Stuff you have made today

[mpats]

Recently a friend gave me a lot off Wooden Planes.

I restored a few. But a friend who needed some help in the trouble times, so I gave him the rest to restore.
His first big restorations.
Up shop is that his Local MIS has a lot of working planes.

But, it is a bug bear of mine that some users will use a metal hammer to force the wedge in, set the blade and beat the wedge out.
There is no need. You can simply make a wooden mallet to do the job. This does not damage the wooden plane.

So, I made another one.

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3 bits of scrap wood. The 2 outer ones are the same size. The inners ones are cut to suit the handle and tapered at 1:7, as are the 2 wedges.

The head is doweled, only to give a bigger surface area for the PVA glue. Tip, I used a dowel chamfer tool to make the driving of the dowels in a lot easier.


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Assembled, the blocks are glued as are the dowels. The handle and wedges are not. The cam action of the wedges will lock the head in place. The handle was also tapered to the same as the wedges.
I used normal PVA this time, not the quick drying one.
When driving the wedges in listen for the sound change, you will hear it as the wedges lock.

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Yes, a short shaft, you want the weight of the head to lock the wedges and shock it loose. Brut force is not needed. You tap, not whack.


Shaped, one face is angled so it strikes the plane body flat. The other is cut to from a "Cross Pein". This is for setting the wedge.

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The shaft is trimmed to suit most hands. My friend is making is own to suit his hand.


Soaking in Linseed oil, went in weighing 1Lb.

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Came out weighing in at 1lb4Oz's. This adds more weight and give sit a nice finish.

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Finished.

If you have hard wood for the head, beech is best, and a red wood for the handle you can make wood working mallet the same way.

Boiled linseed oil? Or thin it down with something? Or just straight? I've a mind to make myself a new mallet with some jarra wood I have and was wondering what to finish it with. I almost always use Danish oil on my wood stuff, or boiled linseed oil on outside stuff.

 

[Kayos]

The self charging battery. No idea why no one has done this before.
My genius knows no bounds

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Boiled Linseed oil.
It is denser and in this case designed to add weight.
My normal mallets only get teak oil on the handle and side cheeks

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Is the disc not the wrong way round?

Plus one more safety thing.

 

[mpats]

Boiled Linseed oil.
It is denser and in this case designed to add weight.
My normal mallets only get teak oil on the handle and side cheeks

I won't be needing to add weight using the jarra wood! I don't even think it would float. Making a cutting board out of some, its dense.

 

[Guzrik]

Plus one more safety thing.

That clumsy thing that is always in the way, without it it is easier to cut cable?

 

[Nick DV]

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Can any see what else needs to be fixed?

Riving knife touching blade?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Riving knife touching blade?

No safety guard.

 

[Nick DV]

No safety guard.

Mind you judging by the electrical 'work' the safety guard wasn't even thought about

 

[earthman]

The self charging battery. No idea why no one has done this before.
My genius knows no bounds

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How well does that actually work in practice/the long term though?
Doesn't it not work out to be that great due to the losses within the inverter etc??

 

[Chillitt]

How well does that actually work in practice/the long term though?
Doesn't it not work out to be that great due to the losses within the inverter etc??

Well it will keep the frost out of the shed...

 

[AndersK]

Cutting, drilling, tacking

 

[AndersK]

...and dissolving mill scale

 

[Nick DV]

...and dissolving mill scale
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What solution, and is that steel galv'd?

 

[AndersK]

@Nick DV it's 21% phosphoric acid.
It's just plain hot rolled 8 mm flat bar. The grey comes from the etching of the acid.

 

[Guzrik]

Almost a great big fire.

Poles are three one meter long thickwalled tubes welded together by myself 25years ago.
The gauze I had back then was only 1.5 meter high, so I decided since I didn't feel like cutting them by handsaw to put them 1.5 meter into the ground.
Now the conifer hedge died so we decided to put a sort of woven plastic foil (?), to the existing fence, but then 1.8meter high.
First I thougth to pull them out of the ground 30 cm, and made a boom on the back of my tractor. Didn't work because the poles are too stuck.
Plan B was to simply weld a piece of the same tubing I still had in stock(!), on top.
Bit of an experiment to weld with a fifty meter extensioncable, so made one to test the procedure.
The welding went smooth and I am happy, but I set a bit of dry grass on fire, what spread really quick in the direction of the trees 2.5 meter away.
Luckily my son was filling up the pool within shouting distance and came with a bucket of water to save me.
Half a minute later the pine would have been on fire and after that the forest next to it, pheww.
Plain stupid off course, lesson learned.

 

[Tupers]

I wanted to get my TIG rods out of their various plastic and cardboard tubes so I raided my local plumbing supply and made my own matching tubes.

 

[Guzrik]

Nice but do you also make a stand or something for these?
Years ago I made something but thats way to small only a few tubes.

 

[Woody.v8]

Threw a bit of paint about before she go's back in.

 

[Hood]

Working on the second batch of mackerel stripper boxes and one of the pipes need is a right pain to tig. It is inside the a tapered bit and trying to get both hands in and have the torch at the right angle and feed the filler in without blasting a hole through the 1.5mm thick sheet and 1.5mm wall tube is not easy, especially when my only welding bench is a vice

So today I thought I would see how it went with the stick welder, it has been a long time since I stick welded 1.5mm stainless so was thinking it may have been a bad idea but no, it went well and I had all 5 pipes stuck in place in the time it would have taken me to do one side of one with the tig