Stuff you have made today

[Wedg1e]

Put hands free into my climbing / cutting helmet.
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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.
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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

Sounds like you need one of the Cardo Packtalk units; they have full-duplex permanently. We use them on motorcycles and you can get a full day in a group of up to 15, out of a full charge. Link to your phone, play music as well (the comms over-rides the music, and a phone call over-rides comms).
I'm sure Cardo actually do a version intended for emergency services etc..

 

[mtt.tr]

Sounds like you need one of the Cardo Packtalk units; they have full-duplex permanently. We use them on motorcycles and you can get a full day in a group of up to 15, out of a full charge. Link to your phone, play music as well (the comms over-rides the music, and a phone call over-rides comms).
I'm sure Cardo actually do a version intended for emergency services etc..

This does all of that but for £60 a unit

 

[Wedg1e]

This does all of that but for £60 a unit

I took it from your PTT comment that it wasn't totally hands-free... and you said it wasn't full-duplex
Sometimes think a lot of this technology is a lot more expensive than it ought to be, nor is it as durable as it ought to be (micro USBs as charge connectors FFS ) - I think Apple started the overpricing trend

 

[mtt.tr]

I took it from your PTT comment that it wasn't totally hands-free... and you said it wasn't full-duplex
Sometimes think a lot of this technology is a lot more expensive than it ought to be, nor is it as durable as it ought to be (micro USBs as charge connectors FFS ) - I think Apple started the overpricing trend

So you have the v6 which is two unit full duplex
Or chuck in a v4 unit you get 4 way full duplex

But for ground guys I want them to have ptt I don't have to hear a saw buzzing away, being that I sub climb I want the handpiece so I can give it to the most responsible groundie.

 

[Wedg1e]

But for ground guys I want them to have ptt I don't have to hear a saw buzzing away, being that I sub climb I want the handpiece so I can give it to the most responsible groundie.

Aha yeah, fair point. We grumble at each other if someone (usually me) leaves a visor up and the mic picks up the wind noise.

 

[Maker]

An indestructible catapult fork. Out of 10mm round for a kid along the doorsView attachment 425268

No greenhouse in a mile radius will be safe now!

 

[6ply]

An indestructible catapult fork. Out of 10mm round for a kid along the doorsView attachment 425268

I had a black widow as a kid.

I thought that was indestructible...

.. Until the band (or was it the frame?) snapped and slammed back into my face.

 

[magnet]

I had a black widow as a kid.

I thought that was indestructible...

.. Until the band (or was it the frame?) snapped and slammed back into my face.

Ocupational hazard for the catapult aficianado unfortunately

 

[Hood]

Another etching in slate.

 

[Farside]

I had a black widow as a kid.

I thought that was indestructible...

.. Until the band (or was it the frame?) snapped and slammed back into my face.

I recently bought a cheerful Chinese catapult with wrist brace and what looks like two surgical elastics as propulsion, in order to get wires over trees.
Quite pleased to find that my muscle memory is still accurate, after a fifty year gap.

 

[Barking Mat]

Another etching in slate.

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That's amazing, time to quit the day job ???

 

[Hood]

Haha no chance of that.

 

[MattF]

Time to quit the day job ???

And disappoint all those lobsters who've started a sizer collection?

 

[magnet]

A Little grapple. I've some mesh to drag out of a local river deposited there by some lazy fencers who couldn't be bothered to take it away at the end of the job.
If I can hook it out I've a nice little job lined up for it. Time will tell.

 

[Hood]

Personally I would have had more rake on the arms but ...

 

[Mick Annick]

The paint and fittings arrived for the painting tool box. First, 2 coars of primer and two top coats. The cheap builders merchant's ply on the front and back is really nasty but it will do.
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The handle and catches arrived from Pen Elcon, they supply bits for making cabs for the music industry. Look pretty bog standard to me . I already had some cheap corner protectors but they were antiqued so painted them satin black. I wish I had painted the hinges black two, I guess I still can.

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Next onto fitting out the inside I have a few ideas. I quite like the contrast between the painted outside and wood interior.

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Cheers
Andy

Andy

Have you had a chance to do much signwriting yet? I’ve taken it up but am struggling to do anything decent, need to book up for a bit of tuition.

 

[magnet]

Personally I would have had more rake on the arms but ...

Aye I wondered about that. Easy enough to bend a bit more in i suppose.

 

[Hood]

This is the angle I usually put on the ones for grabbing flag ropes for the fishermen.

 

[Dcal]

Another, not today, but recently I made a Hicksville transmission jack to get the auto box back into the daughter's boyfriend's Ranger.

I didn't think it through properly before taking this on, cos I'm busy at work and its winter and
I've no room in the garage and there's an Alfa on the lift, so it's outside and I'm old and decrepit and it's a Ford and it's an Auto and I know nothing about auto boxes or Fords as I only work on Italian scrap, but anyway, the Ranger s**h itself and had to be recovered.
Oil all over the road and the engine will start and then stall.
I thought it was half sized or threw a rod as the oil was black but it turns out it was transmission oil.
Nice black transmission oil.

Pulled the box and found this.

Ordered a new torque converter, gearbox gasket and filter.
I also made a boss and welded it into the sump pan so it's not such a pain to change the ATF and filter again.

Got it all back together but it's a bit of a lump and I didn't fancy it just teetering on a jack, so welded a few bits of steel to an old trolly jack saddle.

And Voilà, I have something that will probably try and kill me but in fairness it worked well enough.

It's all assembled and back working, but it's not a job for an old man to do outside during the wettest November in years.

Still we all like a challenge.
Don't we?

 

[Farside]

but it's not a job for an old man to do outside during the wettest November in years

Nah. Booger that.