Stuff you have made today

[The Artilleryman]

Forget the saw, an uncovered photo of the registered traction engine please

Displayed as a working engine, ie as the full size engines would have looked in there working days.
Not many shows happening this year, but hopefully a few more next year, and if I'm going to keep on road running it I will have to put rubber tyres on it.

It's partly dismantled to sort out the incorrectly drilled weigh shaft bracket, but as no shows till June it's on the back burner for the moment.

 

[Brad93]

Making worn stuff round again

 

[Richiew]

Forget the saw, an uncovered photo of the registered traction engine please

@The Artilleryman
If you didn't already know. THEY MISS NOTHING ON THIS FORUM!!

 

[qwakers]

made wall taller.

just the steelwork to go in and the floor to pour...

finished the grunt work, just need to pour the floor and fit the steelwork.

started looking like a (almost) finished pit...

 

[bricol]

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Displayed as a working engine, ie as the full size engines would have looked in there working days.
Not many shows happening this year, but hopefully a few more next year, and if I'm going to keep on road running it I will have to put rubber tyres on it.

It's partly dismantled to sort out the incorrectly drilled weigh shaft bracket, but as no shows till June it's on the back burner for the moment.

I like that - when the wheels dull down a bit, it'll look perfect

I keep looking at Steam Traction World site . . . while I own the gear, and can design stuff to be made on it, my skills in actually doing so to a decent tolerance are less than ideal.

 

[bricol]

Don't forget a recess around the edge to locate the covering boards around the almost finished pit!

 

[qwakers]

thats what the steel work is for, it also will form the runners for my air over hydraulic pit lifting beam.

 

[Agroshield]

If it rocks back and fore I'll lift lift it and put a wood beam behind the front wheels and the same at the rear

See here for an idea. Made of something with more ferrousity, it would do well.

 

[mechman]

finished the grunt work, just need to pour the floor and fit the steelwork.

started looking like a (almost) finished pit...

Have you an escape plan?

 

[selectedgrub]

It rubs the lotion on it's skin.

 

[qwakers]

Have you an escape plan?

Ladder at each end and its longer than the average car.

 

[bricol]

Ladder at each end and its longer than the average car.

Made mine longer than all my cars - I had got fed up with having to crawl under the car and roll into the pit, or having only part of the car over the pit at the last house . . .

Then I bought a longer car . . .

 

[indy4x]

I'm lucky I guess, Mine is a very late Mk3!

Depends on your POV, long shafts are simpler and cheaper to maintain but Rotoflex rears are supposed to have better handling characteristics but are harder and more expensive to maintain

I've had both, last was a Spitfire with a 2.5 Pi out of a TR6, that was on long shafts and I tried various rear springs and shocks to get it to handle the way I wanted

 

[Hood]

Getting sick of looking at the rust growing on the tool bracket, will be dipping the tool holders in citric acid but even if I did the bracket it would need painted and would be rusting again in no time as it is right at the door and the sea is 5m away

So a bit of 8mm aluminium onto the plasma, a bit of heavy wall pipe milled for dogs and a bit of 4 inch pipe split and some welding and now I have a new bracket.

 

[Tangledfeet]

A wee screwdriver rack on the ever evolving tool 'wall', segregating the Pozidriv, the Phillips, the slotted and the Torx... OCD - moi?







And a mess after cutting some steel, tacking some steel and then using a slitting disc to separate them all again... it didn't go as anticipated!

 

[Kram]

I tried plastering the OSB panels under the stairs. Twice. Both mixes set well before I could get 10% up. Gave up scraped it off.
It'll be wallpapered instead of painted.

Is there a food thread? Deep fried some chicken thigh in the new wok, sauce is 2 diced chillies, 1/3 diced onion, soy, sriracha and a lime. Beats anything the local take aways can offer!

 

[Hood]

Today the 45 degree neck for the push pull arrived so seeing as how I was at a loose end waiting for material to arrive I got onto Fusion.

Drew this up.

Then sorted for getting the code.

Then gathered the cut parts and stuck it together with the Mig.

It will take me longer to gather all the drills etc together than it did to make it.

 

[nickk]

So progressing with the log grab,made 2 eye plates,46mm hole,here’s the second one,waiting on a length of en24t for a pin now,hope it’s not on the “Evergiven” or it’ll be EVERSLOW.

 

[Hood]

Seeing as how I got the oversize ER40 collets today I was able to do the middle part for the rail hinges.

Whilst the Chiron was doing them I started sorting out some drills, looks like I am going to have to make another one, have quite a few MT3 and MT2 to sort yet but I can't believe how many MT1's I have. Now I just have to work out where I have space in the workshop to put another drill stand

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[Maker]

Now I just have to work out where I have space in the workshop to put another drill stand

You can put it in my workshop if you want, I don't mind.