Stuff you have made today

[awemawson]

Have you a screen or filter beyond the silica gel? I found that fine silica gel crystals would carry over in the airstream so needed trapping.

 

[Seadog]

I made some progress yesterday, despite killing my toolpost grinder...

 

[nickk]

Stillage for oak ,after rounding tree trunks,the rounded sides go in here to be sold as firewood,the flanged wheels were the same price that I’d paid last summer!

 

[Brad93]

I started making this for a customer.

It's the flange for an oil pickup pipe in a modified alfa engine.



Tomorrow morning when onsite with the block I will transfer the hole pattern and then braze the pickup tube in to the end.

 

[Fraserb]

Made this a while ago, his battery tractor was barely upto the job, we've upgraded the power source.

 

[badabec]

Have you a screen or filter beyond the silica gel? I found that fine silica gel crystals would carry over in the airstream so needed trapping.

Hello, I'm hoping the Dropout will sort that out. Otherwise one of the wife's stockings pulled over the inner aluminium tube. I'll have a look in my sock drawer..

 

[qwakers]

first ever go at creating a website:
Kernow Rotary Specialist

not perfect but its a start.

 

[Seadog]

Some more progress today. Faced off 1.12mm from the ballnut housing, milled the crosd slide on my pillar drill, and fitted the nut.

Full travel one way, and full travel, less half an inch in the other. I'll carve some relief into the housing tomorrow and then attempt to drill two further holes for the housing. Still so much to do.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

Something like this.

 

[Seadog]

Still going in the right direction.
Full table travel now available

I did have a small problem with my balls last night...

It was quite easy to reassemble, as it happens. It was easier to strip completely, clean, then reassemble with fresh grease. For a cheapo ballnut it's not bad - it's a triple circuit.

 

[Robotstar5]

They used ballscrews on some of the early robots and if we needed to change a leadscrew we had a keeper you could run the ballnut onto to retain the bearings in their tracks.

 

[nickk]

Not today,but about 14 years ago,but was nearby,actually remembered....and had my I pad.
A lot of drawing down,where the round bar goes into the ball,the hardest part was the blown over scrolls and I’d still like to perfect that technique,I feel they don’t stand out enough near the ends where they twist over,not quite 90degrees ,but they were my first.

 

[optima21]

I need to drill a few holes in some round tubes, so thought it would be best to make a rough V block to clamp to my drill. its was cut out of 50mm square tube. and some of us has setups that are less than perfect, but thats the setup I used for sticking the pieces together with the MIG.

I think this is as simple as it gets for clamping.

and with some tube on it, think I should be ok holding it when drilling, but think it should be better than holding it in a drill vice. and the cut in the middle is in case I need to tack the ends of some tube back together

 

[Seadog]

They used ballscrews on some of the early robots and if we needed to change a leadscrew we had a keeper you could run the ballnut onto to retain the bearings in their tracks.

I made a keeper

 

[Robotstar5]

I made a keeper

We had undersize keepers in the training dept. so if we had anyone messing about, just gone on the course for a week off work etc. we would give them one, cue 48 ball bearings on the floor so they had to find them and reload the ballnut

 

[badabec]

first ever go at creating a website:
Kernow Rotary Specialist

not perfect but its a start.

Hello, just needs a big 'X marks the spot' on the map.

 

[Blue Chips]

I made some progress today on the upstairs bathroom in our 'old house' project. I wanted to install a 'rainfall' shower head, as well as a regular shower head, but the ceiling height is rather low, and I didn't want the shower head to extend very far below the ceiling, so I came up with the idea of mounting the rainfall head directly against the ceiling. To accomplish that, when I was installing the rough-in plumbing, I fabbed up a simple spring-loaded plate to hold the brass fitting for the shower head connection.

After installing the ceiling material (backer board) above the shower area, I just pulled the fitting down and held it in place temporarily with a nylon tie-wrap and a drill bit while I connected the shower head. After tightening the connection, I removed the drill bit and allowed the springs to pull the shower head up against the ceiling.

The shower head is sealed against the ceiling with strips of soft, semi-sticky sorbothane rubber. Just in case the shower head or its connection were to develop a leak, I wanted to be aware of it, so I inserted a small piece of rectangular brass tubing in the gasket. I figured that a leak should produce a tell-tale drip coming through the brass 'weep tube.'

Here's the spring-loaded fitting setup:

This is the top of the shower head with strips of sorbothane for a gasket (the sorbothane still has the protective strips of polyethylene plastic on it, since it's slightly sticky):

This is a close-up showing the small 'weep tube' that I added:

Here's the shower head fitting being temporarily held down while installing the shower head.

And the final result below, with the shower head pulled up snug against the ceiling. Note: the ceiling is waterproof backer board with several coats of primer and paint. There is a selector on the shower control that allows you to switch between the regular shower head and the rainfall shower head or split between them. The regular shower head is a water-saver model on a swivel, which I really like, since it produces a strong spray with little water usage.

I still need to install the glass shower enclosure, which will be a little trickier than usual, since it's a frameless model, so it needs to be placed very precisely. If it works out OK, I'll post some photos.

 

[redlig]

More hacking and grinding yesterday produced the replacement brake lever to complement the revised footrest set up on the trailie.

 

[Barking Mat]

Railings, bloody railings.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Railings, bloody railings.

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Did you mean to miss that bit with the paint?