Stuff you have made today

KimB · Apr 12, 2021

indy4x said:
That would be correct

When a built my garage a few years ago I kept it at 30 sq m to avoid paying for building regs as I wasn't flush at the time

I did add an extension 2 years later that was about 7 sq m

I could do similar to mine actually if I wanted to but I don’t think it needs to be fb much bigger now.

Hood · Apr 12, 2021

KimB said:
I could do similar to mine actually if I wanted to but I don’t think it needs to be fb much bigger now.

Aye, whatever, say that in a couple of years

KimB · Apr 12, 2021

Hood said:
Aye, whatever, say that in a couple of years

I’m going to build a little shed behind it haha and I have my other 3x4m shed

Agroshield · Apr 12, 2021

zx9 said:
And this is why I have a sudden need for stub drills.

If the shank of the ER holder is drilled through, you can hold standard twist drills quite successfully by the flutes in an ER collet so they become any length you need.

nickk · Apr 12, 2021

The start of some railings.

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zx9 · Apr 12, 2021

Agroshield said:
If the shank of the ER holder is drilled through, you can hold standard twist drills quite successfully by the flutes in an ER collet so they become any length you need.

Good point, it is an ER16 holder on a solid 12mm rod. I think I would have needed to go to ER20 to get the hollow spindle which though doable would be getting a bit over size for the little Dickson alike tool post on the Drummond M.
I also have plans for an ER collet holder for the Hauser mill which is still on the mental drawing board and wanted to keep to one set of collets.

Fraserb · Apr 12, 2021

Well after my gardening the other day I jokingly said I was going to tie the rake onto bens toy tractor, well one thing led to another and this happened.

finyuk2005 · Apr 12, 2021

I bet that is one happy chappy!!

Fraserb · Apr 12, 2021

finyuk2005 said:
I bet that is one happy chappy!!

He was, we've battery charge issues currently.

Tangledfeet · Apr 12, 2021

@Fraserb I bet he'll be driving a tractor to school and back when he's 15!

We had a holiday in Cornwall once and saw several kids leave the school on old tractors - it was great to see!

Fraserb · Apr 12, 2021

Tangledfeet said:
@Fraserb I bet he'll be driving a tractor to school and back when he's 15!

We had a holiday in Cornwall once and saw several kids leave the school on old tractors - it was great to see!

He'd be driving one to nursery next week if he knew where the keys were kept.

finyuk2005 · Apr 12, 2021

I must confess, i did drive a tractor to school once :laughing:

a JD 6320, parked up next to the jannies wee garden tractor for a laugh,
then went to collect a field car at lunch time ha ha!

henry Kadzielski · Apr 12, 2021

Tangledfeet said:
I bet he'll be driving a tractor to school and back when he's 15!

Good morning gents 3 years ago when we moved to where we are now, my then 6year old informed me that he NEEDED a motor bike. I actually asked why, he informed me and mum for that matter, that when he gets invited to his school friends birthday parties he can just take the bike and not bother us. The events coordinator and myself had to walk away and not crack up laughing in front of him. He had put some serious thought into this proposal. I had seriously put thought into getting something for them (twins) and my self as they were never going to go by them selves, but they stopped talking about it and I never raised it again :whistle:

. They now ride the ride on mower (the little twin drives, big twin sits on the back of the seat for the ignition cutout) and mow the grass , I'm happy with that. They get many a toot and a whistle doing the section next to the road when cars go by. The little twin supprised the events coordinator when he parked the mower after finishing mowing the grass. I had seen him do it before, back it into the shed around the big band saw into it's parking spot. The events coordinator commented that he parks that mower better than she does. Well that goes to show all that time he has spent on his push toy John Deer tractor had paid off :thumbup:

Barking Mat · Apr 12, 2021

henry Kadzielski said:
Good morning gents 3 years ago when we moved to where we are now, my then 6year old informed me that he NEEDED a motor bike. I actually asked why, he informed me and mum for that matter, that when he gets invited to his school friends birthday parties he can just take the bike and not bother us. The events coordinator and myself had to walk away and not crack up laughing in front of him. He had put some serious thought into this proposal. I had seriously put thought into getting something for them (twins) and my self as they were never going to go by them selves, but they stopped talking about it and I never raised it again. They now ride the ride on mower (the little twin drives, big twin sits on the back of the seat for the ignition cutout) and mow the grass , I'm happy with that. They get many a toot and a whistle doing the section next to the road when cars go by. The little twin supprised the events coordinator when he parked the mower after finishing mowing the grass. I had seen him do it before, back it into the shed around the big band saw into it's parking spot. The events coordinator commented that he parks that mower better than she does. Well that goes to show all that time he has spent on his push toy John Deer tractor had paid off

Get him driving the car round the garden next, that's what I did with my daughter aged 10, clutch control !

henry Kadzielski · Apr 12, 2021

Barking Mat said:
Get him driving the car round the garden next, that's what I did with my daughter aged 10, clutch control !

The smaller twin is just too short at the moment, the bigger twin is just too lazy most of the time. I'l just have to wait and see what develops :laughing:

Barking Mat · Apr 12, 2021

henry Kadzielski said:
The smaller twin is just too short at the moment, the bigger twin is just too lazy most of the time. I'l just have to wait and see what develops

Twins, double trouble / fun.....

Dcal · Apr 13, 2021

Today I made an arbour so I can sharpen the wire brushes for my home made surface preparation tool.

The brushes are expensive and to work as intended, they need a sharp point on the tangs. (They go blunt very quickly)
You are supposed to reverse them and run them in the surface prep tool against a stone, but it's slow speed and doesn't sharpen them that well. Also the brushes (belts really) are slack on the tool and it's all very flexible.
So I made this

It's not for wire brushing, just to run it backwards against a stone and boy does it sharpen them.
No doubt I'm running the brushes too fast but it only takes a moment and I've got the full PPE on.
Couple of seconds on a concrete grinder stone did this.

But it did the buisness on the brush.
I made the arbour out of scrap (what's new) an off cut of PE, the bit ejected from a slugger bit hole, and a washer.