Stuff you have made today

[selectedgrub]

Taint Phosphorus grenade for LARP knob end.

 

[jonclancy]

... a Boiled Linseed and Beeswax candle.

Machine Paste Wax it ain’t!

 

[mtt.tr]

... a Boiled Linseed and Beeswax candle.

Machine Paste Wax it ain’t!

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Parafin candle wax is brilliant for wood machines.

Easy to remove aswell unlike silicone

 

[slim_boy_fat]

as soon as Id primered it today, a thick black hair landed in it. Not mine I dont have any!

Is there something you want/need to share with us?

 

[jonclancy]

... that’s better!

Soft one is like caramel.

 

[Hood]

A guy came in today, said he had put a cylinder head for a bike into another place to bore out some sheared exhaust studs. They had bored them out right enough, and taken them from M8 to M10. He asked if I could screw in a bolt, chop it then bore and tap M8, well that wasn't happening as it would only leave about 1/4mm wall so I suggested I make him some new studs, M10 down to 8mm for the flange and then M6 for the thread, seemingly M8 nuts would be too big so it had to be m6.

He gave me a stud with a seized on nut and it was only after I had made the new studs I removed the nut and discovered the threads are M7 Won't matter and M6 nuts are easier to get so...

Anyway just used a M10 bolt and turned it down on the CNC.
Original at the bottom.

 

[Fraserb]

A couple of lorries

 

[8ob]

Made the other day but fitted today, 3 x 2" bsp valved/flanged pumped sewage manifold on the side of sheet piling. Gut buster job, the sheet piles are 15mm thick

 

[fizzy]

Made the other day but fitted today, 3 x 2" bsp valved/flanged pumped sewage manifold on the side of sheet piling. Gut buster job, the sheet pile are 15mm thick

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Sounds like a sh1t job

 

[Arc Tourist]

Got to be brave to kayak in those waters.

 

[DAPPH]

Made the other day but fitted today, 3 x 2" bsp valved/flanged pumped sewage manifold on the side of sheet piling. Gut buster job, the sheet piles are 15mm thick

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I thought that's why we have welders

 

[8ob]

I thought that's why we have welders

Way too rusty to get a decent weld on those sheets, anyway I didn't fancy standing in the drink with a welder/grinder so I drilled the sheets from the other side and dangled the manifold over the railings on a rope, captive bolts on the plate I made and they happened to align up spot on

Bob

 

[DAPPH]

Way too rusty to get a decent weld on those sheets, anyway I didn't fancy standing in the drink with a welder/grinder so I drilled the sheets from the other side and dangled the manifold over the railings on a rope, captive bolts on the plate I made and they happened to align up spot on

Bob

Bob .,
Can't you get Hilti bolts shot in for safely securing things on 15 mm thick mild steel ?

 

[Munkul]

This went out last night... was a 3pt linkage bale spike with a single upright spar for the top link. Now it's dual purpose telehandler headstock and 3pt linkage, and will take 2 big square bales.

I don't think the customer will like the bill... would have been almost more cost effective to buy a new one! but... it is what it is... I did tell em

 

[Brad93]

This went out last night... was a 3pt linkage bale spike with a single upright spar for the top link. Now it's dual purpose telehandler headstock and 3pt linkage, and will take 2 big square bales.

I don't think the customer will like the bill... would have been almost more cost effective to buy a new one! but... it is what it is... I did tell em

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I done one the same. Yeah more cost effective to make a new one. He wanted 6 spikes, and it was a bit of a pain getting them all to sit cock on. I plasma cut the holes for the weld in taper bits freehand with a jig, would of been better with a rotabroach but they were 60mm or something.

 

[Munkul]

I done one the same. Yeah more cost effective to make a new one.

They knock em out in Poland or other eastern european country in the thousands, I'd imagine. £600 to buy a new 2-bale spike without brackets... can't make em cost effectively over here. Or at least... not for what I get out of bed for.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

They knock em out in Poland or other eastern european country in the thousands, I'd imagine. £600 to buy a new 2-bale spike without brackets... can't make em cost effectively over here. Or at least... not for what I get out of bed for.

I swear they get the bushes and spikes for less over there too... They're mega money here for proper conex (?) ones. Had to repair one of dad's a year or so back after one of my sisters bfs destroyed it. I swear she just dates people with NO mechanical sympathy!

 

[Maker]

I made lunch.

 

[Tangledfeet]

Hardly 'made'; just some 50mm diameter 10mm thick laser cut steel discs attached to some 28mm OD bearings with a shoulder bolt. Far more secure in the welding table than the bench 'dogs' I turned several months ago soon after getting it.

 

[Memmeddu]

Pretty heavy those last two days ...
Yesterday morning I've been working at a customer house .
Then while coming back from the ironmongery I've received a call from a friend who I consider a brother.
His father had an Heart Attack , he's like a father for me , and their family is my second one .
Well not to mention that I was there even earlier than their actual family members.
This morning I've been back on the jobsite and replaced some sockets, and repaired a window .
Then in the afternoon I've taken my bro to the hospital to take fresh clothing to his father .
Then back to take his mother and little sister to buy some food at the supermarket .
I've had a video call with his father while driving back ,he asked if I was driving a Ferrari .