Stuff you have made today

[Sergei Slovenija]

For the most keen-eyed turners.

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[Sergei Slovenija]

For the most keen-eyed turners.

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Installed the sleeve onto the shaft using an anaerobic fixative. The other day, finishing grooving and polishing of the bronze. I'll fill the groove with epoxy. The original sleeve can probably be removed by annealing the rubber without fanaticism (it has a rubber layer!). So as not to spoil the original varnish of the crosspiece.

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[DAPPH]

Started grinding the pitting down on an old anvil stake.
Realised the two big rust dimples were actually holes filled with lead.
Stared in confusion.
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I wonder, could they be used to dull down/ alter the resonance of a ringing anvil ?

 

[Dr.Al]

Nothing fancy, just a rather rough-and-ready rack for storing sanding stuff. I used to keep sanding belts and sanding (mostly wet & dry) sheets in a drawer, but I'm pretty sure I've lost quite a few of the sheets down the back of the drawer unit and it was always a pain to rummage through to find the one I wanted. Sanding stuff for attachment to the angle grinder and/or Fein oscillating multi-tool lived in another drawer so this frees up quite a bit of drawer space:

Belts hang on the end:

There's a French cleat on the back and the whole thing hangs one of the last remaining free spots on the joists:

I think I'll re-print the label that goes down the left-hand side to shuffle the sheets around a bit (to move the more often used ones nearer the bottom for easier access while it's on the cleat). I rarely use the multi-tool sanding stuff, so it's no big deal to lift the unit down off the cleat when I want to get something out of that section.

 

[Blue Chips]

Nothing fancy, just a rather rough-and-ready rack for storing sanding stuff.

I like your design. As I've posted elsewhere on the forum, I've been thinking about ways to store my 'flat abrasive' stuff. Due to lack of space in my shop, I'd have to either hang it under a shelf or under a workbench.

 

[Cheesie]

Finished this off in-between other things

going into the green car

 

[galooph]

Nothing fancy, just a rather rough-and-ready rack

I think my definition of rough and ready is a bit different to yours! – that looks really good, as ever

 

[Dr.Al]

I think my definition of rough and ready is a bit different to yours! – that looks really good, as ever

There's a reason the labels cover (aka hide) the ends of the grooves that the shelves sit in.

 

[Dr.Al]

A spare blade for my block plane:

Making it ended up being a bit of an ordeal, but I got there in the end. You can read about my trials and tribulations in the dedicated thread: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum...making-a-wood-metal-plane.136792/post-2434436

 

[Memmeddu]

Quick and dirty ECU for the 6x6 engine. Once it's up and running I'll replace the off the shelf module with a custom one.
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Diy efi - I think I've got one of them here somewhere, never got around to building it up.

It'll be interesting to hear how you go with this, I've considered adding Speeduino to one of my Vauxhalls but not done anything about it.

I actually have bought one a year or so ago.
Never got the time to complete it or spend time to study in deep how to get it running.
I'm considering to buy another 126 and achieve the goal of building my own rally car.
It would either be used on a 126 bis water cooled engine or on a 4 cylinder fiat .
Most likely the 899cc because it's more turbo compatible than the F.I.R.E.
And it can run up to 1 bar of boost on stock components.
Back to speeduino its main limit I think is the lack of knock control.
After that it's a pretty good device according with the web .
It has launch control and hardcut for quick shifting.
And there's a mapping program which can create a map with auto learning option

 

[Memmeddu]

So this morning I've welded a tuk tuk gearbox and this evening I've finished to restore tho tap wrenches and die stocks.
The video is uploading on YouTube

 

[northwest]

Finally manoeuvred my new_to_me drill organiser into it's new home, it required building a stand:



Gareth meanwhile had to repair the Millenium Falcon, he likes a treat:



I didn't envy him, someone had mis-folded this in 3mm 316 so they were trying to recover the job, too much money in it to start again, why they didn't just give him the work in the first place I have no idea. Anyhow, back to the plot. All welded up and a rattle can:



It's white:



Had to clear the whole corner out in order to start again:



Put the carcass up then put the drawers back in, this height is carefully calculated to allow me to open a drawer and actually see what's in it:



Then put everything back:



There was one mishap where I dropped one of the 'Raco' drawers and even after ten minutes of Tetris I couldn't get the little containers back in in order, need to do a bit of research:



Now all I need to do is work out what to put where, this should provide hours of entertainment!

 

[Memmeddu]

 

[nickk]

A pair of less regular handrails,25mm round, then waxed,another

one coming soon,the vicar and his flock were getting complaints,especially as the woman dishing out hymn books is 100!

