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I reckon I could put a good dent in that, I regularly make stir fry BBC goodfood would tell you serves four and finish it in one sitting.
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Windy Miller
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does it work?
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The Xtreme tables have slats with points. I've just knocked up a plasma cut jig to hold replacement plasma cut tips onto the slat for tack welding in place. Works a treat although Version 2 will be better.
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Did you make that folder yourself @Morrisman?
123hotchef
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Not on the 2mm wall tube I had planned on using it on no. It needs longer handles for more leverage
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Yes, codged it up out of scrap bits and pieces. Works quite well, folds neatly, up to 16 gauge steel.
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum...little-metal-folder-today.83118/#post-1192924
What's it for?
Is it not better to fit t&g cladding vertically so that the rain water doesn't get trapped in the grooves & cause rot?
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Only if you have gravity defying water.
Seriously though. Some cladding is for vertical orientation only
Wants it in keeping with the two other buildings close by.
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Putting a bead on boost and wATER PIPES
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Made three things in the workshop today. Two were corner clamps to help me with the next project I'll do. Made out of 50 × 50 × 5 mm angle and 25 × 25 × 2.5 mm box section (as it's what I had):
The other one is a little welding arm support. I'd got an adjustable arm mounted on the lathe with an acrylic screen to protect me from brass swarf (which goes everywhere). I found you can buy the arms independently on banggood for £12, so decided to use one as the basis for an arm support. In the skip I work I found a few lengths of some t-slot aluminium extrusion and the combination of the extrusion, the adjustable arm and a couple of short lengths of the 50 × 50 × 5 mm angle became an idea in my head...
Here are the parts from a couple of angles:
and here's it mounted to the bench set up and ready to help with the welding for one of the corner clamps:
Gratuitous (and very obviously "framed") "action" shot:
The aluminium extrusion is silky smooth to run my glove over; it really helps with the consistency of movement of my right hand (something I'm struggling with as I learn to weld). It wouldn't be strong enough to stay put if I lean on it with a lot of weight, but then if I did that, I wouldn't manage much consistency of movement anyway. In all the joints I did on the two corner clamps, it didn't move at all while I was welding.
There are two M8 holes tapped in each side of the U-clamp - two to hold to the bench and two that could be used for up to two adjustable arms. At the moment I've only got one, but I might get another so I can add more support if I use a longer bit of extrusion. Having said that, I might make a second bracket if I end up using a longer bit of extrusion so I can spread the arms out more. Including cutting, de-mill-scaling, welding, drilling, tapping and assembling, I reckon the whole thing took me less than 1/2 hour to make.
Well worth the effort I reckon...
The other one is a little welding arm support. I'd got an adjustable arm mounted on the lathe with an acrylic screen to protect me from brass swarf (which goes everywhere). I found you can buy the arms independently on banggood for £12, so decided to use one as the basis for an arm support. In the skip I work I found a few lengths of some t-slot aluminium extrusion and the combination of the extrusion, the adjustable arm and a couple of short lengths of the 50 × 50 × 5 mm angle became an idea in my head...
Here are the parts from a couple of angles:
and here's it mounted to the bench set up and ready to help with the welding for one of the corner clamps:
Gratuitous (and very obviously "framed") "action" shot:
The aluminium extrusion is silky smooth to run my glove over; it really helps with the consistency of movement of my right hand (something I'm struggling with as I learn to weld). It wouldn't be strong enough to stay put if I lean on it with a lot of weight, but then if I did that, I wouldn't manage much consistency of movement anyway. In all the joints I did on the two corner clamps, it didn't move at all while I was welding.
There are two M8 holes tapped in each side of the U-clamp - two to hold to the bench and two that could be used for up to two adjustable arms. At the moment I've only got one, but I might get another so I can add more support if I use a longer bit of extrusion. Having said that, I might make a second bracket if I end up using a longer bit of extrusion so I can spread the arms out more. Including cutting, de-mill-scaling, welding, drilling, tapping and assembling, I reckon the whole thing took me less than 1/2 hour to make.
Well worth the effort I reckon...
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Well thats just plain cheating
But very handy when doing small parts and you can't rest your hands on the table.
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Ah quite intricate work , never really done anything like that as only a stick welder at the moment myself.
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The Strange Brew Christmas brew has just about fermented out, shows about 1.009 on the hydrometer which is around what I expected, so just over 5% ABV. I upped the mash temp a little to get more dextrines given its a strongish ale. Dextrines are unfermentable sugars so add sweetness and body to the final product. I have some old recipes that used to add saccharine to the brew to get sweetness without the yeast fermenting it, never did it, sounds gross.
I've now added 75g of Willamette leaf hops to the brew in this SS mesh container. This will stay steeping in the ale until I bottle it next weekend, you may know it as dry hopping. A bit of a misnomer as the hops get wet, but they don't get boiled so you get almost zero bitterness from them, but all the hoppy aroma and flavour that is normally driven off in the boil. You can get "hop rockets" where the ale is forced through the hop container to extract more flavour, I may make one in the future, but this I'm happy with this method at the moment, simple and effective, maybe not as efficient with the hops but I only brew a few times a year.
Cheers
Andy
I've now added 75g of Willamette leaf hops to the brew in this SS mesh container. This will stay steeping in the ale until I bottle it next weekend, you may know it as dry hopping. A bit of a misnomer as the hops get wet, but they don't get boiled so you get almost zero bitterness from them, but all the hoppy aroma and flavour that is normally driven off in the boil. You can get "hop rockets" where the ale is forced through the hop container to extract more flavour, I may make one in the future, but this I'm happy with this method at the moment, simple and effective, maybe not as efficient with the hops but I only brew a few times a year.
Cheers
Andy
