Stuff you have made today

[Onoff]

It is hardened so will break into small rounded pieces like an old fashioned windscreen did.

A lot of high rise building glass isn't hardened like this. The last thing you want, with floor to ceiling windows, 30 floors up, is the tip of someone's umbrella causing it to disintegrate leaving a damn great hole.

The tend to just crack against impact. Gives you time to apply a safety film.

Failure through nickel sulphide inclusion can still be pretty spectacular mind.

 

[Hood]

It looks very nice but you will likely regret it, especially if there are kids/pets around as it will be impossible to keep clean!

We recently got a new pod shower fitted. They liked the look of the clear glass panel unit, I was against it but they bought it anyway. 2 months down the line they are really regretting it, you can see every water or soap stain & it always looks grubby, even with regular cleaning!

I don't care, I am not the one who does the cleaning, I could quite happily live in a pigsty

 

[Kram]

Is that with the printed adapter on?

Yeah its worked perfectly tho I glued it in as a permenent adaptor rather than removable.

 

[Hood]

You've no idea what they're for, or whether we dare ask?

Owt bike related, perchance, or a customer job?

Hardish over height soft jaws

 

[Morris]

Guy up the road bought this down just before we went to America,just got round to it. It's off his garden chairs and is badly bent except you can't see it because I forgot to take a picture and did a rush job on the way to his house. It's bent in the plane you are looking at.

I made two replacements in 304 for him.

This was the payment

Happy with that.

 

[Richiew]

Like a stuck record. More bench stuff.

Lining up drawer runners. The outer ones are the easy ones. Lots of reference points to work from. There's less to measure from in the middle.

Got there in the end with the middle pair. This pic was work in progress. I still wasn't happy and adjusted it again the next evening.

Drawer runners removed. Shoddy brush painting in the cold with Ronseal Direct to Metal Paint. Supposed to be Storm Grey, Looks more like RAF uniform blue when it goes on.

I can't do the drawers until the painting is done. Saw dust and paint is a bad combo.

This is the real reason for making this post. This evening I finally made the most of the table, using clamps to hold another bench top square and in place. It's made my work so much more efficient, enjoyable and accurate at the same time. Got it done in half the time. Loving this table and the drawers. Diagonals were spot on. Lovely and square with little effort. Still being gormless though. Set up at the furthest corner away from the welder.

This third one has been sized for the offcuts of plyboard that's left from the original table. I have two, 4 foot by 3 foot offcuts. The benchtop frame is 44" long to leave some overhang at the ends. I don't need the 3 foot depth, so the smaller dimension will be getting trimmed.

"No clamp survives first contact with the enemy"

Being dozy, far too close. Tunnel vision again. I used MIG to ensure the gaps on the diagonals would get filled without too much trouble. I fancy maybe using the TIG on the remaining joints to get some practice in.

 

[MysterG]

A bracket to mount a diesel heater on my outside garage wall under an existing cover that was a wood store.
Very rough and ready ... and sharp as I found out when I managed to headbutt the corner of it whilst installing it. I gave up shortly after that
I will neaten it all up once I know it fits.

 

[MattF]

and sharp as I found out when I managed to headbutt the corner of it whilst installing it.

That's an example of why to always round off corners on anything you can walk into or headbutt. A simple thing which, although it may not avoid the pain factor, helps avoid unnecessary gouges/cuts.

 

[mtt.tr]

Helping a chap in the village turn big wood into smaller wood.

Pile Is about 20ft wide 40ft long and 6ft high.

 

[MysterG]

That's an example of why to always round off corners on anything you can walk into or headbutt. A simple thing which, although it may not avoid the pain factor, helps avoid unnecessary gouges/cuts.

To be honest I should not have been able to headbutt it, but I was crawling under the wood store roof to get out of the rain!!!
In normal circumstances nobodies head will be anywhere near it ... unless Warwick Davis visits and wants to take a look.

All rounded now anyway.

Finished installing it today, and it works.. Just needs some finessing, insulation and closing in.

 

[Barking Mat]

To be honest I should not have been able to headbutt it, but I was crawling under the wood store roof to get out of the rain!!!
In normal circumstances nobodies head will be anywhere near it ... unless Warwick Davis visits and wants to take a look.

All rounded now anyway.

Finished installing it today, and it works.. Just needs some finessing, insulation and closing in.

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What is the exhaust muffler thing attached to, watch out, they get stupid hot.

I always make stand off brackets, and the cheap insulation provided is crap.

 

[MysterG]

What is the exhaust muffler thing attached to, watch out, they get stupid hot.

I always make stand off brackets, and the cheap insulation provided is crap.

It's hanging in mid air on a 4mm galvanised steel rod. Probably 6-8 inches away from that wood it looks close to.

 

[Cheesie]

KTM 450 moto cross sub frame thingamijig, I don't know the material but was told I could weld it with 304, the jig was provided

 

[Richiew]

Welcome back to 'The Sauna'. This is where the second of my benches is living. It will be set against one of the walls once finished. I have a few still to do.

Runners and feet back on and the drawers started. The fronts are absent and they are facing the wrong way in the pic below. The sides are plane square edged 20.5mm thick boards. They have been ripped down to roughly 4 inches in height. I can use the full height board (144mm) for the front. The full board height will overhang at the bottom to accommodate the drawer base material thickness and create the overhang lip for a finger-hold to pull at the bottom.

The backs are pallet runners that have been run through the thicknesser to tidy them up. The pallet runners are free material that's a little thicker so they accommodate the rebate on the corners nicely. As long as I pick the straighter ones to refine they aren't too much trouble.

I've only got one corner clamp at the moment so the glue ups will take a while.
I feel like I'm getting quicker/better at this. Might get one of them properly finished one day.

 

[Munkul]

Fixed someone elses bodgery, quite a few small repairs on this, and extended the barrel out 200mm to hold an extra 80 litres.
Quite a clever bit of kit, this. It mixes up powdered milk to feed calves, and its self propelled. You drive it along and press a button to dispense a set quantity of milk per calf.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Beer yeast bread.

 

[Onoff]

Fixed someone elses bodgery

Ah, the story of my life! Work in progress. What this is for has been "wrong" for around 20 years:

https://flic.kr/p/2pfhp5Q

https://flic.kr/p/2pfcVEt

 

[Dr.Al]

I made a pile of bits:

One of the big brass bits is a spare and I still need to make two more of the plain stainless bars when I've bought some more bar.

The tiny brass bits go into the ends of the M6-threaded knurled knobs:

and the whole lot ends up looking like this:

All in place (except for two of the cross-bars which will be added once some more stainless bar has arrived):

 

[6ply]

Chunky t-nut.

Saw it as an opportunity to do some horizontal milling. Great for hogging.

 

[mtt.tr]

Put hands free into my climbing / cutting helmet.

Partly for music when doing menial tasks, but more importantly to have onsite Comms when I'm climbing and doing rigging jobs.

Fiddly bloody jack to solder. The lidl rechargeable soldering iron is the ideal companion to the M12 iron.



This is a V6 I'm told I can have a v4 and 3 additional v6s or 4s which will allow full duplex Comms.


Now looking for a ptt handset to modify