Stuff you have made today

[Dcal]

My Alfa loving mate was taking the **** out of me last night for owning 5 Vauxhall's (a diesel Zafira cured me totally of that) he has a few 75's!
I'm gonna have me some fun next time I see him

Had or has?
Alfa 75s are a bit thin on the ground.

He might be interested in the thread I started on the work I'm doing on mine.

 

[dobbslc]

Has! The number never goes down
He is a member of this forum (it might have been him that put me into it) but doesn't post much unless he's spying on me

Took us up the pub in the 3.0 Cloverleaf a few weeks back, lovely car!

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

This is not a wine cup

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

This is not a wine cup

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Crucible.

Ready-made elements for water pipes.

 

[arther dailey]

Crucible.

Ready-made elements for water pipes.

thats one nice bench

 

[Tupers]

What do you do with a huge pulley you saved from the scrap?

Make a vice stand with it of course. My 100mm York does look a bit small on it though.

 

[bricol]

My Alfa loving mate was taking the **** out of me last night for owning 5 Vauxhall's (a diesel Zafira cured me totally of that) he has a few 75's!
I'm gonna have me some fun next time I see him

He's on very safe ground if he's driven a good 75 . . . my TS was wonderfully neutral, nicely balanced when you did get the tail sliding, or even when you didn't actually intend to when you found the diesel patch on a wet Leeds roundabout

Another one of the cars that if I had enough space, I'd have again.

 

[m_c]

I made some holes in a bit 2mm steel, cut a corner of a wall box, then glued them together with the TIG welder -



Given I can't even remember the last time I used the TIG welder (obviously since the last time I arc welded anything, as the TIG torch was attached!), my welding helmet is playing up (12 year old Optrel Satellite that I think the batteries are finally dying on, as the auto darkening is quite hit and miss), and the thinnest welding gloves I could find were still far too thick and stiff that I could hardly feel the torch let along the rod, I think I done well to only blow a few holes in the metal, and only need to regrind the tungsten twice.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

Crucible.

Ready-made elements for water pipes.

Done

 

[Hood]

Made a lowering/rising table for the laser, well basically I just bolted some MDF to an adjustable lab stand and made the feet adjustable for levelling, I was going to make one but they are only £25 for a nicely made aluminium one so cheaper than I could make.
It means now I can raise or lower the table and have the camera work well no matter what I have on the table as the top of the part is always at the cameras calibrated height, also means I never have to adjust the laser height to focus it

 

[MattF]

but they are only £25 for a nicely made aluminium one

Link?

 

[Hood]

Link?

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[bourbon]

wood bothering, After the monsoons we have been having, we need more shelter in the form of awning, which of course need guy ropes. which have sliders on them. I made 52.

 

[Hood]

Just tested out the lowering table/camera placement setup and it is spot on.
Placed a top clamp end on so 125mm from the base board, lowered the board and placed my logo in position on the computer screen.

Image on computer screen showing logo has etched exactly under the placement of the screen logo.

And the result.

 

[Hood]

And again.

Place/rotate logo image via computer/camera.

Press start and etch and it is exactly where I placed it, very happy with the results .

 

[Fraserb]

Doen a bit more
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[northwest]

Well, I got stuck in, had my Weetabix and made a start, Heavy Engineering today, first off, using a 3mm boring bar to clean up a pressure cylinder valve unit:



Then I got stuck in to the tough stuff, 1.6mm Titanium (after turning):



No wonder I need glasses.
Then I finished an **** of a job, slit a 20mm Titanium plate up the middle. Going to look for a GOOD dust mask in a minute as the dust and fumes were awful and I have more to do tomorrow. At first I thought "crikey, it is going through this quick" as the angle grinder sank downover, until I realised it was just eating disks:



Needed the Fein 240 volt tool to finish off as the battery gave in on the heavy Dewalt:

 

[minimutly]

Well, I got stuck in, had my Weetabix and made a start, Heavy Engineering today, first off, using a 3mm boring bar to clean up a pressure cylinder valve unit:

View attachment 410964

Then I got stuck in to the tough stuff, 1.6mm Titanium (after turning):

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No wonder I need glasses.
Then I finished an **** of a job, slit a 20mm Titanium plate up the middle. Going to look for a GOOD dust mask in a minute as the dust and fumes were awful and I have more to do tomorrow. At first I thought "crikey, it is going through this quick" as the angle grinder sank downover, until I realised it was just eating disks:

View attachment 410968

Needed the Fein 240 volt tool to finish off as the battery gave in on the heavy Dewalt:
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What is it going to be?

 

[Seadog]

Another bit machined for mymill conversion.

 

[northwest]

What is it going to be?

It is, or rather, they are (I made ten) AR15 firing pins.

The titanium plate, or rather some of the titanium plate I hope to turn into Marlin lifters, the part that lifts the cartridge from the tubular magazine to the breech. We will see, it is tough stuff and not easy on the tooling.