Stuff you have made today

[finyuk2005]

Going to make a blind nut M10x1 ,to exclude the front left brake circuit to drive my car home or to my shop ,since it's on a side of the road in the middle of nowhere

I had a field car once that i found the head of a nail to fit perfectly in the hole, then just screwed the fitting back in the abs pump, somehow it never leaked!!
my cv joint had let go and the driveshaft whipped the brake line in half!

 

[Memmeddu]

If the line is a flexible hose, could you clamp it with a pair of grips as a “get me home fix”?

Imagine the grips getting caught in the wheel ...
I've already made the cap.
I'll remove the entire caliper and the flex line ,put the cap .
Fill the oil reservoir pump few times,then 20 km of road at roughly 20 km/h

 

[Memmeddu]

I had a field car once that i found the head of a nail to fit perfectly in the hole, then just screwed the fitting back in the abs pump, somehow it never leaked!!
my cv joint had let go and the driveshaft whipped the brake line in half!

My car has no abs but the pump despite has 2 circuits (left and right in a cross pattern layout) has only one reservoir.
Clutch is on the same reservoir.
Hopefully I'll get it home.

 

[Memmeddu]

One of the most traumatic driving experience.
I've cut a piece of 25 mm cold rolled at roughly 50 mm length.
Found the centre using a vernier.
Centre punch
Fixed the piece in the small 100mm 3 jaws chuck .
Put it in the drill press (useless piece of scrap metal)
Centre drill
Drilled at 4.5mm using a parkside bit roughly 30 mm deep .
Then used a 12 mm and drilled just enough to make the cutters touch for its entire width
Then tried to drill using a parkside 9 mm bit nothing to do.
So I've took all the courage I've got , and used the 9 mm bit from the gühring decimal set .
Truly afraid to break it do to the fact that the chuck wasn't fixed on the drill press and everything was moving do to the horrific runout of the drill .
It drilled it like if was drilling through plastic .
The best 50 euro spent ever (got the set for 50 euros instead of 600+)
Then check if the taps and dies set I've bought recently had a M10X1 tap cause it's mainly SAE , and it did.
So I've put the tapered tap in one of the tap wrenches I've restored.
Started the thread helping myself to go straight using the quill of the drill press .
Cut half through the hole and switched to an Emuge machine tap to have chip evacuation since it was a blind hole .
Cleaned using a belt file .
Overall satisfied with the taps & dies set despite its cheapness.
And glad to have bought a bunch of brand name machining related tools.
I'm now convinced to have to buy a 150 euros Dormer drill bit set .
Anyways trip to where I've left the car .
Lifted , removed the wheel ,cut the flex line which has fail because rubbing on the wheel.
Undo the flare fittings ,
Threaded the cap I've made on the steel line .
Filled the reservoir.
Pumped the pedal and purged the line not enough cause it still have air in it but enough to brake.
Then the journey home has been traumatic.
Cause of the braking distance and the fact the car turns right do to the fact most of the braking happens up front and all the pressure is applied on the right wheel .
I've been never been so scared driving at less than 30 km/h

 

[GRW]

One of the most traumatic driving experience.
I've cut a piece of 25 mm cold rolled at roughly 50 mm length.
Found the centre using a vernier.
Centre punch
Fixed the piece in the small 100mm 3 jaws chuck .
Put it in the drill press (useless piece of scrap metal)
Centre drill
Drilled at 4.5mm using a parkside bit roughly 30 mm deep .
Then used a 12 mm and drilled just enough to make the cutters touch for its entire width
Then tried to drill using a parkside 9 mm bit nothing to do.
So I've took all the courage I've got , and used the 9 mm bit from the gühring decimal set .
Truly afraid to break it do to the fact that the chuck wasn't fixed on the drill press and everything was moving do to the horrific runout of the drill .
It drilled it like if was drilling through plastic .
The best 50 euro spent ever (got the set for 50 euros instead of 600+)
Then check if the taps and dies set I've bought recently had a M10X1 tap cause it's mainly SAE , and it did.
So I've put the tapered tap in one of the tap wrenches I've restored.
Started the thread helping myself to go straight using the quill of the drill press .
Cut half through the hole and switched to an Emuge machine tap to have chip evacuation since it was a blind hole .
Cleaned using a belt file .
Overall satisfied with the taps & dies set despite its cheapness.
And glad to have bought a bunch of brand name machining related tools.
I'm now convinced to have to buy a 150 euros Dormer drill bit set .
Anyways trip to where I've left the car .
Lifted , removed the wheel ,cut the flex line which has fail because rubbing on the wheel.
Undo the flare fittings ,
Threaded the cap I've made on the steel line .
Filled the reservoir.
Pumped the pedal and purged the line not enough cause it still have air in it but enough to brake.
Then the journey home has been traumatic.
Cause of the braking distance and the fact the car turns right do to the fact most of the braking happens up front and all the pressure is applied on the right wheel .
I've been never been so scared driving at less than 30 km/h

I've driven home with no brakes more than once (the last time being a 100 mile journey). I had the manual handbrake & the journey was on a Sunday on rural roads, while the pedal went nearly to the floor (I knew I might have one at least partial football operation, but daren't test that, preferring to keep that "just in case").

