Stuff you have made today

[Jan-DIY]

Today cleaning my shop and immediately messing it up with some other stuff.
Mate come along with an very expensive SCR Crane controller.
Power supply for first phase cut out.
these parts are reeeealy expensive so he wants me to have a look at.

SCR driver for first phase shorts.
cost about 30min to get all involved parts out of the board.
Tomorrow will try to fix it.

and also managed to sort my clamps.

 

[selectedgrub]

Lost on the little details I sandwiched steel between 2 layers of alloy

 

[selectedgrub]

Out of the hallway cupboard I got the stick, went out and beat the horse.

 

[northwest]

Extended a reamer:



It worked well in the end, had a few "moments" but it is 12" down.

 

[awemawson]

5C Collet Storage

Continuing the collet storage theme I thought I'd sort out my 5C collets - previously piled in two totes in a cupboard, finding what I needed or if indeed I had that size was impossible.

So 40 mm waste pipe sliced into sections and solvent glued got them neatly into another drawer and easily 'findable'

(This time in the interests of domestic harmony I bought my own clothes pegs - these things are cheap as chips and I suspect that they will come in handy for all sorts of applications in the workshop, especially when painting small parts)

 

[Brad93]

Made this

look like this

 

[daedalusminos]

Erm... Today I made a start scraping in my 18" straight edge...made by @pressbrake1

 

[daedalusminos]

look like this

Good to see correct colour being used!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Good to see correct colour being used!

HArd to find Record blue.
Some say Hamerite smooth blue is close.
Some say ARF Roundel blue as well.

I have seen GPO Records in Fire engine red, RN in Battle ship grey, even green.
Army ones in black.
All original as well.

Then you have the WD Pre war take up of stock.

 

[Brad93]

It's Paragon Record Blue

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

It's Paragon Record Blue

A lighter wallet?

 

[Brad93]

A lighter wallet?

Indeed

 

[daedalusminos]

Some say Hamerite smooth blue is close.

It's blue but the similarity ends there.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Indeed

Best colur match was done Phill The paint, when he matched a sample on a vice.
Mixed it in house, after painting it was oven baked.
It looked good.

Then I re fitted to the bench, it is blue, in places.

In places............... It is similar to a vice as well. Battered, covered in weld splatter, other paint, dirt, coffee stains and some blood.
But no tea.

 

[Mr Fro]

It's Paragon Record Blue

Have you got a RAL number or something?

 

[daedalusminos]

It's BS381C 110 Roundel Blue.

 

[8ob]

Adapted more than made, repurposed a couple of discarded/dumped shopping trolleys. They make good trolleys for storing/moving v8 engines

 

[decca]

A couple of knurled knobs:

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They allow me to fit the table (with some washers to take the place of the cover that will eventually be between the aluminium body and the table bracket):

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I need to reduce the depth of the table, but that was expected. I'd erred on the side of too big on the premise it's a lot easier to make it smaller than bigger. At the moment it clears the disc, but only just. I'd like there to be enough room between the disc and the table to allow me to change discs (typically to a finer grit) without moving the table. It should be a very quick job at the weekend to skim a millimetre or two off the side closest to the disc.

See you made tool of the week on Homemade tools.net?

 

[nickk]

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Adapted more than made, repurposed a couple of discarded/dumped shopping trolleys. They make good trolleys for storing/moving v8 engines

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Rovers,with high comp pistons?

 

[Hood]

This evening I made the frames up for some ramps for getting vehicles into the new garage, will order some 6mm aluminium treadplate tomorrow for the top.
Reason I made two separates instead on one bigger one is I can't fit 2m x 1m in the van so just as easy to make two 1m x 1m ones