Stuff you have made today

[striker]

If that's a public road I would be sending my £120 to the council!

Sorry that should have read "£120 bill to the council" I certainly wouldn't be sending them £120!!!!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Sorry that should have read "£120 bill to the council" I certainly wouldn't be sending them £120!!!!

Contact your insurance company, they will be able to give free legal advice.
Plus find out who is responsible for the up keep of that road.
Expect a fight, but stand your ground and they will pay.

Don't rush to go into the press, but go through channels. I have and have had success.

 

[Kram]

Contact your insurance company, they will be able to give free legal advice.
Plus find out who is responsible for the up keep of that road.
Expect a fight, but stand your ground and they will pay.

Don't rush to go into the press, but go through channels. I have and have had success.

Never tell insurance anything, any excuse and they will put your risk up for next time. £££ for them.

 

[striker]

I know people who've been reimbursed for broken coil springs too after hitting pot holes and photographing them.

 

[Gragson]

I know people who've been reimbursed for broken coil springs too after hitting pot holes and photographing them.

I did that, Unmarked, unfinished ramp on an open road, got in touch with the council who put their own solicitor on the case to support me!
Got compo pretty quick for damage to my car - didn't involve my insurance at all.

 

[Kram]

My office today was this ash tree

One of the limbs was about 8", a pain to cut with the silky!

 

[DAPPH]

Not exactly today but almost finished the Anderson shelter at work on Monday. Ready for anything now!

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In the late 1950's next doors Anderson shelter was a working shed with a small pot bellied stove & stove pipe going through the back centre I notice your shelter sits on a stub wall I seem to recall theirs was in a footing of 300 mm deep of concrete where a six foot tall man could stand upright in the middle and not get scalped with the top nuts bolt protrusions.

Were there different models ?

 

[DAPPH]

Just imagine the risk assement with all that sharp corrugated iron - no you can't use it until the HSE police have vetted it even if there ARE bombs raining down

The edges were not razor sharp on any I've seen /been in , the metal is about 1/8 inch thick ........ that was sorted before the galvanizing

 

[DAPPH]

Got some gas today and wheeling it round to the workshop from the van it felt strange.

OOPS

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I had a spare sheet of 5mm alu from a cancelled job so quick design in fusion then onto the plasma with the sheet and cut some bits.

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Hauled out the mig and tacked it up.

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Fully welded


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Popped to B&Q for some wheels, made a stainless axle and tested it out, perfect Also the pneumatic tyres don't play havoc with the finger joints as I pull the cylinder over the cobbles, last wheels were solid and it was bloody sore on the joints. Just need to get a wee bit chain now.

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Yellow Poly Prop hard foams wheels don't puncture or deflate over a few months . I changed all my 8 pneumatics over to them about four years ago once they became eBay cheap & available ..but I did have to put all new bearing in them as the crap they were fitted with was rather crunchy at 50 kg loadings .

 

[Hood]

The wheels I have on the cylinder trolley are the same I have on my trolley I made for my EWM. Not needed to blow them up yet and that must be almost 5 years.

 

[Hood]

Just looked back and it was Aug 2018 I made it, so 4 1/2 years.

 

[nickk]

A mounting/vaulting stand for a stunt and display rider.

 

[Martin Hocking]

In the late 1950's next doors Anderson shelter was a working shed with a small pot bellied stove & stove pipe going through the back centre I notice your shelter sits on a stub wall I seem to recall theirs was in a footing of 300 mm deep of concrete where a six foot tall man could stand upright in the middle and not get scalped with the top nuts bolt protrusions.

Were there different models ?

Robert’s shelter is slightly taller than standard at about 6’6” the stub wall is there to achieve that and because like a lot of them the curved sheets he bought first were cut off at ground level when they were removed. Standard height was just slightly over 6 foot I believe.
Your neighbours one sounds like a nice little nook. Although I must admit that having constructed this one and going down inside it, made me realise that they weren’t built for a holiday. Actually a little sobering.

As for models I think there was only one standard pattern made in several places throughout the country I believe. If you had a large enough family you could have an extra pair of curved sheets to make room. And you sometimes see them widened in the middle with a flat sheet on top but I don’t know if that happened much at the time.

 

[Martin Hocking]

A mounting/vaulting stand for a stunt and display rider.View attachment 392121

Cool! For practising on or do you leap on your horse from it?

 

[redlig]

Robert’s shelter is slightly taller than standard at about 6’6” the stub wall is there to achieve that and because like a lot of them the curved sheets he bought first were cut off at ground level when they were removed. Standard height was just slightly over 6 foot I believe.
Your neighbours one sounds like a nice little nook. Although I must admit that having constructed this one and going down inside it, made me realise that they weren’t built for a holiday. Actually a little sobering.

As for models I think there was only one standard pattern made in several places throughout the country I believe. If you had a large enough family you could have an extra pair of curved sheets to make room. And you sometimes see them widened in the middle with a flat sheet on top but I don’t know if that happened much at the time.

If they were designed for WW2 type warfare I recon you need to go a trifle lower for todays ordinance ,say about 30 meters.

 

[Tigman]

Had to make a bit of Barley Twist for a railing , 20mm solid bar , customer wants a little twist , so I think they came out well !

 

[Guzrik]

Not finished yet but once it is there will be not much to see.
A cooler, modelled in Inventor, waterjet cut, drilled and tacked with laserwelder. Next week assembly and tig, nice to have a compact sollitaire work process every now and then.

 

[Maker]

View attachment 392284Not finished yet but once it is there will be not much to see.
A cooler, modelled in Inventor, waterjet cut, drilled and tacked with laserwelder. Next week assembly and tig, nice to have a compact sollitaire work process every now and then.

That's so cool! Is it just going to be single pass? Did you do any flow calcs? What's it going to cool?

 

[Seadog]

Not exactly today, more like the last five days, weather permitting. A lot of storage space which I need desperately.

 

[Guzrik]

That's so cool! Is it just going to be single pass? Did you do any flow calcs? What's it going to cool?

21 parallel tubes in a single pass, the phd who's set up it will be did the calculations, can't tell what gas it is going to cool, sorry.