slim_boy_fat
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Limited turning time today, but managed to turn the barrel for this. Cosmetic manufacturing imperfection in the tyre tread end cap, so messed about with that briefly, one for the discounted seconds pile.
Luckily I have another, which is spot on.
Very clever design, I like it!
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Good afternoon, have been doing some routing of HPI (high pressure laminate), decking for playground equipment, quite **** stuff
It is like fiberglass and it is 10mm thick.
This just the router doing the shallow surface cuts so that the sheet looks like timber panels. This stuff is slow, noisy and damaging to the solid carbide cutters, so it had all the pluses
We just have to do what we get to do and deal with the consequenses. Still, get to play with the cnc machine which is always good
It is like fiberglass and it is 10mm thick. This just the router doing the shallow surface cuts so that the sheet looks like timber panels. This stuff is slow, noisy and damaging to the solid carbide cutters, so it had all the pluses
We just have to do what we get to do and deal with the consequenses. Still, get to play with the cnc machine which is always good
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Yeah, often do them because I like making them, then end up in a case for a while untill someone asks.
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Two days work here, doesn't look a lot but half of that time has been spent measuring, working out with the skipper what he wants, lifting onto the boat and clamping to height with wooden legs and then measuring for each leg as everyone is a different length due to the camber of the deck.
I have done a lot of shooting tables for boats and every single one is different even though basically they are the same, every skipper just wants wee things different and every boat is different.
Tomorrow it will be sheeted round bar down the edge then lifted onto the boat ready for glassing the feet in place, not me doing that though, I refuse to touch that horrible stinking stuff
Pic of the new vessel.
I have done a lot of shooting tables for boats and every single one is different even though basically they are the same, every skipper just wants wee things different and every boat is different.
Tomorrow it will be sheeted round bar down the edge then lifted onto the boat ready for glassing the feet in place, not me doing that though, I refuse to touch that horrible stinking stuff
Pic of the new vessel.
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Tomorrow it will be sheeted round bar down the edge then lifted onto the boat ready for glassing the feet in place, not me doing that though, I refuse to touch that horrible stinking stuff
Do they glass in pads for the legs to bolt to or sit on, or do they just glass straight round them?
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They glass in angle and bolt to that, some bolt in two bits, one either side.
One of the other skippers I have done tables for (on his and his two sons boats) makes up plywood pads and I make stainless plates with studding connector nuts welded to them and they sink into the ply and then glass over the top.
One of the other skippers I have done tables for (on his and his two sons boats) makes up plywood pads and I make stainless plates with studding connector nuts welded to them and they sink into the ply and then glass over the top.
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I was lying down on the job today, had a nice comfy mechanics trolley thingy to push myself about on whilst I welded the sheets to the frame from underneath.
Some of the overhead welds.
This section of the table almost finished, I have a small tank to make tomorrow which will be welded to the underside of the table and then they will lift it onto the boat and fit.
Spent the last few hours this evening discussing Davits, haulers etc so now we kind of know where we are heading with those parts I can get measured up and the drawings/coding done for cutting up a 2000mm x 1000mm x 12mm piece of Alu.
Some of the overhead welds.
This section of the table almost finished, I have a small tank to make tomorrow which will be welded to the underside of the table and then they will lift it onto the boat and fit.
Spent the last few hours this evening discussing Davits, haulers etc so now we kind of know where we are heading with those parts I can get measured up and the drawings/coding done for cutting up a 2000mm x 1000mm x 12mm piece of Alu.
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Hood
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Today I made a tank from Aluminium, this was tigged rather than migged, I had forgotten how slow tig was after doing mainly mig on larger parts recently.
The tank is 930mm long 250mm wide and 200mm deep.
The bung I made for the tank from some Acetal.
Then I welded the steering rods up now that I know the length required, also made stainless bushes for the rod ends where the fixing bolts go through.
Lastly a plate to hold 4 switch panels, made from 3mm stainless and given a quick polish although it doesn't really look like it in the pic. I still have to bore the mounting holes, that will be done tomorrow.
The tank is 930mm long 250mm wide and 200mm deep.
The bung I made for the tank from some Acetal.
Then I welded the steering rods up now that I know the length required, also made stainless bushes for the rod ends where the fixing bolts go through.
Lastly a plate to hold 4 switch panels, made from 3mm stainless and given a quick polish although it doesn't really look like it in the pic. I still have to bore the mounting holes, that will be done tomorrow.
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^^ How many hours do you have in your day?
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Not enough for what I want to get done but too many for the aches and pains.^^ How many hours do you have in your day?
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Prefabricated lift shaft. Only a window of opportunity of a day to install on a live hospital site so erected on its side in our yard then lifted onto a trailer. Hugely reduces the amount of working at height. All being well it should be craned into position on site within a couple of hours.
