Stuff you have made today

[8ob]

Made the inside of a shipping container white



Converted some mog lift arms from ball ends to cat3 hooks.







And a new Zorst bracket.



Because the old one had lost its newness

 

[droopsnoot]

To paraphrase Craig David, I made a windscreen washer bottle bracket on Sunday, painted it Monday, it was in the car by Tuesday.

Cimg4090-web by Mike Edwards, on Flickr

It's not quite 100%, but it's close enough and will have a washer bottle clamped to it all the time. Annoyingly, just after I'd made this I figured out a way to stamp the beads on the lower surface using my fly press.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Monday I made a mess.

Tuesday I put a new floor down and battened and boarded the walls.

Today shower tray and bath went in and toilet first fixed and finally leak free. Hate concealed toilets with a passion.
And as a bonus I got to have a bath.
Usually after a bathroom rip out I get to go home and have a shower. Not so when its your own.

The cowboys that did the bathroom in the beginning left a mess behind. Made the rip out easier though.
Tiles were fixed out of a bucket and no SBR on any of the walls or floor. The ply was covering holes all over they had cut for access and had about 1/4 of the screws needed to secure properly. The toilet had been leaking since day one by the looks of it and rotted the floor under the ply completely. The ply they backed the shower with had rotted through in the shower lowers. They tiled over wallpaper and grouted the corners.
Making good progress. Get the tiles on the wall tomorrow. Well. Some of.

 

[selectedgrub]

Scotchbrite is your friend

 

[Maker]

Finished making a new top on my old work bench this morning;

The old surface was about half an inch thick, peppered with holes and cracks, the boards that made it up weren't the same thickness so there was a dip in the middle like a really shallow tool well. Now it's 50mm thick and after a whole day of planing nearly 5mm off the whole thing it's a nice even flat surface.

 

[gaz1]

Finished making a new top on my old work bench this morning;
View attachment 114819
The old surface was about half an inch thick, peppered with holes and cracks, the boards that made it up weren't the same thickness so there was a dip in the middle like a really shallow tool well. Now it's 50mm thick and after a whole day of planing nearly 5mm off the whole thing it's a nice even flat surface.

that wont last long then it will get holes in it then sags in middle due to being over weighted by stacking too much ion it with your junk

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I was left alone with beer, scrap metal, a welder and time.



A big daisy, I think.



A thing, a flower thing, a modern art thing.
It is a thing, I like it.

Oh yes, my take on a Venus fly trap for the Mother in law.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Oh yes, my take on a Venus fly trap for the Mother in law.

You ought to get one of these to put in there........

 

[DennisCA]

Neither wood nor metal today for me, been applying plaster on this outdoor kitchen

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Exhausted. Would have been done without the border.
Battling a pulled back muscle from Tuesday and a cold/throat infection that reared it's head the same day. All I want to do is curl up on the sofa but that won't get me a shower.

Floor being stuck tomorrow and bottom row in the afternoon and ready for grout Monday.

 

[dazza]

Exhausted. Would have been done without the border.
Battling a pulled back muscle from Tuesday and a cold/throat infection that reared it's head the same day. All I want to do is curl up on the sofa but that won't get me a shower. View attachment 114968
Floor being stuck tomorrow and bottom row in the afternoon and ready for grout Monday.

Hopefully the wife wont see this your much quicker than me only managed to paint three walls this week. I hate painting cant wait to rip the bathrooms out. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

but that won't get me a shower.

Or Brownie points with SWMBO.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Hopefully the wife wont see this your much quicker than me only managed to paint three walls this week. I hate painting cant wait to rip the bathrooms out. Hope you feel better soon.

Lots of practice mate. The border slowed proceedings. Had to stop after the border and let it set. In hindsight I should have used rapid set for the border but still had a load of adhesive mixed up. Far to many internal corners in that room too. The walls I boarded were easy to tile. The plastered walls were shocking. Belly's and hollows everywhere. Building up walls and shaving tiles eats up time. Home straight now.

 

[captain-destructo]

Neither wood nor metal today for me, been applying plaster on this outdoor kitchen

is the counter top concrete? did you cast it in place?

 

[DennisCA]

Yeah it was the only way to get such big countertop in place, still I cast it in two sections to prevent cracking.

 

[optima21]

not something Ive made just a simple modification to an ebay pea shooter (for checking gas usage) . Ive got a couple of these and the balls keep sticking, so the easy thing to do is to drill a hole and stick a thin peice if welding rod through it. In this case it was a 1.00 stainless rod. at high flow rates the rod may be sligthly restrictive, but cant see it being an issue at up to 10lpm which is what I'd use as a maximum.

 

[angellonewolf]

^^^ might nick that idea

 

[Hood]

not something Ive made just a simple modification to an ebay pea shooter (for checking gas usage) . Ive got a couple of these and the balls keep sticking, so the easy thing to do is to drill a hole and stick a thin peice if welding rod through it. In this case it was a 1.00 stainless rod. at high flow rates the rod may be sligthly restrictive, but cant see it being an issue at up to 10lpm which is what I'd use as a maximum.

View attachment 115024

I used to always have this issue with the flow meters/ peashooters and then I got a Binzel one along with the EWM I got from @Jim Davey and it is in a different class. I didn't think there could be any difference in such a simple thing but believe me there is.

 

[Richard.]

not something Ive made just a simple modification to an ebay pea shooter (for checking gas usage) . Ive got a couple of these and the balls keep sticking, so the easy thing to do is to drill a hole and stick a thin peice if welding rod through it. In this case it was a 1.00 stainless rod. at high flow rates the rod may be sligthly restrictive, but cant see it being an issue at up to 10lpm which is what I'd use as a maximum.

View attachment 115024

It's a neat trick providing your pin is a perfect seal in the drilled holes
If there is a possibility some of the gas can escape then your readings won't be true.

 

[Paul.]

I've done that with one of mine, 0.8 mig wire and a spot of superglue each side does it just fine.