Stuff you have made today

[badabec]

I started trying out the suggestions from @barking mat & @The_Yellow_Ardvark for freeing off my Daimler pistons. There’s diesel, engine oil & paraffin in the left and full fat Coke on the right.
I doubt the map torch will have enough heat to do much but we’ll see.
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Will it fit in your oven? Obviously when SWMBO is out. Then give it a clean in the dishwasher...

Peter

 

[Barking Mat]

It's a v8 Daimler if my minds not gone.

Need a damn big oven.

 

[dyno-tron]

I started trying out the suggestions from @barking mat & @The_Yellow_Ardvark for freeing off my Daimler pistons. There’s diesel, engine oil & paraffin in the left and full fat Coke on the right.
I doubt the map torch will have enough heat to do much but we’ll see.
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You could have a go at the "hot cold" method but the cold has to happen quickly.
Get a makeshift BBQ going at ground level - big enough to sit the block in, let it cook for for a while. When the block is hot, tip it out of the BBQ upside down so one bank of cylinders is vertical, then drop a couple of tablespoons worth of dry ice pellets on to the undersides of the pistons. Give it about a minute for the pistons to cool then tip the block right way up and quickly give each of the pistons a whack (wood block, big hammer). Repeat for the second bank.
Only downside is the dry ice will cost you about £25 unless you know someone to "borrow" from

 

[Memmeddu]

@Memmeddu

http://www.poppopboats.net/

Exactly this kind of"engine"
I was aptemting to make one to use the little boat to bring my fishing line far away , later in the years I've learned how to use surf casting techniques

 

[mechman]

@Memmeddu

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How old is it?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

How old is it?

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The catalogue has it dated from 1991.
But the design of boat, boiler and engine dates from the 1970's.

 

[Memmeddu]

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The catalogue has it dated from 1991.
But the design of boat, boiler and engine dates from the 1970's.

Mostly every thing made in the 70s is great

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Mostly every thing made in the 70s is great

Not British cars, made by Leyland.

 

[Memmeddu]

9th driving lesson or better calling it parking lesson , can't remember how many times I had to parking today

 

[Dr.Al]

Made these bits:

Which go together like this:

To work as a flexible coupling that can (hopefully) cope with axis mis-alignment and also with one of the connected shafts wandering all over the place.

 

[Parm]

I made someone very happy today

visited them last year, they were off the mark by country mile

Enforcement action taken and advice given

Today they thanked me much. Significant improvements to their business, safer happier staff and better way of doing things

They thanked me for doing my job !!

(doesn’t happen very often)

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I made someone very happy today

visited them last year, they were off the mark by country mile

Enforcement action taken and advice given

Today they thanked me much. Significant improvements to their business, safer happier staff and better way of doing things

They thanked me for doing my job !!

(doesn’t happen very often)

In your job role, you are not always welcome on a site.

But when they understand that you are there to help, I think things may change.

Shame a lot think H&S is a bad thing. Or think the WWW gives them all the relevant answers.

Beers on you then.

 

[Parm]

In your job roll, you are not always welcome on a site.

But when they understand that you are there to help, I think things may change.

Shame a lot think H&S is a bad thing. Or think the WWW gives them all the relevant answers.

Beers on you then.

“Always” more like never welcome !!!!

This lot hated me on the first visit

But it’s quite satisfying when my intervention is received positively

I won’t tell you how they are connected to hoy poly circles, very very big hoy poly circles

 

[selectedgrub]

Fin - ished

 

[Dieselman 63]

A set of solid aluminium soft jaws for my big vice. Part of an assessment at school, you could make them for the vices at the college but I asked if I could make some for my own vice, to which they obliged.

 

[500e]

Not finished fettlingyet

 

[Aesgarth]

Modified rather than made... Added a cable hanger to my torch holder...

 

[DAPPH]

Modified rather than made... Added a cable hanger to my torch holder...

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The arm of my cable rest has a length of 110 mm foul water pipe on it so there is no sharp edge for the cables to be pulled on or stressed at .

 

[500e]

Not made. Just pulling the cutters for sharpening.
Was cement mixers (2) last week refurb motors & 1 drum
Not been a good month for breakages & things going TU

 

[Maker]

Today I made Vodka slushy.

I was curious how cold the ice cream maker would go, ice cream and sorbet reach no more (Less? Colder!) than around -12 degrees before they stop mixing properly, I figured alcohol wouldn't freeze so would let me test it, I totally didn't expect it to start to thicken.

If you're curious, it got -25 degrees. I suspect the refrigerant is r-134a which boils at -26.3 degrees so this would point towards that.