Stuff you have made today

[DAPPH]

A bit of CNC wood-bothering
(Just playing with CAM).













The wood was plucked from the firewood pile - a log from an old plum tree that used to grow in our garden. I rather like it.

That is lurverly.
What is the max dimensions that can be worked on your machine ? It is a domestic machine at home or an industrial one at work ?

 

[W.olly]

Not fully completed but this is working now yet need to make the top extraction. Done just over a thousand, which is nothing for ts job but a good tester.

I like to faff about desinging and making stuff and since i have been off the r road and in the fab shop charge hand found out and has me making stuff now

This is for the welding positioner, he wanted a surround making to help towards more H&S.

so i came up with this

Wish i could say it was my own welding haha

all done, but as said for the lid for extraction

so another brownie point for me

 

[Misterg]

That is lurverly.
What is the max dimensions that can be worked on your machine ? It is a domestic machine at home or an industrial one at work ?

Ta.

Working envelope is 330 x 235 x 114 ( X, Y, Z).

It's just one that I knocked up in my shed as a hobby machine. I'm slowly figuring out how to drive it!

Desktop CNC 'Thing' build (includes welding!)

I’d never particularly wanted, or seen the need for a CNC machine, but the cheap, ubiquitous table top routers (“3018”, etc.) that have appeared on Amazon, Ebay and Youtube over the last few years sparked my interest – can you really get a working CNC machine for £150 ?? And so it begins…...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

 

[W.olly]

Oh well while i am at it. This a,lso needs a cabinet making for the VFD, but thats it.

Just another gadget mace for H&S as the lads used to use an angle grinder in one hand to profile these tubes once capped off.

Once welded tey used to roll with one hand and grind with the other.

Now its two hands on the grinder and a lot quicker. better all round

And thanks @My Old Landy, works a bloody treat. Still need to wire in the pedal but they seem fine with it. And a potentiometer, but all good for now

I just turned down a 50mm bar to make an adaptor for the motor fitted a VFD and E stop so only work once cover is over. and all good
The sanding wheel is to get rid of the burrs so the tube fits in the adaptor nicely.


welded

profiled up

 

[DanZac]

It's just one that I knocked up in my shed as a hobby machine.

Understatement of the week.

 

[DAPPH]

Thanks for the post , I get misty eyed with frustration at old age , poor eyesight and your bloody milling machine .

I'd love to build my own machine like yours but a wee bit bigger. Though I suspect old Father Time might not allow me the hours to finish it in time to use it effectively as I've a hell of a big round tuit list to do first including the new bogger better house for my mancupboard tool & machinery .

 

[Mick Annick]

Handrail ends,plus some hooks,plus a railing point to match some existing that I’m altering.View attachment 388597View attachment 388596View attachment 388598actually made yesterday as today’s a snow day.

I won’t tell you how many scrolls I made on the end of 2m + bits of steel before I realised it was easier to make them on a bit I could manage and then weld it together

 

[bricol]

welded

I quite often add notes to drawings to leave clean and neat welds alone - no grinding back etc needed. Apart form the time saved (and hopefully cost) I just like the look of a good weld - and those look good

 

[W.olly]

I quite often add notes to drawings to leave clean and neat welds alone - no grinding back etc needed. Apart form the time saved (and hopefully cost) I just like the look of a good weld - and those look good

totally agree, but some suit in head office won that one, like they do. all the time and cost wasted IMO.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Designed but not yet made. A TTL to AFSK tone generator. My current one in the 30 year old terminal unit I built is susceptible to HF RF and so this is a modular replacement for it which will live in a screened case. It is also opto isolated. Automatic override when the mic PTT is operated.

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The good news is that the boards arrived very quickly. The bad news is that I have cocked up!

Polarity of the PSU reversed, the ASSumption that the board would run from 5V, no current limiter for the opto isolator, a 4K7 resistor in the power supply line and the wrong value of timing capacitor. I have it all running but I may get some new boards made once the issues are ironed out. Seems pretty stable:

 

[dan.taylor.1]

I won’t tell you how many scrolls I made on the end of 2m + bits of steel before I realised it was easier to make them on a bit I could manage and then weld it together

Yes. Guilty of that too... However, I hate the weld line that appears when you get them galvanised, some oddity of the metallurgy changing the way the zinc deposits means where the weld is becomes raised, even if ground flat.

 

[Cheesie]

an attachment for the fly press, I was using the stack of punch dies in front to get the height needed, there's a bit of stud at the bottom of the shaft that my pressing tools screw onto

 

[Seadog]

I don't know what's come over me recently, my mojo has returned in buckets.

I made this from stuff that I had laying around.

That's the odd bits of scrap useful off-cuts taken care of. It slides easily despite having perhaps 40lb of steel in there.

Also, more recycling from stuff that I've been looking at for too long.

It was nice to be able to work in the garden again.

 

[James1979]

I don't know what's come over me recently, my mojo has returned in buckets.

I made this from stuff that I had laying around.

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That's the odd bits of scrap useful off-cuts taken care of. It slides easily despite having perhaps 40lb of steel in there.

Also, more recycling from stuff that I've been looking at for too long.

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It was nice to be able to work in the garden again.

I don’t know what those ball things are but I’ve a bucket of them as well. Handy aren’t they.

Work well on a surface for rolling sheet about. Trying to work out how to get them on the plasma without wrecking them.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

I don’t know what those ball things are but I’ve a bucket of them as well. Handy aren’t they.

Work well on a surface for rolling sheet about. Trying to work out how to get them on the plasma without wrecking them.

They're conveyor roller balls, used in airports, parcel depots etc.

 

[Gragson]

I don't know what's come over me recently, my mojo has returned in buckets.

Isn't mojo the oddest thing, I can go from hardly being able to look at something, give it a couple of days then back at it like a thing possessed.
Mojo enhancer, should be available at the chemist - non prescription.

 

[Seadog]

Mine has been at a very low ebb for a couple of years. I've even started to clear stuff from my storeroom bedroom so that i can get on with my nearly 5 years old underfloor heating project

 

[finyuk2005]

Isn't mojo the oddest thing, I can go from hardly being able to look at something, give it a couple of days then back at it like a thing possessed.
Mojo enhancer, should be available at the chemist - non prescription.

100% agree!!

 

[Kram]

Some spacers
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First two were the new steel off someone on here, good stuff. The other two are en3 mild steel gummy poo, which was unpleasant for parting.
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I met @Onoff earlier in the week and he gave me a helical milling jig to try out. The spacers are to raise it 40mm to be on lathe center height.
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Interested to try it! First attempt is going to be aluminium, and if it goes well, I will have something to anodise. Im not sure how well I can mill stainless but I found a bit of 316 I can try it with too.

Cant find the bloody spacers! Started to think I hadn't yet made them.

Flipped the alu test blank around

Superglued to jig.. awaiting the spacers.

@Onoff printed some battery adaptors for me. I made some brass contacts and wired one up to the Katsu Fakita baby saw. Waiting for epoxy to set.

 

[Cheesie]

first radiator there's a few more bits to go on, I thought I'd cleaned the core enough but I guess not, a few things learned with this