Stuff you have made today

[Memmeddu]

View attachment 215480 Not made by me, and certainly not today - but by my dad a long time ago. Both parents now gone so house clearing in progress. Some things just can’t be flogged off. Brought these home today to clean them up and they’ll go to family who’ll appreciate them.

ps I also have the formers and the flypress he used to make the shaped top of the box, plus some brass mouldings to solder round the edges. I might have to have a go at making one myself.

Sorry to read about your parents
Condolences

 

[Memmeddu]

So what I did today
15 driving lesson , drove in the traffic and "highway"
There are not really highways here in Sardinia
Anyway the instructor said that I'm 80% ready to sustain the exam
I'm still thinking I need to learn and practice more before the exam

Repaired an hand held concrete mixer drill

 

[Newlands]

Sorry to read about your parents
Condolences

Both well into their 90’s! And stubborn as mules. Lots of people have a much tougher time looking after elderly parents. My dad was passionate about engineering and metalwork, and particularly liked sheet metal work in copper and brass. I thought it was worth a picture of his work on here as there is so much talent shown on this thread - all sorts of different work as well. A gold mine 460 pages long!

 

[Craig-SM]

So what I did today
15 driving lesson , drove in the traffic and "highway"
There are not really highways here in Sardinia
Anyway the instructor said that I'm 80% ready to sustain the exam
I'm still thinking I need to learn and practice more before the exam

Repaired an hand held concrete mixer drill

I’m surprised Italy has a driving test that requires lessons

 

[Stingray]

A handrail, concrete shall get the yearly pressure wash next time I’m home...

 

[BarrieJ]

Thing that looks kind of like a safe door, to go in a cafe that used to be a bank. To fill in the hole where the safe was. I have a horrible feeling there will be an incident where dopey thieves rob the place in the small hours and theres a pic in the paper with a 'Incredibly Stupid criminals try to steal a prop'...

Growing up in the South Wales Valleys, I lived next door to an old fashioned ironmongers, the shop wouldn't have been out of place in a spaghetti western, miners' mandrels, shovels, axes, he even sold trouser belts by the length, 2" wide leather strips cut to your size, brass buckle riveted in place (anybody remember copper bifurcated rivets?), holes punched and away you went. Screws, nails, putty and sand all by weight.

Anyway, he'd a massive old secondhand safe in his back room (where I often cut keys and trimmed wallpaper for him), the model was intended to be built in, so the front, bottom, top and sides looked reasonably substantial but apparently the back was not much thicker than a bean can.
He hadn't bothered with the 'building in' bit, so it was freestanding, just lodged up against one wall, the top like every other flat surface in the shop covered in layers of 'stuff'. Wallpaper pattern books if I recall.

One night he gets broken into, they forced open the old wooden counter top till and smacked the safe door with something heavy a couple of times but left with whatever they got out of the till.
Had they but known, they could have dragged the safe away from the wall and peeled the back open with a can opener.

I don't think there was much in there because the old boy who owned the shop thought it all a bit of a 'hoot', he asked me if I wanted the old wooden till (I still have it) and bought himself a 'new' secondhand replacement. He never did build in the safe.

 

[Memmeddu]

I’m surprised Italy has a driving test that requires lessons

I'm surprised every day how many many people drive when are totally incapable to do it.
But essentially yes at least 12 driving lesson before the exam

 

[Chillitt]

Growing up in the South Wales Valleys, I lived next door to an old fashioned ironmongers, the shop wouldn't have been out of place in a spaghetti western, miners' mandrels, shovels, axes, he even sold trouser belts by the length, 2" wide leather strips cut to your size, brass buckle riveted in place (anybody remember copper bifurcated rivets?), holes punched and away you went. Screws, nails, putty and sand all by weight.

Anyway, he'd a massive old secondhand safe in his back room (where I often cut keys and trimmed wallpaper for him), the model was intended to be built in, so the front, bottom, top and sides looked reasonably substantial but apparently the back was not much thicker than a bean can.
He hadn't bothered with the 'building in' bit, so it was freestanding, just lodged up against one wall, the top like every other flat surface in the shop covered in layers of 'stuff'. Wallpaper pattern books if I recall.

One night he gets broken into, they forced open the old wooden counter top till and smacked the safe door with something heavy a couple of times but left with whatever they got out of the till.
Had they but known, they could have dragged the safe away from the wall and peeled the back open with a can opener.

I don't think there was much in there because the old boy who owned the shop thought it all a bit of a 'hoot', he asked me if I wanted the old wooden till (I still have it) and bought himself a 'new' secondhand replacement. He never did build in the safe.