 

[GRW]

Earlier I knocked up a mounting for my Webasto diesel heater. Where (I think) I'm installing it in the van I need to go through 12mm lly and another 25mm of insulation & batten before getting to the floor pan - so I thought I'd make an ovalled "tunnel" mount so the heater body will stand proud of the insulated floor rather than me cut a huge chunk of it out.

I had a piece of stainless steel offcut left from the galley kitchen splashback. I don't have stainless wire in my MiG, but I thought I'd have a lash with it anyway - as I've never tried welding anything stainless before.

I've not welded for months, & I'm self-taught and not many torch hours.... so frankly my welds looked ropey as hell - pretty horrible to look at, but solid.

It was a nice change to play with the dinky Rollers, the metal shears/guillotine, the 6x4 saw & the mig welder. Need to cut some threads on some long & shouldered M6 bolts I've ket from something tomorrow am (I've cut the bolt heads off ready, as I need longer threads now from the heater baseplate to mount it).

(No pics, as the welding is too fugly!)

 

[Barking Mat]

Earlier I knocked up a mounting for my Webasto diesel heater. Where (I think) I'm installing it in the van I need to go through 12mm lly and another 25mm of insulation & batten before getting to the floor pan - so I thought I'd make an ovalled "tunnel" mount so the heater body will stand proud of the insulated floor rather than me cut a huge chunk of it out.

I had a piece of stainless steel offcut left from the galley kitchen splashback. I don't have stainless wire in my MiG, but I thought I'd have a lash with it anyway - as I've never tried welding anything stainless before.

I've not welded for months, & I'm self-taught and not many torch hours.... so frankly my welds looked ropey as hell - pretty horrible to look at, but solid.

It was a nice change to play with the dinky Rollers, the metal shears/guillotine, the 6x4 saw & the mig welder. Need to cut some threads on some long & shouldered M6 bolts I've ket from something tomorrow am (I've cut the bolt heads off ready, as I need longer threads now from the heater baseplate to mount it).

(No pics, as the welding is too fugly!)

I feel the same some days with my tig welds.

 

[DAPPH]

Sat on my butt and changed the on off switch & emergency stop button on an old lathe . Funny how the Men's Shed " experts " reckoned six weeks ago that it was the capacitor on the motor Even after I showed them that holding the ON button in caused the motor to turn as all speeds
Several so called saved from dead equipment switches were furnished & used by the "experts " , not one worked . Still , "All's well that ends well " , the lathe is now up & running . so is the super duper double cyclone dust & shavings extraction rig I set up . It needs tidying up but it works in principle .. all I need to do is educate guys to use the blinking thing when they use the machines it is designed for .

Oh Ardy , I really feel for you when the Norberts turn up at your sheds in multiples of three or more .

PS.
Don't know why the puter has decided to underline everything

 

[Windy Miller]

Sat on my butt and changed the on off switch & emergency stop button on an old lathe . Funny how the Men's Shed " experts " reckoned six weeks ago that it was the capacitor on the motor Even after I showed them that holding the ON button in caused the motor to turn as all speeds
Several so called saved from dead equipment switches were furnished & used by the "experts " , not one worked . Still , "All's well that ends well " , the lathe is now up & running . so is the super duper double cyclone dust & shavings extraction rig I set up . It needs tidying up but it works in principle .. all I need to do is educate guys to use the blinking thing when they use the machines it is designed for .

Oh Ardy , I really feel for you when the Norberts turn up at your sheds in multiples of three or more .

PS.
Don't know why the puter has decided to underline everything

It's not just underlined - I think you've linked to the whole Forum!

 

[DAPPH]

OMG Will I be known as an underling from now on ?

 

[Brad93]

Sat on my butt and changed the on off switch & emergency stop button on an old lathe . Funny how the Men's Shed " experts " reckoned six weeks ago that it was the capacitor on the motor Even after I showed them that holding the ON button in caused the motor to turn as all speeds
Several so called saved from dead equipment switches were furnished & used by the "experts " , not one worked . Still , "All's well that ends well " , the lathe is now up & running . so is the super duper double cyclone dust & shavings extraction rig I set up . It needs tidying up but it works in principle .. all I need to do is educate guys to use the blinking thing when they use the machines it is designed for .

Oh Ardy , I really feel for you when the Norberts turn up at your sheds in multiples of three or more .

PS.
Don't know why the puter has decided to underline everything

Most electricians have no clue how a motor or the associated control gear actually operates so i'm not surprised.