slim_boy_fat
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Strong magnetic fields?
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Strong magnetic fields?
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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As varied as you can imagine.
The British made great leaps when the dutch shipWillem van der Zaan "Docked" in the UK during WW2 with a natty Bofors director and proximity munitions.
Not that we would copy or liberate anything like that.
rtcosic
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Another is being able to look over the top of the windscreen of an MX-5.
I have a photograph somewhere of No 3 son c. 6' 4", and No 1 nephew c. 6' 6" in No 1 son's MX-5 before he performed the foamectomy on the seat squab. Rather comical!
mr migwire
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A priest for my eldest who has got into fishing since moving to the isle of skye,
good fun to make and great to use the compound slide....
good fun to make and great to use the compound slide....
A bit more of what is taking up most of my time, but occasionally means I do some welding. This time TIG'ing mild steel as transformers have some weght to them and aluminium would bend to much if dropped!
A seperate PSU
Just done another chassis to start one side of a valve amp, only 10 Watts max but would be loud enough for me.
Adrian
A seperate PSU
Just done another chassis to start one side of a valve amp, only 10 Watts max but would be loud enough for me.
Adrian
Country Joe
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Saw a small pile of pallets dumped somewhere nearby, so liberated them.
I sanded a few up, and thought they'd sit nicely in a steel frame.
Eventually the pile was just in the way, so it had to be used up, and made into something - anything!
I can't remember why, but somehow the frame ended up divided into two halves - so the pallet wood went into each half, but with each half going in different directions.
The frame itself is fairly sturdy - the top strip is 50 X 5mm, with 20 X 2 angle around the inside of it, to support the top.
The legs (and the other inter-connecting round pieces) are 20mm round bar, and the centre cross piece underneath the angle-iron support frame is 1'' square box section with a 3 mm wall.
The slats were stuck onto pieces of 18mm ply, partly to raise it up slightly so as to be able to see the end-grain, and also just to keep the damned slats still!
There's obviously a gap in the centre, as there are 2 pieces of angle-iron back-to-back, to make an up-side-down "T" shape, that the ply & pallet wood are located in - and resting on.
A bit of varnish:-
It might need feet too, as the bar-ends seem a bit severe.
From above:-
I might even get it powder-coated - to save me from doing any painting - maybe in clear - or does that just go misty and cloudy with the UV effects?
Top pieces in place:-
I don't even need a table either - so after all that, it's still in the way!
I suppose I could fill it with all the (other) odd, un-hinged lockdown "items" I've made out of what was lying around!
I'll probably end up trying my luck on e-bay, once it's got in the way one too many times.
All the Best,
CJ
I sanded a few up, and thought they'd sit nicely in a steel frame.
Eventually the pile was just in the way, so it had to be used up, and made into something - anything!
I can't remember why, but somehow the frame ended up divided into two halves - so the pallet wood went into each half, but with each half going in different directions.
The frame itself is fairly sturdy - the top strip is 50 X 5mm, with 20 X 2 angle around the inside of it, to support the top.
The legs (and the other inter-connecting round pieces) are 20mm round bar, and the centre cross piece underneath the angle-iron support frame is 1'' square box section with a 3 mm wall.
The slats were stuck onto pieces of 18mm ply, partly to raise it up slightly so as to be able to see the end-grain, and also just to keep the damned slats still!
There's obviously a gap in the centre, as there are 2 pieces of angle-iron back-to-back, to make an up-side-down "T" shape, that the ply & pallet wood are located in - and resting on.
A bit of varnish:-
It might need feet too, as the bar-ends seem a bit severe.
From above:-
I might even get it powder-coated - to save me from doing any painting - maybe in clear - or does that just go misty and cloudy with the UV effects?
Top pieces in place:-
I don't even need a table either - so after all that, it's still in the way!
I suppose I could fill it with all the (other) odd, un-hinged lockdown "items" I've made out of what was lying around!
I'll probably end up trying my luck on e-bay, once it's got in the way one too many times.
All the Best,
CJ
Brad93
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Got started cutting this late in the afternoon. Missus and mum both been on at me to make them a mounting block.
Both sides all cut now ready to be tacked and welded tomorrow. Need to order a bit of 5mm angle, brundles wouldn’t chuck a bit on their lorry with my £500 order that is coming tomorrow. So I’m going to end up paying £10 delivery and hopefully will be here Thursday.
Both sides all cut now ready to be tacked and welded tomorrow. Need to order a bit of 5mm angle, brundles wouldn’t chuck a bit on their lorry with my £500 order that is coming tomorrow. So I’m going to end up paying £10 delivery and hopefully will be here Thursday.
slim_boy_fat
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Nice! Just needs a hole at the operator end with a leather boot lace through it to slip round the wrist - slippery hobby, fishing.....
DAPPH
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Over time ..about 12 years my experience has been .... those cheaply clad super magnets also start to flake off and go rusty leaving you with some very sharp nasty films of rusty & shiny metal to get under your finger nails . They are OK if you encase them in some molten plastic to seal them from the air .
DAPPH
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That gap would look good filled with stainless or bright steel or brass.
And the Cambridge roller needs repairs. They have brittle cast iron wheels which break when you tow it over rocks down the farm race, especially if staff think the tractor only goes flat out. I bought replacement wheels from the foundry in Timaru and at around $NZ150 each delivered (around 75 pounds) they are expensive to replace. It currently has at least 3 if not 4 broken wheels which have been ignored for years but it has made it to the top of the list.
The plan is to fit some road wheels, lowered by a hydraulic ram to lift the roller wheels off the ground. Made out of what was around, except the trailer wheels and ram and hoses, I hope it will fix that problem.
No close ups of the welding as it is proper farmer welding :-). As well as replacing the wheels, I will see if I can fit an IBU plastic water tank on top whcih I can then fill and add 1T of extra weight for dealing with dry ground.
DAPPH
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Just a thought . Why not use old scrapped car wheels possibly c/w hubs & tyres as the rollers so they are sealed bearing'd , fill them with water for more weight before you put them on the axle , Use the wheel bearings with spacers as part of the build & you'll only need to preload the while roller from one end plus you could tow it on tarmac perhaps . you'd be able to have a small gap between the wheels engineered in the roller build .
My understanding that the U or V shaped rollers concentrate the weight to break up clods and the grooves stop scouring washing out of the soil of newly power narrowed fields.
Most importantly, I have it and it is paid for.
Fraserb
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Generally rubber rollers aren't the best for consolidation, better with shaped Cambridge rollers as they break clods and such.
gaz1
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they would be better with a slope on them brad more so when hanging them on wall
then at least they wont fall out of the thing
Brad93
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They’ve got 15° slope, I done another with 30° slope and it was too extreme. . Just going in a drawer these lot, I was fed up searching for the right spanner when I need to do one bolt on the lathe.
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Ive had a few rolls in Cambridge!
