Stuff you have made today

[Jan-DIY]

I use one of those pumps. Very noisy. Need to try silicone hoses, as the vibration travels down the current pvc hose and vibrates the body of the cooler.

Hi.
Yes, very noisy.
Tried to install a Speck impeller but transformer is not powerful enough to supply it.
Very annoying.

 

[Jan-DIY]

Hate these pumps.
Did weld a bit Tig with my MW2600 today and it is absolutely annoying.
Ordered a new pump for it now.

 

[brewdexta]

Finished routing in the grooves for the bases of utility room larder drawers. I cut all the dovetails over the last couple of days.

I made a couple of drawers yesterday and I've got another one in clamps.

3 down, 11 more to go. Then its sanding, oiling and fitting the clips for the sliders.

Then back on the chicken run if the weather permits. If not it's a tailored drawer interior for the kitchen knives.

Happy new year to all, I'm not doing owt else today but eating, drinking, watching carp TV and playing games with the kids.

Cheers
Andy

 

[Brad93]

5” grinder rack

 

[Fraserb]

Ben seems to have taken up joinery instead of metal work.

 

[WorkshopChris]

Ben seems to have taken up joinery instead of metal work.

Reproduction Indonesian pallet by the looks of it?

 

[Fraserb]

Reproduction Indonesian pallet by the looks of it?

If that's the case it'll be on the ebay later, and he'll be back out with the tec gun.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Ben seems to have taken up joinery instead of metal work.

You need to discourage that in the lad, unless you can teach him the 50:50 ratio to balance expertise.....

 

[mtt.tr]

Anyone remember the octopus chalk bag my mum made me last year? My climbing partner needed a bag, obviously she couldn't just use a normal one so mum's been crocheting again...
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Hope she likes it.

Thats some serious talent

 

[Maker]

@Maker That's one of the loveliest and most novel creations I've seen!

Thats some serious talent

Thanks, She'll be pleased to hear it. The octopus gets lots of comments when I'm climbing, I imagine this one will get even more.

 

[optima21]

made some sanding sticks for sanding down the models Im making, using lollipops sticks and wooden coffer stirrers as the backing. you could the coffee stirrers are slightly more flexible than the lollipop sticks. my method is to cut a strip of abrasive paper and stick it to some double sided sticky tape. then cut that strip into narrower strips for sticking to the stirrers/lollipop sticks. Once Ive done that I trim round the backing with a knife.

doing it this way allows you to use your own choice of abrasive and its easier for working into tight spaces than trying to wrap the abrasive around a block. you can also sand to an edge (like using a safe edge on a file).

might be of use to others who like to make small items

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few hours hiding from the TV and the computers.



This didn't need much, a clean and removing the rust.



It is a Stanley head on a non Stanley shaft. The hickory didn't take much wax. The head did come up well with the wax.


The Record 1 ton vice was seized.
The rust didn't look to bad.



But it was enough.



But I did get it into bits.



The C/sunk jaw screws came out with out a struggle, there was copper grease on them.



The paint took 3 days to cure, not surprizing in the temps we have had.

 

[Dr.Al]

Made a prototype today...

It'll look a bit neater when I make the real thing!

I watched a great video by Neil Paskin on making a quick release vice mechanism - it's a really nice design without needing a separate release lever: turn the screw half a turn anticlockwise and you can then slide it freely; turn it half a turn clockwise and the nut engages. Neil Paskin has no drawings available (apart from for a wooden version), so I decided to have a go at figuring it out. I'm glad I did the prototype as I learnt a few things along the way. I'll probably produce some drawings from my first version so I can work from them for version 2.

Another view of the mechanism:

and another:

The main bits used to make it are shown here - I cut up enough to make four of them; probably a sign I didn't have much faith in my chances of getting it to work first time!

Thread is M20 as that's the biggest I could get at my local store on Christmas Eve!

 

[My Old Landy]

I have started a small project that involves a bit of cast iron

 

[northwest]

Messed about doing some jobs I wanted to do today as opposed to "scheduled work", biggest piece is 34mm across (or it might be 37) just to give you some perspective;



The knurling didn't go to plan and it would need a special tool making to get down the bottom of the little pulley @Brad93 will be along shortly I would imagine to chastise me for trying to use an Integi cut knurl as a single wheel push knurl! :-)

I was using for the first time one of the cheap (£7 each) Chinese PCD inserts, quite impressive but really not much between it and a polished insert.

 

[Brad93]

Messed about doing some jobs I wanted to do today as opposed to "scheduled work", biggest piece is 34mm across (or it might be 37) just to give you some perspective;

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The knurling didn't go to plan and it would need a special tool making to get down the bottom of the little pulley @Brad93 will be along shortly I would imagine to chastise me for trying to use an Integi cut knurl as a single wheel push knurl! :-)

I was using for the first time one of the cheap (£7 each) Chinese PCD inserts, quite impressive but really not much between it and a polished insert.

not me, me and knurling don’t get along, every time I try and do it it just comes out rough. That could be in part due to the J&S knurling tool or because I’ve never worked out the correct dia.

 

[EddyP]

Finally finished properly repairing the bodged repaired some idiot did on the front end of my TVR, well I say finished, it’s ready for the satin black.
Pretty cold out at the moment so did quite a hot mix for the flow coat haha.

Did a bit more on the rocker covers too, need a lot more flatting and then 2k clear coat.

 

[northwest]

or because I’ve never worked out the correct dia.

There isn't one.You can calculate diameters until the cows come home, it has no relevance. A knurl, is a knurl is a knurl and I can prove that.
No, the thing is, those Integi knurl heads (and I have a few) are spendy, real spendy. Thought you might have come across them and I know you don't like to see tooling abused. I was trying to use one wheel as push knurl but I have another solution for the job.

 

[Guzrik]

Yes, in my own experience. What you've made is essentially a cylinder leakage tester, but without the gauge for measuring leakage. The principle behind it is right, but 6 bar is very low compared to combustion pressure.

Often* steel gasket failures are hard to pinpoint, while it may have failed you still need significant pressure to force combustion gas past the gasket into the cooling system. Combustion pressure can typically be 20-70 bar, or more.

If you were to get bubbles in your coolant reservoir from the tester, you would get them with the engine idling, which would be an easier test. Also, if this were the case then you could verify the failure with a carbon monoxide reaction test:

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(Because if the gasket has failed and 6 bar will push bubbles into the cooling system, then combustion gas is already in there and this will detect it. Even if it needs 20 bar and the gasket has failed, this will show it where your tester won't.)

*Not always, they can fail quite spectacularly with combustion gas, oil and coolant all mixing freely.


I'm not saying your tester won't work, it may well do.

Couldn't find a leak and neither could the garage with CO tester.
So disapearing coolant must have been from a leaky thermostate houding. Lucky me.

 

[Justme]

View attachment 263680 View attachment 263681 Made grabrails for a disability entrance . Arrived to fit yesterday to find out that the ramp was extended by 900mm . Lots of calls arguments and heavy words later they were installed with the agreement of engineer that’s was there fault and we will look at sorting it after Xmas as I can’t get another set made and galvanized in time . Only engineer iv ever come across who doesn’t think extending the length of sloped section by near 50% is an issue for anyone

Easy fix.

Let them dig the sides out & flash them on a slope so you dont need to extend the rails.