Stuff you have made today

[GraemeVW]

Just be careful with welding sparks and fire risk - never weld and finish, just in case you've a smouldering rag..
Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs.

Yeah, always careful!
Spent my childhood fire watching inside cars while other people welded!
I wasn't welding this where it is, I tool it to a clearer space. That was mainly as I don't want weld spatter on the lathe ways though!

All good on warnings, can never be too careful!

 

[nickk]

Been threatening this for two years,oak base for stability.

 

[Pete.]

Made this thing today, emergency job for work.

Grabbed a 150mm long 100mm diameter piece of ally from my ally crate



Bored a 66mm hole though it.



Turned a shallow relief in the OD for a retaining system, then cut it in half with a mini grinder



Drilled a hole in the end of each half and fixed a loop of wire into the holes with epoxy.



Here's the finished article. Can you guess what it might be for?

 

[roofman]

Ram seal drift

 

[Pete.]

Ram seal drift

Ooh, good guess but no. Can see how you got there though, if I made one it would be something like that.

 

[roofman]

Ooh, good guess but no. Can see how you got there though, if I made one it would be something like that.

Will we know tonight Pete?

 

[Pete.]

Will we know tonight Pete?

Why not

It's an adapter for a hydraulic concrete splitter. Normally you drill a proper sized (usually 48mm) hole, pop the splitter in and it cracks the concrete with 165tonnes of splitting force concentrated on a small area. It's anincredibly useful tool.

We have drilled a hole in some concrete down under the sea where there's no visibilty and it needs to be split, but it's not of a size that you can get any adapter shims for, plus there's no visibility and it's got to be used by divers who won't ever have seen that tool before and being divers, need it to be simple to use and line up.

So I made this split collar with a wire handle that the operator can load onto the splitter, secure the halves together with a few turns of gaffer tape, set the height by tying the wire loop off to a handle on the machine and show the diver how to judge the direction of pressure by lining up the off-set wire holes with the side handle on the splitter.

What could go wrong eh?

 

[roofman]

Why not

It's an adapter for a hydraulic concrete splitter. Normally you drill a proper sized (usually 48mm) hole, pop the splitter in and it cracks the concrete with 165tonnes of splitting force concentrated on a small area. It's anincredibly useful tool.

We have drilled a hole in some concrete down under the sea where there's no visibilty and it needs to be split, but it's not of a size that you can get any adapter shims for, plus there's no visibility and it's got to be used by divers who won't ever have seen that tool before and being divers, need it to be simple to use and line up.

So I made this split collar with a wire handle that the operator can load onto the splitter, secure the halves together with a few turns of gaffer tape, set the height by tying the wire loop off to a handle on the machine and show the diver how to judge the direction of pressure by lining up the off-set wire holes with the side handle on the splitter.

What could go wrong eh?

Fantastic mate...well explained and understood too

 

[Gragson]

then cut it in half with a mini grinder

Animal cool hand luke,

 

[Hopefuldave]

Animal cool hand luke,

Weapon of choice, innit? A good man with a steady hand, can churn out some precision work.

 

[selectedgrub]

Remember when material was dirt cheap and every cat and their dog was plasma cutting out tacky wall art?

 

[magnet]

One of two brace of rope handrail hangers for my old man's garden steps after he took a tumble out there

 

[nickk]

Back to the border crossing after Fridays work,it’s finished,the customer will clean and paint it,strengthening brackets to stiffen the posts,42tube 4mm thick.
The scrap pile shows the severity of corrosion,however,these rails date back to 1960! Bear in mind this tranquil brook flows over the top of the bridge sometimes,as the ground rises steeply suddenly to the source at 2200’

 

[magnet]

Sun shining means only one thing doing a of whittling. Following on from my raft a few weeks back iv done a surfer from a scrap of firewood and a bit of slate for a keel.
He's away down the wansbeck this afternoon that's my local river.

Here are a couple of my homemade whittling knives. The one on the left made out of a scrap of spring steel and the other from a flake of en9 both with pallet wood handles. Oh I'm cheap

 

[redlig]

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Sun shining means only one thing doing a of whittling. Following on from my raft a few weeks back iv done a surfer from a scrap of firewood and a bit of slate for a keel.
He's away down the wansbeck this afternoon that's my local river.
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Here are a couple of my homemade whittling knives. The one on the left made out of a scrap of spring steel and the other from a flake of en9 both with pallet wood handles. Oh I'm cheap

Not cheap , resourceful ! Nice work . just shows we don't always need a machine shop full of equipment.

 

[Hood]

Messing about with the laser I got yesterday.
Decided to see how good it would etch stainless steel so brought home a scabby bit left over from plasma cutting some other bits.
Very happy with the results.
For an idea of scale the top Africa Twin text is 100mm wide.

Going to be handy for etching stainless panels if I ever need to do such a thing again

 

[Fraserb]

More tiles laid

 

[nickk]

Very basic railings ,in my favourite colour for metalwork.

 

[redlig]

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Nice ! Sure beats the hell out of Key Klamps.

 

[Hood]

Decided to see what a photo would come out like lasered onto the stainless. Very impressed and it could only look better if it was on some clean stainless rather than dirty and scratched stainless like this was.
Pic is 120mm wide x 71mm high and took just over 13 minutes at the settings I had.