Stuff you have made today

[bricol]

Then I had a brain storm, why not cut out between odd leg calliper scribed lines in 1/4 " scrap strip wood allow a few mm for the nozzle diameter and give it a go with it securely clamped to the bracket .... in the right position .


I chicken'd out did a tria;l burn out on a bit of the same metal scrap. Wow worked better than I'd hoped .

Third bracket is a lot better hardly any filing to get it rectangular
Forth bracket was even better , next time I'll run some 2" x 1/4 inch thick oak strips up on the bench saw make a strip for the spacer gap in the slot as wide as the slot I want then glue them up , leave to set over night in the airing cupboard and then use the mask of wood for plasma hole cutting the next day . I reckon with a few experiments and making the cutting slot just a tad bigger than the diameter of the nozzle I might be looking at 2.5 mm wide straight slots in 5 mm alu.


I dare say I could have purchased the brackets and clamping parts from somewhere after doing a few hours online searching but where is the fun in doing that and paying for them at the same time ?

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I've use wood templates with great success with a plasma - for a quick and easy template for limited use they work well. Admittedly after a few uses, they do seem to smell a bit singed

 

[DAPPH]

I wonder if thick hard board is any better or some of one of the thinner heat resisting soft files , such as go behind boilers etc. in stud walled internals

 

[Brad93]

I hung the arched braced gate ,featured on these pages a day or two ago.
I’d welded it 15mm out of square ,to allow for sag,it hangs perfect and levelView attachment 383506View attachment 383507

Never thought about such lightweight gates but i suppose that is the way to do them.

 

[striker]

I wonder if thick hard board is any better or some of one of the thinner heat resisting soft files , such as go behind boilers etc. in stud walled internals

I use hardboard templates. I have various sized circles, squares and even long straight lengths. Seem to last ok.

 

[nickk]

@Brad93 it’s no lightweight,about 90kg.

 

[Brad93]

@Brad93 it’s no lightweight,about 90kg.

I'd call that lightweight

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[My Old Landy]

I don't know what it is but it sure looks cool

 

[Dr.Al]

I don't know what it is but it sure looks cool

I think I'd say exactly the same about most of @selectedgrub's posts

 

[Onoff]

Will be closely monitoring this...

 

[My Old Landy]

Will be closely monitoring this...

Ah, a surround for a hmi you think?

 

[Onoff]

Ah, a surround for a hmi you think?

Steam punk telly, fish tank?

 

[Scalarocco]

Picture frame made from central heating parts?

 

[redlig]

Picture frame made from central heating parts?

Frame for a photo of a "hot chic" perhaps.

 

[Onoff]

Frame for a photo of a "hot chic" perhaps.

He's sorted there then!

 

[DAPPH]

That's one of the best " Split and half flipped rotated thingy ma jigs " I've ever seen . Is it going to be , Whitworth, BSF , Metric , UNF or UNC threaded ?

 

[roofman]

valve body from an automatic gearbox

 

[Brad93]

You don't want to know the hours in this.

Started with tarnished old brass sheet.

 

[Dcal]

Very nice.

I do know the hours that took, I made mine out of old hot water cylinder.

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/data/attachments/285/285768-c45eb0ae9e8017b7ed3186a952c3ee62.jpg

 

[Brad93]

Very nice.

I do know the hours that took, I made mine out of old hot water cylinder.

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/data/attachments/285/285768-c45eb0ae9e8017b7ed3186a952c3ee62.jpg

Yep but once you start you must finish it off, or it's hard to get the enthusiasm to carry on.

I done copper two years ago.

I must do titanium, but forming it is a pain in the ass. Especially as i've only got grade 5 sheet.