Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

Made a teardrop for the rear master cylinder as I want to fit a left handlebar rear brake on my bike. The ones you can buy basically mimic the oem teardrop with one fixing screw which is really just meant to feed oil under gravity so no pressure but as I will be putting pressure to it I would not be happy. Here is a vid of one that someone posted on the Africa Twin forum, as you can see it is not the best, it flexes every time the handlebar lever is pulled and I think will eventually shear the screw that holds it on.

So did some measuring up and came up with a design, it will use the oem screw but also clamp around the master cylinder body holding everything secure. Space is tight but hopefully my measurements are correct.

Here is the 3d model in fusion.

I popped down to the workshop this evening and machined and anodised ready for a trial tomorrow.

I have all the rest of the parts required except the handlebar lever for the brake as it is on back order from Puig, hopefully it will be here soon.

 

[Dcal]

Today I made the camper van whole again.

I thought the battery tray would be the tricky bit but the DS lower inner guard was worse.

There was not much left for a pattern.

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Forgot to take any photos during, but this is after a coat of white epoxy.
It's all a bit lumpy but it will do the job. I'll seam and underseal it after it gets its MOT.

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Battery tray was similarly lacking in areas, so made my best guess.

I used 2mm steel but didn't have a bit big enough so I welded two off cuts together.
Mig was at my mates shed so I used tig and planishing it flat.
My good helmet was with the mig and the one I had was flashing on and off so that's my excuse, but it's functional.

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I used my press and a form tool I had made up for something else to make the pressing for the bolt hole.

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I was pleasantly suprised when it fitted.

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Other side was similar but not as bad.

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Today I made a couple more patches for the Ducato camper.
This is turning into a bit of a saga.

Anyway it failed the MOT because of more rot.
I missed it, (I wasn't looking too hard) but there's holes in the inside of the strut turrets.
Lovely, nice easy repair?
I think not.

Removed the struts and even then I can hardly get my head in.
I tried cutting it out and repairing it from under the wheel arch, but it was going to be a hash, so I decided to get access from the inside of the van.

Tried keyhole

Then decides to just "crack the chest" and give myself some room.

Small simple patch first, still awkward to weld.

The other was not so simple and made even less simple, because I made it too small.
2mm steel cut and bent to shape.

Then I Tig welded the piece I should have kept on.

I wasn't being fussy about distortion and got plenty.

But a bit of planishing got it back easily enough.

Finished patch cut to final shape

I need to blast and paint the inside with galvafroid but that is enough for today.
I made a patch for the other side while I was at it.
I'm not looking forward to getting access to it either.

 

[Dcal]

First side welded up.
I blasted and applied a coat of galvafroid last night so it was dry.

Even with the bigger access it was a pain to weld.
I couldn't really see, because my arm was in the way but also because I need my old eyes really close to the weld to see well.
Not my finest work but what do you do?

I'm not trying to hide stuff with the crap photo, it's about as good as I can take given where it is.

Off to start the other side, I might be gone some time.

 

[Hood]

Clamp on teardrop fitted, seems fine

 

[finyuk2005]

doesnt look like much and took me longer that it should, but its my first decent project with my lathe and im pretty chuffed how it turned out,

still seems bloody mental to lift an outboard like that, but thats how it meant to be done!!

Its so cool to see some rusty piece of an old chain link turn into something shiny!

 

[Onoff]

Bi-annually?

Straight the rest of the year?

 

[James1979]

Straight the rest of the year?

Once on his birthday and again at Xmas?

 

[addjunkie]

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Didnt make this little chap, but delivered him, spent all day trying to get him to stand and feed. Tubed 150mls of goat colostrum into him. Held him while hes had a plasma transfusion, and managed to get him to latch to his mum, but he's still not able to actually get up. So Ill be lifting him to mum every 2 hours through the night!

So after picking up and feeding from his mother, with supplemented bottles Thursday, and Friday even putting on a bit of weight, Saturday evening when I got back from the countyshow, he had developed a nasty wheeze, tried steroids and antibiotics through Sunday he deteriorated. His chest sounded like it was half liquid filled and he'd smoked 80 a day for 70 years. So this morning made the tough decision to do the kind thing and put him to sleep. Wasnt easy I can say, real men dont shed a tear, but I did!

