Stuff you have made today

[Wallace]

Repurposed an old broken G clamp after Tig brazing it back together then turned and milled a slug of alloy into an engine specific valve spring compressor end. Worked a treat.

 

[minimutly]

Can you tell what it is yet (sorry)

 

[minimutly]

I had bought a used brake master cylinder for one of my xj650s, but it was missing the half clamp. I know, I could have found another, but where's the fun in that. First job for my Cincinnati dividing head. Wife asked roughly how much it cost - probably around £240 I reckon....
Interestingly (maybe), I allways wondered why these were labelled "up" - well they're not symmetrical, and the machined flat surface on the top edge is set back by 50 thou or so.

 

[selectedgrub]

@Kram I'm glad you added the extra photos.
Makes sense now

 

[selectedgrub]

Cable support

 

[badabec]

Nearly finished, the side plates will be replaced with brass ones I think I may thin the wheels slightly as they are supposed to be on a carriage but I only had train wheel castings handy
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In the early 60's, I was 9, my 15 year old neighbour made a similar gun barrel in metalwork at school. Bonfire night was spent opening up bangers, putting an increasing amount up the spout followed by a bit of tissue and a ball bearing. He held it in a vice placed on the floor. How we didn't kill ourselves from a ricochet or blown barrel I'll never know.

 

[Maker]

High stools for their breakfast bars of course!
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And now because I looked for that picture, our marketing overlords think I want to buy that sort of crap;

How bloody much?!?

 

[Milkybars]

Made a little set of blind transfer screws in 5/16 BSW for a small self centering 4 jaw that needs mounting to a backing plate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?

The knurling is pretty crap, but serves a purpose

 

[Cobbler]

In the early 60's, I was 9, my 15 year old neighbour made a similar gun barrel in metalwork at school. Bonfire night was spent opening up bangers, putting an increasing amount up the spout followed by a bit of tissue and a ball bearing. He held it in a vice placed on the floor. How we didn't kill ourselves from a ricochet or blown barrel I'll never know.

I did that as well, I found a bit of 1/4 brass tube & used that as a barrel. It would fire a 1/4 ball bearing from a bicycle bottom bracket straight through both sides of a heavy oil drum. I tried it with a double load, 2 bangers, not a success as the barrel split. The other one was banger guns from a bit of 1/2 copper tube, 1/2” bolt with the head cut off as a bullet, how did we survive, good fun though, the kids today are missing something

 

[redlig]

I did that as well, I found a bit of 1/4 brass tube & used that as a barrel. It would fire a 1/4 ball bearing from a bicycle bottom bracket straight through both sides of a heavy oil drum. I tried it with a double load, 2 bangers, not a success as the barrel split. The other one was banger guns from a bit of 1/2 copper tube, 1/2” bolt with the head cut off as a bullet, how did we survive, good fun though, the kids today are missing something

We used to get 2 x 1/2 bolts and a nut screw them in with a wadge of caps from a cap gun between then throw it on a hard surface . If you got the positioning right one of the bolts would blow off. Fun with a steep learning curve. We also played Wars using air guns wearing thick jackets and metal eye shields with thin cross slots to see thro. minimum range allowed was 50 yards. Still left a funny round bruise tho.

 

[Brad93]

My aunt keeps chickens so o found this on plasma spider.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

How bloody much?!?

Well, I did tell you....

We also played Wars using air guns wearing thick jackets and metal eye shields with thin cross slots to see thro. minimum range allowed was 50 yards.

Bringing back memories, this.

We were never allowed guns, so the D-i-Y version consisted of going to the rocky shore where we drew lots to see who would be the 'target', who then went to hide behind a large boulder. The rest of us retired to a set distance where we lined up across the seashore.

Said 'target' then had to attempt to escape to a designated 'safe zone' at either side of the shore while the rest of us hurled stones [or anything, really....] at him. Taught you to be quick on your feet and good at picking out which boulder/large stone was safe to move to next....not to mention watching out for 'in-comings' All good clean, harmless fun [and we criticise the youngsters of today ]

 

[Maker]

Bringing back memories, this.

We were never allowed guns, so the D-i-Y version consisted of going to the rocky shore where we drew lots to see who would be the 'target', who then went to hide behind a large boulder. The rest of us retired to a set distance where we lined up across the seashore.

Said 'target' then had to attempt to escape to a designated 'safe zone' at either side of the shore while the rest of us hurled stones [or anything, really....] at him. Taught you to be quick on your feet and good at picking out which boulder/large stone was safe to move to next....not to mention watching out for 'in-comings' All good clean, harmless fun [and we criticise the youngsters of today ]

That really tickled me. "Turn that XBox off, you'll rot your brain. Back in my day we went down to the beach and gave each other concussions."

 

[slim_boy_fat]

That really tickled me. "Turn that XBox off, you'll rot your brain. Back in my day we went down to the beach and gave each other concussions."

Back then you had to be inventive and devise your own entertainment, no XBoxes/mobile phones [not even landlines ]/TVs etc. If you wanted to know if your mates were coming out to play, you had to go knock on doors.....

I'm not saying times were better, just different as you'd expect.

 

[brewdexta]

Thing part 3. More slots cut and last bits of oak glued on.

To be continued.....

 

[brewdexta]

Thing part 4, clamps off and sanded ready for oil and some resin in the cracks and knots. I should have waited for the resin to arrive before cutting the slots but it got delayed. I'll just block the slots where they intersect with splits. Resin arrives tomorrow.

Cheers
Andy

 

[bigegg]

Well, I did tell you....



Bringing back memories, this.

We were never allowed guns, so the D-i-Y version consisted of going to the rocky shore where we drew lots to see who would be the 'target', who then went to hide behind a large boulder. The rest of us retired to a set distance where we lined up across the seashore.

Said 'target' then had to attempt to escape to a designated 'safe zone' at either side of the shore while the rest of us hurled stones [or anything, really....] at him. Taught you to be quick on your feet and good at picking out which boulder/large stone was safe to move to next....not to mention watching out for 'in-comings' All good clean, harmless fun [and we criticise the youngsters of today ]

And I thought playing "ball tig" with a golf ball was bad enough.
(Only the boys - girls used a hockey ball. And the sticks: much too rough for us soft rugby players)

 

[slim_boy_fat]

And I thought playing "ball tig" with a golf ball was bad enough.
(Only the boys - girls used a hockey ball. And the sticks: much too rough for us soft rugby players)

I thought I'd caught the 'cushy' number by being designated goalie at school hockey - until one of the opposition fired the ball straight at me. Caught me full in the mouth [I saved it, see...] and I was holding my hand pressed over my mouth with red stuff dripping through my fingers, when the gym teacher arrived and shouted "Don't just stand there bleeding, boy, get on with the game!!"

Loosened a couple of teeth and split my inner lips but no other damage done

 

[bigegg]

I thought I'd caught the 'cushy' number by being designated goalie at school hockey - until one of the opposition fired the ball straight at me. Caught me full in the mouth [I saved it, see...] and I was holding my hand pressed over my mouth with red stuff dripping through my fingers, when the gym teacher arrived and shouted "Don't just stand there bleeding boy, get on with the game!!"

Loosened a couple of teeth and split my inner lips but no other damage done

Only the girls played hockey at my school.
The boys were too scared.
We'd heard of equality, but no way were they going to lower themselves to our level.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Only the girls played hockey at my school.

We were 'told' to, so had no option....