Stuff you have made today

[DAPPH]

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I chopped up an IBC to make a firewood store. Cut the top off and pulled out the plastic insert then cut that diagonally to make a roof-top. Drilled and fixed that with metal cable ties one side so it can be opened like a wheelie bin lid. It allows the wood to dry out in the air but the lid keeps the rain off.

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Use the remaining IBC plastic to make a simple removeable front & side wrap around top keep the wood in it even drier ?????

Here in Wales the wind driven rain would soak any visible wood if left like that as a matter of honour & duty .

 

[RichardM]

Best to get the airflow through it Dutch Barn style.

 

[Tilly819]

Suprised you didn't put bars on the shaft locking screws so you never have to look for an Allen key to adjust the height

Good idea. I may well end up doing that at some point.

 

[magnet]

Spoon bracket for the boiling ring for the fire. Now i can keep ash off the spoon. Nee more floaters in me tea!

 

[RichardM]

Nee more floaters in me tea!

Floaters must have a different meaning down here!

 

[nickk]

A drive in plus a screw in mounting for an art students display,I formed the eyes by wrapping around a tube,the staple was done hot with points,then formed around a fixture.

 

[oldbikedavey]

A good deal more fettling and machining to Bantam squish cylinder head casting No.2, which is looking rather agreeably chunky, in its way.
That, and a resolution to eat more oatmeal porridge as an act of defiance to our disgraceful and insane government...

 

[Maker]

That, and a resolution to eat more oatmeal porridge as an act of defiance to our disgraceful and insane government...

Clearly I've missed something...

 

[MattF]

Clearly I've missed something...

You're not alone.

 

[oldbikedavey]

Clearly I've missed something...

Evidently, oatmeal porridge is now classed as 'junk food' by HMG, and advertising it is to be banned.
Not burgers or fried chicken , though.... ?
Well, who'd - a - thunk -it...

 

[Gragson]

Evidently, oatmeal porridge is now classed as 'junk food' by HMG, and advertising it is to be banned.
Not burgers or fried chicken , though.... ?
Well, who'd - a - thunk -it...

Yeah I read that - and crumpets!

 

[iNf]

Evidently, oatmeal porridge is now classed as 'junk food

Only the flavoured ones with added sugar etc, plain oats not included in ban. Lots of breakfast cereal is touted as 'healthy' but most of it is full of sugar and salt

 

[Kram]

Bought this Fakita last night and it was here 7am this morning.
Ronseal fence paint needs to be thinned 3:1 water to make it work well but saved me a lot of time.

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(@MattF )

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DGFV9KLP

Was getting dark so didnt get a finnished pic. Its now raining but most of it was dry.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

An air installation for the workshop:

Everything I installed worked first time, no leaks... Very happy with that.

The 150 psi air did reveal that the hose reel had a deteriorated section though.

However, chopping it off a foot short, I was able to reinstall the clever little ferrule and fix it.

 

[bricol]

First rule of air drops - not vertically down from the supply pipe. You are going to have to remember to crack that valve a touch to check for water before connecting.

 

[m_c]

First rule of air drops - not vertically down from the supply pipe. You are going to have to remember to crack that valve a touch to check for water before connecting.

That reminds me years ago, an installer was in an old employers workshop to fit a new tyre machine, and commented, "I see they got a plumber to install the air pipework", followed by "I bet that airline in the corner fills with water?".
Every drop was a basic T straight down, and the first one after where the air pipe came into the workshop always filled with water.

 

[Blobber]

First rule of air drops - not vertically down from the supply pipe. You are going to have to remember to crack that valve a touch to check for water before connecting.

This^^^ and galv pipe really

 

[bricol]

I noticed on our shop floor recently we'd gone away from taking the drop from the top of the pipe, instead relying on a reducing tee orientated so the drop came out sideways. Should be okay I guess.

I haven't noticed any drains on the ends of our newer drops either. Maybe I'll ask the staff forum what the current SOP for checking and draining is . . . that should cause a few consternations

 

[Kram]

My side of fence and a few bits the other side will need redoing. The paint states shower proof in an hour and it had approx 3-4 hours between the time that I finished and when it started.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

First rule of air drops - not vertically down from the supply pipe. You are going to have to remember to crack that valve a touch to check for water before connecting.

There's probably enough adjustment with a big footprint wrench to let me put them horizontal but if not it's no skin off my nose as I would normally to snift the valve before I use it anyway.