Stuff you have made today

[nickk]

Hung those primered gates,the very ones featured in these pages ,earlier this week,where does the time go.

 

[m_c]

Been meaning to print one of these for a while-

A right pointing arrow.
I should really mirror it, and make a left pointing one as well.

 

[Gareth0123]

Often before I became ill I would undertake fabrication and welding work for local artists and sculptors, making the frames and armatures for them to go all artistic on. If they could afford me I would sometimes under their closely supervised direction make the sculpture for them: my metal working skills realising and bring into the corporeal world their inner-vision and artistic talent.

Over the last few days I have been making some cuboids for a local sculptress. Each of the cuboids has identical exterior dimensions, but are made from different materials. It has not been easy for me. My illness has slowed me down considerably and working on pre-rusted steel is not a straight forward task, which meant each cuboid took me about 1 hour to make but that 1 hour took place over the space of half-a-day.

I have stacked up the cuboids ready for collection; there is no artistic form here, just a convenient stack. They have also been lightly sprayed with a solution of vinegar and salt and left out in the current rain which will help with the artist's requirement for rusty surfaces. They will be installed tomorrow ready for the exhibition opening on Sunday at Halesworth in Suffolk, but I do not yet know how they will be installed or placed.

The exterior dimensions are 20" X 15" X 8"
Top to bottom:
8mmØ solid steel bar.
12mmØ solid steel bar
¾"Ø steel circular hollow section (CHS)
20mm X 20mm steel square hollow section (SHS)

 

[Olderisbetter]

Often before I became ill I would undertake fabrication and welding work for local artists and sculptors, making the frames and armatures for them to go all artistic on. If they could afford me I would sometimes under their closely supervised direction make the sculpture for them: my metal working skills realising and bring into the corporeal world their inner-vision and artistic talent.

Over the last few days I have been making some cuboids for a local sculptress. Each of the cuboids has identical exterior dimensions, but are made from different materials. It has not been easy for me. My illness has slowed me down considerably and working on pre-rusted steel is not a straight forward task, which meant each cuboid took me about 1 hour to make but that 1 hour took place over the space of half-a-day.

I have stacked up the cuboids ready for collection; there is no artistic form here, just a convenient stack. They have also been lightly sprayed with a solution of vinegar and salt and left out in the current rain which will help with the artist's requirement for rusty surfaces. They will be installed tomorrow ready for the exhibition opening on Sunday at Halesworth in Suffolk, but I do not yet know how they will be installed or placed.

The exterior dimensions are 20" X 15" X 8"
Top to bottom:
8mmØ solid steel bar.
12mmØ solid steel bar
¾"Ø steel circular hollow section (CHS)
20mm X 20mm steel square hollow section (SHS)

I have some old light duty scaffolding going rusty looks just like that

 

[3000alloy]

Redneck pizza oven in for its maiden run this eveningView attachment 296069

Turned out very good indeed. Food coma here I come!!

 

[Gareth0123]

I have some old light duty scaffolding going rusty looks just like that

Some rusty old self erecting scaffolding cut down and with new rectangular feet welded on made up the first part of this job for this sculptress, but I did not photograph it when I did it for her last week.

 

[Prajna]

A monkey (as it's known amongst sappers) or a post basher, as it's more commonly known. We already had one but it is only 500mm long and has a nasty habit of falling off the top of the post and taking casualties; got me twice, SWMBO once (don't ask what she was doing with a monkey! Oh alright then, we were prepping for a festival in northern Portugal), and it also gave Sapper Mike a good clout as well. Didn't have big enough pipe to extend the old one so I cut up an old acroprop and made a new one 1m long. I particularly enjoyed designing and welding the mitre bevels on the handles. I could have paid a little more attention aligning the handles but hey.

 

[Mick Annick]

Hung those primered gates,the very ones featured in these pages ,earlier this week,where does the time go.View attachment 296124

Love those levelling jacks…

 

[nickk]

Love those levelling jacks…

Remember those galvanised tote boxes,all the best factories had them?
I’ve one in my van rammed full of offcuts from the saw,every profile of steel bar in a size up to 100mm,including a box of shims 8 thou to 80.

 

[Dr.Al]

A bit more progress on the slow speed grinder today. I started by making the four pillars that hold the gearbox assembly above the electronics housing. That enabled a quick test fit:

I then put one of the plates on the mill and hogged out a load of metal to allow me to fit the switchgear.

With hindsight, I should have thought about this a bit more (or modelled it in the CAD or something)...

A quick test fit of the electrickery onto the plates:

If was at this point I remembered that the spinning disc hangs down over the bottom panel and hence would hit the potentiometer.

Back onto the mill and I drilled another hole so the pot could be fitted the other way up. I then made a little hole filler out of some aluminium round bar.

Et voila:

It's a bit cosy inside around the front panel, but it's not too bad:

I still haven't modified the table to give a bit more clearance and I need to make a cover before fitting the table. In the meantime, I couldn't resist a little play using the reference surface (which I'd previously adjusted to be level with the grinding disc) with a honing guide to reshape and sharpen an old chisel.

I had a play putting a secondary bevel on (I'm not sure why, I was just experimenting) by putting the honing guide on a steel rule. I should have picked a wider rule as I wobbled off the edge so the secondary bevel is a bit wonky, but it worked and that's the main thing:

 

[Morrisman]

Today I mainly made a mess.

I needed to swap out the master cylinders on my hot rod. They are mounted up under the dashboard, which I thought was a really clever idea, when I built it. But now the dashboard is in, wiring, seats, gearshift, steering column etc, I’ve realised it is physically impossible for me to get both hands in and do the necessary to get them changed.

