Stuff you have made today

[Onoff]

What is it?

Bedside table.

 

[Kram]

Turned a pair of brass m8 fine grub screws. I had just finished cutting and filing the screwdriver slot on the second when the thing ******** off under the tool cabinet. I saw it bounce. It is nowhere. Spent longer looking than it took to make it.
I did find a parting insert, few insert screws, a transfer screw, small lump of brass and a few other useful bits.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Ahhhh, another pingfeckit gone to ground....

 

[Farside]

Ahhhh, another pingfeckit gone to ground....

The weird thing about them is they often eventually turn up in a place you've already scanned.
Bloody wormholes.

 

[Barking Mat]

Ahhhh, another pingfeckit gone to ground....

Yep, this morning M6 stainless bolt disappeared under a marine generator, spent two minutes trying to find it then drove across village to workshop, eventually found, cut down, something similar, only twenty minutes over a lost bolt.

 

[Fraserb]

Finished the grader and levelled some stone.

 

[Onoff]

All these creations in metal...I'm feeling very inferior...

 

[spaffmonkey]

Customer come in with a cast iron hedgehog head he had dug up in his garden several years ago and wondered if I could make some sort of plaque to mount it on so he could hang it up. This was the result I came up with.

 

[Barking Mat]

Customer come in with a cast iron hedgehog head he had dug up in his garden several years ago and wondered if I could make some sort of plaque to mount it on so he could hang it up. This was the result I came up with. View attachment 279843

Excellent, that's great.

Looks a bit like a hunting trophy.

 

[spaffmonkey]

Excellent, that's great.

Looks a bit like a hunting trophy.

The steel is actually a section I cut out of a narrowboats gas locker due to the heavy pitting but though it would suit something like this.

 

[Barking Mat]

The steel is actually a section I cut out of a narrowboats gas locker due to the heavy pitting but though it would suit something like this.

I was curious how you got the rusted effect, thanks, you answered my question, before I asked it.

Therefore it is worth saving rusty metal, good excuse !

 

[spaffmonkey]

I was curious how you got the rusted effect, thanks, you answered my question, before I asked it.

Therefore it is worth saving rusty metal, good excuse !

Here is a picture of it prior to head being mounted. I'm terrible for keeping hold of rusty lumps of metal as for somethings once cleaned up its more fitting that a shiny new piece of steel. Cleaning it up with a twistnot wire wheel on angle grinder then rubbed

it over with some stove polish.

 

[Barking Mat]

Here is a picture of it prior to head being mounted. I'm terrible for keeping hold of rusty lumps of metal as for somethings once cleaned up its more fitting that a shiny new piece of steel. Cleaning it up with a twistnot wire wheel on angle grinder then rubbedView attachment 279850 it over with some stove polish.

Pretty impressively rusty. Great work.

 

[Cheesie]

Afew bits ive made in the garage this week

 

[Barking Mat]

Afew bits ive made in the garage this week View attachment 279851 View attachment 279852 View attachment 279853 View attachment 279854 View attachment 279856

very pretty beads, tig alu?

 

[Cheesie]

very pretty beads, tig alu?

Yes tig sometimes they turn out good sometimes not

 

[pcwizme]

Customer come in with a cast iron hedgehog head he had dug up in his garden several years ago and wondered if I could make some sort of plaque to mount it on so he could hang it up. This was the result I came up with. View attachment 279843

Being the sad person I am, I know that that hedgehog was at one time probibly (I know theres a chance I am wrong but I doubt it) a boot brush.... I have a collection of over 200 (hedgehogs not boot brushes) from all over the place

 

[Kram]

The search continued. I found more stuff. I even found some unused floor space under the bench, but not the screw. I needed more anyway so started turning two m6, another m8 and dropped each I now have quite a swarf free floor as I was forced to sweep it up and look for them.

I now have cables, complete other than some delrin insulators.

 

[Tupers]

It started out as a box to drain a deck.

Then it turned into two boxes with removable grates.

Then they asked if I could polish them and add mounting holes as well.

I don’t tend to do a much non tubular stainless but these have come out quite nicely.

 

[mechman]

Sure deck drains were called scupper boxes, a long time ago. ADDJUNKIE to the front.