Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

I reckon there'd be an opening for something like that.

Oh FFS that is as bad as the musical tape measure line the other day

 

[nickk]

More like bodged today.
Bought this maintenance stand in January,promised to make a more stable base ,so did this with bits lying around.

 

[ihavenoidea]

Today I made a SDS-Plus drill from a SDS-MAX drill

Welding didn't work but CuSi brazing did

 

[nickk]

Today I made a SDS-Plus drill from a SDS-MAX drill
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Welding didn't work but CuSi brazing did

I’ve always migged them,then they break further along the shank!

 

[Dr.Al]

I wanted a better way of clamping long bits of wood for planing the top (I currently use what I think is called a "Doe's Foot"), so I thought I'd have a go at a crude tail vice thing. Made out of a bunch of odds and ends I had lying around.

Underside:

The bars are 12 mm aluminium, the rods are 8 mm silver steel, the threaded bar is M8, the things that go in the dog holes are 20 mm 303 and the bits that are threaded & glued onto each end of the threaded bar are EN1A. The one of the left-hand end of the threaded bar has a reduced diameter bit on the end with a groove cut in it for the M4 grub screw - that makes the left-hand aluminium jaw retract as you undo the screw. The thing on the right-hand end of the threaded bar has a 5 mm hexagonal hole rotary broached into the end so it can be tightened/loosened with a (ball-end t-handle) hex key. The threaded bar is long enough to cover the spacing of my dog holes so that I should be able to clamp any length of wood (up to the length of my bench, obviously!).

I just tried it out on this bit of sweet chestnut and it worked a lot better than I expected, so I'm really pleased with it so far, especially given it only took me a couple of hours to make.

 

[DAPPH]

Perhaps Knurl the knob on the threaded rod and you'll be able to hand roll it almost tight, ready to Allen key it the remaining bit .

Though at school 50 or more years ago & on a C&G fine furniture making & renovation course we just used a single 2" square pop-up pine block set in the end of the carpentry work benches.
Apparently like that to get you to plane in a straight line parallel to the edge of the wood so you quickly get to flatness.

 

[Dr.Al]

Perhaps Knurl the knob on the threaded rod and you'll be able to hand roll it almost tight, ready to Allen key it the remaining bit .

I wondered about that, but the bit that would be knurled is only ½ mm off the bench so it wouldn't be that easy to turn by hand. With the t-handled, ball-ended hex key, it's very fast to spin it round, much faster than I'd manage with a knurled thing.

Though at school 50 or more years ago & on a C&G fine furniture making & renovation course we just used a single 2" square pop-up pine block set in the end of the carpentry work benches.
Apparently like that to get you to plane in a straight line parallel to the edge of the wood so you quickly get to flatness.

I've got some home-made dogs with square ends that can be popped up to any required height & that's what I tended to use with the doe's foot thing. When there's a lot to take off & both sides are a long way from flat, I think it'll be nicer to have it a bit more rigid.

 

[Fraserb]

Last cut for the lawn.

 

[Bullet2012]

Last cut for the lawn.

That’s going to be one heck of a game of croquet.

 

[Fraserb]

That’s going to be one heck of a game of croquet.

1km long that field, we could setup some game right enough.

 

[Fraserb]

Finished the grass so broke out the lego.

 

[selectedgrub]

Lego these days eh
Put a battery in it call it made.

 

[DanZac]

After 10 years of looking at this lot and thinking I should really do something about tidying it up, I've finally got round to it (or more accurately it finally got on my tits enough to do something about it).

So, a sheet of ply, a bit of pine furniture board salvaged years ago from an old wardrobe, a bit of swearing, and Ta Da.

Just needs the screw holes filling and a link of paint, but I hate painting, and I'm sure having taken 10 years to get this far, another few weeks won't hurt.

 

[MattF]

Finished the grass so broke out the lego.

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You have a tractor fetish.

 

[Hood]

Made a console for, I think, a super yacht

And welded on some fitting to an oil tank for a two wheeled tractor, said to the guy I think they should be oil tight, he said it wouldn't matter as the rest of the HD isn't

 

[nickk]

This roof cage.

 

[Hood]

This roof cage.View attachment 365880View attachment 365881

Do all the kids fit in it or is it just the one that misbehaves the most?

 

[Fraserb]

You have a tractor fetish.

In my defense, Ben chose this model, previous one was a bulldozer, next ones a telehandler.

 

[Dieselman 63]

You have a tractor fetish.

Imagine having a fetish over inanimate objects!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Do all the kids fit in it or is it just the one that misbehaves the most?

I reckon it's for the pet alligator.