Stuff you have made today

[Hopefuldave]

Bit of a slow one today, footling with the lathe, smokin' fags, found a small* (5") 4-jaw chuck at the back of a cupboard and an unused backplate - won't look pretty, backplate is a couple of inches bigger than the chuck but matches (pretty much) the spindle nose so machined it anyway... Blind threaded back on the chuck, so as I couldn't find mine (they're in that mess somewhere, I know it!), made some transfer screws to pop-mark and locate the Required Drilling - then discovered I don't have the right counterbore nor the right size endmill for a nice neat job
It may have to look scruffy.

Made quite a bit of cast-iron chips too, the backplate already had the wrong size (too small) spigot so had to machine that off before I even started...

Dave H. (the other one)

*the 10" 4-jaw's a bit OTT for the next couple of jobs coming up!

 

[selectedgrub]

Part of the big shed clean up involved making new curtains.

 

[selectedgrub]

What's the English word for this kind of sheet metal work?

We would probably call it cladding.

 

[doubleboost]

Cut this 4 mill plate A3 size.
It is to go on the grave of a RAF dog handler
Had me in tears watching the plasma torch do its thing.
Strange how Big & Tough we think we are .
Then something simple seems to flick a switch .

 

[arther dailey]

I should think those that new him will be very touched (pleased is I think the wrong word) with it , nice job done the DB

 

[Morrisman]

@Morrisman scaffolding all day long in my eyes

Is the shed empty?

scaff poles as suggested , drive a rsj or similar in the garden, strap a 12 volt winch to it , large wide strop around front of shed..connect to winch , lift onto scaff poles(rollers) winch slowly into place. (hopefully) yes strap would need to be at base level of shed and might need to reinforce shed to prevent damage, maybe use a few scaff planks for strengthening shed

If I had all the above equipment it would be a doddle, but we just moved house, half my stuff is stashed at my dads place, and inaccessible during these quarantine days.....

He is 85 and a little frail, so I may slip down there just to check up on him....and grab my ratchet winch, and some pipe, or whatever I can find.

The shed is chock full of hot rod and bike stuff, tools etc, but can be emptied in a half hour or so.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Sorry, showing you all a stool sample - again...

Last one was reassigned to living room duties so new one for workshop is a combined step and stool; three legged so it doesn't wobble on the undulating concrete and a wide stance for stability - smaller step as either a footrest when sitting wrong way round or step to get up. TIG welded 25mm box section 25mm wire brushed and finished with Owatrol (new and me likey; bought a wee sample tin for a fiver) and recycled iroko finished with Osmo hardwax oil for the step and top.

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I've got some upturned buckets that are rather comfy.

Swap?

 

[Kram]

I made this, or these, well, I laid them, as the first leg of shed relocation.

No real idea how to slide the shed up them yet, with minimal facilities. But it’s a start.

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Move it like this?

 

[arther dailey]

If I had all the above equipment it would be a doddle, but we just moved house, half my stuff is stashed at my dads place, and inaccessible during these quarantine days.....

He is 85 and a little frail, so I may slip down there just to check up on him....and grab my ratchet winch, and some pipe, or whatever I can find.

The shed is chock full of hot rod and bike stuff, tools etc, but can be emptied in a half hour or so.[/QUO

sounds like a plan, dad does need checking on at his age anyways , take care and stay safe

 

[Munkul]

JD conditioner tines, 18 off. Cut, drilled and folded the flat bar, got a machinist to make the bushes, TIG tacked them in place.

To fit on this shaft:

Total expenditure - about 4 hours, minus the bushes, and £35 worth of flat bar.
To buy these would have cost £400!

 

[Maker]

JD conditioner tines, 18 off. Cut, drilled and folded the flat bar, got a machinist to make the bushes, TIG tacked them in place.

To fit on this shaft:

Total expenditure - about 4 hours, minus the bushes, and £35 worth of flat bar.
To buy these would have cost £400!

Looks bloody terrifying! I take it a JD conditioner is some kind of flail?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I've got some upturned buckets that are rather comfy.

You didn't nick Oor Wullie's one, did you?

 

[Hood]

You didn't nick Oor Wullie's one, did you?

Murdoch is investigating.

 

[Munkul]

haha I suppose it does look a bit dangerous. A conditioner on a mower is basically a coarse flail that bruises the grass against an upper hood, after the discs have already cut it. It helps the grass to wilt, making better quality hay and silage.

It looks like this when installed:

https://www.deere.co.uk/en/mower-conditioner/rear-mounted-single-324a/

We bought the mower cheap at auction last year, the previous owner had ran the conditioner to almost destruction, so we took it off and ran it as a plain mower. Just getting around to fixing it properly before this years silage season. I've still got to make a hood for it as well.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

You didn't nick Oor Wullie's one, did you?

 

[qwakers]

i made my vice into one piece again..
please don't laugh at my poor attempts at tig welding.....

vice glorious vice..

and no not the same vice as my other post

another thing on my list of cant afford to replace at the moment is my machine vice on my pillar drill.
this was given to me for xmas last year and whilst grateful, is not of the quality i would have chosen myself.

used it a fair amount over the past few months but broke it last week..

so being cast it is tricky, and i don't have much in the way of preheating equipment, so i'm sure it will crack, but its worth a shot.

a bit of amateurish tigging.




yes, i see the porosity too.... cast is hard!


and covered.



we'll see....

 

[Munkul]

i made my vice into one piece again..
please don't laugh at my poor attempts at tig welding.....

vice glorious vice..

and no not the same vice as my other post

another thing on my list of cant afford to replace at the moment is my machine vice on my pillar drill.
this was given to me for xmas last year and whilst grateful, is not of the quality i would have chosen myself.

used it a fair amount over the past few months but broke it last week..

so being cast it is tricky, and i don't have much in the way of preheating equipment, so i'm sure it will crack, but its worth a shot.

a bit of amateurish tigging.
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yes, i see the porosity too.... cast is hard!


and covered.

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we'll see....

A good way to improve the mechanical strength of that repair would be to drill and bolt the ends as well.. give it a fighting chance I'd drill in 6.5mm, tap to M8 and drill clearance through the broken part, and bolt it up.

 

[Aesgarth]

A few table frames from the end of last week...

And a frame for a kicker ramp to do stupid things with on my bike

 

[Divingdad]

I have sWife said she would like a dog, she has one. Saw this idea weeks ago so had a go yesterday. Do I paint it, varnish or leave to acquire patina?

 

[Divingdad]

Oh and learn to type