Stuff you have made today

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Tis done then. Told you side 2 would be easy.

 

[mrsbruce]

After several years, I’ve finally found a place to permanently mount my two snap rivet machine things, and add foot operating bits. I bought 8 (I think) drum foot pedals (with damage, for the use off) cheap from ebay. After a bit cutting, grinding, and removal of ‘bits’, two are now integral parts of my leather workshop.

A bit Heath Robinson looking but they work perfectly. I will probably take them off again, and make them more pretty at some point, once I’m sure they are sitting at the perfect height.

 

[Chillitt]

An appointment for an MOT retest. Chances are I will be popping in to the Things that bug you thread later on.

It's only passed...

 

[Aesgarth]

A clock. Made the oak trim too big but couldn't maintain concentricity after I'd taken it off the lathe :-( front and back are mild steel, the sides, top and bottom are stainless, TIG brazed together then attacked with a blowtorch to blue the front.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

It's only passed...

The MOT station and went straight to the crusher?

 

[123hotchef]

After the Sealey spares messed me about I had no choice but to make my own pins for the Hi lift

 

[Parm]

After the Sealey spares messed me about I had no choice but to make my own pins for the Hi lift

It’s handy having a lathe

 

[123hotchef]

It’s handy having a lathe

It sure is

 

[Parm]

It sure is

It starts getting a little scary when you need a bigger one

 

[123hotchef]

It starts getting a little scary when you need a bigger one

I dont think I could get a bigger one down there through the house and all that!

 

[Parm]

I dont think I could get a bigger one down there through the house and all that!

Clearly you aren’t thinking enough, where there’s a will there’s a way.

Take inspiration from @spencer 427

 

[God mode restorations]

Clearly you aren’t thinking enough, where there’s a will there’s a way.

Take inspiration from @spencer 427

Definitely parm. If it dont fit ...make it fit

 

[DAPPH]

I got this Paraffin Road lamp tank.
It came with extra/minus bits.

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Holes. Lots off them.

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The line of holes goes equally round the 4 sides.. Clearly were the fuel sat on the water.
How to fix it?
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Patch it!!
This is a copper hot water heater. It was no good as a heater for a plan I had. So it donated the copper as patches.

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Warming up the torch.
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Water proof 2 pack filler to hide the terrible repairs and fill any pin prick size holes the sanding will have made.

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In paint, second coat off filler primmer.

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Silver paint and on a dusty surface, no leaks.

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Will now go with the Green Road lamp.
Not a bad repair.

Was it worth it?
No.
The time to cut, tin solder and tin the body to make it leak proof was more than I could get a new /replacement for.
Would I do it again?
Yes.
The fun of doing it, the fun of using lead/tin solder the seal and fill holes was a good fun. That I think out weighs the cost of the parts.

It's a good skill & knowledge set to have to repair old brass header& bottom radiators , metal fuel tanks of all kinds if you have degassed them & copper water tanks that get shot with a .22 pistol ( no not me ) . It's worth while keeping an eye out for some of the bigger copper irons especially the 20 ounce axe looking ones for running fast seams .
Had to cut a 10 inch square hole in a 50 gallon truck fuel tank to remove all the forest crap that the " enemy " pushed in the tank one dark wet windy night , patched it with patch cut from a steel 5 gallon engine oil drum . The axe was brilliant .

 

[DAPPH]

I "Acquired" this in a nice donation.
It didn't work and was very dirty.

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Gentle heat was used to free off the parts, in the form of a Heated old fashioned soldering iron.

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I dread to think what it was last used with.
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Hand polished. The age of the brass allows it to polish up to a nice finish.
The handle was polished on the lathe and buffed with clear boot polish.

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Hidden in the cap was a spare leather washer, dry as a bone. But with a leather coat restoration paste ha dit back to being a decent item.

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Finished today, nowt else was planned. The pump works a treat on water. A local cat, who's has forgotten were its litter tray is found out.
The lower tube, looks like to be additional to the mail body as the 2 thread forms do not match.
There is no names on any parts. The labels what were on it had long ago lost any writing. I think I need to pick some ones brains.

Look for pictures of " Brass garden spray syringes " . That extension bit is called a , " lance " . They were often used to tar water spray fruit trees & green /black fly roses & veg by hand . Dad brought a new one in the late 1950's but the handle was a file type handle not a Tee handle ..he used it for spraying disinfectant/ treatments in the chicken sheds to kill mites etc.

 

[DAPPH]

So today I've made this thing
It's somesort of scaffolding ,the neighbors need this for the olive season that's is actually now
It's made out of some 100x30mm galvanized rectangular tubing 2mm thick
Each leg is 930ish mm long
The orizontal parts are 800mm long
Upper width is 300mm
Lower width is roughly 860mm
Length is 1000mm
Hight is 900mm
Onto this thing will be bolted a piece of wood panel used in construction to give shape to the concrete (I don't really know how call those things we call them "cassero" )
I used my stamos S-MMA 250 IGBT set at 60A for flat joints and 75A for fillets
Using 2.5mm E6013
Versus every prediction I made only few holes
Because was aptemting to understand which was the better technic for the task
So little beads max 20mm long and starting closing the bead on the previous one
If I had already acquired the chop saw probably it was little bit prettier to see and probably the parts fit up was better
Next week I will take the chop saw
Another thing that I recognized when I shortened the parts on the side is that with a plasma cutter the results could be better and safer than do this with a grinder
So I have to buy a plasma cutter but I have to wait until I put some money a part to buy a Chinese unit
So I think that I said all that I done today about this project

We call it construction plywood or construction ply .

 

[mtt.tr]

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

What's its with a test in centres out of interest. Hasn't the floor cracked, i would love to live nearer water maybe not.

 

[Hood]

What's its with a test in centres out of interest. Hasn't the floor cracked, i would love to live nearer water maybe not.

Don't have a test bar and never use a centre in the spindle nose.
Nope concrete has not cracked, don't even know how thick it is but it has been there for at least 80 years I would think.

 

[Hood]

Oh and BTW you couldn't get much nearer to water than my workshop, here is a google satellite image, workshop arrowed.

 

[DAPPH]

Got home today and I needed to chill out and had to relax, today was not a good day.
So home, strong coffee and hide away.

Job 1.
Pocket spanners.
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The leather was stiff and a bit mouldy. The spanners did not move.

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The leather cleaned and brought back to life with a leather restoring paste.

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The spanners were then "blacked" with my kit.

Job 2.
Pifco Fire Fighters Torch.
It was in a poor state, I even thought about giving up on it, it was rusted and busted. But I thought I parted with some money, I could not waste it.

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This was the best view of it.

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You can see how bad a leaky battery had damaged it. There are a few holes and a lot of rust.
The body was striped and washed in the battery acid cleaner we use at work.

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The Lamp controller fell apart, so I riveted back together.

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The lamp can only have one bulb working at any one time. but the top one does flash. It is the original bulb and it still worked after all the abuse it got.

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The front one gives a nice beam, wide and bright, new bulb was purchased from a decent local hardware shop.

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This image shows how bad the plastic lens had "yellowed" over time. This is after I cleaned it hard.
The torch has no plans for it's future, so it will gather dust for a while.

Job number one … think they might be called magneto spanners due to them having the two feeler blades for setting the magneto points , but if thy are screw driver blades instead then they are not magneto spanners .

 

[mtt.tr]

Don't have a test bar and never use a centre in the spindle nose.
Nope concrete has not cracked, don't even know how thick it is but it has been there for at least 80 years I would think.

I was just curious as a test bar will show bed dip where as a short test you can force the bed in to a twist



Whats in the plasma container? Are you the 5th element