Stuff you have made today

[DAPPH]

Did you have to have fire kiln concrete for the whole length of the chimney or is it just simple concrete with stones in it?
Found out my 40 yr old bungalow chimney liner is 8 inch (?) id yard long salt glazed waste pipes ..hard as spent uranium & about as heavy .

 

[DAPPH]

Finished the rectus21 pipe ends, to be soldered on to induction coils. Short ones for 4mm pipe the others are longer for 5 and 6mm pipe.
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Can you do a thread about these induction coils , is it for a home made set , what is the power source ? etc etc.
I'd love an induction coil heater that runs off 240 v 16 amp to help with my brass casting hobby interest

 

[zx9]

I hope you have farts with lumps in.

This is a welding forum, looks like a chipping hammer to me.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This is a welding forum, looks like a chipping hammer to me.

Looks like a slaters roofing hamer to me.



This looks like a chipping hammers, as it is a chipping hammer.

A Royal Navy Chipping Hammer.

AKA as mine.
As it is mine and used by me on a few times when on jankers.

 

[Feet 'n Inches]

Looks like a slaters roofing hamer to me.

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This looks like a chipping hammers, as it is a chipping hammer.

A Royal Navy Chipping Hammer.

AKA as mine.
As it is mine and used by me on a few times when on jankers.

Perfect for chipping encrusted grease out of dixies in that case.

 

[ihavenoidea]

Welded a Black Box

But the Guys at the local airplane factory didn't want it. So after adding some Vermiculite it became the new home of my gas forge

 

[Fraserb]

When your bored and own a plasma.

 

[Kram]

Can you do a thread about these induction coils , is it for a home made set , what is the power source ? etc etc.
I'd love an induction coil heater that runs off 240 v 16 amp to help with my brass casting hobby interest

What do you cast with brass?

Its a chinese one with a 50v 50a power supply from ebay. The original connections are rubbish but once I have that fixed I will do a proper test. The big 135mm dia 5m coil is going to be too long but it is the right size for my SiC/graphite crucible. Others have shown them heating cruicibles but I am not expecting that to work. This really needs an ossiloscope for tuning it.
I have some brass and copper scrap I will try but I doubt it will heat, and 30kg of aluminium to melt.

 

[redlig]

Today I started the major part of the shuttering for a 12" thick concrete head over a new fireplace that was built for me just before Christmas.

I'm using a length of stainless steel pipe wrapped in polythene to form the hole for the flue. The outer diameter of this pipe - minus the polythene - matches exactly the inner diameter of a standard clay flue liner.
The plastic wrap is to assist with the pipe's removal after the concrete has set. The base of the flue is set into a hole in a 12" square piece of plywood which is nailed to the shuttering. The purpose of the plywood is twofold - firstly it ensures that the base of the steel pipe is fixed in place and cannot move whilst the concrete is being poured and secondly when all the shuttering will be removed the plywood will have formed a recess in the bottom of the slab into which I can bolt a plate to close off the opening around the cast iron flue of the stove. I welded a bolt into one end of each of four 12M hexagonal coupler nuts to stop the concrete getting into the top of them and drilled four corresponding sized holes down through the plywood and shuttering. I then fully screwed into the other end of each coupler nut a short piece of threaded bar and securely fixed all of them in place with a washer and nut on the underside of the shuttering.


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The horizontal threaded bars in the above photo were used to keep a previous piece of shuttering in place and have nothing (as yet) to do with what I'm working on now.

This is how I ensure that the flue is kept as tight as possible to the shuttering and that there is no fear of it lifting out of the plywood at the base.

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Here is the finished result from a previous fireplace.

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Eureka !! I've been driven mad this week trying to stop water dripping over the woodstove ,and it out 3 times but didn't think laterally . Never thought of a plated connection . Mondays job!! Thanks !

 

[Memmeddu]

Read Seneca in these past few days .
Discovered an intellectual part of me which loves philosophy .
It changed the way how I look to life .
A friend of mine made me know Bukowski and some of his words.
All those phrases togheter allowed me to gain courage and Knock on her door...
Her brother open it.
Said who I am and asked to say her if she like to talk to me .
He went in ,I waited few minutes ...
He came back telling me that she was busy at the moment and he very gently said me to come back in another moment .
There are three options ...
1 she didn't expect that and because her timidity didn't come out to talk me (and that's would probably explain why her brother has been so gentle with me )
2 she won't meet me
3 she was busy .

