Stuff you have made today

[bigegg]

This is where I admit to repairing a hole in a wall, by screwing a piece of strapping at the back of the hole, then a lump of plywood onto that. Cheap filler from the Poundshop, and a lick of magnolia.

Got us our deposit back, though.

expanding foam, cut back level.
poundland filler.

or is that just transit chassises?

 

[nickk]

Worksop Galvanising, part of the Wedge group, have a 20 metre bath with16 ton crane capacity.

Worksop Galvanising, part of the Wedge group, have a 20 metre bath with16 ton crane capacity.

Time moves on......

 

[dyno-tron]

I've been lurking around the forum for a while now so though it was about time I posted a pic of something I'm working on.
I have made some steam punk stuff to sell and someone who bought an item asked "can you make me a 4ft tall giraffe?"

Work in progress!

 

[jimbo84]

I have to hold longer items in the forge otherwise they fall out, means waiting to heat between working on a piece of steel, been meaning to do it for a while and finally got round to it today, simple stand from some old bits and pieces, already had the base made up from something else, an old bit of rusty scaff tube with some pigeon droppings gluing it on and some steam pipe. I'll go to the scrap yard at some point and find an old screw jack and use the thread to make it height adjustable but for now this will do.

Multiple irons in the fire.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

and someone who bought an item asked "can you make me a 4ft tall giraffe?"

If his name is Noah there could be loads more orders to come... you'll be squids in (see what I did there )

 

[Tupers]

My offcuts shelf is all painted an bolted to the wall. I do a lot of odd little bits of fabrication so having a bunch of small pieces of material hanging about is always handy.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

@Tupers Very neat!!

 

[mm289]

Doing some work on the old Kubota tractor and one of the issues I have lived with for years is that the fuel tap on the filter housing had snapped inside the housing.

Took it apart and basically it is a alloy bit with a peg that turns a plastic bit. Plastic bit had seized in housing, cue alloy bit shearing off and disappearing someweher years ago.


Of course replacement parts are made of the famous unobtanium so what to do.......

Decided to go for a mechanical fixing as couldn't see glue of any type holding so go a 5mm bolt and turned the head down on the lathe.


Then drilled the plastic part to 5mm and then used a 6mm drill to create a recess for the bolt head.




Tapped the alloy tap out and bolted together.


Works really well so far

Also enjoying having an organised and tidy machine shop again so when I need to do something like this I can just switch the lathe on, drop a tool in and away you go. Only took a couple of mins to turn down the bolt and maybe 15 mins to make the whole assembly - now thats why I invested a fortune in all these machine tools

Cheers,

MM

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I got this from a friend.
Modeen Lady Ann. With twin cylinder steam engine.

But.


The wood has dried out. So, I floated her in the bath for a few days. making sure if she did take on too much she would settle, but not go down.
This allowed the wood to swell and seal. Took 8 days.




So, over the last weekend, I:
Replaced all the seals on the engine, boiler and Meths. Tank.
New wicks in the burners.
The hull was waxed as well.
The Boiler was de-scaled as well.



She was filled and fired. Took about 5 minutes to raise steam.
The engine is a bit clunky, but it did smooth out.



Tonight I fired her again, a lot better.

One happy TYA.
I am going to source new RC gear next.

 

[mm289]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Now that is cool

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Now that is cool

Oh no she is not.
She is hot.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Chillitt
@slim_boy_fat
@Parm

See. I don't just put welders in the bath.

 

[Memmeddu]

Oh no she is not.
She is hot.

I do like those miniaturised pieces of engineering

 

[Memmeddu]

Today 8th driving lesson ,drove around the driving school , visited the other cities ,drove to the highway to my city and drove home
The instructor said that I drove much better on known roads , I think because I know how roads work around home

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Memmeddu

 

[dyno-tron]

If his name is Noah there could be loads more orders to come... you'll be squids in (see what I did there )

yeah - seems to be a bit of an Ark thing going on at the moment, I have orders (from various people) for 2 dogs, a cat, 2 scorpions and a spider :-)

 

[Memmeddu]

@Memmeddu

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Lovely piece of engineering
I attempted to make self propelling steam boat once may be when I was 13
Essentially a little wax candle heating a copper coil
Water will be pull into the coil cause of vacuum force then once heated (very quickly) it will be shot out the coil as steam and the cycle will repeat until the coil (spiral tubing) is enough hot to make steam

I think to remember they're called pot pot Steam boats

 

[Barking Mat]

@Memmeddu that rings a bell, I've got one somewhere someone gave me years ago, like in that Japanese cartoon film 'Ponyo', Studio Ghibli.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Lovely piece of engineering
I attempted to make self propelling steam boat once may be when I was 13
Essentially a little wax candle heating a copper coil
Water will be pull into the coil cause of vacuum force then once heated (very quickly) it will be shot out the coil as steam and the cycle will repeat until the coil (spiral tubing) is enough hot to make steam

I think to remember they're called pot pot Steam boats

I have a few of those boats here as well.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Memmeddu

http://www.poppopboats.net/