Stuff you have made today

[Ashley Burton]

Made up a brake pipe & bled the brakes on an MX5 track car me & my brother have been working on.

Got to drill & bolt in the roll bar cage next

Will be good fun when it's up & running

 

[Agroshield]

Today I made a heavy duty scorpion's tail

The stinger's fallen on the floor.

 

[Tangledfeet]

Man, you live in the land of the Fly Fifers, they will just nick the bars as well

They'll have to get into the workshop first!!!

Oh and BTW I wonder whether I should grass you off the the FMA or not

Pfft... you threatened me with this before a few years ago! All found on local beaches, m'lud...

 

[Hood]

They'll have to get into the workshop first!!!

Obviously you have not lived there long enough to know that is not often a problem

Pfft... you threatened me with this before a few years ago! All found on local beaches, m'lud...

Not an excuse

 

[Dr.Al]

Decided to have a break from fighting the old bench vice today so I started a new project. So far, I've made this:

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(held together with cap screws from underneath)

A bit more progress on this today:

 

[Maker]

A bit more progress on this today:

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Looks like it could be a tapping "machine"?

 

[Dcal]

irish wheel per chance?

Indeed

 

[Sammy7]

Found an old spanner at my mums. I think it belonged to my granddad. Decided to give it new lease of life. Following a scrub and electrolysis. Found a name on it “blackbird” so once it was clean I used gun blue, to make it black.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Not much to look at, but you try welding small bits like this, holding workpiece(s) with one hand [no room for magnets, awkward angle(s) on the 'recipient' part] while bricking it in case you set the cave on fire....

Anyway, they're brackets to hold the door I decided to make for the Myford stand. This is the Mk11 door I'm talking about, I lost the rag with the Mk1 and introduced it to the BFH, to my eternal shame . Holes drilled & tapped to take hinge bolts.

Painted over now, door made [rehashed picture fame I had made years ago] and jury-rigged to check fit. Some finishing to do, paint etc, 2 x shelves to fit inside it [already made]. Then that'll be another of those 'half-finished' jobs lots of us seem to have hanging around just waiting for the 'now' moment. Watch this space.....

 

[Dr.Al]

Looks like it could be a tapping "machine"?

Yeap. Design is from Harold Hall's "Model Engineer's Workshop Projects" book. I've got a fair few M3 and M4 holes to tap in the near future and I thought this would be an interesting project and potentially useful.

 

[Maker]

Yeap. Design is from Harold Hall's "Model Engineer's Workshop Projects" book. I've got a fair few M3 and M4 holes to tap in the near future and I thought this would be an interesting project and potentially useful.

I wasn't certain that's what it was as the front appears to clamp a shaft but I see theres a self feeding mechanism still to come, interesting idea.

 

[Mark 2]

And for the other occasion

 

[gordon stephenson]

No doubt inspired by Winston Churchill

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

After a fun day at work, plus steeling a coffee from a friend.
It was home, chill coffee and have a bit of me time.



A modified wedge. A keener edge and more wax.

2 coffee worth.

A step aside.
The post asking what a part of this was, was in jest on a sombre job I was asked to do.
Last year a dear friend pass away. At the end of his life, all but his wife and daughter had washed their hands off him.
A sad side of his mental illness.
This meant his plot was often bare and looking sad.
He was a good painter, decorator and handy man. So with the blessing of his family we agreed to add a memory to his plot.



This brush was his favourite dusting off brush. Held together my yards of masking tape.

Here you can see it after said tape was removed and the bristles given a good clean.



The handle was held together by animal glue and the groves in the 3 parts.



May be not the best shot.
But the metal band was loos holding the bristles in.
So, 2 pack glue was drizzled in the seal that part.




Cleaned, stained and sealed with wax. More coats of wax to follow.
RHS top of the handle you can just make out a hole. On the other side I set in a ring. So it hand easily hang on his plot marker.
The rivets you see are brass coated wire, dished over and pushed through. It gives a decent original look to the handle.
To clean the wooden parts, few days in a Vapour tank, wire wool and a Cabinet scraper was used. No wood was removed.

The shape in the handle is from years of use.
Something small for a friend.

 

[nickk]

A pair of tapered ring latch handles to go with some galvanised gates,which will be close boarded with red cedar.

 

[bigegg]

No doubt inspired by Winston Churchill

 

[mrsbruce]

Finally getting some little projects completed. My little hands are worn out making a silly amount of gun rigs for folk just now, so glad to take a day off.

Completed my tappytaptap hammer, and made myself a new leather carving knife. I’ve still got to make the finger swivel bit, so stole the one from my original one. I made it a lot thicker, to try to stop my wee fingers cramping up halfway through carving stuff.

 

[Tangledfeet]

Spent the day in the workshop (or outside it using the grinder to prepare surfaces for welding) finishing the inside bars for the windows in the workshop as we're a bit more wary since someone tried to steal the trailer outside it but the wheel lock stopped them. My biggest welding (not there was an awful lot) project in ages and the Paton VDI 200P and wire feeder excelled themselves - pretty sure I getting spray arc transfer as all went silent at times...

 

[Tangledfeet]

View attachment 221329 View attachment 221328 View attachment 221327 View attachment 221327 View attachment 221328 View attachment 221329 Found an old spanner at my mums. I think it belonged to my granddad. Decided to give it new lease of life. Following a scrub and electrolysis. Found a name on it “blackbird” so once it was clean I used gun blue, to make it black.

Lovely job! I've got a couple of Stilsons that a neighbour gave me before moving house and downsizing... they're not in the state that yours was before you did your restoration but it has made me wonder if electrolysis would be the way to go.

 

[Jacktegla]

Finished my new bench