Stuff you have made today

[Barking Mat]

You know you're a tech geek when instead of getting ****** for breaking a new drill after 14 holes you look at it with a smile thinking, yeah text book example of high cycle fatigue failure .
Drill was replaced without a question (he even dared a joke asking if I tried glue) and rock is gone.
Those who know can see I'm not doing this by the book but didn't have the right drill for this but it worked well anyway View attachment 255498 View attachment 255499 View attachment 255500 View attachment 255501 View attachment 255502 View attachment 255503

isn't the traditional technique to drill it fill it with water and wait til winter?

 

[nickk]

Off today to install the copper pergoda,could be a long day.To the right of it is the intended trunk,Douglas fir.

 

[Barking Mat]

View attachment 255513 View attachment 255514 View attachment 255515 Off today to install the copper pergoda,could be a long day.To the right of it is the intended trunk,Douglas fir.

That looks like a fun job, fair play.

 

[Fraserb]

Pretty much caught up at work so more time for projects, Ben decided he could dig an even bigger hole in the garden if he had teeth on his digger, not sure this was a good idea though.

 

[bigegg]

Today's etch.
Masked with a vinyl stencil, and i tried to do a masked copper + nickel plate, but it didn't take very well.

I need some better tanks than takeaway tubs and cut down tetrapaks

 

[bigegg]

Edit:
It worked better than i thought.
I gave it a scrub with a soap filled wire scourer:

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Finished the forge last night and gave a good test firing today,, Now what to make with it

Ignore the scrap pile

 

[bigegg]

Ignore the scrap pile

You must be new here if you expect that to happen.

 

[bigegg]

Finished the forge last night and gave a good test firing today,, Now what to make with it

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Ignore the scrap pile

Looks good.
I've never been keen on the bottom up air blast though - since i melted some pushbike bits and they went down the tuyere and blocked it completely.
I had to cut it up with the angry grinder to clear it.
£30 of 2" iron fittings down the swannie.

 

[Dr.Al]

It's my OH's birthday on Monday. She casually mentioned on Thursday that it would be nice if I made her some "pattern weights" for sewing (for holding down the pattern while marking out or something ). Basically some lumps of metal or other heavy stuff, somewhere in the 70-100 gram area. She emphasised that she didn't expect me to make them in time for her birthday, but I thought it was worth a go anyway as they're not a complicated thing to make.

Rather than just making what are essentially thick washers, I decided to give them some very rounded edges and drill a hole through the middle. That hole meant that I could also make a stand for them out of some walnut & stainless steel. It was nice to have an excuse to get the lathe up and running again as it's been a while since I had a project that needed that much turning.

The bits:

The underside of the stand before the uprights were glued in:

The finished article - just needs a bit more time for the finish on the wood to dry and then I'll wrap it up:

 

[8ob]

Today I made some space by getting rid of some gurt sticks of wood.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

by getting rid of some gurt sticks of wood.

How did get rid of stuff that size, Bob? Cut them up yourselves or get a mug someone to pay you for them?

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Looks good.
I've never been keen on the bottom up air blast though - since i melted some pushbike bits and they went down the tuyere and blocked it completely.
I had to cut it up with the angry grinder to clear it.
£30 of 2" iron fittings down the swannie.

I have seen a few designs online that have a fan mounted right below it blowing up but I went with the T pipe as ash and other bits will fall down and didn't want to ruin my snail fan, Going through the side would work as well however a friend of mine has a very similar forge design to this and works for him so i erm copied it

Also may get round to shifting it off the bricks and onto a proper stand but like to keep it easy to store and put away for now. Not really got the room for a freestanding one anywhere or having it out permanently

 

[Hitch]

Knocked up some more pens for stock today.
Within a couple of hours one has found a home already!

 

[selectedgrub]

Destroyed art

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Destroyed art

Errrr, why? Did you drop it from a great height?

 

[doubleboost]

We managed to fit the traction engine axles Bearings I made a few weeks ago

 

[roblane65]

Looks like a job and half there .

 

[stuvy]

Destroyed art

does it only become art when you talk about it?

 

[m_c]

I'm needing some containers to go in the drawer cabinets I bought a couple weeks ago, so having trawled thingiverse and found nothing suitable, I spent some time today designing some containers and a grid to stop them sliding around as much, then printed them.



I may have to tweak the retaining grid slightly, but an initial test on the computer desk shows the containers stay in position reasonably well. I'll take them out and try them in the drawer cabinets tomorrow, and if they work, I can get some bigger containers designed and printed.