Stuff you have made today

[Brad93]

Job for the local skip man laser cut profiles welded with 2.5 root run and 3.2 dual pass not under much pressure in use but drivers always manage to make it rough View attachment 230826View attachment 230828 View attachment 230829 View attachment 230827

Nice welding, but what was the direction of travel?
It looks to me like that hook assembly is on the tilt.
If you welded even slightly downhill you can have some issues.

Obviously it is electrode and amperage dependant, but you can suffer from slag entrapment or porosity, particularly with 7018s.
I had to redo about 3m of welding, three pass, grind all the old weld out 40ft above the Thames. All on the ropes.

 

[nickk]

A soil sieve,some stainless mesh,spare from a weir.

 

[nickk]

Continuing my spiral staircase erection,it’s now complete,leaving some painting when I get my RAL code book back,then demolished the old monstrosity,amazingly it stood for 33+ years,hanging by bird poo.

 

[Tupers]

I went down to weld up a fuel tank today and ended up making a rack for my air tools while I was there. It just needs corner gussets and paint tomorrow.

 

[Aesgarth]

This "floating" table...

 

[Brad93]

This "floating" table... View attachment 230986

Can it actually be used?

 

[Aesgarth]

Can it actually be used?

Yeah. The middle cable is the limiting factor but it'll take about 20kg in that configuration. It wobbles a little bit though when touched - so it would be fine for a lamp or something, not so good for drinks. It can be picked up and held sideways without collapsing.

Edit to add: the limiting factor is actually the crimp on the cable loop, not the cable itself, so easily improved..

 

[Westfield-builder]

That has got me fascinated.
Are you saying; that buy shortening the central cable, you stiffen the whole structure ?

 

[cianh91]

Nice welding, but what was the direction of travel?
It looks to me like that hook assembly is on the tilt.
If you welded even slightly downhill you can have some issues.

Obviously it is electrode and amperage dependant, but you can suffer from slag entrapment or porosity, particularly with 7018s.
I had to redo about 3m of welding, three pass, grind all the old weld out 40ft above the Thames. All on the ropes.

welded on the flat there movable clamp bars iv done a few in the past already and not had any issues
there not under any real pressure just used a lot so the welding is overkill for what they are

 

[Aesgarth]

That has got me fascinated.
Are you saying; that buy shortening the central cable, you stiffen the whole structure ?

Not exactly, shortening the cental cable would raise the top, therefore tightening the outer cables and increasing stiffness, so it would work but it's easier to tension the outer cables after setting the middle cable. The central cable determines the height of the table top as it's effectively hanging on the central cable. Increasing the tension in the outer cables increases the stiffness of the structure (and the level of the top)

 

[Westfield-builder]

I'm going to be spending hours looking at this

 

[Aesgarth]

I'm going to be spending hours looking at this

 

[Lewis_RX8]

So Mazda in their ifinite wisdom decided to make the locking wheel nut a 17mm hex size while the actual wheel nuts are 21. So have to switch sockets and then plop in locking wheel socket which is rather long winded.

I however decided to do something about it with some odds and ends kicking around the garage.

First machined down a spare nut to 21mm

Not my best machining but it worked.

Then a hex was filled into that 21mm nut which allowed me to press the locking wheel socket into it.

And then added some blobs of weld to the edges and a big centre well to fill in and strengthen the nut.

And finally some paint.

 

[Maker]

I made some blue things to replace some missing black things.

They go in the light stands I got last month to stop the clamping screws scratching the poles. First one took about an hour in Fusion, the rest took seconds, parametric modeling is magic!

 

[AndersK]

Don't know what you call this but it's the process where you try to hide earlier mistakes by mixing cement and sand, first to wet then to dry before getting good enough, trying to get it to stick to the wall, exhausting all possible bad language, while half of it ends up on the floor, one quarter falls off while levelling it. When ready you realize that you have bought 50kg too much, saving it for next time only to discover it has hardened into a lump with hardness like a diamond...

Is it rendering ?

 

[Dr.Al]

Today I finished making a trolley for my newly acquired table saw:

It's got slightly unusual custom-made feet. The idea is that (unlike a footmaster castor or similar), when it goes onto the feet the whole frame is lifted up off the floor by quite a long way (about 80 mm: the travel of the feet is 120 mm but they go 40 mm off the ground when the wheels are on the ground).

To lift it onto its feet, I brake the two wheels with that capability, remove the pins from the opposite side feet, lift the frame up by hand so two of the feet drop all the way, put the pins in and then do the same on the other side. Lowering is the reverse.

At its top setting (shown above), it's at the same height as my workbench so big stuff can hang off the side of the table saw. In that position, I can just squeeze between the table saw and the motorcycle to get into the rest of the garage. If I pull out the extension arm on the (left as you look at it in the photo above) side, there's no chance of squeezing past.

Lowered onto it's wheels, it tucks under the workbench and gives a lot more room to get past or it can be wheeled further into the garage to give full access to the workbench.

Gratuitous and horribly out-of-focus shot of the legs:

Made out of 30 × 30 × 2 mm box section (as is the rest of the frame) with some 25 mm square steel that I had lying around sliding in it. The feet are probably nylon and are adjustable in height by about 40 mm. Probably unnecessary having two pins holding it in place, but what the heck.

 

[Brad93]

First bit of palisade fencing for a local village hall.
This is all fabricated by us, only thing. Ought in was the pales and the bolts.

two gates to fit tomorrow.

 

[Windy Miller]

First bit of palisade fencing for a local village hall.
This is all fabricated by us, only thing. Ought in was the pales and the bolts.

two gates to fit tomorrow.

How does it fit on the right hand side? Another post or attached to the wall?

 

[Aesgarth]

Photo of yesterday's table held sideways...

 

[Brad93]

How does it fit on the right hand side? Another post or attached to the wall?

A 50x10 flat bar with x4 rawl bolts into the wall.