My old shop and one of the Warwick Folk Festival regulars, Before it all went to ratshod

 

[Olderisbetter]

My old shop and one of the Warwick Folk Festival regulars, Before it all went to ratshod

Nice shop...it looks very Four candles.

 

[Chillitt]

Nice shop...it looks very Four candles.

I still have a twitch under my left eye whenever someone mentions that...

 

[Olderisbetter]

I still have a twitch under my left eye whenever someone mentions that...

I do love a shop that looks like the ones i used to go into as a kid, I spent quite a bit of time setting up the shelving in a toy shop we used to run so it looked like a local toy shop i used to visit.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Nice shop...it looks very Four candles.

I still have a twitch under my left eye whenever someone mentions that...

You should see his workshops.

 

[Memmeddu]

So today I've repaired a Bosch GBH5-40DE
Not really a repair just did maintenance
So opened it up, cleaned all parts , replaced all the rubber parts such gaskets and O-Rings
Applied grease on these parts and filled the gear housing with oil
It is unbelievable how much oil does requires this hammer , almost a litre
Usually on those hammers is used just grease .
Oil is usually used on big hammers and almost all the Hilti One

 

[waddycall]

Weed burner trolley made from offcuts/scrap and an old kayak trolley so it’s only cost me a slitting disc and a few rods. Hoping it’ll make weed burning easy enough for me to bothered!
Trial run tomorrow and then a coat of paint.

 

[Memmeddu]

Took a part a rotary hammer today
An Atlas Copco Kango K950
It doesn't hit as it should , found the piston seized in the cylinder/hammer
It's a very simple design .
I had to cut all the Allen screws with an angle grinder to split the cases a part
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures yet , tomorrow I will make some

Ps an hudge amount of grease inside

 

[Wany]

Flower #4. Recycled metal cupboard shelf and pallet (the stem tube was bought). Just DIY wood tools, I wish I kept some of my dad's old woodworking stuff now...

 

[nickk]

Growing up in the South Wales Valleys, I lived next door to an old fashioned ironmongers, the shop wouldn't have been out of place in a spaghetti western, miners' mandrels, shovels, axes, he even sold trouser belts by the length, 2" wide leather strips cut to your size, brass buckle riveted in place (anybody remember copper bifurcated rivets?), holes punched and away you went. Screws, nails, putty and sand all by weight.

Anyway, he'd a massive old secondhand safe in his back room (where I often cut keys and trimmed wallpaper for him), the model was intended to be built in, so the front, bottom, top and sides looked reasonably substantial but apparently the back was not much thicker than a bean can.
He hadn't bothered with the 'building in' bit, so it was freestanding, just lodged up against one wall, the top like every other flat surface in the shop covered in layers of 'stuff'. Wallpaper pattern books if I recall.

One night he gets broken into, they forced open the old wooden counter top till and smacked the safe door with something heavy a couple of times but left with whatever they got out of the till.
Had they but known, they could have dragged the safe away from the wall and peeled the back open with a can opener.

I don't think there was much in there because the old boy who owned the shop thought it all a bit of a 'hoot', he asked me if I wanted the old wooden till (I still have it) and bought himself a 'new' secondhand replacement. He never did build in the safe.

Interesting...wasn’t in upper boat was it or nearby?

 

[Dr.Al]

Today I made some "fingers" for my sheet metal bender (with a tapered end to allow bending stuff to a bit more than 90°). I made a few different lengths so that they can combined to fill in any gap depending on what I'm bending. Longest one is 150 mm long, shortest is 20 mm long.

It was one of those jobs that took longer to make a jig and set up for cutting than it did to actually machine the 50 × 15 mm aluminium bar to size.

 

[Pete.]

Took a part a rotary hammer today
An Atlas Copco Kango K950
It doesn't hit as it should , found the piston seized in the cylinder/hammer
It's a very simple design .
I had to cut all the Allen screws with an angle grinder to split the cases a part
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures yet , tomorrow I will make some

Ps an hudge amount of grease inside

Those 950's came new with a tube of snotty brown grease which was very runny. They were ok in their day but not a patch on modern stuff like the Hilti 1000 which is an awesome hand breaker.

I think the 900 was hammer only and the 950 was hammer & drill.

 

[brightspark]

Those 950's came new with a tube of snotty brown grease which was very runny. They were ok in their day but not a patch on modern stuff like the Hilti 1000 which is an awesome hand breaker.

I think the 900 was hammer only and the 950 was hammer & drill.

yep I have a few 900 kangos you need the special grease in the piston and slider tube with them, its still available on ebay but few and far between they will not work if theres insufficient grease in them and it has to be the proper stuff here https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=kango+grease+&_sacat=0