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This evening I finished making some drawers...
10 drawers, all made out of one big sheet of 0.8 mm steel sheet. Cut up with the plasma cutter, bent with my home-made bender, TIGd in the corners and then touched up with a flap wheel. The handles were super-cheapo hollow tube handles that I bought on ebay. Drawers are about 430 × 310 × 100 mm.
I've got quite a lot of drawer units that I've bought over the years, but most of them are relatively shallow (e.g. several of the Bisley ones designed for flat A4 paper). They're really useful, but I've got an increasing number of bits and bobs that won't fit in the shallower drawers and decided it would be a good exercise to make my own drawer unit. I'm going to go with a relatively simple construction - like the Bisley unit the drawers will just run on flat surfaces (made out of angle iron) rather than having bearing runners. I might use some UHMW tape to make them run more smoothly.
The unit will end up being ridiculously heavy duty as I'll make it out of the 20 × 20 × 2 mm box section I've got, along with some angle iron that I think is 30 × 30 × 3 mm. It'll be very heavy!
All being well, it should look something like this when it's finished:
and will fit neatly on the top of one of my Halfords Tool Cabinets. I'll probably put some sheet material on top as well so I can store stuff on top of it.
To cut the drawers, I cut the sheet into a 10 equal sized rectangles and then made some hardboard templates that looked like this:
I made three of them in case they got destroyed through use, but ended up only using one of them as it survived all the cutting. They got held in place comme ça:
(after the first one I gave up with the clamps and just held them in my hand, which seemed to work fine). The result:
The little indent you can see at the bottom of the corner is the bit that gets folded over to create a safe edge.
I've got plenty of material, but hardly any argon left, so I'd be surprised if I finish making the frame before the lockdown is all over (although it often surprises me how long those last few degrees of gauge travel can go on for, so you never know).
10 drawers, all made out of one big sheet of 0.8 mm steel sheet. Cut up with the plasma cutter, bent with my home-made bender, TIGd in the corners and then touched up with a flap wheel. The handles were super-cheapo hollow tube handles that I bought on ebay. Drawers are about 430 × 310 × 100 mm.
I've got quite a lot of drawer units that I've bought over the years, but most of them are relatively shallow (e.g. several of the Bisley ones designed for flat A4 paper). They're really useful, but I've got an increasing number of bits and bobs that won't fit in the shallower drawers and decided it would be a good exercise to make my own drawer unit. I'm going to go with a relatively simple construction - like the Bisley unit the drawers will just run on flat surfaces (made out of angle iron) rather than having bearing runners. I might use some UHMW tape to make them run more smoothly.
The unit will end up being ridiculously heavy duty as I'll make it out of the 20 × 20 × 2 mm box section I've got, along with some angle iron that I think is 30 × 30 × 3 mm. It'll be very heavy!
All being well, it should look something like this when it's finished:
and will fit neatly on the top of one of my Halfords Tool Cabinets. I'll probably put some sheet material on top as well so I can store stuff on top of it.
To cut the drawers, I cut the sheet into a 10 equal sized rectangles and then made some hardboard templates that looked like this:
I made three of them in case they got destroyed through use, but ended up only using one of them as it survived all the cutting. They got held in place comme ça:
(after the first one I gave up with the clamps and just held them in my hand, which seemed to work fine). The result:
The little indent you can see at the bottom of the corner is the bit that gets folded over to create a safe edge.
I've got plenty of material, but hardly any argon left, so I'd be surprised if I finish making the frame before the lockdown is all over (although it often surprises me how long those last few degrees of gauge travel can go on for, so you never know).
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This lot made this week, 10 stillages, dirty things to make compared with what I usually do, but a jobs a job.
The "mature" stock was supplied by the customer just to use it up, they are being blasted and painted so it will all look good when finished, made from 50 x 50 box section and 50x 50 angle. they will have a GRP open mesh base dropped in when painted.
The "mature" stock was supplied by the customer just to use it up, they are being blasted and painted so it will all look good when finished, made from 50 x 50 box section and 50x 50 angle. they will have a GRP open mesh base dropped in when painted.
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Pallet feet are bought items, dead cheap from Brundles.
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Wasn't that the image which ended up as a Court case, someone [iirc, an animal rights 'advocate'
] was arguing the monkey held the copyright to the picture. 
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Wasn't that the image which ended up as a Court case, someone [iirc, an animal rights 'advocate'
yeah, well, I did ask and he didn’t say no...
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This is what I did with mine
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stuff-you-have-made-today.67127/page-253#post-1300573
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Iirc, the verdict went against the monkey - yes, my memory is better than I thought
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...wildlife-personalities-macaques-a7941806.html
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Today I made.....a [relatively] clean car. I hadn't washed her for several months due to a number of factors and was thoroughly ashamed 
Wheels are my spare set of alloys with Winter rubber fitted, before anyone says they need a refurb.
Not bad for 137k miles up at nearly 17 years old.
The clay mitt and the DA will have to come out when the weather warms up a bit more...9 degrees here today.
Some welding on a small 'project' should feature soon
Wheels are my spare set of alloys with Winter rubber fitted, before anyone says they need a refurb. Not bad for 137k miles up at nearly 17 years old.
The clay mitt and the DA will have to come out when the weather warms up a bit more...9 degrees here today.
Some welding on a small 'project' should feature soon
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Did you take that half way through the wash?
I only ask, as the wheels look like they need a clean.
Did you take that half way through the wash?
I only ask, as the wheels look like they need a clean.
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No, after. The face of the alloys is chrome so didn't photo well - and because I was tired I couldn't be ar*sed fetching all the 'specialist' wheel brushes to reach into the recesses and inner rim surfaces.
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Today I made.....a [relatively] clean car. I hadn't washed her for several months due to a number of factors and was thoroughly ashamed
View attachment 218781
Not bad for 137k miles up at nearly 17 years old.
The clay mitt and the DA will have to come out when the weather warms up a bit more...9 degrees here today.
Some welding on a small 'project' should feature soon
Mine has been getting regular washes this last while, we have had much more rain than normal
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I put mine in a Bisley style filing cabinet thing. The drawers are plenty deep enough for the collets and it keeps them from getting covered in dust or swarf or whatever.
(they're just a couple of bits of thin aluminium plate with some plastic feet held onto the bottom with cap screws).
The idea of it is that as the material bends up (with some radius that I didn't control especially tightly), there's somewhere for the metal to go. It's a very crude and not very accurate (due to my cutting ability, the plasma cutter's cutting ability and my bending ability) approximation of this sheet metal pattern I made in the free online CAD tool onshape - hopefully this screenshot explains the idea better than I can:
I'm very new to this whole metal bending thing so I was just picking something and trying it. It worked okay (obviously with a bigger gap than shown in the screenshot as I can't cut to a point with a plasma cutter) and welded closed very easily, so I don't think it was a bad choice of form.
