Stuff you have made today

[Robotstar5]

Quite into doing these little signs at the moment.
Kinda a repro industrial feel.
A few minutes here and there, and an offcut of second rate timber.

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A friend of mine makes vintage signs, may give you a few ideas.

 

[Misterg]

A small arbour (6mm dia) for a 3D touch probe.



Turned from 440C stainless - there was a lot of swarf to get rid of to find a 6mm diameter shaft inside a 45mm diameter bar.

Made some nice chips, but they were so hot, they melted through the plastic cover over the lathe bed!



Had to swiftly make a metal cover, as the chips were as hard as hell, and I didn't want them getting under the saddle if I could help it.



I found the material a bit touchy on feeds and speeds - if I got it wrong, it made some very pretty swarf (which, incidentally was horrible to deal with - stuck to everything and then broke into little lengths).



Got there in the end!



Managed to finish the other side with the shaft held in a collet, taking very light cuts.

 

[My Old Landy]

A small arbour (6mm dia) for a 3D touch probe.



Turned from 440C stainless - there was a lot of swarf to get rid of to find a 6mm diameter shaft inside a 45mm diameter bar.

Made some nice chips, but they were so hot, they melted through the plastic cover over the lathe bed!



Had to swiftly make a metal cover, as the chips were as hard as hell, and I didn't want them getting under the saddle if I could help it.



I found the material a bit touchy on feeds and speeds - if I got it wrong, it made some very pretty swarf (which, incidentally was horrible to deal with - stuck to everything and then broke into little lengths).



Got there in the end!



Managed to finish the other side with the shaft held in a collet, taking very light cuts.

Very nice job!!

 

[DennisCA]

Made a better splash cover for my lathe when using flood coolant, I made it so the coolant naturally runs off into the trench and avoids pooling in the ways and getting under the saddle. Works very well so far IMO. Ignore my shoddy welding, been fighting my welder all weekend with the feed.

Video showing the principle

Took a parting cut with flood coolant on stainless and I can say I have never achieved this good a result before on any material. More than the look, it feels so smooth, can't feel the surface imperfections.

Overall it works really well after some test cuts with flood coolant, only a few drops of coolant on the ways, took a few seconds to clean vs. half an hour last time.

 

[Blue Chips]

I received the 1/2" NPT-thread Ingersoll Rand ARO filter and regulator that I ordered for my new compressor and connected them, using mostly pieces of pipe that I already had on hand. I added a union and a quarter-turn ball valve to make future servicing easier.

I constructed a simple diagonal brace with a threaded rod, a pipe hanger bracket, and a piece of steel angle to secure the filter/gauge assembly and prevent it from turning and loosening up. The new compressor works great. It's a touch quieter than my old compressor, and it can keep up with my small bench-top blasting cabinet (I'm using a relatively small nozzle) which is one of my most air-hungry pneumatic tools. I've started routing the new air line to my retractable hose reel. So far, so good.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Yard woman has rented the field next to the yard, so Ive whacked a gate through to it so we can get the horses in

 

[Guzrik]

As a hobbyist player I often use WD40 to give things a cooing spray every now & then , got a Shipman's fish paste jar with compressor oil in it attached to a bracket on the head stock body and a pigs hair artist brush in it for times when things need a drop of better oil cooling

I use special water soluable cutting oil as well with small glueing brushes. Dont use tin's anymore but plastic caps off spraying cans, with a strong magnet (from computer harddisks) in, keeps me from bumping them on the floor and collects the swarf in the fluid.

 

[Dr.Al]

Today & yesterday I made these bits (apart from the bearings and screws, unsurprisingly):

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I then put them together to make this (the big one, with its little brother that I made from a kit a while ago):

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I then tried it out and made this...

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... 8 mm AF, 15 mm deep hexagonal hole in a bit of 16 mm stainless steel bar.

The design was very closely based on the one from the Hemingway Kit that I'd previously made. I basically just doubled most of the dimensions and then tweaked it for 12 mm silver steel broaches and to suit standard size bearings (as you can't get bearings in exactly double the size of the ones in the Hemingway kit).