 

[roblane65]

That's a real shame ! .

 

[mtt.tr]

So after picking up and feeding from his mother, with supplemented bottles Thursday, and Friday even putting on a bit of weight, Saturday evening when I got back from the countyshow, he had developed a nasty wheeze, tried steroids and antibiotics through Sunday he deteriorated. His chest sounded like it was half liquid filled and he'd smoked 80 a day for 70 years. So this morning made the tough decision to do the kind thing and put him to sleep. Wasnt easy I can say, real men dont shed a tear, but I did!

really very sorry to hear that, its a tough decision but you really did do the best you could

 

[roofman]

So after picking up and feeding from his mother, with supplemented bottles Thursday, and Friday even putting on a bit of weight, Saturday evening when I got back from the countyshow, he had developed a nasty wheeze, tried steroids and antibiotics through Sunday he deteriorated. His chest sounded like it was half liquid filled and he'd smoked 80 a day for 70 years. So this morning made the tough decision to do the kind thing and put him to sleep. Wasnt easy I can say, real men dont shed a tear, but I did!

Ahhh no thats sad reading mate, do you have any idea why the poor little fella never made it good from the Gecko?

 

[Dcal]

Today (well yesterday) I finished welding the Ducato.
I learnt how not to do it from the drivers side and approached the passenger side slightly differently.

Gave myself a bit (lot) more access and cut out the strengthening plate to the top of the strut.

The closure panel is in two parts and I had to weld by braille on the DS.
This time I took out the lower section and made the repair patch the full size so I just had to spot weld it to the lower inner arch.

Easier to weld but still awkward.

Then it was just weld it back up.
I cut a bit extra off the double skin of the top strut plate so I could weld both layers fully.

Then weld the rest back in. I painted some galvafroid to the layers, probably pointless but some might remain after welding.

Bit of white epoxy primer, seam sealer and it's almost there.

Rough and ready but it will keep it going for a few more years.
This side took me about 6 hours from start to finish.

 

[minimutly]

I think I should have got you to do my Ducato. The rotten bit you replaced- I welded mine from underneath....

 

[Dcal]

I bet that was a pain.

I thought about it but couldn't see a way of doing it.
I'm just too old and stiff and my head's too big.

 

[roofman]

Today (well yesterday) I finished welding the Ducato.
I learnt how not to do it from the drivers side and approached the passenger side slightly differently.

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Gave myself a bit (lot) more access and cut out the strengthening plate to the top of the strut.

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The closure panel is in two parts and I had to weld by braille on the DS.
This time I took out the lower section and made the repair patch the full size so I just had to spot weld it to the lower inner arch.

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Easier to weld but still awkward.

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Then it was just weld it back up.
I cut a bit extra off the double skin of the top strut plate so I could weld both layers fully.

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Then weld the rest back in. I painted some galvafroid to the layers, probably pointless but some might remain after welding.

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Bit of white epoxy primer, seam sealer and it's almost there.

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Rough and ready but it will keep it going for a few more years.
This side took me about 6 hours from start to finish.

Looks a great job your doing there

 

[Stueeee]

This one is really more of a 'today I installed' than today I made. Getting a non-running car or truck onto my 4 post lift has been a complete drama in the past as I am pretty well always working alone. So I've just mounted this Cheapanese 200/400KG electric hoist 'sideways on' to winch non runners up. All of the fasteners for the simple angle steel frame are resin anchored except for the top two which go right through the wall onto a big steel spreader plate.

For some reason this hoist came out of the box with less than 2 metres of cable to the remote control and only 1 metre of mains cable. I rewired it so there's about 8 metres of cable to the remote now allowing me to 'drive' up the ramp whilst sitting behind the steering wheel.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

I put a cast-iron welding table on powerful hard rubber wheels. Now the table moves easily.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

Grinding stone sharpening. For lathe chuck jaws

 

[Tupers]

Spent an hour or so this morning making a tube clamp to slip over a piece of exercise equipment and bolt it through a wall. Love a random job.

This evening I had my first attempt at making some spindle pieces instead of swarf on the lathe.
They not super clean but they’ll do the job.

 

[Seadog]

Spent and house or so this morning making a tube clamp to go slip over a piece of exercise and bolt it through a wall. Love a random job.

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