Stuff you have made today

[Farside]

I had another cat many years ago who did that. Rabbits, moles, voles, rats, and one time, a chicken. The living room in the morning was like a reenactment of the Somme.

Never met a cat with such a high kill score.

When I moved here I brought with me a rescue cat from the town.
He went loopy at all the things he could exercise his claws on.
Every morning there were offerings left on the doorstep - kidneys, ears, heads, occasionally bits of gut and feet. Usually assemble-it-yourself rabbit kits, but a fair few times he'd go up and dismantle a hare or two. One time I stepped around the corner and he lifted his head from gorging himself on the innards of a furry thing. Like a scene from Hammer House of Horror.
One night he bit off more than he could chew and something really made a mess of him - probably a badger. He wasn't right for a good few months.
As well as being the bravest cat I've had he was also the stupidest by some margin.

 

[Tupers]

kids are not going to be very happy with you when they realise you pinched the giant jenga to use as an anvil stand

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Anvils are more important than jenga but I do need to pull a couple layers out as it’s a bit tall for me at the moment.

 

[Memmeddu]

Anvils are more important than jenga but I do need to pull a couple layers out as it’s a bit tall for me at the moment.

I do prefer also for esthetic reason a dead three carcass
A large diameter log,well cut and worked,a piece of flat stock around the log on the upper side with a bunch of hammer holders
Downside same thing but obviously just the flat stock .
Carved foot print to tight fit the anvil ,a chain around this one .
Something wonderful to see in my opinion

 

[Cobbler]

Shouldn’t that read Danger Mouse being sought?

Every time I see Micheal Gove on TV I see Penfold, Danger Mouse’s sidekick

 

[Parm]

Every time I see Micheal Gove on TV I see Penfold, Danger Mouse’s sidekick

Yep I can see the connection

 

[Hood]

Every time I see Micheal Gove on TV I see Penfold, Danger Mouse’s sidekick

I better not say what I see but it is related to his adopted fathers old business and involves scales and slime.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

kids are not going to be very happy with you when they realise you pinched the giant jenga to use as an anvil stand

I thought that was headed for the Turner exhibition.

 

[truckdoctor]

I made these today from a piece of aluminium left over from terminal 4 @ Heathrow They partially cover line of sight from oncoming traffic as the indicators on the front wings combined could cause confusion. And I like "bling"

 

[fizzy]

Is that a Ford Mercury? My mate had one with a Chevvy V8 - 600bhp at the wheels used it for drag racing. Great fun.

 

[Dr.Al]

This evening's output wasn't very interesting as I didn't have long once all the various jobs were done.

I've been doing a lot of threading on the lathe recently. I almost always do single-point threading with an upside-down tool and the lathe running backwards, but a couple of times in the last couple of weeks I've forgotten that I had been threading and have left the lathe running backwards. It's not always obvious once the lathe is up to speed and I've broken a couple of carbide insert turning tips trying to plunge them into a backwards running work-piece.

Anyway, hopefully this evening's little mod will help that:

I added the little light underneath the back / forward switch. If the switch is in the position for backwards running, the light flashes at about 2 Hz. If the switch is in the position for forwards running, the light stays off.

Hopefully that will stop me from being an idiot in future (at least in that way).

 

[nickk]

Made some plumbing fittings to retain the feed pipe for a bath,quite surprised thread was m18x1.5.

 

[123hotchef]

christmas canapes for 100 people is what we made this evening

 

[123hotchef]

Hungry now though. I also fixed a ro unit the engineer could not fix, what is wrong with these people now days.

 

[123hotchef]

Faulty pressure switch. Obsolete part apparently yes sure

 

[rockweasel]

Storage for power tools and organiser boxes. A work in progress.

CLS frame with plywood dividers and shelves. For now an old MDF board for the top.

The shelves are 400mm deep which leaves a 200mm void between the back of the shelves and the wall. I'm using this space as a cable tidy for any leads that would otherwise be cluttering up the top.