However it will go it's a success for me,I'm very happy to have found the courage to go there without caring about practically everything.
And after this success during the morning , during lunch I've cried when I've discovered that I'll become uncle another time
Today I can be only happier

 

[Barking Mat]

Read Seneca in these past few days .
Discovered an intellectual part of me which loves philosophy .
It changed the way how I look to life .
A friend of mine made me know Bukowski and some of his words.
All those phrases togheter allowed me to gain courage and Knock on her door...
Her brother open it.
Said who I am and asked to say her if she like to talk to me .
He went in ,I waited few minutes ...
He came back telling me that she was busy at the moment and he very gently said me to come back in another moment .
There are three options ...
1 she didn't expect that and because her timidity didn't come out to talk me (and that's would probably explain why her brother has been so gentle with me )
2 she won't meet me
3 she was busy .

However it will go it's a success for me,I'm very happy to have found the courage to go there without caring about practically everything.
And after this success during the morning , during lunch I've cried when I've discovered that I'll become uncle another time
Today I can be only happier

Good man, well done !

Stick with it.

 

[Pete.]

Next time you go, take a small bunch of flowers. If anyone else other than her answers the door - don't make out you have come to see her, say that you have brought some flowers to brighten her day and you hope very much that she likes them.

Then you can make sure that you hang about in a place you know she will see you if she wants to come looking and you'll have a perfect way to start your first conversation.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few days ago I got this bundle of Brass pumps and garden sprayers.
All needing some TLC

So with help from @mrsbruce They got some TLC



I welded a 27mm ball bearing onto a metal bar. This allowed me to slide it up the empty body and allow me to dress out the dents.




Opps. Mistake.
This is a new washer, but some one forgot to wash the body out to remove the old oil a crud out.
But it works, but it was annoying.



In the past someone had tried to re seal the old cup washer with "O" rings.
It didn't work.




"O" rings can be used to seal the end caps.
This pair were liberated from a Chubb Fire extinguisher service kit,. They are supplied, but if are that deep in the overall it is cheaper to supply a service exchange unit.




Some pump rods need 2 cup washers.
Again @mrsbruce dies came in useful.




To soften the leather I soak it in warm water.
Even the water is recycled from the tumble drier.




Even the stove is old at least one person on here will recognise it.

 

[Blake's 7]

Eureka !! I've been driven mad this week trying to stop water dripping over the woodstove ,and it out 3 times but didn't think laterally . Never thought of a plated connection . Mondays job!! Thanks !

Where is the water coming from? Is it rainwater coming down the chimney? The diameter of the hole in the concrete is 8", the diameter of a cast iron stove flue is either 5" or 6". The purpose of the plate bolted into the recess is to finish of the installation nicely with a small gap between the plate and the flue to allow for expansion. In both fireplaces I didn't want to go drilling holes afterwards to fix the plate in place so took this approach instead.

 

[Blake's 7]

Did you have to have fire kiln concrete for the whole length of the chimney or is it just simple concrete with stones in it?
Found out my 40 yr old bungalow chimney liner is 8 inch (?) id yard long salt glazed waste pipes ..hard as spent uranium & about as heavy .

The slab of concrete is 12" thick with a hole in it for the stove's flue. With regards to the previous fireplace on top of the slab we built a 22" square standard block chimney with standard clay flue liners and filled in between the blocks and the liners with a very dry mix of 7 parts builders sand to 1 part hydraulic lime.

 

[Kram]

Thought I should give the amazon lcd screen a proper test, I got it over a week ago! Its not the ILI9486 that its listed as but for now its working as a 9481. The chip is well hidden either in the lcd flex or in the glass so I have no idea what it is.
The 3d bouncing cube test gets 170fps, good!

Had another look on amazon found two more sellers in stock. Ordered one from each!
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08KGGM1VZ/
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08KVYMWCF/

 

[redlig]

Where is the water coming from? Is it rainwater coming down the chimney? The diameter of the hole in the concrete is 8", the diameter of a cast iron stove flue is either 5" or 6". The purpose of the plate bolted into the recess is to finish of the installation nicely with a small gap between the plate and the flue to allow for expansion. In both fireplaces I didn't want to go drilling holes afterwards to fix the plate in place so took this approach instead.

Same situation exactly. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.

 

[Hood]

It was actually last night that I made this box up.

 

[mrsbruce]

Finally, 2 years after moving my laser engraver out of an old cabinet, I got round to getting rid of the ‘temporary’ cardboard box structure , and making a proper enclosure for it. I only used scrap bits and bobs I had lying about, so most of the build time was working out what scrap of wood could fit where.

Not finished yet, as I’ll need to fill, paint, and 3D print a number of fittings for it. The laser is an A3 size, 5w diode, so I won’t be using it to bounce off satellites to start forest fires in California.

 

[Blake's 7]

Same situation exactly. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.

Perhaps I am missing something but I think I need to clarify that the plate bolted to the underside of the slab is for visual \ cosmetic purposes only and is not intended to nor will it stop any water. You need to stop the rainwater from coming down the chimney with a cowl - something similar to the one pictured below.