Stuff you have made today

[Mick Annick]

The sun was warm, the coffee was hot. Neighbour had family round, in the garden, so no power tools.
So in between naps I striped, cleaned, serviced, polished and refilled this old fire extinguisher.

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I do like these, not as a fire extinguisher, but the look and the use I put them too.
Cat deterrent or weed killer spray.

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The cleaning was first with wire wool and warm water. Then wire wool and metal polish.

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One final polish with felt cloth and brasso.


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Now filled with weed killer.
Been set to work.

This is a double action unit. It will dispense the contents with either a push or a pull.

My dad was a director of Pyrène and then Chubb Fire, gave me a summer job at the Factory in Feltham when I was 15, I used to unload those from the service engineers vans and chuck them in a skip, hundreds and hundreds of them...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

My dad was a director of Pyrène and then Chubb Fire, gave a summer job at the Factory in Feltham when I was 15, I used to unload those from the service engineers vans and chuck them in a skip, hundreds and hundreds of them...

Sadly so many went that way.

What I am after is the Chrome plated Pyrene one. Then I want the Kaki drab ex Army one.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

My dad was a director of Pyrène and then Chubb Fire, gave a summer job at the Factory in Feltham when I was 15, I used to unload those from the service engineers vans and chuck them in a skip, hundreds and hundreds of them...

The metal wall mount is not an easy item to find.

I have a few hidden away. But they are still in the original wrappings.

So I made one for my new to me one.

The only change from the OE is the wall fixing holes are Metric now.

 

[VeryFEDUP]

A combined Made/Aquired photo:

I finished painting a few today. A couple of Fire Tigers and a general experiment, "What happens if I follow this colour with this unlikely colour for a fish?"
The lighthouse board has a story. End of last Summer we managed a quick break in Cornwall. We always have been in the habit of picking up any odd plastic/litter from the beach and binning it. One day I found this very tatty piece of marine ply with an odd piece of metal bolted to it. Somehow it ended up in the back of the pickup rather than in the bin.

Fast forward a bit and my artistic daughter painted a quick lighthouse whilst trying to incorporate the tatty paint into the sky/sea/foam. A few 50mm brass pins with the heads cut off and I have a few more places to hang half completed lures from.

 

[Morris]

Wifey's Pop hotrod project needed a new thermostat housing to change the pipe direction and also change size (to match the uprated Pop radiator). I didn't have a chunk of ally big enough so made it in two parts. It still produced a lot of swarf though.
Here it is part way through with the original for comparison.

The flange was parted off from a lump of bar that had a large hole through it then cut to shape on my bandsaw. I made the connection a press fit and welded the back (machined prep)

Faced the base off and cleaned it up.

All my tidy up two days ago ruined

 

[Prajna]

Remade the hotplate box for Ivor (-the-tank-engine), our woodburner. Originally it had a plate just tacked on the top of the gas bottle, which, of course, conducted very little heat. A friend modded it by dropping the plate down into the bottle and welding on a load of short rebar studs, which worked better but drastically reduced the size of the firebox. So I cut that out and rebuilt it like this:

Then I fired it up and boiled a kettle, after which I wiped it over with linseed oil. I'm very pleased with it. Please don't zoom in too close on the welds, it's a good seal all round but the welds are not of the quality I aim to achieve with a bit more practice.

 

[Dr.Al]

Prototype for a set of bar clamps - this one uses a very short bar (made from some offcuts of box section and threaded rod); the final ones will be four just over a 1 metre long and four about 1.8 metres long. It's been a while since I've done this much TIG welding; I thought I'd got through the "dipping the tungsten all the time" phase of TIG welding, but it seems to be back in earnest!

I think that M16 thread on the right-hand jaw might be a bit long given that the left-hand jaw can be moved in increments of 1.75 mm...

I'm glad I made a prototype: lots of things had to be tweaked during the process of making it. Hopefully it'll go a bit smoother when I make the final ones.

 

[James1979]

A square

it’s an adaptation of a public domain design. I have tweaked it a bit and will do a bit more I think.
Nowhere near as good as pressbrake’s but it’s square. It was also low cost enough so if it’s on site and some monkey kills it I won’t be that angry.

 

[Hood]

A square
...

Sorry to be the one to break the bad news to you but that is a triangle

 

[Seadog]

And to think that I resisted the urge to point that out

 

[Hood]

And to think that I resisted the urge to point that out

You never know, he may have another hidden just out of camera shot and thus it really is a square.

 

[James1979]

You never know, he may have another hidden just out of camera shot and thus it really is a square.

No it’s square. See!

 

[selectedgrub]

Another big ball of melted aluminum.

 

[RWD3M]

A big pile of swarf!

That's not from the chop saw I hasten to add, it came from the 228 x 21.5mm diameter holes I drilled in 5mm thick steel box section!

 

[RWD3M]

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No it’s square. See!

Who's Trevor?!

 

[tom2207]

Who's Trevor?!

Probably best not to ask

 

[Edward Teach]

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.

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M6 is a much better choice as you say,
M7 would be a PITA

 

[James1979]

Who's Trevor?!

My boyfriend

 

[tom2207]

My boyfriend

Its ok , we all knew , weve all known for ages

 

[Munkul]

My boyfriend

no need to be ashamed, it's the modern world!