Stuff you have made today

[jimbo84]

Hanging basket bracket from 12mm square bar.

 

[mtt.tr]

Adapted my portafiler to bottomless which also makes it non pressurised quality of coffee now is a huge improvement

Next make a better steam wand.

This was all spured on by the pump failing




Little bit of lathe work little bit of tig action, all in all 2hrs work

Also had to make an m6 tap from threaded rod as my taps are in a toolbox which is elsewhere

The machine itself ive lost count

Just need final sand and polish. Being its now inuse that might not happen

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Finished, apart from installing on a new post in my neighbour's garden, the Taj Mahal of bird tables.
Over-engineered?......yes. Unnecessarily complicated?.....yes. But it came from my brain, so what can you expect......

Top is hinged to allow for easy replenishment of bird food and water - the chain is so that the 'lid' doesn't go too far over and place too much strain of the hinges. The roof is steel so that the weight meant I didn't have to fit a catch. which I'd have had to do with ply up top [lazy or what? ].







The chimney stack ought really to be at the L/H end where there could have been three fireplaces, but I wanted it where it'd be less likely to get knocked . It's presence is part of a joke which I won't explain here.

All designed to keep gulls, crows etc out and allow only the small birds access. We'll see if that theory works.......

 

[mtt.tr]

Screwed some bolts into the prox sensor trigger.

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Chopped them to rough size with the grinder and then put into the lathe ready for turning.

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All done.

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Wire brushed to deburr and then fitted onto the shaft, also fitted and adjusted the prox switches.

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Tested them out and they are working fine although I may have been better making the pins 6mm dia rather than 8mm, time will tell.
Tomorrow I hope to get the prox switches wired, motor power and encoder cables cut and soldered into new plugs then with a bit of luck I can try out with the small drive I currently have in. If the drive is too small I will have to rob one from the Beaver mill until a suitable one comes up on eBay.

Whats it for?

 

[Hood]

It is the turret I made for my CNC Lathe, the gearbox I had on it developed backlash so positioning was intermittent and thus no use. I decided to redesign the whole back end and fit a bigger motor and do away with the gearbox.

You can see the turret in the following video, if you look closely you can see that sometimes it is not quite at the right position when it clamps. The teeth on the Hirth coupling align it properly but the backlash got worse and often the teeth didn't mesh and it wouldn't clamp.

 

[mtt.tr]

In action not text book but nearly there

It is the turret I made for my CNC Lathe, the gearbox I had on it developed backlash so positioning was intermittent and thus no use. I decided to redesign the whole back end and fit a bigger motor and do away with the gearbox.

You can see the turret in the following video, if you look closely you can see that sometimes it is not quite at the right position when it clamps. The teeth on the Hirth coupling align it properly but the backlash got worse and often the teeth didn't mesh and it wouldn't clamp.

Very impressive

 

[Hood]

In action not text book but nearly there



Very impressive

It worked well for many years but the gearbox was second hand when I bought it so I suppose I can't complain that it eventually packed up.

 

[Maker]

I didn't realise quite how big that lathe is until now! What's the thing at the front of the cross slide?

 

[Hood]

I didn't realise quite how big that lathe is until now! What's the thing at the front of the cross slide?

Yes it is fairly big, it can swing 290mm dia over the slide and 500mm Dia over the bed, the weight capacity is 280Kg in chuck only and 500Kg when using the tailstock.

The part on the front is just a holder I made up for setting the tools, it is basically a single VDI station so I can clamp a holder in there and then set a tool to height and length so that I can then call an offset for the new tool and it will be close and I will just have to tweak slightly to get it spot on.

Originally the lathe had a 6 position rear turret and a 4 position front toolpost, both were hydraulic and could only rotate in one direction and had to clamp at each station before moving to the next.

 

[Farside]

All designed to keep gulls, crows etc out

Yebbut, will it prevent furry thieves?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Yebbut, will it prevent furry thieves?

Good point, but as it'll be on top of a post 4[ish] feet off the ground, they shouldn't be able to get to the food.

Unless, of course, they can do this - in which case they're welcome to stuff themselves......

 

[Maker]

Good point, but as it'll be on top of a post 4[ish] feet off the ground, they shouldn't be able to get to the food.

Unless, of course, they can do this - in which case they're welcome to stuff themselves......

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If furry thieves are squirrels, they absolutely can do that. My dad had a bird feeder handing on a tree, squirrels just climbed straight onto it so he put it on a long chain - they grabbed a lower branch with their back legs, sprung towards it and grabbed it with their arms, then pulled it back to the branch so they could comfortably eat. He's threaded a pipe over the chain now, it looked like it worked until one slid down like a fireman/stripper.

 

[smashweld]

mudguard bracket for a mates tractor, old one was a bit rusty

 

[slim_boy_fat]

If furry thieves are squirrels

We don't have any squirrels nearby, although there are red squirrels about 3 miles along the road.

 

[ronan]

We don't have any squirrels nearby, although there are red squirrels about 3 miles along the road.

Reds should be encouraged, if there were some on my land i would feed them.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Reds should be encouraged, if there were some on my land i would feed them.

The person on whose land they are, does feed them. In fact a feeder for them is on my list of 'projects'. [it's coming to the top....]

 

[Hood]

The person on whore land they are, does feed them. In fact a feeder for them is on my list of 'projects'. [it's coming to the top....]

Do they have a big red light showing the way?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Do they have a big red light showing the way?

I suspect reds have built-in satnav.

 

[Dcal]

We don't have any squirrels nearby, although there are red squirrels about 3 miles along the road.

This was taken at my brothers in Co Antrim a couple of weeks ago.
We have them a well but you might see one every other year.