Stuff you have made today

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Last few days has been a case of getting used to working with 10% of my digits not fully working.

I have a bench planer, but it sat under the bench for a long time and was in need of some attention.

So the bed was removed and cleaned, the adjusters had a die ran down them.
The motor was checked.
The worse was some pitting and the chrome lifting on the bed.

That was cleaned up, then a old memory surfaced that running wood through a machine would help shift the last bits of rust.

So I did.

I also used the wood I planed to make something.


The Planer.



The two type of Oak planed and roughly assembled.




Glued and traditional wood glue and saw dust used as a filler.

One bit of interest, RHS you can see a tray with a white liquid.
That's my de-rusting fluids.
citric acid, warm water and flour.



Finished.

 

[Dr.Al]

This morning I finished making 16 little dog-hole fillers:

I've put quite a few 20 mm dog holes in my bench. Those where the bottom of the bench is accessible (where there isn't a drawer, a vice or a chest of drawers) are through-holes; the others are blind. Some of the through holes are over the bin and I was a bit worried about small things falling into the holes and landing in the bin or rolling across the floor somewhere inaccessible.

I had a couple of (skip-retrieved) bars of 25.4 mm (1") 303 bar, so I started turning that into dog hole fillers. They're 20 mm diameter for 20 mm length, then taper out at 45° to 21.6 mm. They have an M8 hole tapped all the way through. I made 16 simply because that's how many I could make before running out of 303 in the right size.

The grub screws go in the bottom of the tapped hole just in case anything really small falls through the tapped hole:

The M8 hole is mainly there to make them easy to remove, although potentially I could use them to hold stuff down to the bench. There's nothing holding them in place, but a screw could maintain the alignment with the dog holes (in X and Y) for planing or similar and if I wanted to constrain something in Z then (for the through dog-holes) I could use a cap screw and penny washer from underneath the bench to hold the dog in place.

I got the idea from Axminster's website: they list them as "Anchor Dogs" for holding stuff down to your bench. To buy this many from Axminster would have cost me £88 so I'm much happier having made them from bits of bar that came out of the skip!

Here they are in place on my bench:

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Some new cheeks to mount these
Only temporary until I redo the stand completely but frees up room on the main stand short term.

 

[Woody.v8]

Made some plate lighter

 

[minimutly]

Fired this up - carbs all over the place, owner is ordering bits. Runs sweet nevertheless.

 

[Dr.Al]

I did a bit of playing with the home-made router table today. I'd previously set it up so that the main way of using it was with the fence that came with the router (shown in an earlier post here).

I wanted to switch to using the extrusion as the main fence (as shown in the fourth photo in the previous post) but there were two problems with that:

1. No fine adjustment facility for getting the fence in the right place
2. It's quite low (although higher than the fence that came with the router)

I've used up all of the t-slot extrusion I had left apart from some very small bits that were cut off the ends of two of the sides to get them to the right length. I drilled a couple of holes in each of them, added a captive screw (made from an M6 cap screw and a nyloc nut tightened down as far as it would go on the threaded bit of the screw) and tapped two holes in the existing fence.

Et voila:

Those two little bits of extrusion were literally the only bits I had left and they nearly went to the tip with my swarf bin a few weeks ago.

Close-up of one of them:

The stainless screw gets tightened down to the beam underneath and then the cap screw that you can see the side of at the top of the picture moves the fence in and out. When it's in the right position, the cap screw at the bottom of the picture locks the fence in place.

A couple of photos of the new bits in case it's not clear how it works:

From the end with the stainless locking screw, showing the drop-in T-nut at the top:

From the end with the screw that moves the fence:

I also added a couple of plywood pieces to the fence so it's a lot taller (fixing #2 above), but it was chucking it down so I had the garage door shut at that point. As a result it was a little bit dark and the photos came out blurry.

 

[Normandy]

Knocked up a selection of 8 bandsaw blades, 6, 14 and 18tpi for the 6x4 saw and made a bit more progress on fitting my Sinpo 3 axis DRO other than giving it all a good coat of looking at. A simple Duralumin bracket to mount the readout so the bracket clears the Gib locks and leaves the back of the column clear for the head counterweight I want to add.

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Sorry sure iin wrong place. Plse correct
I am looking advise on Clarke bandsaw, other than sling it I saw a post on subject thru Google but can't find it here

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[Ashley Burton]

Built a box out of 3mm steel, Slit the bends & folded. Then welded up all the bended edges

 

[Olderisbetter]

Today i had to make a emergency cover using net over my pond after a stalk fishnapped a 10" koi

 

[mtt.tr]

not so much made as repaired after breaking

Dad asked me if i could lend him my ultasonic cleaner, i was doing bits anyway so said i would do his carb.
The float needed coming out pin pretty much dropped out until the last 1/4" well i pulled slighty too hard broke the lug off, if anyone else has done this they will know its pretty easy to do that.


Down to the workshop needed to load the van anyway, made a lug followed by some filling



I have done this in the past pre AC tig normally lead to boring out carb and putting in a post

Also had a quick go at repairing some brimabright a friend needs a stretched bit cut and welded, do able for where it is but its not nice stuff

 

[Dr.Al]

This morning I finished making 16 little dog-hole fillers:

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Today I found another length of 303 that I had been wondering where it was (it was buried under some mild steel flat bar). With the new bar, I was able to do another little production run and made 20 more of the dog-hole fillers:

That lot should keep me going for a long time. I now have 36 of them which (if I were stupid enough and rich enough to buy such things) would have set me back £198 from Axminster! Since the 303 came out of the skip, it instead cost me a few hours work.

There's no way I would have bought them even if they were a quarter of the Axminster price and I didn't a lathe to make my own, but they should save a lot of lost parts so I'm pleased to have them all.

 

[daleyd]

Today I made..... a bit of smoke

First go of the fire pit with a load of cardboard and wood to get it nice and hot to get the outside coating burnt off. Did the job a treat - got an area around the bottom I need to clean off but the majority has gone - next job clean down the outside and give it a lick of high temp paint.

 

[Fraserb]

A mirror

 

[selectedgrub]

I got to make a knob.
But the sun come out I rubbed the lotion on it's skin.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The other day @northwest sent me a care package. The 3 tins were, as you would expect for their age, dirty, dented, damaged and a few large paint blobs.






The original designed is badly faded, were the pain was it had eaten the design away. But they cleaned up well. The metal was soft enough to allow the dents and dings to be dressed out.














Theses 2 brass screwdrivers were in the contents, they are well made and useful. So a clean up, by hand and the tips didn't need any work.



The other day I made a version of a Butchers block, my neighbour saw it, liked it and asked if I could make him 4, if he supplied the wood.







Here are the first 2.

 

[Mick Annick]

Nothing exciting, a railing for a nearby gite balcony

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Now installed

 

[jerrytug]

Now installed

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Nice neat job..and what a lovely old gaff! The brickwork (not actual bricks but I don't know the word) was obviously laid very skillfully, it reminds me of dry stone walling. At first sight it looks like it needs repointing, but maybe it just works as it is. If mortar is used I presume it's lime mortar.

 

[Woody.v8]

That's both plates fabricated now thank dog.

 

[daleyd]

The finished article, after a couple of coats of Aldi finest heat resistant paint, and the daughter trying her hand at a bit of spraying

 

[Jlg]

A new nail guid for my nail gun