Stuff you have made today

[Dr.Al]

Just some simple blocks for hand-sanding. I've got one I bought many years ago, but it's impossible to get the sandpaper under enough tension.

I saw this design on a video sometime a long, long time ago and making some has been on my list for ages. I was casting around for something to do and put my hands on a few blocks of plastic that came out of a skip a while ago, so I thought I'd just get on with it. Bars are 10 mm mild steel; o-ring grooves are 4 mm and the o-rings are a random size out of the selection pack that seemed to fit. All the blocks are a slightly different size to one another as each is the biggest I could get out of the chunks of plastic I had. From how easily it machined, I think it's probably acetal.

The two that aren't assembled in the picture aren't quite finished yet: I need to make the steel bars (basically cut them to length and stick a groove in them for the o-ring) and file the corners of the o-ring slots so the o-rings aren't going over any sharp corners.

 

[paulmitchell1984]

Not strictly today, made it yesterday and took the pic today, needs a coat of paint and the boards sanding and staining but Doris is happy now we have a shoe rack

 

[arther dailey]

Required some flatbar rolling and was getting fed up with the cranking so beefed this up and rig up some drive through reduction box and VFD 1 HP motor
done some 12 x 100 mm that’s about it maxed out removed nylon bush on drive shaft and put in bronze also made up guide rollers

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seriously talented work there

 

[qwakers]

Inspection pit

Gotcha! A pit.

yup

its getting on....

 

[Fraserb]

Ran out of time to cut this one but basically done drawing it out.

 

[Hood]

Some machining went into that. Dare I ask what's it for?

It was a turret I made for my CNC lathe.

It was too cluttered though, 12 positions made the tools too close together so after a few years I made an 8 position VDI turret.

 

[Agroshield]

Ran out of time to cut this one but basically done drawing it out.

The driver's door is a closed shape and will fall out, so the two lines inside its outline will not be reproduced.

I was wondering if the software can detect this automatically.

 

[Fraserb]

The driver's door is a closed shape and will fall out, so the two lines inside its outline will not be reproduced.

I was wondering if the software can detect this automatically.

Well spotted, the software doesn't actually flag them up but on a drawing like that when you convert it it shows the outline in red, non closed shapes white and a closed shape yellow so when I did that one it showed the 2 small lines in white and the door in yellow so you know you've fudged up. This was after I'd sorted the mistake.

 

[Brad93]

Well spotted, the software doesn't actually flag them up but on a drawing like that when you convert it it shows the outline in red, non closed shapes white and a closed shape yellow so when I did that one it showed the 2 small lines in white and the door in yellow so you know you've fudged up. This was after I'd sorted the mistake.

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That’s a damn sight smarter than the Swiftcut software!

 

[Fraserb]

That’s a damn sight smarter than the Swiftcut software!

Yeah it seems to work well, sometimes when I've drawn out brackets like this when you convert them it'll show the out line white and there will be a stray bit somewhere, usually when you show the tool paths it'll have an extra pierce where the stray bit is so you can go back and alter it.

 

[finyuk2005]

What software is that you are using?

 

[Fraserb]

What software is that you are using?

Inkscape for the drawing and sheetcam to generate the gcode.

 

[Wallace]

Nearly ready for the road and Mot next weekend, my shiny new buggy scrubbed up well.

 

[Wedg1e]

lol no.

clue, its right in front of the doors to the workshop and its finished depth will be 5'11". i stand 5'9" tall

Chipboard dressing-gown?

 

[Wedg1e]

So it is not true.

You didn't end up with a gold member?

I bet he didn't get pussy galore either

 

[Wedg1e]

The completed restoration.
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You'd like my bandsaw then No idea of make, I bought it in about 2004 from a factory in Leicester that made shop displays for the likes of Nokia. They bought it secondhand when the company started in 1972 but could no longer get it past the safety nazis so it went on ebay. I stuck a daft bid in and got the beast. The motor was a massive 3-phase thing that I couldn't use, easily 3HP. It's as tall as me at 5' 8" and the table alone weighs 25Kg. The frame is a one-piece iron casting, it takes nine foot blades up to 1" wide and runs on for 30 seconds after you remove power...

 

[500e]

Best of luck. @Memmeddu
We did it with a special licence, think it was £23 that was 54 years ago could not have found a better one, not sure if she would say the same but still love her too bits.
Her dad said posh wedding or cash
we took the cash

 

[bricol]

Nearly ready for the road and Mot next weekend, my shiny new buggy scrubbed up well.

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Is that what I think it is in the garage? West Brom's bestest export?

Looks like the car I should have bought after uni when they were still cheap!

 

[Wedg1e]

I'm on a roll today, got the adaptor done as per the post earlier, so onward & upwards with the light-box.

At this point I have to give a BIG shout to @eSCHEn who went above and beyond and without whose help I'd never got this finished, due to my complete inability to solder or decipher the wiring instructions which came with the switch.

Here are a couple of pics of the completed thing - difficult to photograph well because of the high contrast but hopefully you'll get the idea. I'm very happy with it.

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So... in the town where you were born, lived a man who sailed to sea...?

 

[Retired]

You'd like my bandsaw then No idea of make, I bought it in about 2004 from a factory in Leicester that made shop displays for the likes of Nokia. They bought it secondhand when the company started in 1972 but could no longer get it past the safety nazis so it went on ebay. I stuck a daft bid in and got the beast. The motor was a massive 3-phase thing that I couldn't use, easily 3HP. It's as tall as me at 5' 8" and the table alone weighs 25Kg. The frame is a one-piece iron casting, it takes nine foot blades up to 1" wide and runs on for 30 seconds after you remove power...

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Hi,

Yes I like these type of heavy machines; thanks for adding the picture.

Here's the Startrite I fully restored it being another big bandsaw.

Just been painted; I added four bearings as castors.

I phase balanced it to my home made 3 phase 415V transformer.

It has blade cutter; welder; annealer and grinder installed as standard. A lovely machine but eventually it just became too big for my workshop; it was sold to a company involved in breaking the land speed record.

Kind regards, Colin.