Climber
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It's a bit like lawn mower. The clue is very much in the name.
- Thread starter God mode restorations
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Cleaned up a friend's boss's apprenticeship piece and made a stand for it. Apparently it's a MK1 Cortina gearbox output shaft.
Citrix acid bath, blasted with crushed glass at 60psi with the stand made from recycled pallet, bees-waxed with some stick on felt from Hobbycraft (only £1.10 for an A4 sheet). I've only got DIY tools rather than the woodworking tools my dad used to have but it won't look awful on his mantelpiece.
Citrix acid bath, blasted with crushed glass at 60psi with the stand made from recycled pallet, bees-waxed with some stick on felt from Hobbycraft (only £1.10 for an A4 sheet). I've only got DIY tools rather than the woodworking tools my dad used to have but it won't look awful on his mantelpiece.
slim_boy_fat
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Today I made............light!! I got fed up with the old 5ft fluorescent fitting which was a bit dim in the corners of the cave, to say the least. So, 2 x LED battens later, the future's so bright I gotta wear shades. 
Before:
After:
Will make working in there much better, and worth the expense & effort.
Before:
After:
Will make working in there much better, and worth the expense & effort.
mtt.tr
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Exception being lawn mower are not used for other purposes
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Yes they are.
Racing.
Flax munching.
Wool shredding.
Paper mulching.
Just 4 other uses for lawn mowers.
mtt.tr
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Commonly, id say cherry pickers change more more bulbs than used to pick cherry's
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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To quote the man who started to teach me Electrics.
"Bulbs go in the ground and lamps light up."
Parm
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Why did he only start to teach you?
What happened?
A Norbert by any chance?
mtt.tr
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colloquially
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wyn
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A bit more exhaust stuff.
Finished the inside..the spacers will hopefully hold it together a bit.
Slid the outer bit on...needed to hammer it a bit.
Cut through the outer in line with the spacers to weld them together.
This bit finished. Now need the bottom bit off the tractor to reuse the mounting brackets.
It's about 7' tall at the moment but some will be cut off the bottom.
Finished the inside..the spacers will hopefully hold it together a bit.
Slid the outer bit on...needed to hammer it a bit.
Cut through the outer in line with the spacers to weld them together.
This bit finished. Now need the bottom bit off the tractor to reuse the mounting brackets.
It's about 7' tall at the moment but some will be cut off the bottom.
Hood
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Made the old POS Triumph run a bit more true this evening.
The floor in my workshop shifts around being as it is hollow underneath due to the sea seeping through the harbour wall and running into the burn at the other side of my workshop, one day I expect to go to the workshop and find it dropped down a hole
Anyway because of that the lathes are never spot on, I adjust and then a week later they are out again. I have long since given up adjusting them every week or so as I can work around things on the Triumph and if I need something long with good precision I will do it on the CNC and programme out the slight taper. The Triumph however has been getting steadily worse over the last year and the other day I did a test cut and it was out 0.2mm over 250mm so I decided to jack it up again to take the taper out.
After adjusting I test cut over the same length and it is now 0.008mm over the 250 so I am happy with that, what it will be next week is anyones guess
I took a video of it doing the cut and them mic'ing both end but sadly the head cam didn't focus on the mic so no point in putting the video up, I should have taken a snap with the phone of both measurements
The floor in my workshop shifts around being as it is hollow underneath due to the sea seeping through the harbour wall and running into the burn at the other side of my workshop, one day I expect to go to the workshop and find it dropped down a hole
Anyway because of that the lathes are never spot on, I adjust and then a week later they are out again. I have long since given up adjusting them every week or so as I can work around things on the Triumph and if I need something long with good precision I will do it on the CNC and programme out the slight taper. The Triumph however has been getting steadily worse over the last year and the other day I did a test cut and it was out 0.2mm over 250mm so I decided to jack it up again to take the taper out.
After adjusting I test cut over the same length and it is now 0.008mm over the 250 so I am happy with that, what it will be next week is anyones guess
I took a video of it doing the cut and them mic'ing both end but sadly the head cam didn't focus on the mic so no point in putting the video up, I should have taken a snap with the phone of both measurements
selectedgrub
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I cut shaped and rebated this with a grinder.
The brass resin in the rebate.
The brass resin in the rebate.
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Busy few days, killing time and again I killed a camera. But I managed to exchange it under warrantee.
No order in the which The post are posted, but it will give a hint at the fun I had.
Oh yes, I am getting a new gold leaf kit.
