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For making false teeth.
The teeth are held in the plaster, the wax is lost. The plastic is added. The press is used to form the final shape.
Then it is baked, the set removed and cleaned up.
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Far from what I’ve done today, but a few little jobs from the past 14-16 weeks;
L200 bump stop stop, on the chassis. Comprised of a short section of 80x40x3mm and some 3mm plate. Welded here, there, and everywhere. Then a liberal coating of Zinc/Galv spray, as you know what they say the secret to a good weld is? A thick coating of paint!
Next up, a few weekends work and it’s still not finished. But, a MIG/TIG/Plasma trolley that should free up about 0.005m2 of floor space so I can trip over something else. 30mm SHS throughout, 8mm plate for the gas cylinders to sit on - I still need to make a bracket to hold the cylinders upright though, add some sheet shelves and paint it, but I’m impressed with it.
Finally got around to altering my dash table for the lorry. Added a small raised area, and two cup holders. Fans are held in place with Velcro. The dash in a Renault T-Range is woeful and everything moves around under slight braking or cornering.
Today has involved removing the Vito front bumper and installing new brackets, I had planned to install new front arch liners, but for the second time I’ve been sent incorrect items, so ordered direct from Northside in Immingham. Also replaced the rear door holders? for when the doors are open as they’d both given up.
Only a million other things to do now.. But it feels good to cross a couple of bits off the list.
L200 bump stop stop, on the chassis. Comprised of a short section of 80x40x3mm and some 3mm plate. Welded here, there, and everywhere. Then a liberal coating of Zinc/Galv spray, as you know what they say the secret to a good weld is? A thick coating of paint!
Next up, a few weekends work and it’s still not finished. But, a MIG/TIG/Plasma trolley that should free up about 0.005m2 of floor space so I can trip over something else. 30mm SHS throughout, 8mm plate for the gas cylinders to sit on - I still need to make a bracket to hold the cylinders upright though, add some sheet shelves and paint it, but I’m impressed with it.
Finally got around to altering my dash table for the lorry. Added a small raised area, and two cup holders. Fans are held in place with Velcro. The dash in a Renault T-Range is woeful and everything moves around under slight braking or cornering.
Today has involved removing the Vito front bumper and installing new brackets, I had planned to install new front arch liners, but for the second time I’ve been sent incorrect items, so ordered direct from Northside in Immingham. Also replaced the rear door holders? for when the doors are open as they’d both given up.
Only a million other things to do now.. But it feels good to cross a couple of bits off the list.
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Gross!!!!
The engineering that goes into dental work is fantastic. Some of the welding used was up sized and used in the Apollo missions.
As to the development of plastics The UK leads the world in it.
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No Claws on mine, but it did have the top guard/dust extractor which was attached to the top of the riving knife. I had a look and replacements were less than 20 quid so just modified the one that was fitted knowing I can replace it in the future.Great job, I've been meaning to make a sled for mine for a long time now,.....did your saw have the 'claws' either side of the blade? I'm guessing that it's OK to totally remove these? I can't recall seeing them in use once a sled is fitted??
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Knocked up a couple of holders for a friend's shop, for holding disinfectant
Not much, but filled the afternoon waiting for F1 quali highlights
Not much, but filled the afternoon waiting for F1 quali highlights
Yeah, I knew that the claws are to stop kickback, just know that some saws come with them and others don't, any idea why? Mines got the riving knife too.
I'm guessing that folk just remove them claws if they make/use a sledge, how advisable/safe is that, not sure??
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Removing the claws is fine. Not a huge number of saws that come with them, that I've seen. Lots of yanks who remove the riving knife, I probably wouldn't.
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Finished the cross-cut sled for my table saw today. I started working on this several weeks ago, but I ground to halt after trying to get the fence (which is made out of two bits of B&Q plywood laminated together) square. I did the 5-cut method thing (which amplifies any error by four for easy measuring) and managed to get it square. I then cut a short piece and it was WAY off. Turns out the plywood fence was bowed, so I gave up for a bit while pondering what to do about it.
A couple of days I ago I finished making a "planer" that uses my router to trim the top of a bit of wood, so I put the fence on a flat table and ran the router all over the face of it. Refitted the fence and did the five-cut thing again and got it square much quicker this time: on the second cut the (amplified) error was 0.05 mm over 465 mm length, which is very much in the realms of measurement tolerance when measuring the width of a bit of wood! I tried a short piece again and it was spot-on square, so I'm much happier now and could get on with making the stop out of some scrap aluminium and then fitting the scales on the top of the fence.
This photo makes the fence look way off square, but I'm sure it isn't!
A couple of days I ago I finished making a "planer" that uses my router to trim the top of a bit of wood, so I put the fence on a flat table and ran the router all over the face of it. Refitted the fence and did the five-cut thing again and got it square much quicker this time: on the second cut the (amplified) error was 0.05 mm over 465 mm length, which is very much in the realms of measurement tolerance when measuring the width of a bit of wood! I tried a short piece again and it was spot-on square, so I'm much happier now and could get on with making the stop out of some scrap aluminium and then fitting the scales on the top of the fence.
This photo makes the fence look way off square, but I'm sure it isn't!
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Today I finally fixed the Babyliss hair trimmer. Old cell unsoldered and my < £4 replacement whacked in place. working and on charge atm. Kodak eat your heart out.....
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I love bonsaiToday I tried to make this Abies look more like a Bonsai!!
Not sure if I did improve it!
John
I got a ficus Benjamin named EDGAR
It was fine for about 8 months till last August when it started loosing the leafs and eventually die .
I still pretty sad about it ,I been very careful to make it feel fine ,I think it got a disease of somesort because even my friend who is a professional arborist didn't found a better answer to its death
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Now, is it just me that thought the drawn outline was that of a hand and... ermmm... a gentleman's bedroom toolkit?
See, after the 'Vark mentioned an 'incident', I thought he was heading down the road of 'don't poke your finger anywhere you wouldn't poke your...'
