Stuff you have made today

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Few more things that has had me entertained.






Couple of Hammers, both heads were loose on the shafts.
Both had nails forced in against the soft metal wedges to try and keep them tight.

So both had the nails removed, shafts cleaned up. Heads were cleaned with a bench grinder wire wheel.
The hole in the head was cleaned up, then 80grit paper was used to give a rough surface.
New Hardwood wedges made, then the heads refitted.



This 1/2" hand masonry drill has had a good deal of use.
Blunt, head mushroomed and a damaged flute.



I had time so why not.



I even redressed the tip. The information was in a Home improvement book, from the 1950's.

This square was one of those small jobs that was done to fill in time between the others.



The is the best side. The other was covered in white paint. That was easily removed with modern paint stripper. But the blue paint was some sort of Hammer finish, added in it's life.

Hot caustic dip had that off, then a clean up of the blade with a brass wire brush. The square faces had the rust removed with 800 grit wet and dry on a glas sheet.



All done. Just a few more coats of hard wax needed.

 

[nickk]

Some more lock rebates for steel framed doors and windows.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I even redressed the tip. The information was in a Home improvement book, from the 1950's.

Is the green Plastidip?

 

[Beeezer]

Cut some reinforcement sections last night and was left with some medieval weapon offcuts

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Nocking out some rakers?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Is the green Plastidip?

Not this time.
The finish is green paint. Left over from a Mamod rebuild.

 

[Cheesie]

It's the only colour I use...

You should come over to N.Ireland on the 12th of July you'll see plenty of orange

 

[Munkul]

Nocking out some rakers?

Some haunches for rafters Is that what you call a raker?

 

[Beeezer]

Some haunches for rafters Is that what you call a raker?

Down these parts we call them rakers and yes those are known as haunches what you’ve cut.

 

[DennisCA]

Made a scythe for mowing the ditches and other areas around the yard, dislike firing up the weed whacker and much prefer this.

Norweigan carbon steel blade, homemade snath in eastern european fashion with a single handle and wedge style attachement. I need to work on the handle ring yet, didn't get it the proper size for the snath (which is hand carved so not perfectly round or straight all the way). Had to resort to some shims to make it fit for now. I have made it so you turn the handle to tighten the ring around the snath. The idea is you will be able to easily move the single handle to where you want it without tools. I might make it into a two handle setup yet though.

Had to reinforce the snath, it broke more than once. Fir isn't the ideal material... But cheap and light. I should probably weld up the whole side, would look better.

 

[James1979]

These

Bent them

They became these

3950 to do…..

 

[Brad93]

These

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Bent them

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They became these

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3950 to do…..

How did you form them in the end?

 

[James1979]

How did you form them in the end?

With some hillbilly machinery….

 

[James1979]

I need to refine it but each one takes about 10 seconds per cycle.

 

[Munkul]

Looks nice and quick. I like it. Hope you're making a good hourly rate.

 

[Seadog]

Great solution.

 

[James1979]

Looks nice and quick. I like it. Hope you're making a good hourly rate.

Reasonable. I need to refine it a bit. Still making a profit but I had expected to use the first batch as a learning spike so happy with that!

got a flypress inbound so that’ll speed the initial bend up. Tooling isn’t quite there so some clips need a tweak at QA. Get those two sorted and I’ll get them nice and quick.

Next trial is using a mixer to deburr them

 

[James1979]

Great solution.

Cheers

 

[Gragson]

Nice work @James1979

Reminds me when 3 of us planned a run of exhaust caps, tooling premade, material mostly cut to size, thought we would be done in 4 hours, took us 10 to make 34! fettling the press tooling was the biggest ball ache.

 

[James1979]

If it was a smaller run I wouldn’t bother. I am making a reasonable wage out of it and it’s led to more work.

fettling the tooling takes the time. Which is why if it was a small run it’s not worth it for me.

I’m lucky I can plasma the blanks. That reduces a lot of time taken. Even if I need to babysit it, it’s a relatively quick operation

 

[MCKDAVID]

If it was a smaller run I wouldn’t bother. I am making a reasonable wage out of it and it’s led to more work.

fettling the tooling takes the time. Which is why if it was a small run it’s not worth it for me.

I’m lucky I can plasma the blanks. That reduces a lot of time taken. Even if I need to babysit it, it’s a relatively quick operation

aye, I've done a few jobs that to be honest weren't worth the bother, and just taking a hit on the time with the expectation it's going to lead to more (better paying) work later. To date, it's mostly paid off, sometimes you need to invest / be optimistic, at least I'll continue to look at it that way.