So I broke out the grinder and hacked a hole in the cowl, which made it possible. All I need now is to fashion some sort of removable cover out of alloy sheet, with a few rivets, maybe a little air scoop to cool the brakes.....

 

[KemppiFrog]

Got a bit busy today. Couple of pool railings on the go. But need to have child proof catches on the access gates. Scratch head a bit, plus back of envelope. Came up with an idea, roller on the bottom of a slide, that rides up the catch and drops into a recess. But, to lift it out, you have to use a knob that has a spring behind it, so not practical for a child with feeble fingers.. Gates also have to self close, so spring units are also in build. Local places don't seem to have the classic twisted springs??
Pics tomorrow.
Kf

 

[MCKDAVID]

made a fiat 9090DT tractor start and run better, had to get it running rapidly a while back so we could move it and some other kit around the farm, but it just wasn't right so wanted to spend a bit of time on it. Purged diesel tank, lines, filters changed, filters bled, injectors bled... runs like a champ, all smokey before, wouldn't rev out.... now, starts first crack, revs cleanly, no smoke at all, except a wee bit on start up, but nothing to worry about...happy with that
then removed a nest from the cabin ventilator, blew that all out with airline tested and fine, changed gas struts on rear window to hold it in position, and stop me cracking my head off it every time...
Installed the reversing camera, well finished it today, so I dont knacker my back bending double to see reversing back on to the hitch, piece of cake now...
Rewired the lights so they actually work now, including the flashing beacon, only ones not working are the main beam, I can get full beam but not main, reckon the switch is sticky, needs a blast of contact cleaner... next week.

next jobs, oil change, bought new filter, then found the other two hiding in the back... buggeration, ach well next week for that then, then strip out & change the thermostat, engines just not getting up to temperature, had sat for nearly 5 years, so be jammed open I'd say will change the old perished hoses at the same time...

then....... list is getting shorter, but still a wee bti to go, then she'll be right ready for work....

 

[Mick Annick]

Remember those galvanised tote boxes,all the best factories had them?
I’ve one in my van rammed full of offcuts from the saw,every profile of steel bar in a size up to 100mm,including a box of shims 8 thou to 80.

I’ve got a blocked off windowsill in the workshop like that!

 

[4String.]

A monkey (as it's known amongst sappers) or a post basher, as it's more commonly known. We already had one but it is only 500mm long and has a nasty habit of falling off the top of the post and taking casualties; got me twice, SWMBO once (don't ask what she was doing with a monkey! Oh alright then, we were prepping for a festival in northern Portugal), and it also gave Sapper Mike a good clout as well. Didn't have big enough pipe to extend the old one so I cut up an old acroprop and made a new one 1m long. I particularly enjoyed designing and welding the mitre bevels on the handles. I could have paid a little more attention aligning the handles but hey.

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In a previous life I used to get frighteningly angry when things went wrong and I injured myself, to the point where I would pick up anything close at hand and throw it as far as I could, usually accompanied by extremely violent language .

It's cost me a fortune over the years in lost and damaged tools, broken windows when something went the wrong way, and even a a windscreen on my van on one memorable occasion when I got so wound that I threw a breeze block in the wrong direction . Thankfully the march of time has changed all that, but on one occasion I was hammering fence posts in the garden with a post rammer which went astray at the top and fell off hitting me on the noggin.

By the time my ex had appeared, alerted by a loud tirade of horrendous language, I was on my knees in the garden stemming the flow of blood with a bed sheet. "What happened???" says she. "Flippin' post rammer, ghastly thing...." says I, or words to that effect. "What post rammer??" says she looking round the garden and not seeing it. At that time one of the boundaries on our land was a water filled ditch about 25 feet away from the fence I was repairing and when I finally regained a modicum of coherence I put my chest waders on and found the rammer in the ditch, and to this day I still have no memory of how it got there...

I don't know how my ex put up with me as long as she did but when the mists had cleared she would refer to me jokingly as Dr David Banner, at which point I used to say very quietly "Don't make me angry...."

 

[Kram]

I got the tig kit out. Messed about lining up table to tig the other side on and then some practise putting everything away again before I got soaked

Borrowed garden table to work in shed, bending some 1/4" alu. The rounds were just for bending, not part of it!

 

[Memmeddu]

Did some cutting and sticking to an exhaust to keep all the silencing effect while shortening it

Shortened as it is just going to be used on my engine test bed that runs them out the car so no need for all the extra length to take to rear of car

The thin exhaust pipe I blew a few holes in but all in all went well
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You missed the opportunity to make a dB killer muffler

 

[Lewis_RX8]

You missed the opportunity to make a dB killer muffler

What would that be welded like ?

 

[bricol]

Got a bit busy today. Couple of pool railings on the go. But need to have child proof catches on the access gates. Scratch head a bit, plus back of envelope. Came up with an idea, roller on the bottom of a slide, that rides up the catch and drops into a recess. But, to lift it out, you have to use a knob that has a spring behind it, so not practical for a child with feeble fingers.. Gates also have to self close, so spring units are also in build. Local places don't seem to have the classic twisted springs??
Pics tomorrow.
Kf

I think you might want to get the exact specification of "child with feeble fingers" you are making those "child proof" catches for . . . I had to seriously up-rate everything that was supposed to be "childproof" when my ex moved in with an 18mth old - if he saw it could be opened, then he would work out a way to open it - and those "feeble fingers" . .. weren't . . .

 

[selectedgrub]

@Dr.Al you should have made a build thread of your wonderful creation.
I'm sure Old landy and myself would of followed it.