Stuff you have made today

mtt.tr · Nov 19, 2023

This is a nothing post, might benefit someone.

Trend airshield pro, really nice bit of kit better than a respirator as an all day wearer but the head band is terrible.

After 4 years I've finally paid the £8 for a better one.

So if you have one and don't like the headband a cheap one fits perfectly.

m_c · Nov 19, 2023

A flowchart.
One thing that's been on my roundtuit list for a while, is finishing the code on my little CNC mill so that the tool changer can be initialised easily should it be in a position/status that isn't normal.
This lets me visualise what still needs coded, as all the red boxes are options where I need to manually override things.

However, now having seen the flow, and thought about the possible situations I think a custom page that allows full manual control off the tool changer may be the better option.

brewdexta · Nov 20, 2023

Saturday, 75 litres of Christmas dark mild. This was sparging.

The secret weapon, the hop rocket. Rather than dangle a large quantity of hops in a muslin bag in the fermenter, so called dry hopping, then get disappointed at the result. This works far better. You fill the hop rocket with hops then force boiling wort from the copper through it. This extracts the oils and aroma without additional bitterness. The secret is that you then put it through a plate chiller to cool it down from near boiling to 20c before these flavours and aromas are driven off.

Now nestling in the fermenter. It's right at the top of the style guide in terms of bitterness and ABV for a mild, but it is a Christmas ale.

Seadog · Nov 20, 2023

I look forwards to my delivery :whistle:

Mike Pinches · Nov 20, 2023

Not strictly today but over the weekend I made a kitchen knife. There are a few things I would do differently if I make another, but it is properly sharp and cuts nicely.

Olderisbetter · Nov 20, 2023

This is more of a completed today, this used up any old stuff we already had, the steal was rusty and the boxes filthy, but it has given us 14 boxes 600mm x 400mm x 200mm

Sergei Slovenija · Nov 20, 2023

Made the first sample of Punic wax + attempt to bleach.

MattF · Nov 20, 2023

Punic wax. What's that?

Sergei Slovenija · Nov 21, 2023

MattF said:
Punic wax. What's that?

Saponified beeswax, using a technology now called Marseille soap. Component of encaustic paints and Ganosis.

lchris21 · Nov 22, 2023

... suspension preload adjuster inner workings off a Honda. Not available but managed to find one inside a piece of aluminium. Nice to do some thread cutting on the lathe.

Seadog · Nov 22, 2023

An ash pan for a friend's coal fire. I've been wondering what to do with the Dexion backing panel.
Just a hook to make for removal.

It's welding, Jim, but not as we know it

Onoff · Nov 22, 2023

Erm...almond slices.

Hoping this is the recipe my Mum used. Might have gone a bit heavy on the (homemade blackberry) jam...will report once out of the oven:

marlinspike · Nov 22, 2023

My mum used to make those too. Gotta love an almond slice or even a Bakewell. That cookbook even looks vaguely familiar.

Onoff · Nov 22, 2023

marlinspike said:
My mum used to make those too. Gotta love an almond slice or even a Bakewell. That cookbook even looks vaguely familiar.

It's the Dairy Book of Home Cooking first put out by The Milk Marketing board. Every Mum had a copy when I was a kid. Mind we had a milkman back then.

We have a few editions, my lad even took one to uni. Left to cool:

Onoff · Nov 22, 2023

Ran a flap disc round the edge... Not so sure on the blackberry jam, it was raspberry or apricot in the recipe:

Prajna · Nov 23, 2023

So Nina's landy has a new (2nd hand) engine in it but the dude replaced the mk1 tdi with a mk2 and bodged all the pipework in. When we came to fit a new slightly longer altenator to it we found there was no space to refit the air inlet hose to the turbo and the guy had crushed the (reinforced) hose to fit it on. Well that won't do and anyway there was even less space now. So out with the drawing pencils and sketch up a box to realign things, a trip to one of the local fabricators for some ss off cuts and a little engineering later i made this:

One side clamps to the turbo and the hose connects just under the altenator. Here's it fitted. Hopefully you can see the problem and solution:

That's it, just behind the altenator. I didn't have much space, so it still might restrict the air a little but better than a hose crushed flat. Did i say i really like 312 rods? They run beautifully, one corner has a little inclusion but it seems to do the job.

Seadog · Nov 23, 2023

A few more jobs today.

Lanyard loop from an odd piece of stainless.

A handle for yesterday's ashpan.

And a bracket for a ceiling lamp.

I new that old Range rover battery strap would come in useful one day (I sold the Rangie in 2009).

That'll be a couple more bottles of wine coming my way, no doubt

Hitch · Nov 23, 2023

Knocked this out over the last couple of days between a few of us.

Support frame for a load of 1-3" pipes that will be going to carton/bottle filling machinery..