Stuff you have made today

[jordhandson]

That's brilliant thanks

What i have left are slightly shorter than I thought slightly over 240mm I would have to weigh them or shipping if they are long enough depending on what size folder your gonna make.

Cheers Jord

 

[anto44]

What i have left are slightly shorter than I thought slightly over 240mm I would have to weigh them or shipping if they are long enough depending on what size folder your gonna make.

Cheers Jord

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Yeah I'd still be interested, I'll pm you my address

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Day to myself. Or "Day in Playpen"

House to myself. stew and dumplings in slow cooker, CD multi-changer fully loaded.
Heater working, coffee machine working.

Stanley Spokeshave.



Stanley spoke shave. Does not look that much was done to it. But the paint and sticker was original. So I decided to keep it. The blade was trying to be a saw blade. Being a small blade it would not fit the honing guide. So I made a "Jig" to make it fit. It was ground to 30deg and then sharpened to 20deg. The shavings you see are from old bit of oak.


Sargent Block Plane.




A Rusty lump. A rusty seized lump.
Hot electrolysis. Hot water kept at 90degc By a "Recycled" tea urn. The a wire brush. The brass fixings did not want to clean up. The blade needed to be reground and sharpened. But the biggest crime was that some one had used "Metal filler" To hold the adjustable mouth in place. That was a real pain. Tested on the oak again.

Stanley adjustable square.



Not much needed to this tool. But the wooden stock was very dry. You could almost hear the wood going "Glug Glug" So break some bee's wax into a old tin, add linseed oil to make a old fashion wood treatment. Then using a old cotton rag apply.

Cotton rags are recycled from charity shop cloths throw outs. £5 will get you 2 large bags of rags to be.




This "Thing" (Insert bad words here) has proved to be the straw what broke the camels back. Despite being in a cleaning tent to remove the muck and grime. It was still seized. Not with years of muck, but super glue.
So a raid of Mini Me stock of make up I "liberated" some nail varnish remover. That has helped and now it does move and is now in bits. But That's all I did get done.


So now relaxing with a decent stew, chilled wine. First drink since New Year.

How to chill wine down TYA style.

Take a bucket, fill with water. Add wine. Empty old CO2 extinguisher into water.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I was looking forward to this job. Turned into a minefield,
Not my job. Favor for a contact.
Did drawings and confirmed its green oak.

Been on the defensive from the get go. Get the impression they were expecting dried pse oak and were expecting a kit form.
Not me covering the front garden in sawdust.

Halfway through and I'm asked when I'm putting the diagonal braces in.

What braces says me.

Shown a pencil sketch the surveyor drew.

Not possible to as front crossbeam and posts don't line up.

Were told that once it's been Danish oiled it will match the front door...

I may have laughed.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I was looking forward to this job. Turned into a minefield,
Not my job. Favor for a contact.
Did drawings and confirmed its green oak.

Been on the defensive from the get go. Get the impression they were expecting dried pse oak and were expecting a kit form.
Not me covering the front garden in sawdust.

Halfway through and I'm asked when I'm putting the diagonal braces in.

What braces says me.

Shown a pencil sketch the surveyor drew.

Not possible to as front crossbeam and posts don't line up.

Were told that once it's been Danish oiled it will match the front door...

I may have laughed.

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Should add. I had no interaction interaction with the customers until Tuesday morning when I arrived on site.
Subbing for a double glazing firm.

3 for 3 now. I'm out. Plenty more people to work for.

Just had a text. Don't go tomorrow to finish.

Shame. It looks identical to my drawings.

First flat roof.
Rock up. Find the brickie so have used the slab for finished floor level walls are 175mm too low. Fit the roof anyway I'm told.

Extra tall units wren supplied for the kitchen wouldn't fit.

Second roof. Drawings made by me. Turn up to find low walls and a steel in the way of my joists.

Redesign the roof on the fly and cantilever to get my roof joists past it.

 

[steviec_lj]

I was looking forward to this job. Turned into a minefield,
Not my job. Favor for a contact.
Did drawings and confirmed its green oak.

Been on the defensive from the get go. Get the impression they were expecting dried pse oak and were expecting a kit form.
Not me covering the front garden in sawdust.

Halfway through and I'm asked when I'm putting the diagonal braces in.

What braces says me.

Shown a pencil sketch the surveyor drew.

Not possible to as front crossbeam and posts don't line up.

Were told that once it's been Danish oiled it will match the front door...

I may have laughed.

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Very nice...

Looks too busy with those diagonals in, in my opinion.

Sounds s bit like the oak porch, outbuilding and veranda I helped construct for the in-laws, no plans though, and it changed daily!

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Very nice...

Looks too busy with those diagonals in, in my opinion.

Sounds s bit like the oak porch, outbuilding and veranda I helped construct for the in-laws, no plans though, and it changed daily!

I would say its what the customer asked for but apparently they were never shown them.

Not bad considering I had a photo and some scribbled measurements to work from.

 

[mpats]

Made a start on the rotating stand for the new linisher today. Want it so I can have it in either the horizontal or vertical position (or any angle in between). The white bits were acquired for free recently, quite handy too as the bolt is an S92 gearbox mounting bolt and is the perfect size, plus I've got the nice threaded square part of the barrel but to use. I'll weld a handle to the head of the bolt so it can be released and tightened by without tooling. Also, 25mm box is just the right size for the spacer.
I'll cut part way through and fold then weld the 3mm sheet for a column then I think i'll probably re'use the base that came with it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Day 2 of being left alone..