The Hemingway kit one will do up to 6 mm AF and up to 7 mm deep, but I want to be able to cut a 14‑ish millimetre deep, 8 mm AF hole for an upcoming project and I thought it would be fun to see if I could scale up the Hemingway design.

A quick modification to the big rotary broach: I made a morse taper shank (from a blank end arbor) as it felt like it was stuck out a bit far having a fairly long shank held in a drill chuck in the MT3 tailstock. Now it can just go in the tailstock directly.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Fenced half the new paddock off and started hacking the savannah down with the strimmer. Its called “marsh field” on old maps and I can see why. I reckon i can hide a small turnip patch at the back without yard woman knowing

 

[Mick Annick]

Not made today, but installed the railings I made last month. Back tomorrow to give a final coat of paint.

 

[Bullet2012]

Not made today, but installed the railings I made last month. Back tomorrow to give a final coat of paint.

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[redlig]

Yet another simple swarf producing job. top bearing cover on pillar drill . Time taken 30 years and 1 1/2 hours. luckily my phantom assistant was in a good mood when looking for the original nipple. It had been misplaced 30 years ago and I had absolutely no idea where to look . The first wall container of 20 proved the right one . Must buy a lottery ticket.

 

[Guzrik]

Fenced half the new paddock off and started hacking the savannah down with the strimmer. Its called “marsh field” on old maps and I can see why. I reckon i can hide a small turnip patch at the back without yard woman knowing

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Nice piece of land you have there, what you now want is a flailmower.

 

[Mart63]

A work in progress

 

[DAPPH]

Nice piece of land you have there, what you now want is a flailmower.

A couple hardy Soay Sheep in electric fenced off sections to eat everything in the square before moving them on to the next area to be shortened , at least you can eat them ( brill for BBQ meats & stews & they fit in the chest freezer nicely .

 

[DAPPH]

I have to use 36 inch hig raised brick built beds for my veg & flowers due to being crippled . Went away on Friday morning came back Sunday afternoon , looked at the onion beds Monday morning to find them covered in inch tall weeds . There is no way I could ever have bent over & weeded them as the awayday weekend has wrecked me in my shoulder and spine ,. So had a play in the mancupboard using some old rusting bright steel and a blunted ground to shape Stanley knife blade

 

[Anguz]

gonna steal that idea

 

[Dcal]

Today I made an adapter so I could use an aluminium pot on my SRi spray gun.

I want to try to spray some Cerakote and they recommend you use an alloy pot on the gun.
My SRi gun has a 0.8 tip so I'm going to spray using it, however
Devilbiss alloy pots are expensive and as I already had a cheap pot so I made this to make it fit.
Devilbiss also like to use odd threads but I had something hopefully close enough (1.5 X 11)
The other end is 1mm X 14.
It will be a bonus if it doesn't leak.

 

[DAPPH]

gonna steal that idea

When you make the blade make the U a bit like a horse shoe so only the sides of the rod touch the plant .

Use mole type grips to safely & firmly hold the Stanley knife blade , grind the blade so the inside cutting edge is actuallyoing to be inside the horse shoe legs , round the edges a tad too and give it a kiss on the soft grind stone to take the cutting edge to 0.5 mm wide other wise it will be too sharp . . I forced the hack saw cut to in the vice . then set it up to receive the blade .. Using a block of hard wood grain across the blade and a hammer I knocked the blade into the depth of the hack saw cuts .

There will also be a three tined rake made in a similar manner with the shaft terminating in an L and becoming the middle tine of the three pronged rake . The horseshoe outer frame still applies and this time before bending and welding round off the ends so that they do not rip / cut your crops.


Once you get the top inch or so friable ( dry and crumbly ) a quick rake through once a week to ten days will stop newly germinated seeds developing into fully rooted weedlings .

 

[nickk]

The beginnings of an oversize horseshoe,it’s 25mm round,some radii variations required,customer has requested a pair of shoes,4’6” tall,then another 18” smaller to go symmetricalally inside,2 sets.
Size 9 shoe for scale.