Stuff you have made today

[Pete.]

Are any of them date stamped? I often used to put at least the year of manufacture on bits that I made.

2001, but I think there might be some 2002 as well.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

You can kind of see the texture in this pic, skid plate and crash bars are the same. It is a very fine texture.

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Looks like matt crinkle powder coat tbh

 

[Hood]

Looks like matt crinkle powder coat tbh

Don't think it is powder coat as it was very easy to buff off with a flap disc for welding, any powder coat I have tried that with tends to smear and melt. Also when I welded on the brackets it didn't melt and bubble like I would expect powder coat to do, it just sort of burnt like paint would.

 

[Fraserb]

Looks like an ih 12/1455?

Yeah based on a 1455

 

[Fraserb]

Last of the 4th cut

 

[Hood]

I liked except for the lights Bleeding farmers around here working at night and close to roads need to adjust their work lights properly

 

[Fraserb]

I liked except for the lights Bleeding farmers around here working at night and close to roads need to adjust their work lights properly

The leds have some range, the side mounted ones have limited adjustment, but I can switch each side individually if along side a road.

 

[Hood]

The leds have some range, the side mounted ones have limited adjustment, but I can switch each side individually if along side a road.

The ones around here can probably do the same, they just don't bother. Often they are still on when they are on the road going to/from fields.

 

[Fraserb]

The ones around here can probably do the same, they just don't bother. Often they are still on when they are on the road going to/from fields.

One thing I hate I them on when on the roads, our deeres warn you if you're above a certain speed with them on.

 

[Dr.Al]

A simple box made out of a lump of Alder I couldn't resist when I visited Wentwood timber.

I had a silly moment and cut the end off one of the sides where the lid slides in, so I made the other one match. I think it would look better with continuous sides but I can't do anything about that now. The lid is also a bit looser than I'd like; I still haven't quite mastered the #45! All done with hand tools apart from resawing the Alder plank in two; I started it yesterday afternoon and finished this morning (although it'll get more coats of oil over the next day or two).

 

[DAPPH]

A simple box made out of a lump of Alder I couldn't resist when I visited Wentwood timber.

I had a silly moment and cut the end off one of the sides where the lid slides in, so I made the other one match. I think it would look better with continuous sides but I can't do anything about that now. The lid is also a bit looser than I'd like; I still haven't quite mastered the #45! All done with hand tools apart from resawing the Alder plank in two; I started it yesterday afternoon and finished this morning (although it'll get more coats of oil over the next day or two).

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What do you use for the 45's a tenon saw or a pull saw & mitre block or a sliding chisel guillotine as like a picture framer uses

 

[Dr.Al]

What do you use for the 45's a tenon saw or a pull saw & mitre block or a sliding chisel guillotine as like a picture framer uses

The #45 I mentioned I hadn't mastered was the Stanley #45 Plough Plane (to cut the grooves for the base and the lid). The 45° mitres that form the ends of the mitred dovetails were cut with a chisel (and a bit of wood with a carefully planed 45° angle on the end as a reference).

 

[Blobber]

A simple box made out of a lump of Alder I couldn't resist when I visited Wentwood timber.

I had a silly moment and cut the end off one of the sides where the lid slides in, so I made the other one match. I think it would look better with continuous sides but I can't do anything about that now. The lid is also a bit looser than I'd like; I still haven't quite mastered the #45! All done with hand tools apart from resawing the Alder plank in two; I started it yesterday afternoon and finished this morning (although it'll get more coats of oil over the next day or two).

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Can you not add a bit onto the lid to give you fingers something to pull on? might hide the mistake!

 

[redlig]

Thanks to Hotponyshoes I cobbled an electric thing with a diamond doofer to grind a point onto a tungsten rod. Painted red to aid search.

 

[paulmitchell1984]

Over the weekend, nothing special but guy needed them doing, provided me all the equipment I just needed to rock up and glue the metal together..

Frames for holding saplings/baby trees until they are ready to be shipped off.

18 to make, slow start, but took 20minutes per frame once I got going.

 

[Kram]

I have done something metalwork related... First in months. Still no ideas of turning stuff for the lathe..

@Onoff It is mostly ready for plaster and casting I think.

 

[Onoff]

I have done something metalwork related... First in months. Still no ideas of turning stuff for the lathe..

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@Onoff It is mostly ready for plaster and casting I think.

You're going to need to explain what I'm looking at please. That gets filled with investment plaster? What are the peripheral holes for, to aid the plaster drying?

Funnily enough I was thinking about starting on a gas cylinder furnace myself. The two bottles like yours are sitting there waiting for me. Got to deal with some personal stuff before I get onto that though.

 

[Kram]

Yeah holes are to degass the plaster, whole thing inside vac chamber.

 

[Onoff]

Yeah holes are to degass the plaster, whole thing inside vac chamber.

You know that particular plaster I gave you is made to be specifically air permeable?

So when you pour it in does some initially weep from the holes but it sets pretty quick?

 

[DAPPH]

Slip several layers of cut to size newspaper in the ring to form an inner retaining collar to hold the investment in . Vibrate the table with a mains drill fastened down securely and an allen key ...short end in the chuck as the vacuum is applied to help degas the slurry before it sets .


I've not yet made my vacuum chamber up .... too many roundtuits at present but I am thinking that you only need a few pounds of vacuum depression such as found on a small vacuum cleaner if you are vibrating the slurry filled mould .
Back in the early 1980's I saw a demo of a 14-pound bowling alley ball being held in an upside-down plastic funnel attached to a tiny portable vacuum cleaner hose that was being sold to suck up XEROX photocopying powder & suck out crud from keyboards & off PCB's & off fan blades etc..

My thinking is that as the air bubble expands and is still mobile in the newly poured slurry for a minute or more the bubble will float the surface with ease. So long as the form in the mould is well sealed to remove fissures which air bubbles in the form material could cling to.