Stuff you have made today

[DennisCA]

Finished the burger press today

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

That's as far as I go on this one. Rubbing down and decorating ain't my cup of tea. The answers no. I can recommend a decorator...

Pulled out an old repair on the house over the road. Yay. Someone left all the rot in place and covered it up.
Put the old repair back. Won't be starting until price increases are agreed.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Thought I'd pull the corner out first.

This is what I found.

Should be a lot of timber work under there.

 

[Gareth0123]

About 6 weeks ago I made this (painted red-oxide) steel framework for a house extension in South Norfolk.

Yesterday I went over there to complete the work by installing the bracket work into the now confirmed positions for fitting the bi-fold doors and double glazing which included the unpainted box section shown just above the scaffold kick boards in the first photo and left foreground of the second photo..... All installed and given a lick of red now.

 

[Country Joe]

A quiet morning, so made a giant flower.
No reason why, just using up off-cuts & bits from "the bucket in the corner".

The sheet had been sitting here for a few years, and hadn't rusted as it was coated in zinc.
It seemed much thicker than zintec, but not actually galvanised - but still shat out lots of white stuff with each weld - even after I thought I'd skimmed it all off!

Anyway, it looked like this in the end.
Somehow took four hours, too!

All the Best,
CJ

 

[stuvy]

Had some nice visitors to the workshop today both the SD1 and Capri are off on holiday to Portugal next weekend in our truck

After fighting with a bolt earlier it was nice to see an unsilenced v6 and v8

 

[slim_boy_fat]

@stuvy Do you work in Heaven? Morse Jag, racing Aston[?] and loads of other delectables.

 

[Gritineye]

About 6 weeks ago I made this (painted red-oxide) steel framework for a house extension in South Norfolk.

Yesterday I went over there to complete the work by installing the bracket work into the now confirmed positions for fitting the bi-fold doors and double glazing which included the unpainted box section shown just above the scaffold kick boards in the first photo and left foreground of the second photo..... All installed and given a lick of red now.


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Not understanding those joints, never seen the like of them before, please explain.

 

[fizzy]

Had some nice visitors to the workshop today both the SD1 and Capri are off on holiday to Portugal next weekend in our truck

After fighting with a bolt earlier it was nice to see an unsilenced v6 and v8

Awesome!
Funnily enough I saw my first SD1 Vitesse in ages on the road the other day - British registered in the Picos De Europa on my way down to Portugal.
Loads of other classics there as well - big rally.
Didn't get a pic of the Rover but lovely xk150.

 

[stuvy]

Awesome!
Funnily enough I saw my first SD1 Vitesse in ages on the road the other day - British registered in the Picos De Europa on my way down to Portugal.
Loads of other classics there as well - big rally.
Didn't get a pic of the Rover but lovely xk150.View attachment 197476

We have 6 cars heading to portamao next week so I’d guess there having a jolly out there before hand

My neighbour had a 140 that his dad gave him

 

[stuvy]

@stuvy Do you work in Heaven? Morse Jag, racing Aston[?] and loads of other delectables.

It’s not too bad

Only downer is we don’t get a half day on Friday

It’s an HTCC Capri and the others are mostly big healeys as we specialise in them

 

[Gareth0123]

Unscheduled day off from my workshop yesterday as I ran out of mig wire so I went contracting during the afternoon.

Only two beams completed today but two paired and spaced beams started and not finished... they are this mornings job :-)

One with paired 14Ø holes @600mm centres for installing timber and a lick of red oxide.

The second beam has paired 14Ø holes @ 600m centres for installing timber, a 250mm x 8mm top plate for bricks & blocks aligned with one edge of the beam, the welds are spaced at 100mm hit X 200mm miss and qty 5 of 10mm x 50mm diagonal braces @ 900mm centres with a lick of red oxide.
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[slim_boy_fat]

It’s an HTCC Capri and the others are mostly big healeys as we specialise in them

Aye, I got the Capri - it was the paint scheme on the car on the lift in pic 2 which fooled me.

 

[Gareth0123]

Not understanding those joints, never seen the like of them before, please explain.

A certain local architectural partnership around here seems to currently favour using this design of joining gabled steelwork on extensions.

This is the third set up of this design in the last 12 months I have made to their drawings. The box is 100mm x100mm x6mm with 12mm thick plates at all bolted points. The sandwich joint is 3 layers of 12mm plate connected with qty 6 of M20 Grade 8.8 BZP bolts

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Some holes.

 

[Lazurus]

Whats it for?

 

[Gritineye]

A certain local architectural partnership around here seems to currently favour using this design of joining gabled steelwork on extensions.

This is the third set up of this design in the last 12 months I have made to their drawings. The box is 100mm x100mm x6mm with 12mm thick plates at all bolted points. The sandwich joint is 3 layers of 12mm plate connected with qty 6 of M20 Grade 8.8 BZP bolts

Very odd, architects don't usually like to over complicate things. Oh hang on......

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Whats it for?

Sure we had this convo before.

2 dogs on the x axis holes to butt the track too.
2 dogs on the y axis to butt the work too.
Perfectly square cuts Everytime.
Or 45deg for that matter.

Just need to finish making the dogs.
Slots are for clamps either on the flat or vertically from the floor.

 

[Morrisman]

Been making odds and sods brackets for the T bucket, painting in Hammerite but I’d like to see how much nickel plating would be. Just for protection and an olde worlde classic car look. I’m going for a sort of 50’s race car ‘special’ effect rather than glitzy hot rod.

Disc brake conversion.

Fan mounting.

Rad supports.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

New Gold leaf kit arrived.

So, it had to be done.



Gold leaf will show up any flaws in the casting in the letters.