Rebuilt, new seals and the inside of the tank sealed with a off the shelf sealer. The "Heat proof paint" was clearly not.
Stanley Plane, from the late 80's. Back then, this Stanley plane range had a justified reputation of being shonky.
But, despite the bad name they had the blade and cap iron were good.
Rebuilt and set up.
Blade reground and sharpened, cap iron made square as well has lever iron. The mouth was opened up to the correct size.
Then assembled and the frog adjusted and it is still a shonky plane.
The fuel cans below was "restored" by MIS. Shame the arm chair experts took over. I have posted about it. We have agreed the "Mini MIS" will move back to my place until they have had their shed built.
This is how I got them. They are both holed and rusty. One is Ware department and made by Shell.
The Shell one was de-rusted, promed and painted. I showed them how to do lacquer infill's on the brass caps. I am still fuming about the gold leaf mess.
The Pratts one was badly holed. As a profit making restoration it was never going to be worth it. But as an exercise in patching, filling and sanding it was worth the time spent.
The paint finished was rushed and ruined by You Tube experts at MIS.
I am not a happy person about that. It is not like they have to rush.
No order in the which The post are posted, but it will give a hint at the fun I had.
Oh yes, I am getting a new gold leaf kit.
Rebuilt, new seals and the inside of the tank sealed with a off the shelf sealer. The "Heat proof paint" was clearly not.
Stanley Plane, from the late 80's. Back then, this Stanley plane range had a justified reputation of being shonky.
But, despite the bad name they had the blade and cap iron were good.
Rebuilt and set up.
Blade reground and sharpened, cap iron made square as well has lever iron. The mouth was opened up to the correct size.
Then assembled and the frog adjusted and it is still a shonky plane.
The fuel cans below was "restored" by MIS. Shame the arm chair experts took over. I have posted about it. We have agreed the "Mini MIS" will move back to my place until they have had their shed built.
This is how I got them. They are both holed and rusty. One is Ware department and made by Shell.
The Shell one was de-rusted, promed and painted. I showed them how to do lacquer infill's on the brass caps. I am still fuming about the gold leaf mess.
The Pratts one was badly holed. As a profit making restoration it was never going to be worth it. But as an exercise in patching, filling and sanding it was worth the time spent.
The paint finished was rushed and ruined by You Tube experts at MIS.
I am not a happy person about that. It is not like they have to rush.
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The "restorations" below was done by the Mini MIS, at my place and with out "Experts." After some one deceided they knew better. We should of done the same for the fuel cans.
It was done over a few nights and finished yesterday afternoon and evening.
Elmo Gear driven Bench mounted grinder.
The strip down showed them that just because you find something similar on the WWW, does not mean it is as simple as they show.
Something on the main body is causing the paint to react. It may get striped and re-done. but that is the choice of the Mini MIS.
This one was fun.
They found out that The WWW will not give you the answers. Plus cheep tools cost more.
They brought some punches, they broke.
They had to find out, them self's, how to strip this down.
Again, Know it alls got
But it was a good exercise to show how you don't need expensive jigs and what not to repair things.
Done. I removed the handle to steep it in Oil and wax.
This was done for fun.
Even through it is a Childs Toy it has now been given a new life.
Striped and cleaned and now lives with a Dolls House maker. She says it is great for small drills on hard wood.
Hope you like.
It was done over a few nights and finished yesterday afternoon and evening.
Elmo Gear driven Bench mounted grinder.
The strip down showed them that just because you find something similar on the WWW, does not mean it is as simple as they show.
Something on the main body is causing the paint to react. It may get striped and re-done. but that is the choice of the Mini MIS.
This one was fun.
They found out that The WWW will not give you the answers. Plus cheep tools cost more.
They brought some punches, they broke.
They had to find out, them self's, how to strip this down.
Again, Know it alls got
But it was a good exercise to show how you don't need expensive jigs and what not to repair things.
Done. I removed the handle to steep it in Oil and wax.
This was done for fun.
Even through it is a Childs Toy it has now been given a new life.
Striped and cleaned and now lives with a Dolls House maker. She says it is great for small drills on hard wood.
Hope you like.
qwakers
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today i removed a pipe joiner and replaced it with a water temp sensor housing
to do so i bent up a clamp bracket and attached it to the original bracket and gave it a lock of paint.
not the most advanced bit of metalwork but satisfying nevertheless.
to do so i bent up a clamp bracket and attached it to the original bracket and gave it a lock of paint.
not the most advanced bit of metalwork but satisfying nevertheless.