It makes you appreciate just how much you need the brakes even for careful, steady, relaxed driving.
Without the brake pedal, you need to be extremely proactive & planning ahead, using your gears and observation to make progress without ever getting into a situation where there wasn't enough gap to stop using gears & handbrake only.
It's demanding & tiring having no brakes!

 

[Memmeddu]

I've driven home with no brakes more than once (the last time being a 100 mile journey). I had the manual handbrake & the journey was on a Sunday on rural roads, while the pedal went nearly to the floor (I knew I might have one at least partial football operation, but daren't test that, preferring to keep that "just in case").

It makes you appreciate just how much you need the brakes even for careful, steady, relaxed driving.
Without the brake pedal, you need to be extremely proactive & planning ahead, using your gears and observation to make progress without ever getting into a situation where there wasn't enough gap to stop using gears & handbrake only.
It's demanding & tiring having no brakes!

Perfectly right.
I sat on the couch at roughly 11pm when I've wrote the reply you quoted.
I was so stressed and tired I've fell asleep in matter of seconds wake up at 6AM this morning.
Fortunately I've asked my boss to stay home today explaining what happened and he understood.
I've just finished to replace the flex lines at front , didn't bought the rear ones yet but I will replace them too.
Purged and feels right, have to try this afternoon going to the gas station to inflate the tires

 

[Hitch]

Finished this frame off this afternoon. Rest of the clips and cable basket now on, and ready for a clean up.
Doing box section on the diamond makes it a pretty long winded job.

 

[Hood]

I have 3 roller systems to do, two are replacements of current ones as they are not the best and they want ones the way I do them, the third will be to replace a davit.

Starting on the first one today by making up the roller, the boat should be coming out of the water next week.

Bored some 8 1/2" dia x 16mm thick plates to 48mm ID and then machined some 50mm dia stainless to press into them and weld.
Using Magmaweld 316 rods, they are ok but not as nice as the Esab ones I had previously.

Then into the lathe to true them up and machine a step that will fit inside some 8" NB Sch 40 pipe.

Tapped the first one in and welded it upright,

Lifted onto the bandsaw for welding the second end.

 

[Cheesie]

the missus sees a few random tubes lying in the wshop and says can you make me a few plant pots, View attachment 449994¾

 

[bricol]

Finished this frame off this afternoon. Rest of the clips and cable basket now on, and ready for a clean up.
Doing box section on the diamond makes it a pretty long winded job.

I'm not necessarily convinced it reduces dust build up - when it gets sticky, there's now double the amount of crap stuck to it, just at an angle.

 

[Bki26]

Made some little blocks for attaching the retractable mesh gate to the new deck for dog control.
One of the gears for the mini lathe was the perfect thickness as a spacer to get the full depth of the holesaw

 

[Hitch]

I'm not necessarily convinced it reduces dust build up - when it gets sticky, there's now double the amount of crap stuck to it, just at an angle.

Yep, I agree personally

 

[MysterG]

I made two dents in my Midget, when a metal petrol can fell from a great height onto it.
One in the boot lid, one in the rear deck.

 

[Farside]

I made two dents in my Midget, when a metal petrol can fell from a great height onto it.
One in the boot lid, one in the rear deck.

Patina.

 

[Mart63]

Table Insert for an Axminster Mini Bandsaw.

 

[Hood]

Made a couple of nylon rollers.

A couple of aluminium keys for the tamper proof nuts I made for my mirrors.

Cut some 10mm Alu for a roller bracket, need gas so couldn't weld them up today.

A close up of the cut edge to show what Alu cut on the plasma looks like.

Also saw a vid on youtube of a tool and thought it a great idea so drew it up

And here it is in action.

 

[Hitch]

Bit of a joint effort this one.
One of the apprentices was at a bit of a looses end, and the MD has been after some stainless flowers for a while.
Got him set up plasmaing some petals out, a few bits and bobs, bit of copper... and we managed these between us.

 

[My Old Landy]

Test cuts on the xTool S1. Plywood, MDF and anodised aluminium. I am impressed with the ease of use.

 

[Johnnybravo]

A bit of engraving on some tank parts. Hole is 4,2mm for scale

 

[Seadog]

'Cease fire' ?