Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

Uncertain my boy

Ha ha so what did you use to build it up?

 

[Badger1bear]

it was just a practice with mild steel my boy to see if it was achievable to get the shape on copper plate. The farmer wanted to see if I could build up the blades before shelling out on some expensive wire to do the job..... you know what farmers are like......bailer twine and no money

 

[Badger1bear]

I have sent a question to the UK supplier asking him if he knew what grade of metal they were made from

 

[Hood]

....... you know what farmers are like......bailer twine and no money

Oh I know what they are like all right although I would say lots of them have plenty money, they just like keeping a hold of it.

 

[sardine]

This fills a gap in the hedge my neighbour is growing after the fence panels blew down and he found the posts had concrete rot.

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Tough birds round your way.

Flew straight through steel sheet !

 

[Farside]

There's now a large erection in my garden.

Note the cunning adjustment to fiddle with the take-off angle of the reflector, and the patented counterweight to keep the wire under moderate tension.

Of course, some attention must be paid to protecting the joints from the elements...

All working rather well. It's been a mental day for CB skip, but this is doing a grand job with a bit of directivity to help make some sense of the zoo that many channels descend into when it's like this.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Never liked the tailstock locking lever. Bit thin.
Non destructive so a bit of heat to remove.

One day il make a new lever but for now it will do.
New handles all around. Pitted badly.

One more for the back gear lock to go.

 

[captain-destructo]

Yes.
Yes I did.

what don't get stuck in your throat wont get stuck anywhere else
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may come out rather quickly.........but it didn't get stuck!!!!

 

[DennisCA]

Cut down the legs of my welding table. It was just far too high, now it's 86cm like my other work surfaces. Now I can actually sit and tig weld comfortably. Want to add the castors back in but some kind of system where they are retractable instead.

 

[DennisCA]

Didn't make, just modified. Seeing as I am probably gonna be TIG welding new tool rests of some kind for my new (old, made in the DDR) bench grinder I figured I better get ready for that so I can work comfortably, because my welding table has been over 1 meter tall, horrible to sit and weld at. I cut the legs and made it 86cm tall, much like my other work surfaces.

Now I also lost the castors doing that, but I want a new system where I can lower them only when I want to move the table.

 

[Seadog]

A little job that need a round tuit finally found one. Since I'm now not moving I need some way to remove the front garden gate so that my (to be bought) motorbike will slip in and out without too much fuss.

First job was to reverse the top hinge which had been inverted to prevent the gate from being stolen. There was a spate of this in the late 80s when the house was bought so it seemed like a good idea at the time.

No pictures other than the finished modification. Hinge-pin cut off, bar shortened, pin welded to a short piece of 3/8" MS then reattached to the bottom of the stub.

Not the best weld going, but I'm learning, and the LIDL inverter seemed to cope admirable. Probably not too much penetration but it's good and solid, at the moment.

How to secure the gate to make life difficult for the scrotes.

Take a piece of 2" angle and hack it about a bit.

With the addition of a small shutter lock we now have a solution. I just need to buy some wheels now...

 

[captain-destructo]

A little job that need a round tuit finally found one. Since I'm now not moving I need some way to remove the front garden gate so that my (to be bought) motorbike will slip in and out without too much fuss.

First job was to reverse the top hinge which had been inverted to prevent the gate from being stolen. There was a spate of this in the late 80s when the house was bought so it seemed like a good idea at the time.

No pictures other than the finished modification. Hinge-pin cut off, bar shortened, pin welded to a short piece of 3/8" MS then reattached to the bottom of the stub.

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Not the best weld going, but I'm learning, and the LIDL inverter seemed to cope admirable. Probably not too much penetration but it's good and solid, at the moment.

How to secure the gate to make life difficult for the scrotes.

Take a piece of 2" angle and hack it about a bit.

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With the addition of a small shutter lock we now have a solution. I just need to buy some wheels now...

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if your going to be lifting a gate on and off make one hinge pin longer than the other it makes it so much easier when putting the gate on again

 

[DennisCA]

A new table for the portabandsaw:

 

[Seadog]

if your going to be lifting a gate on and off make one hinge pin longer than the other it makes it so much easier when putting the gate on again

I have

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Another quicky.
Chuck key was sloppy and rusted.

Another pin. Perfect size for my rapid indexer.

Turned the bulk off on the lathe before milling the square then chucked it in a collet to finish.
Temp bar.
Il turn a new bit down tomorrow.

Hex for my 4 jaw next

 

[wookie]

A little job that need a round tuit finally found one. Since I'm now not moving I need some way to remove the front garden gate so that my (to be bought) motorbike will slip in and out without too much fuss.

Nice job and a tidy looking solution, but could you not widen the actual metal gate slightly and then move the hinge point so it's set behind the post on the house side so the gate aperture is completely clear when the gate is open ? That way you wouldn't have to lift the gate on and off every time.

At one house I kept a motorbike in the shed in the back garden and the only way to it was through the house, that got really annoying really quick so much so that I found I hardly used the bike as it was such a pain to get in and out.

 

[Seadog]

Nice job and a tidy looking solution, but could you not widen the actual metal gate slightly and then move the hinge point so it's set behind the post on the house side so the gate aperture is completely clear when the gate is open ?

That would have involved a hell of a lot more work. Also, I then lose the slight advantage of restricting movement if someone tries to make off with it.
There's also a well establish thorny hedge in the way.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Put the finishing touches on this today. I thought you lot might appreciate seeing the crazy spectacle we’re treated to here, house moving! Another semester draws to a close, another painting ticked off

 

[Coupster]

Never liked the tailstock locking lever. Bit thin.
Non destructive so a bit of heat to remove.

One day il make a new lever but for now it will do.
New handles all around. Pitted badly.

One more for the back gear lock to go.
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I like your decimal conversion chart - it looks a lot clearer than most ive seen, where did you get it?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Put the finishing touches on this today. I thought you lot might appreciate seeing the crazy spectacle we’re treated to here, house moving! Another semester draws to a close, another painting ticked off

It'll never be worth anything if you don't sign it......