Mrs TYA and Mini Me away. But planned lay in did not happen. 2 reasons.
UPS man knocking on the door at 06:30, but an old issue meant I as already awake.

So to play.
Prep the curry in slow cooker, rice soaking. Coffee machine reloaded, cd changer reloaded. Nerf Guns, reloaded and set out. Mini Me due home anytime. You have to be ready for the unexpected.

Record 71 1/2 Router plane.



Looked good, but looks are deceiving. The guide would not sit square on the base. It was not the guide what was wrong. But a warp in the base, so strip down. 200 grit paste, 8mm sheet off glass and a mug off coffee. A long time passed. Ken Bruce was doing "Pop Master". It is now flat and the 3 blades were also treated with a lick of a stone. Just to put a edge on and remove the rust.
The Base, cutters and other bare metal were coated with had wax dissolved in Linseed oil. The handles were steeped in linseed oil and polished.


Woden Mitre Clamp.



A Nice example, fully working. One clip holding a jaw in place was needed. But a "C" clip was soon found. The paint work cleaned up nicly and was waxed with Bee's wax and the shine is good I think.



Oh yes, the meter you see in the top picture is a damp meter, just needed a new battery.

Record 78 Plane.



Not bad, not complete. Missing the fence, but that cab wait. I knew the blade was damaged. I got 20% taken off the price. Sadly no replacement blade was found. Plus my green stone sharpener is in Liverpool. Not happy about that.




The blade just fitted my honing guide and on a 200 grit stone I set to work. Mr Vines was still jabbering on when I finished. But on the first cut on pine the cutting edge "burred over". Googles helped. I warmed it the red heat, evenly over and quenched it into water, then warmed it dark straw and dipped into oil. Re honed to 20deg. It is a mean edge.

The metal work was again polished and sealed with clear lacquer. In the future I mat paint it. We will see.



Vampire Wooden Plough Plane.




This thing seriously testing me. Any one hear me cussing it?

It is now in bits and cleaned. But it bit back and drew blood. The brass ferrules on the beams managed to "acquire" a burr. No I don't know how. Sadly trying to remove it the remove the burr is spilt into two. So a braze repair and dipping into hair based ammonia has aged it and allow me to refit it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

In bits, I was lucky. My blood did not stain the wood. But can you see the repaired ferrule, on the right as you look at it.



The blades, set of 8. I am missing 2. They are on order. Did clean up and take a cutting edge very well, old tool steel is a lot better than some new stuff.



You can see the crud from the tools. That brown liquid is "Meths" I used 4 litres today cleaning tools.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Nerf Gun Upgrdae.
Here we see a standard Nerf Gun.


Up graded.
Laser sight.

 

[Hood]

Few jobs today.
First was a stainless right angle exhaust for a V Twin Honda engine that is for the donkey engine of the latest Cat.

Fitted to the silencer after a quick polish.

Next off was some hauler knives, the ones that come with this type of hauler are steel and the skipper didn't like the rust streaks that they leave down th bulkhead so he wanted a couple of stainless ones made. I roughed them out of a bit of 25mm thick stainless with the hand torch on the plasma and then profile milled them to clean them up. Then I bolted them to a plate and angled them in the vice.

Milled the taper on one side, flipped over and did the other.

Rinsed and repeated for the second one and that was them done.

Last thing for today was make some branding irons for melting the boats number into fish boxes. Still have the handles to weld on but will have to get some steel rod/tube as all I have is stainless and I am not wasting that welding it to steel

Video of the plasma doing its thing, it is 10mm steel.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Laser sight.

No head shots, then. [thinking of Mini-Me's eyes]

 

[jordhandson]

Sorry no photo but I nearly made a mess in my pants today. LOL. I was pressing out some suspension bushes out of the suspension arms on mums car my bearing press nearly maxed out then they gave way got to be one of the hardest pushed I have done todate. What a BANG I though they were going to crush
Just remembered I do have a photo

 

[Hood]

That's a relief, thought for a minute, when you said you had a pic, that it was going to be of some brown stains

 

[Dieselman 63]

Vandals stole our letter box, a right old pain because without it we won’t get post. Fortunately I have a supply of corrugated steel offcuts so knocking up a new one wasn’t too much of a struggle - though my jigsaw blade broke and I had to finish the cutting with a panel hacksaw, hard work!

 

[Farside]

Vandals stole our letter box, a right old pain because without it we won’t get post. Fortunately I have a supply of corrugated steel offcuts so knocking up a new one wasn’t too much of a struggle - though my jigsaw blade broke and I had to finish the cutting with a panel hacksaw, hard work!

They won't nick that!
(Unless they're into rural chic)

 

[chris pruteanu]

Welded a piston from a big digger today...took out the stick welder with super basic rods then finished the edge with the tig...came out ok !

 

[chris pruteanu]

Then made a small balcony for one of my cousins mate...

 

[chris pruteanu]

Then prepared a few more jobs for next week...welded a crank ready to go to machine shop, also a few toothed gears and couple of patches on alloy tanks ! Fixed some patches to a rusty steel tank, sometimes I bother why people repair rubbish like this when it’s easier to make new ?!