Stuff you have made today

[selectedgrub]

How many work?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

99.99% finished. Just waiting on the Post to arrive from a far flung shore.



A Victorian Wall Mount hand water pump.
Broken, seized and missing small, but important parts.



The paint is some modern stuff. It will not remain.
The nuts are Brass, but different size, but the threads are cut onto studs. Nearly 1/2" Whitworth. But not close enough. So I carefully marked each fitting and their location.



A quick test showed OE would do the job, but it would burn of the marks of age and the heat will for ever show.
So, old fashioned methods came into play, this was to set the tone of the rebuild.
This pin took 6 goes at heating cooling before it was able to be removed.





Broken brass pus rod broken just below the surface, in a brass 4 way coupling.
I drilled a hole all the way through, using heat to heat the coupling and dry ice to chill the broken part it was soon removed.



Bugger.
This time I had no choice to use OE and braze it up.



This was nerve racking, but the rod suddenly flowed and took. This is after it cooled, but before cleaning.
The face was cleaned on sheet glass and valve grinding paste.


The main bore and gasket faces cleaned up.
A cylinder hone was used to remove the corrosion and smooth the bore out.



I like this shot.
It shows how well the iron cleaned up, as well as the brass.
This was after soaking in Citric acid and wire brushed up.
Then using a mix of linseed oil and bee's wax, the metal was heated up and the mix worked into the warm metal. The Bee's wax was from hives on a Lavender and herb farm, the smell was fantastic.





The brass on the main body would not shine up to a mirror finish, this is due the manufacturing process. But I like it, as it keeps the aged look.

You can see the square headed fixing bolts. Again nearly 1/2" whit. But not really.
Each of the 12 bolts are different, not only in threads but length and head size, even the screwdriver slot is different.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The reassembly.



The back board, this was perfect, but in need of TLC.



The 2 inserts used to control the bigger splits and pull them together.
The end of the splits are drilled and filled with wax. The inserts are recessed and bedded in on linseed putty.



Mocking up and laying out
Again I had to seek outside help. The pump body threaded fixing were TIG Brazed and drilled and tapped to 1/2" Whit.

The 4 holes on the pump handle bracket were all different sizes, but 1/2" bolts are a loose to a bit nippy fix.



From Cardboard to ply wood a new lower fixing and support was made.



In Place.
The upper parallel bracket was missing, but a rummage at my big play pen found a lump of metal that was modified to suit.
They were then baked in a hot hard wood fire, then boiled in lemon juice to add some age. But they stand out as new.





A build of 2 halves.

It shows all the small details on the build up, the extra brackets, the TYA made screw cups, the back board mounting brackets, the outlets fittings.



All done, Yes it does work, but I need a new 65mm pump washer. Looks like it will have to be made.

 

[mtt.tr]

This is a what we did on Wednesday was sent this picture by one of the groundsman.

Big poplar big enough for us to work it together.

 

[MattF]

How many work?

All of them. Tend to find it's better, from a cost viewpoint overall, to buy the kits, a lot of the time. The 2 10.8V badged ones were a charger, battery combo I got initially. The others have come as part of full kits.

I still wish Bosch would get off their backside & make a 12V SDS. Pretty much the last tool I want, & they don't make one. All the other brands do.

 

[Maker]

What paint did you use ?

Johnstone's Flortred in "Princess grey". A thick epoxy based paint would probably be better, the "Before" picture is about five years after I last did it but it's had all sorts of cast iron, solvent and chemical abuse so it didn't hold up too badly.

 

[AndersK]

I still wish Bosch would get off their backside & make a 12V SDS. Pretty much the last tool I want, & they don't make one. All the other brands do.

Would like to try one with a 25 mm drill in granite

 

[MattF]

Would like to try one with a 25 mm drill in granite

Not at all. I still have my 18V Makita fitting gear too, if I need oomph. A 12V'er would just be nice to have for the less demanding tasks though. When you're perched atop an 8' or so stepladder, just so you can tentatively reach the top of your walls, a lighter, more compact, SDS would be nice.

 

[AndersK]

I guess the Makita would struggle with that as well

I'm looking at getting a SDS max for stone drilling.
Can't rent petrol driven rock drills anymore, don't fancy renting the air powered ones with the compressor...

Yes, the Bosch 12V series are nice, very compact and light.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Eventually il move over to flexvolt was about to pull the trigger on the big mitre saw when covid kicked off so I left the 1200 odd quid in the bank

 

[gaz1]

stuff i have been doing with others

2 propertys floor beams already fitted

noggins inbetween them staircases holes cut into them and floored out

 

[gaz1]

 

[Maker]

Eventually il move over to flexvolt was about to pull the trigger on the big mitre saw when covid kicked off so I left the 1200 odd quid in the bank

You can have all ten of Matt's 12v batteries for the price of the big flexvolt battery though. But then you wouldn't run a mitre saw or a massive SDS drill on those little toy batteries either.

 

[Farside]

I still wish Bosch would get off their backside & make a 12V SDS.

I've got one, great bit of kit in its day. Problem was nobody else but Bosch made the batteries for it, and given it was a bootsale find and didn't cost much, I wasn't stumping up two hundred quid for batts.
I extended its useful life for a couple of years by jury-rigging a 12v long Makita battery into it, but the drill got flooded a few years ago and it's now in a sorry state.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Made a big lay out table for a mate who does woodwork, it has to be big enough to store 8' x 4' sheet material underneath for storage to help with storage space, all made with recycled metal and i have 25mm thick sheet of chip board coated with laminate on both sides to go on top, it bolts together as his workshop is at the top of a garden with limited access, upside down in the picture

 

[DAPPH]

All of them. Tend to find it's better, from a cost viewpoint overall, to buy the kits, a lot of the time. The 2 10.8V badged ones were a charger, battery combo I got initially. The others have come as part of full kits.

I still wish Bosch would get off their backside & make a 12V SDS. Pretty much the last tool I want, & they don't make one. All the other brands do.

Put an SDS chuck on and use the battery drill on hammer ?

 

[Dcal]

Today I made my ex PO insulation tester work again.
I've had it over 30 years and the last time I went to use it, it didn’t work.
The battery clips were rotted with leaked battery acid.





Had a hunt about to find something to make the clips from and found an old stainless steel microwave shell with similar thickness steel.
I was keeping the rest of it for the transformer and to make a box for the inverter on my drill.



Cut and bent to suit and while it's not pretty it will do.





All back together and should work for another 30 years.

 

[Nick DV]

Today I made my ex PO insulation tester work again.
I've had it over 30 years and the last time I went to use it, it didn’t work.
The battery clips were rotted with leaked battery acid.

All back together and should work for another 30 years.

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Brings back memories! I've still got the odd tool or two from my GPO days, I'll have to dig them out.

 

[mtt.tr]

Brings back memories! I've still got the odd tool or two from my GPO days, I'll have to dig them out.

My dad still has his maun side cutters which are still sharp. Dated 1967 about the time he started.

 

[Nick DV]

My dad still has his maun side cutters which are still sharp. Dated 1967 about the time he started.

Were they the ones with yellow plastic grips or the earlier ones with no grips? I have both and they still work fine I must admit, the quality of the tools were usually very good.