The welder at the far end is plugged into an extension lead that disappears into the void. It's permanently plugged in.

Any wall mounted tools such as the angle grinder will be plugged into a wall mounted socket with a cable tidy (hole) to hide the cable until required.

The shelf at the far end was an afterthought. As I was about to put the MDF top on, I thought it was a shame to waste the depth of the top CLS, so I turned the space between the top and bottom of the top horizontal CLS into drawers. Perfect for drill bits, pencils and the like. The idea was to put the top on hinges and gas struts to allow easy access. This meant I would have to keep the worktop clear, hence the shelf. Everything that is on the shelf never moves: radio, battery chargers, rechargeable work light (on charge) and eventually WiFi router. That's a lot of leads dropping down from the shelf. Messy. The shelf idea turned into a wall mounted box. There's a hole on the top to drop the power leads into and a 6 way extension strip inside. That just leaves one power lead from the strip to drop down and plug into the wall socket. I had also planned to mount lights under the shelf, but as there was a perfectly good light already there and on charge, no need. As it turns out I am unable to keep the worktop clear of anything which makes accessing the drawers a PITA. I screwed the top down. The whiteboard that is directly under the light is hot glued to the top. I was getting tired of misplacing it. At the other end of the shelves and not in view is a home for the workshop vacuum with a shelf above it for brush, shovel and vacuum bags.

 

[Dr.Al]

I've been getting a bit frustrated with the spanner I bought to turn the gas on and off. It's very short and (possibly as a result of the orientation of the cylinder and regulator) either seems to clash with the regulator or with the gas bottle. So I made a new one (and it went a nice purple colour with the welding heat):

Fits nicely:

Fairly straightforward to make; the only interesting bit was the 7 mm AF square hole. I took a bit of EN3B bar stock and drilled a 7 mm hole in it. I then stuck it in the mill and got rid of half of it for a length of 30 mm or thereabouts, then opened the round hole into a 3.5 mm deep, 7 mm wide rectangular one. Something like this:

I then cut the end in half, flipped the cut-off bit over and welded it back together:

Then it was back to the lathe for a tidy-up etc.

 

[Sammy7]

I've been getting a bit frustrated with the spanner I bought to turn the gas on and off. It's very short and (possibly as a result of the orientation of the cylinder and regulator) either seems to clash with the regulator or with the gas bottle. So I made a new one (and it went a nice purple colour with the welding heat):

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Fits nicely:

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Fairly straightforward to make; the only interesting bit was the 7 mm AF square hole. I took a bit of EN3B bar stock and drilled a 7 mm hole in it. I then stuck it in the mill and got rid of half of it for a length of 30 mm or thereabouts, then opened the round hole into a 3.5 mm deep, 7 mm wide rectangular one. Something like this:

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I then cut the end in half, flipped the cut-off bit over and welded it back together:

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Then it was back to the lathe for a tidy-up etc.

Brilliant got same issue in fact almost same picture. I’ll have ago no mill though

 

[zx9]

I've been getting a bit frustrated with the spanner I bought to turn the gas on and off. It's very short and (possibly as a result of the orientation of the cylinder and regulator) either seems to clash with the regulator or with the gas bottle. So I made a new one (and it went a nice purple colour with the welding heat):

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Fits nicely:

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Fairly straightforward to make; the only interesting bit was the 7 mm AF square hole. I took a bit of EN3B bar stock and drilled a 7 mm hole in it. I then stuck it in the mill and got rid of half of it for a length of 30 mm or thereabouts, then opened the round hole into a 3.5 mm deep, 7 mm wide rectangular one. Something like this:

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I then cut the end in half, flipped the cut-off bit over and welded it back together:

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Then it was back to the lathe for a tidy-up etc.

Interesting thought process and top marks for the result.

 

[Dr.Al]

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Brilliant got same issue in fact almost same picture. I’ll have ago no mill though

You could always cut the end off your existing spanner & weld it onto a bit of bar stock.

 

[Sammy7]

Now that I like....give me ten minutes