roughly matched, 5mm for most of it and 6mm for the H and plant stake.

 

[sako243]

Today I made a lot of rubble - well enough to fill the 4t dumper I have here.

In the things I destroyed today was a 4" slab someone had poured over a slate floor in the blacksmiths barn.

So that today I also reacquired a slate floor.

One half broken slate slab and one missing. I've got a load of spare slabs from the old stables (my new workshop) so plan on lifting the badly sunken ones, levelling them out and reinstalling. Should be able to find one to fit the missing and half missing one.

Nothing fancy required here because it'll be becoming a stables for the missus' horse.

 

[bricol]

Disc sander is 99% finished. This pic shows it running. I spent ages today making a brass adaptor to join the UNF thread on the motor body to the metric thread on a brass cable gland. The adaptor broke just as I was tidying it up on the lathe. To remedy this, I turned down the metric threads on a plastic cable gland and threaded the remaining stub onto the motor. The internal threads on the motor case cut into and threaded the stub of the plastic gland to give a very secure fit. The cable gland can still be screwed on and off if needs be.



First bit of material to sand.



Success!



Few things noticed after running.

It needs another grub screw to retain the sanding disc apparatus to the motor shaft. Just to be on the safe side.

The table needs moving over to the right-hand side of the disc to make the most of the faster surface speed at the edge of the disc. I only need to drill two further holes in the base to shift the table, which is bolted down. That is no trouble to do.

It weighs a flippin' ton. The motor is huge, and the base is 3/16" thick steel. I've added further steel bits during the build for good measure. At least it won't move when I lean into it with some tube or box section.

Run your cables, using the same tie-wrap holes, under the base rather than on-top, then into the underside of the switch. When something snags and goes for a spin . . .

Sparkies at work annoy me with cables run right in the line of fire of escaping product.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Following on from post #21971 here's the sculpture the bits were for.

 

[selectedgrub]

That's very nice.
Don't forget to fence it off for all the safety dancers.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

That's very nice.
Don't forget to fence it off for all the safety dancers.

Its going in a private garden, customer has taken responsibility for the muppets...

 

[dan.taylor.1]

I should say I'm all for health and safety where it helps people, but people need to help themselves too, common sense has become all too uncommon unfortunately (I'm only 33 too!).

 

[redlig]

I don't mind clutter, but what does amaze me is how a lot of folk treat their tools. Especially when they rely on them for their job. I can't even guess how badly you have to treat something to get it to the state some can manage with ease.

Especially when I see a lathe or some other substantial piece of equipment being sold with a photo showing it covered in rust. Have they not got the whit to at least give it a spray or wipe with an oily rag.

 

[Maker]

A very small, but very heavy plant pot.

 

[Bullet2012]

 

[Blue Chips]

I made a few replacement wainscot boards today for the antique (ca. 1797-1805) house we're restoring. I duplicated the original narrow bead on the edge of the boards with one of my antique wooden moulding planes. I've got about a dozen of these old planes that I've picked up at flea markets and antique shops, usually for about 10 to 15 dollars each. I've made quite a few pieces of replacement moulding, trim, etc., with these planes. Sometimes, I think that old technology is best. For example, I was able to form the bead on the edge of three boards in about the same amount of time it would have taken me just to locate, select, and change a router bit...just a few strokes with the plane...and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I made the beads in exactly the same way that the original builder/carpenter would have made them. I touch up the plane blades once in a while with a file, but that doesn't take long, and as long as I don't hit a nail, and the wood is clean, I can do a lot of planing before I have to touch up the blades.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Old Metal racking saved from a scrap yard, £20.

Oak from a Combine header shipping box, £10.

Consumables was anoher £30.

 

[bricol]

Following on from post #21971 here's the sculpture the bits were for.

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Very nice - but the sharp looking ends would worry me. I make a point of protecting or bending over the ends of sharp, or even just small diameter thingies - the number of times I've bent down and the end of an object has just been outside the field of my vision . . . until it contacted my head.