Stuff you have made today

[Migmac]

Don’t know if you’d call it stuff but I’ve made the family happy! We had a very loud vibration when you flushed the toilet. I’ve been under the floor checking for pipes vibrating whilst no2 son flushes the toilet. Nothing obvious but the noise was deafening. Put some extra clips on just to see if it helped - no. Had done other things before doing this, turning the water flow down, adjusting things in the cistern. Nothing. We have to toilets both with the same cistern, swapped all the internals over, yeeees, quiet. Put the noisy internals in the en-suite, they’re quiet too. No idea what’s different but I don’t care, it’s quiet.

 

[AndersK]

@Migmac you know you should unwind the paper from the small roll before use, right?

 

[Wallace]

@Migmac you know you should unwind the paper from the small roll before use, right?

 

[Scruffywelder]

...no2 son...

 

[Migmac]

Yeeessss, someone on the same level of humour as me

 

[Dr.Al]

Today I acquired... lots of space to work in (stay with me, I assure you I'm posting in the right thread!)

I've been wanting to get back into wood bothering for many, many years (basically since moving out from my parents' house about 25 years ago) but haven't had the space. My workshop is a single garage; one half of it has a lathe, milling machine, grinders, drill press, bandsaw and lots and lots of drawers. The other half of the workshop had two motorbikes and a more drawers and other storage units in between them.

One of the motorbikes (a Yamaha Fazer that's my OH's) hasn't been ridden in at least 3 years and probably won't be again (if she gets back into riding, I think we'll get something different and hopefully will have moved house by then). The plan had been to MOT and sell it in March, but Covid put the kibosh on that, so selling it got postponed for what will probably be a year. Step in my kindly neighbour who has let me put the Fazer in his garage until we can sell it. No charge, but I've ordered him a good bottle of Springbank whisky to say thank you.

Having moved the motorbike, I did a major reorganisation of the garage and shed this weekend. The shed is now much easier to get into with everything on shelves and relatively accessible. Having cleared basically a quarter of the garage I was able to make myself a whole new bench and fit some plywood to the wall as a shadow board:

See, I told you I was posting on the right thread

The bench is modelled on my existing bench, which I got for free when my previous employer decided to refit the electronics lab and had a couple of benches leftover (of which I got one). I liked the sturdiness of it so I did something similar: three bits of 18 mm plywood glued and screwed together to make a circa 52 mm thick worktop.

Unfortunately, I haven't really got anywhere else to put the drawer unit I made recently, so that takes up a bit of the worktop, but there's still 1.6 m of clear space:

I've got a lot of clearing up and organising to do so I'm not sure what it'll look like when I've found a home for everything that's currently cluttering up the other end of the garage, but I'm feeling quite pleased at having a potential woodworking area in the garage.

Oh, and Bramble approves:

 

[Am333rcr]

Hi

Well finally got it done a very rough bit of block work and concreting out side my oil tank.

Also made a while ago a guard for outlet. The delivery guy have been standing on it.

 

[AndersK]

Dug up this one today. If that Corona doesn't kill me she will...

 

[Cheesie]

pigeon traps

 

[mrsbruce]

Stuff made yesterday, and today.

1/ Unwrapped and stored my new order of leather hides, and cut one of the hides into lots of gun belt blanks.
2/ Cut out 5 western rigs, ready for decoration.
3/ Dug through my fabric stash, and cut out 12 face masks on my Cricut machine.
4/ Stitched together 4 face masks, realised I had used up all my narrow elastic, so got creative with thin paracord and some toggles.
6/ Sent scary picture of self wearing the biggest face mask ever, to one of the chaps who asked me to make some for him.
7/ Stamped the border decoration on four belts, 8 billets, and five holsters.
8/ Created yet another over complicated, stupid John Wayne gun belt out of Valerie Singleton’s knicker elastic, and sticky backed plastic (well, felt like it).
9/ Had a mutton sandwich, and a glass of red wine.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Valerie Singleton’s knicker

Do we want to know how you got them?

9/ Had a mutton sandwich, and a glass of red wine.

Just the one?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Just the one?

A person can only eat so many mutton sandwiches.

 

[mrsbruce]

Do we want to know how you got them?

When St. Valerie left Blue Peter, they found a large stash of her knicker elastic in a cupboard. They sold the lot off as a job lot to my great uncle Jacob Rice Moggy. When it was confirmed that he was dead (a fact he still vigorously denies), I inherited the lot.

Had to buy my own sticky backed plastic, though.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Had to buy my own sticky backed plastic, though.

What about double sided sticky tape?

 

[Ashley Burton]

More van building:

 

[mrsbruce]

What about double sided sticky tape?

Oh no, no, no..... double sided sticky tape? Way too radical.

 

[nick952]

Dug up this one today. If that Corona doesn't kill me she will...

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Reminded me of this:-

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Oh no, no, no..... double sided sticky tape? Way too radical.

@mrsbruce
One for you.

www.amazon.co.uk/Heres-One-Made-Earlier-Classic/dp/0857835130

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

After last week end crucible failure, I was left with a mess.
The base of the fire bit was seized in place with "rubs" of alloy. The catch tray was a mix of ash, alloy and partially brunt wood.

I was worn out from a busy day and was not in the mood to cut, clean and sort.

So, another fire, a few beers.



Cheep sieve. Filled with a mix of crud, slag and dross.
RHS lower edge, you can see a run of melted alloy, from the base of the fire pit.



God clean burn. Very little alloy left.

In total I "salvaged" the thick end of 10Kg of alloy.

 

[DAPPH]

A mess.

My crucible failed, wasting some good hardwood charcoal, making a mess of the fire pit.

But, I do have another shinny Blob.


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Do your burn up with the grate a foot or so above a big steel tub of water .. as it melts and falls though it self cleans to a fair degree .,giving you clean ally globules to re-melt & cast .