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Dr.Al
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Well, it took me a sizeable chunk of last weekend to finish the knife off, what with grinding quite a bit more off to get the bevel in place, giving it a dunk in coffee to bring the colour out again where it had been ground off, then making, shaping and fitting the handle. Finally it had four coats of Mike's Magic Mix on the handle.
The first job was redrilling two of the handle holes. At the forge, I wasn't allowed to use the pillar drill (insurance) and hence had to watch (in slight despair) as the holes were drilled "on the wonk". I'd hoped they'd at least be in a straight line, but no such luck:
Thankfully, the handle is still relatively soft and was drillable. I kept the middle hole where it was and drilled two new holes either side:
I then resawed (is that the right spelling for that tense?) a piece of walnut in two, planed the inside faces down and gradually shaped the bolster end until both handle pieces (I think they're called scales, but I could be wrong) fitted up against the bolster as well as I could achieve and the grain lined up on the opposite end.
The masking tape's there to limit the risk of taking the pattern off while shaping the wood.
After a lot of rasping, filing and sanding, it started to feel like a comfortable handle:
Then it was simply a case of making some stainless steel pins, epoxying everything together and then filing & sanding the pins flush with the handle. Finally 4 coats of Mike's Magic Mix on the handle and a coat of mineral oil on the blade and that's that...
I couldn't resist getting some photos of my first knife sitting on top of my first chopping board:
I'm sure there's room for improvement, but I'm really pleased how it's come out given it's my first knife.
My Old Landy
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I like that
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CheersI like that
Just a bit of fun.
Back story is that he’s got a flowerpot man thing on his gatepost at the house. He’s just had this one done for the blasting yard and I’ve to make a slightly different one for the stables but we have yet to decide on that.
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Usual nonsense
James1979
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Wish I’d bought some of that nonsense
I was wondering…
What’s the benefit of planing them vs mill?
And, is it quicker to do them like that even with setup times?
Genuine question
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Today I made a 3d jig saw of a fretsaw for @mrsbruce
Started like this
Ended up like this
Many thanks to @lotus_esprit_s1 for the taps and dies that arrived today and as a result, I had the right tool to clean off the old paint from the threads.
Sometimes things come together very nicely (or apart)
Started like this
Ended up like this
Many thanks to @lotus_esprit_s1 for the taps and dies that arrived today and as a result, I had the right tool to clean off the old paint from the threads.
Sometimes things come together very nicely (or apart)
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A time switch.
May be a over the top but the parts where laying around anyway.
May be a over the top but the parts where laying around anyway.
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I had to wait for the three contractors to come together on the same day to work together. Concrete paver, concrete delivery and concrete polisher (helicopter grouting). The grout was a 70-year-old man who started work at 11 am and finished by spotlight at 6 pm. Gotta go and water the floor twice today. Rubbed with a special mixture of quartz sand.
Sergei Slovenija
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While the concrete workers were having fun, I prepared the parts of an industrial vacuum cleaner for painting. Primed them with 2K epoxy.
I assembled a bag of terminals on to some 20 core wire -
Managed to insert them into the connector housing -
And fully assembly the connector-
This was something that I had previously failed to do, as the only 20 core cable I could get was just too big to fit in the connector housing, so has been sitting being ignored.
However assorted cables happened to pop-up on an Aliexpress ad, and a bit searching revealed 20-core wire the perfect size to fit the connector.
So now I just need to decide what to fit to the opposite end of the cable, and I should have a nice little benchtop engraver.
Managed to insert them into the connector housing -
And fully assembly the connector-
This was something that I had previously failed to do, as the only 20 core cable I could get was just too big to fit in the connector housing, so has been sitting being ignored.
However assorted cables happened to pop-up on an Aliexpress ad, and a bit searching revealed 20-core wire the perfect size to fit the connector.
So now I just need to decide what to fit to the opposite end of the cable, and I should have a nice little benchtop engraver.
Mouser.
I couldn't find a UK stockist of Hirose connectors.
There may have been a ga....er..YouTube video or two watched during the process.You must have some patience.
Thankfully nothing was attached to the opposite end of the cable, as I couldn't remember what got assembled from what sideAnd best of all you didn't forget to put the back cap on before you started pinning, I'm sure everyone's done it.
Engineer PA-09
I also have the bigger PA-21.
They were what were recommended by the Voron design team for assembling all the JST/Molex connectors, and they are brilliant for this kind of thing.
There are cheaper versions available, but I can't fault the Engineer ones.
Sergei Slovenija
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Off - While I was carefully, twice watering the freshly laid concrete at work, the hot water hose for the kitchen sink burst in my apartment, half an hour before my arrival. The husband of the hostess was called by the neighbors and promptly turned off the water. I found him on the threshold of my apartment, removing a hundred liters of water from the parquet. The two of us made it faster.
Why such a coincidence?
But the floors are clean, unscheduled wetcleaning
g.
Why such a coincidence?
But the floors are clean, unscheduled wetcleaning
g.
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Just a quickie project:
Four old rubber hose-guide bushings on my backhoe were cracked and falling apart. I finally managed to find two NOS/OEM replacements, but they were expensive. To replace the other two bushings, I bought four aftermarket automotive suspension bushings for a fraction of the price of the OEM rubber bushings, and I was able to modify them to closely match the originals by simply boring them to the same I.D. and cutting a chamfer at the end. They are also fairly close to the originals in terms of durometer hardness. Quick job, and I saved about $40. Also re-painted the mounting bracket to make it pretty.
Four old rubber hose-guide bushings on my backhoe were cracked and falling apart. I finally managed to find two NOS/OEM replacements, but they were expensive. To replace the other two bushings, I bought four aftermarket automotive suspension bushings for a fraction of the price of the OEM rubber bushings, and I was able to modify them to closely match the originals by simply boring them to the same I.D. and cutting a chamfer at the end. They are also fairly close to the originals in terms of durometer hardness. Quick job, and I saved about $40. Also re-painted the mounting bracket to make it pretty.
