Stuff you have made today

[Jay1st]

Adapted / fitted / modded a Mitsu L200 roll bar to a 2020 Hilux with a Raptor paint.

 

[Fraserb]

Do owners still tie ignition keys in the ignition with baler twine like my great uncle did with everything so they couldn't get lost?

Haha, no the keys are taken out when ever it's parked up so no string involved.

 

[Tupers]

I bet it was quite though!

You almost wouldn’t know it was running.

 

[sako243]

Finally managed to meet up with my mate who picked up the forks from @vwmark on Sunday and exchange them for the promised venison.

As I am meant to have the missing 1/2 tonne of steel from my last order delivered today I worked until about the early hours of the morning quickly knocking this up. Surprised at how well it went considering the welder jammed, couldn't find my 0.8mm wire, all my hole saws were too big (for the quick hitch pins) the plasma was just beyond it's limit on 20mm and I ran out of gas.

Finished it off this morning by practicing some stick welding (why is it whenever I'm learning a new process I do it on something that takes huge forces?).

Little test load of a bulk-bag of gravel / motar mix - nothing broke so should suffice for the moment.

 

[Farside]

Darkside rear for the GS850

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

And ran out of connectors. Rm have misplaced an order. The ones I'm using arrived today and were ordered 3 days later.

Leads turn up tomorrow. Should be able to plumb it in over the weekend once I've made a rack for it

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Surprised at how well it went considering the welder jammed, couldn't find my 0.8mm wire, all my hole saws were too big (for the quick hitch pins) the plasma was just beyond it's limit on 20mm and I ran out of gas.

You've just about covered all the possibilities there, so you should be clear of 'problems' for at least a week...

 

[sako243]

You've just about covered all the possibilities there, so you should be clear of 'problems' for at least a week...

Yeah but still need to refill stuff...

 

[northwest]

Did nothing today, day off. Just fitted a fore sight and threaded the barrel for a moderator:

 

[Paul.]

A chap came in needing a quick ramp for a wheelchair to get over a threshhold, treadplate channels were from another job and were in in the odds n sods dept, a bit of ally channel and a bit of flat bar, a few pop rivets and job done, not the poshest things I've ever made but 15minutes start to finish probably amongst the quickest.

 

[Tupers]

The first of the engine stands I’ve been building got a few good coats of satin black today.

Between coats I polished the lips and laced up the rear wheel for my Suzuki. I’ve got the front to do tomorrow and then I can finish the rest of the mods.

 

[DAPPH]

Not so much as made but partly so
The antique lathe died when I thought it had dragged some swarf into the open end of the equally old 1/3 hp open ended motor .
The new motor could not be mounted on the original framework

So I purchased an 8x8x 1/2" thick slab of aluminium to make a converter plate because the footprint of the old motor and it's mounting bracket were way over size and out of alignment for the new motor to have the pulley's in the right alignment for the drive belt & overhead gear pullies to line up .
I did a paper drawing first third drawing seemed to work in my minds eye . blued the alu plate let it dry then proceeded to mark ot out on a slab of polished granite using dividers , odd leg calipers and a scribing block & 12 " rule as the lathe is so old it was made in precise imperial measurements 1/16 , 1/8 . 1/4 etc etc

Duly scribed up & rechecked before I dot punched the cross over points I high lighted them in a circle of black marker pen . Then punched them . it made it easy to cut out nine half round ended elongated mounting slots by hand ( no milling machine here ).
So it would sit on the original mounting bracket & have left to right movement then I drilled and tapped the plate for four 6mm studs to mount the motor on.

On setting up the plate on the mounting bracket it was Ok , but I realised too late I'd drilled the base holes of the motor studs 180 degree out . Waaaaaah! , a bit of warmth and the stud lock on the studs gave up .I re set the motor mounting studs, the belt pullies lined up 1/64 out Sorted that out this morning with a file then wired the motor back in to the starting set up .


It runs it's far faster than the original motor but as it is so quiet I suspect the fault on the old motor was there when I purchased it but that it hadn't failed till nearly ten years later .

 

[Brad93]

No made but repaired today. A casting that actually brazed okay. I reckon I could of got away with Veeing it out a lot more now.
Or even done it with nickel rods.

And repaired the feet in the cast aluminium motor.

 

[Steveblade]

No made but repaired today. A casting that actually brazed okay. I reckon I could of got away with Veeing it out a lot more now.
Or even done it with nickel rods.

And repaired the feet in the cast aluminium motor.

Tidy work, thats saved someone a whole chunk of cash and saved down time. Do you kow how they manged to brake it?

 

[Brad93]

Tidy work, thats saved someone a whole chunk of cash and saved down time. Do you kow how they manged to brake it?

It’s off some sort of mixer (I assume pan mixer for cement although the white dust wasn’t caked on like cement dust, maybe it’s a food mixer)

It got knocked over. That motor says it’s 3.3 or 4kw, so I’m guessing it’s dual speed. Well anyway he said that is one of two, and the other one is much bigger!

 

[Steveblade]

Darkside rear for the GS850

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You forgot to clean the wheel first

 

[Farside]

You forgot to clean the wheel first

The rim wells are cleaned, well cleaned.

 

[Memmeddu]

28th driving lesson
I was almost ready to give the test ...
Now I'm not sure if tomorrow I want go to school
Almost killed a pedestrian
I was driving smoothly on a road ,a pedestrian fell on the car bonnet ,I been not able to brake .
Instructor did for me .
Pedestrian is fine but I am really proved by this experience

 

[slim_boy_fat]

a pedestrian fell on the car

That's really unfortunate, do you mean he stepped into the road from the pavement? Glad to hear no-one was injured but I can see how it would dent your confidence.

All I can advise is not to give up. It was entirely his fault.

 

[Memmeddu]

That's really unfortunate, do you mean he stepped into the road from the pavement? Glad to hear no-one was injured but I can see how it would dent your confidence.

All I can advise is not to give up. It was entirely his fault.

I was too much on the right side of the road (in Italy we drive the opposite way than England ) because I had to surpass a parked truck .
Pedestrian was on the sidewalk , walking on its edge (I should have asked why) ,the car had 20cm clearance between the wheel and the sidewalk .
Miss step of the pedestrian cause him to fell onto the car bonnet