Stuff you have made today

[northwest]

Back to chambering again. Did a quick .22 LR barrel chambering for an AR-alike:



Made from an Anschutz match barrel so should be great right out of the box. Then setup for one of my favourite calibers, .300 Whisper/300AAC Blackout.



Really pleased with this, cut lovely:
Very clear chamber:



Cut it really tight and may need relieving a bit later. We will see. Tomorrow .224 Valkyrie. All the exotics this week.

 

[jimbo84]

This very small (slightly out of square) gate will save me a lot of walking, to get to my container workshop I have to walk round the estate then down to the yard. This gate now lets me get into the little woods at the back of the house and down the field to the yard, saves about an extra ten mins of walking, so come the drier weather I can walk down there easily, less likely to be tempted to take the car. Just a couple of bolts shoved through the frame to lock it temporarily, it'll get painted up properly and a lock fitted so I can open/lock it from both sides soon, probably during isolation

 

[nickk]

A bit of m/c today,first a starter motor nose,reduce it by 6 mm he said after trying to do it with his angle grinder!
It’s for a paramotor engine.Been a while since I’ve clocked a 4 jaw chuck.
Then a recess in an aluminium block for a heat sink.

 

[Memmeddu]

Kicked out a kidney stone this morning
Roughly 4 to 5mm in sizes
I'm feeling better

 

[Windy Miller]

View attachment 217579 View attachment 217580 View attachment 217581 A bit of m/c today,first a starter motor nose,reduce it by 6 mm he said after trying to do it with his angle grinder!
It’s for a paramotor engine.Been a while since I’ve clocked a 4 jaw chuck.
Then a recess in an aluminium block for a heat sink.

Is that a really tiny starter motor, or a 'kin enormous chuck?

 

[nickk]

Is that a really tiny starter motor, or a 'kin enormous chuck?

Chuck is 12”, starter nose is tiny and weighs double a gnats cock.

 

[RichardM]

Kicked out a kidney stone this morning
Roughly 4 to 5mm in sizes
I'm feeling better

I hope so, when I had one it was a lot smaller than that when it hit the pan and it hurt enough moving through!!

Drink lots of water, maybe wine in your case

Have a good weekend.

 

[nickk]

Today we erected that staircase,the one I showed on here,whilst it was in the workshop.

 

[Fraserb]

Tonights plasma work.

 

[Memmeddu]

I hope so, when I had one it was a lot smaller than that when it hit the pan and it hurt enough moving through!!

Drink lots of water, maybe wine in your case

Have a good weekend.

Unfortunately it's not the smaller I've ever kicked out
Water and tea it's all I drink maybe a fruit juice sometimes
I don't drink alcohol because someone in my family had alcohol problems so I decided to don't even think about about drinking alcohol.

 

[Dr.Al]

On Wednesday I acquired a new milling cutter:

Today I made a shorter milling cutter so it's a bit more usable in my machine:

 

[Olderisbetter]

Tonights plasma work.

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Your plasma work looks like Pooh but mine looks like poo as it is free hand

 

[Memmeddu]

Today nothing to do because the lockdown officially prolonged till April 25 ,it will probably take longer ....
Anyway found a drill from in my storage room ,I usually use it to wire wheeling but it wasn't working anymore .
Opened it up bypassed the clockwise/counterclockwise selector and now it's working again , cleaned it up and put it on the shelf .
Waiting for another occasion I could need it .
It's the first drill I ever own ,a cheap Chinese 860W 1/2" or 13mm chuck
Unfortunately no pictures to show but apologies me for that

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

They left me alone for 48 hours, well apart from a dumb member of the homo sapiens.
Darwin needs to acts, soon.

But I digress.
I assembled a Vapour cleaning system. Post No. 9035.

The control part.
Unknown history. So this was the test part.



The only thing I did before cleaning was to break it down into the 3 parts.



Over night in the house at a temp of 18deg.
The dirt has fallen off and the "Meths." evaporated after the grime was removed with a rag.


One coat of oil.
The wedge was given a dressing with a plane to remove the burrs and dings. That's why it shows up as clean as it does.



The dirt.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

One other good thing about the vapour tank is allows a neat trick when restoring wooden items.
Is it softens the dirt, to allow it to be moved to help disguise new wood inlays.



You can see the LHS side end has gone from the lid.
The wood is soft wood, may be pitch pine. But can not tell.



A replacement part, with a close enough matching grain was let in.
Stands out a bit?



A suitable wood stain was made to darken the infill.
Then over night in the Vapour tank soften the grime enough to allow me, with wire woold to move and almost match it in.



Not a bad job.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I got a old axe and a old hammer the other day.
As I was being left alone, I cracked on with the restoration of them.

The axe was in good condition, but was abused. The cutting edge was as dull as a dull thing, on a dull day.



So hot "meths." was used. The dirt, label and the wood finish fell off.



The head was cleaned with a flap disk and a stone was used to put a good edge on it.



Painted.
But Not happy about it, bleed through again under the masking tape.

Last job
Resin fill the top.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Oh, the ball pein hammer.
Oh this was a challenge. Not to restore, but in adapting items.



I thought why not.
The head is rusty, the shaft has warped.


But oddly it was good steel.



Cleaned up.
Over night, from Thursday to Friday morning. With a self adjusting clamp, in a steamer to try to correct the bend in the shaft.
Time will tell if it works.
New ground for me.
Yes I have steamed wood in the past to put a bend in. Not take one out.



After paint, yes the clamp was left on.
The wood moved back, broke the clamp. A slow explosion of natural force.



So what to do?
Job one, resin fill the head.
Job 2.
Plan again.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

ne other good thing about the vapour tank is allows a neat trick when restoring wooden items.

It certainly gives impressive results.

 

[jimbo84]

Today nothing to do because the lockdown officially prolonged till April 25 ,it will probably take longer ....
Anyway found a drill from in my storage room ,I usually use it to wire wheeling but it wasn't working anymore .
Opened it up bypassed the clockwise/counterclockwise selector and now it's working again , cleaned it up and put it on the shelf .
Waiting for another occasion I could need it .
It's the first drill I ever own ,a cheap Chinese 860W 1/2" or 13mm chuck
Unfortunately no pictures to show but apologies me for that

The like is for what you've done today not the lockdown extension, sorry to hear they've extended it.

 

[mangocrazy]

Tonights plasma work.

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That's exceptional work. Top marks, you. Was this for yourself or for a commission?