Stuff you have made today

[Nomad]

Extended the legs on a low z-bed to make a hi-rise folding bed in the camper van. Simple but effective (and done using salvaged materials)
More info https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/renault-traffic-mk1-getting-stuck-in.139536/

 

[Mick Annick]

A thing for making a trench for planting seeds - youngest son is a keen allotmenter and asked for one for Christmas

 

[Hitch]

Progressing steady on these. 5sets in total.
That transition duct needs to be cut into the parallel section and mounted next.

 

[My Old Landy]

A new slate placemat as part of my legends series. Limited to a run of four as that is all the 330mm square slates I have
Coasters for scale.

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[Memmeddu]

My Saturday have been little bit busy
Started with getting up early in the morning, and this already required some effort
Then I've loaded 3 concrete mixers I've repaired on yesterday evening in the trunk.
Delivered to the customer.
Got paid.
Went to visit my brother, we unloaded a wooden shed from the roof of the VITO and moved it were it will be reassembled.
Picked up a Parkside comby brush cutter, my brother asked me to get it running.
Back home unloaded the Parkside comby and went to my property in the woods and collected two microwave ovens given by my uncle as scrap metal.
Little bit of social life till lunch.
Had lunch.
Disassembled the microwaves, saved the useful bits.
Loaded my trunk again this time with scrap metal and back in the woods to unload the trunk in the scrap metal pile.
Main while I've unloaded a dividing head and tailstock nearby my lathe.
They were in the trunk of my car since middle October.
Back home and unloaded firewood from the VITO.
Attempted to start the comby with no luck.
Disassembled, burned the muffler till it started to spit flames using a blowtorch.
Put the cutter power head with the cylinder upside down to make some of the mix to come out the spark plug hole.
Detached the carb.
New spark plug, heated it up and installed.
Started the engine with no carburetor or muffler.
It ran for way too long before it ran out of gasoline from the crank case.
Now I'm currently tying up tools because it will rain a lot tonight over here.
Then I'll have a shower, dinner and I'll see the bed.
On tomorrow I'll reassemble the brush cutter and call it fixed.
Probably I'll have not enough time to repair a Milwaukee hammer so I'll do it next week.
I think I've done for today

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[Hood]

Just made this, chair for scale

 

[Dr.Al]

Just made this, chair for scale

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You must have a lot of potatoes to mash

 

[iNf]

Just made this, chair for scale

Blimey how deep is your potato saucepan!

 

[Hood]

You must have a lot of potatoes to mash

Blimey how deep is your potato saucepan!

Correct use but not me
For a fish merchant for making fishcakes

 

[Hood]

Smokin!!
Shame I only got 6 orders as I could have used the whole sheet, instead I will have to hang onto it for some other job in the future, hopefully not too long.

 

[magnet]

Little toolbox for my old man for Christmas
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[nickk]

Tandem leaf spring swivel clevis’ is that what they’re called? Forged.

 

[Memmeddu]

Repaired the Parkside brush cutter on yesterday evening, figured out it was a carburetor malfunction.
Disassembled it and my first thought was wrong, well partially wrong.
I've initially thought that the needle valve wasn't seating and it wasn't indeed.
But it was the diaphragm that became hard and kept the valve open.
Replaced with an original zama diaphragm, trimmed to fit, adjusted the mitering lever hight to work with the new diaphragm, reassembled.
Adjusted the high jet to 1 full turn.
Started but it was starving while revving, opened little bit more and spot on.

Today I've repaired the remaining concrete mixer from the lot of 4 came in on last week.
New brushes and fitted a new plug.
Then tried out the Milwaukee K750 rotary hammer.
No sign of life, discovered that the voltage presence green luminous indicator light wasn't working.
Opened it up found a broken wire, addressed that, I've reassembled it and plugged in the wall outlet.
Green light on, chisel in the chuck, pointed it on a victim C channel and pressed the trigger....
It works and hit on both light and heavy mode.
Back in the box tidied up and call the day.
50 euro in less than 2 hours.

 

[brightspark]

Little toolbox for my old man for Christmas
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an apprentices 1st job as a fabricator sheet metalworker

 

[magnet]

an apprentices 1st job as a fabricator sheet metalworker

Aye i still have one somewhere i made back in the day.

 

[Tupers]

An awkward to photograph collapsible frame to support a dust cover over an embroidery machine.

 

[David_W]

Making a device to hold connectors flush against a PCB for wave soldering, I realised I only had a slitting saw holder for the old mill with an MT3 taper. So a very bodge-y holder created on the lathe, even just reused the end cap...
But did the job!

 

[Memmeddu]

Destroyed my just arrived onevan drill while disassembling it for you.
Review delayed to tomorrow as I'm getting upset.
I can only tell you lots of thread locker and stupid screws.
I've attempted to drill out the small M3 screw but unfortunately got off center and despite I've drilled more than half screw diameter out it doesn't come out.
I've tapped the wrong hole it would held but not happy right now and missing the enthusiasm to proceed any further for today