selectedgrub
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15mm out of the one half allowing me to slide it into the other.
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prepman
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Moisture content?
prepman
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No politics...you can't call the cabinet knobsI've tweaked my back lifting stone into the bobcat bucket yesterday while moving stone for the dry-stone waller. So I'm taking it easy today, so thought of a job that didn't give my sore back a hard time. Ever since I bought the latest set of workshop drawers, I realised that there's now so many, labelling alone is not enough. Also, trying to keep one area for metric, one for imperial, one for tools etc. doesn't always work and you can spend ages searching for the right drawer.
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So I thought I would colour code it, most of the drawers are empty or need sorting so best to get the boring bit done now. So I bought a pack of assorted heavy coloured paper and some overhead projector film to keep dirty fingers off the labels.
I sliced them up on the wife's guillotine using a block of wood as a fence,
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30 minutes later a drawers of coloured label surrounds and plastic covers
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And the finished result, loads to do. Colour code will be something like white for ironmongery, yellow for fixings that aren't for metal, red for tools, blue for metric fasteners, green for imperial etc.
My 13 YO daughter's first reaction was how are you going to get a load of fat useless MPs in those two drawers?
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Now I just need to get several hundred drawer dividers CNC cut, I've got about 10 left. A neighbour knows someone with a CNC plasma so hopefully get them soon.
Top hat oven (pic shows te base only). First time I used this company (24/7 Tailorsteel) for the sheetmetal parts, and they did very well. You only have to upload the model assembly, assign material, choose deliverydate, and recieve it. The whole process is automated. I poprivetted it together in one hour.
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Yeah, checking the Dm, the foragers sense it and map it in real time but as it was first outing for them was double checking.
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Gate for a street warehouse. Opening dimensions 6000*4300 mm
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selectedgrub
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2 bolts from the planet unobtanium. 
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Trying to get back into climbing at an indoor wall, biggest problem is slippery shoes, I have a badly bruised eyebrow/legs and arms from sliding down a few routes
Die grinder out to dress the shoes. The old resoled ones were 100x better than the nearly new, and had plenty of excess to remove.
I want to get another old racetec bike tyre to recycle. Needs to be old sort with kevlar, not steel bands. I will use a bigger patch next time.
Die grinder out to dress the shoes. The old resoled ones were 100x better than the nearly new, and had plenty of excess to remove.
I want to get another old racetec bike tyre to recycle. Needs to be old sort with kevlar, not steel bands. I will use a bigger patch next time.
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The last two weeks I been working on fitting/adapting a shelter deck from an aft wheelhouse boat and putting it on a forrad wheelhouse one and probably have a week or two more until it is done but had to do a couple of small jobs this evening before I came home.
First was to take 12mm off the dia of some discs for some sort of racing car, 240hp Golf I think. There were 4 to do but only 3 in pic.
Also had to mill out some 1.5mm stainless for some sort of hinges, no idea what for, just got sent a pdf drawing.
First was to take 12mm off the dia of some discs for some sort of racing car, 240hp Golf I think. There were 4 to do but only 3 in pic.
Also had to mill out some 1.5mm stainless for some sort of hinges, no idea what for, just got sent a pdf drawing.
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The only thing I made today was a pile of chippings from a few branches BUT I did notice this branch which had a 'offshoot' that had reattached itself to the main branch. It's probably not that uncommon but i thought it was different enough to warrant a comment from those who do know trees.
DAPPH
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It's some times used in the Bonsai art form , but is intentionally scraped of bark and tied across another scraped branch shoot with a soft ties like raffia to they unite or you can drill a hole through a thicker branch and slip a scraped of bark ( in the area ) shoot through the hole and seal it with grafting wax so you in effect create a looped in lower down branch set . Once it's taken sever the host end . I've done a few grown from Acorn oaks like that because they got too tall 7 lreggy at 10 inches tall , my wife has done some of her bonsai trees , she taught me what to do
Some trees & shrubs lend themselves to natural & intentionallgrowth like that
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Had a play early in the morning on my lathe. I wanted to crimp some plastic covered stainless steel catenary wires to run my grape vines along on the south facing front of the bungalow . The old copper & aluminium style thin aerial wire they were on had finally died after 17 years faithful service .
Turned down some 1"alu bar to about 18 mm
Bored it to10 mm
Took it down to 14 mm OD & parted it off
Made an oval mandrel to crush the ring down to 5 .mm dia ID , thankfully is sprang back to 5.5 mm when out of the vice .
Slipped in the cable through two ovalid's to form a loop , having passed it through the solid eye of the turn buckle , then belted the side of the sleeve with a 1.5 lb cross pene hammer , with the ovalid's underside over a 3.5 mm high carbon steel rounded edge which turned the ovalid into a tight fitting figure of 8 over the cable
This swaged blob was drilled off centre in the four way chuck . I was in the process of making the third when the stock turned a fraction in the jaws of the chuck thus breaking my first drill for many a year .
Top & bottom catenary wires in place , old wire soon to be cut & removed then zip tie the vines top & bottom arms to the correct wire and tidy it up so I don't have too many grapes on it which would result in a very mediocre crop
I did try calculating the internal circumference of the swaged aluminium oval so it would take the two 5 mm cables side by side in one go , using a 9.8 mm drill as the circle diameter .
However after making one I couldn't insert the oval mandrel easily , so I resorted to using a 10 mm internal diameter boring which worked very well .
B&Q sell all manner of plastic covered stainless steel wires but only seem to sell 4 mm crimp sleeves hence me making my own after a bit of trial and error testing .
Turned down some 1"alu bar to about 18 mm
Bored it to10 mm
Took it down to 14 mm OD & parted it off
Made an oval mandrel to crush the ring down to 5 .mm dia ID , thankfully is sprang back to 5.5 mm when out of the vice .
Slipped in the cable through two ovalid's to form a loop , having passed it through the solid eye of the turn buckle , then belted the side of the sleeve with a 1.5 lb cross pene hammer , with the ovalid's underside over a 3.5 mm high carbon steel rounded edge which turned the ovalid into a tight fitting figure of 8 over the cable
This swaged blob was drilled off centre in the four way chuck . I was in the process of making the third when the stock turned a fraction in the jaws of the chuck thus breaking my first drill for many a year .
Top & bottom catenary wires in place , old wire soon to be cut & removed then zip tie the vines top & bottom arms to the correct wire and tidy it up so I don't have too many grapes on it which would result in a very mediocre crop
I did try calculating the internal circumference of the swaged aluminium oval so it would take the two 5 mm cables side by side in one go , using a 9.8 mm drill as the circle diameter .
However after making one I couldn't insert the oval mandrel easily , so I resorted to using a 10 mm internal diameter boring which worked very well .
B&Q sell all manner of plastic covered stainless steel wires but only seem to sell 4 mm crimp sleeves hence me making my own after a bit of trial and error testing .
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Why the extra loop on the termination?
