Stuff you have made today

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Was a bit bored today so I took a slug of titanium I’ve had for years to visit a friend with a big lathe. He faced it off and put a radius on the edge.

Couple of hours with progressively finer wet n dry then finished of with some paste, finally some compound on a buffing wheel and I have this

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Underneath I stamped out some rubber pads to make some non slip feet. Glued on with Evostick

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It’s a “Thing” to keep in the kitchen to bang things on

It’s to go with this titanium hammer I made a few years ago. Sold head and tube handle

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It is a over engineer Nut cracker.

 

[qwakers]

not today, a week or so ago

a nice simple fuel tank mount for my heater.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Levelled and dug the foundation for a wood store today. Hard work, lots of stones and roots to contend with. A simpler way would have been to just mount the shed on the gravel, but I want the boards to be at the same height as the concrete pad.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Neither have I

Something was holding up the rubbish.

 

[Memmeddu]

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What's that?

 

[northwest]

Today I made - A Mistake.

Quite an expensive one, was my favourite boring bar too. 18mm, through coolant, anti-vibration :-(



Looking for a replacement but looking on banggood as I just cannot stretch to £200+ Can't find any though, do Banggood do Carbide boring bars?

 

[Hood]

Today I made - A Mistake.

Quite an expensive one, was my favourite boring bar too. 18mm, through coolant, anti-vibration :-(

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Looking for a replacement but looking on banggood as I just cannot stretch to £200+ Can't find any though, do Banggood do Carbide boring bars?

OOPS!! did that to a 12mm one a few years back, was kicking myself
What dia is that? I was thinking of getting one from China from eBay a while back when I was having issues with chatter when doing some F51, ended up getting a Stellram steel bar that I had load of inserts for and it worked great. Might still get one though.

 

[northwest]

18mm. Absolutely gutted

Never mind, I will find another. Might take a while though.

 

[Hood]

Thought it looked a reasonable size. I think I have only ever seen up to 12mm from the Chinese sellers.

 

[northwest]

Thought it looked a reasonable size. I think I have only ever seen up to 12mm from the Chinese sellers.

I will take anything as a stop gap. There are a couple on ebay but they have been cut down to 100mm which is no good at all. 12mm would be better than none. I have a couple of big Sandvik bars but they just don't compare to a big carbide. Through coolant too...... I could weep!

Ho Hum.

 

[Hood]

Can only find max of 10mm dia ones now.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/C10K-SCL...474993?hash=item444fda2eb1:g:l00AAOSwoeBdgHDu

 

[AndersK]

@Onoff mentioned printing a fridge handle that got me thinking of a part I made.
Broke a plastic fridge handle so wanted something more durable, went for sheet metal.
Could have done something simple but liked the challenge to copy the shape instead.
It's fairly complex shape but the real challenge is the small size and weld without distorsion.

Final result was coated twice with spray filler then painted, no other fillet used.

Some says I have too much free time

 

[AndersK]

I've been struggling with back pain a while but today I was able to do some work for the first time in a week. Got parts back from powder coat and hot galv yesterday so I put up half of it. Treating my back with some single malt now so hopefully there will be more done tomorrow.

 

[Mike Pinches]

I've been having a problem with mice getting into a kitchen cupboard through an over size hole in the back of it for the stop tap. Unfortunately where I think the mice are getting in from outside is covered in decking so need a clear couple of days to lift it and sort properly. Made a quick plate to cover the hole as a temporary solution. Would usually make something like this from wood but had nothing thinner than 18mm so used a piece of scrap 2mm aluminium.

 

[Memmeddu]

Made this thing today because I was thinking to repair the ladder step but I couldn't because logistics (my mother washed a lot of t-shirts ,and the ladder requires a lot of grinding )
So I couldn't kill my welding desire today and I figured out to make this useful tool
Used two pieces of flat stock (20x8mm) from the scrap bin
Chamfered both sides leaving 1mm landing
Welded using 2.5mm 7018 just because I like to run LH rods and I didn't use them since a month or two cos everything I welded in this period of time required using 6013
Set my inverter around 100A and to be honest it was little bit hot but I am to lazy to dial the welder 5 or 10A less
So I left little bit of undercut but I think that it's also because my manipulation
So now it's your task to understand what I made just for Jocking little bit since today is Saturday and I am the only guy in this world that doesn't go to the disco

 

[Anguz]

a bracket I should have made years ago

 

[steviec_lj]

Part of the new workshop roof.

 

[Chillitt]

Part of the new workshop roof.

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Ceilings a bit low. Mind your head....

 

[Melvyn Best]

Part of the new workshop roof.

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I thought I had short legs!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Made a quick plate to cover the hole as a temporary solution

Won't they be inside the walls now, effectively having free run of the house?