Stuff you have made today

[Woody.v8]

Got it in one.

Balls

 

[Kram]

Got it in one.

Id be interested to know what gauge/mm2 copper they use in the water cooled torches.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

TYA Ikea Vice.
Assembly will be required.
Tools not supplied.



This had to be sorted, it was taking up clean floor space.

But, as all kits, it is best to see if all the parts are there.



It was all there. Including the broken C/.sunk screw. It has had a hard life.
But it was caked in crud.



But it clean up well.

Hot water, washing powder and a scrubbing brush.

But I I made a mistake.
As well as the bent face plate for the quick release handle. The flat bar was twisted. So I straighten it.
This was to bite me on assembly.




In paint. This is etch primer, as it was the only primer I had on Sunday.




A bit of bling, 23 carrot gold leaf.
Hay, why not. Nowt good on TV and no beer.



In it's new home.
The missing jaw ended up being cracked into 4 bits.
I have a jaw on order for another vice, but I am waiting to see if the company will come through.

So.

A Temp jaw.




So, on the bench, ready for work.

 

[James1979]

A quick and dirty grabber for an ROV to extend its reach. It has to fish a flat piece of bearing material out of a 4m deep tube. The manipulator won’t fit in there. They were messing about with that stupid scaffold tube till someone designed the nipper. They emailed a sketch, few hours later it was on board and bolted into the end of the tube which the ROV held like a handle. Apparently it worked first time

 

[Fraserb]

Can't remember if I posted this when I made it, flat pack bbq/firepit.

 

[123hotchef]

Id be interested to know what gauge/mm2 copper they use in the water cooled torches.

its thin!

 

[123hotchef]

Can't remember if I posted this when I made it, flat pack bbq/firepit.
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great for camping, like the flat plate too perfect for bacon and egg butties

 

[123hotchef]

Today I made some popping sounds, some sparks and a heck of a smell.

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[123hotchef]

opps what cooler did you have? i always remove the lid of mine and make sure its flowing!

 

[Hood]

opps what cooler did you have? i always remove the lid of mine and make sure its flowing!

Home made wall bracket cooler combined.
Pump died and never noticed.

 

[123hotchef]

Home made wall bracket cooler combined.
Pump died and never noticed.

oh man i feel your pain lucky it was not a really expensive torch but a dent in the pocket nethertheless

 

[Hood]

oh man i feel your pain lucky it was not a really expensive torch but a dent in the pocket nethertheless

aye, £89 for an 8m one. New motor will likely be more

 

[123hotchef]

aye, £89 for an 8m one. New motor will likely be more

8M fook where u welding! lol what motor was u using for the pump then?

 

[Hood]

8M fook where u welding! lol what motor was u using for the pump then?

All my tig torches (WP20 x 2, WP18 and WP9) I need the reach if I am working on a boat as easier than pulling the welder/gas about with me.

It is a Procon pump, not sure what the motor make is but it was the one I got with the pump.

 

[daleyd]

All my tig torches (WP20 x 2, WP18 and WP9) I need the reach if I am working on a boat as easier than pulling the welder/gas about with me.

It is a Procon pump, not sure what the motor make is but it was the one I got with the pump.

Not that I am any kind of expert on these sort of things but I’d be looking at fitting some sort of flow/pressure switch to interlock your welder or at least give some warning (I’m sure you’ve already thought of that, I’m just thinking out loud here...)

 

[Hood]

That was my original intention a few years ago when I built the cooler but could never find a suitable switch.

 

[123hotchef]

All my tig torches (WP20 x 2, WP18 and WP9) I need the reach if I am working on a boat as easier than pulling the welder/gas about with me.

It is a Procon pump, not sure what the motor make is but it was the one I got with the pump.

good pumps my Tweco has a procon pump

 

[m_c]

That was my original intention a few years ago when I built the cooler but could never find a suitable switch.

I doubt you'd get a switch as such.
I'd take something like this - 1Pc Water Flow Sensor Switch G1/2" Copper Hall Effect Liquid Switch Flowmeter Meter 1-30L/min for Water Heaters Water Flow Measurement Device: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools
and have the pulse reset a timer, so if the timer times out due to not getting reset, it triggers an alarm.

Something like this might work -
RS PRO SPDT Timer Relay, OFF Delay, 24 V ac/dc, 240 V ac 0.3 s → 30 h, DIN Rail Mount | RS Components (rs-online.com)
Although the datasheet isn't very detailed, and doesn't say if the timer gets reset after being triggered, or how long the reset pulse has to be.

Alternative, would be either a basic timer reset circuit, or for simplicity, throw an Arduino at it (can get UNO clones for less than a fiver, and it would only take a couple lines of code).

 

[henry Kadzielski]

Good afternoon gents my two cents worth. have been doing some seat frames

16 already collected, this 16 ready for collection and the remaining 14 were completed the next day. Very happy to see the back end of this job, there was some effort on my part to complete also time sensitive. 'Donna has done the rolling, Debbi has done the drilling, Carol did the cutting and Francis did the welding. The punt that I had built recently is to return in the new week of additions so need the space. Also had a go at these colapsable BBQ's, got two cut out of 3mm steel, not bent yet and they look OK. The only problem is that I think that 3mm is too thin. The grill section has bent 'deflected' during the cutting process, otherwise they look OK for a test sample

 

[Agroshield]

Alternative, would be either a basic timer reset circuit...

Would it need such sophistication? Something as simple as an equivalent to the oil pressure switch on a car engine that illuminates a loud buzzer (or shotgun cartridge bird scarer) when the pressure drops would be enough.