Stuff you have made today

[Munkul]

We finished this pallet of plates today. Glad that's done with, in hindsight it would have made more sense to get a 10mm plate and get someone to cut it all... But oh well.

 

[8ob]

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Rovers,with high comp pistons?

Small block Fords

 

[Hood]

We finished this pallet of plates today. Glad that's done with, in hindsight it would have made more sense to get a 10mm plate and get someone to cut it all... But oh well.

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Or get a CNC Plasma, I know a guy who has a machine torch for one

 

[Brad93]

BS381C 110 Roundel Blue - Paragon Paints

 

[selectedgrub]

About 40 photos

 

[Maker]

Part of a dishwasher, stops the top rack coming too far out. The pin snapped off and was lost so I turned a new stainless one and glued it in place.


And a sholder bolt with a left hand thread, part of an elliptical trainer/walking machine type thing, original has long worn out.
It seems while I've been away the whole family have been saving jobs for me.

 

[Bullet2012]

Small block Fords

Windsor’s or Cleveland’s ?

 

[8ob]

Windsor’s or Cleveland’s ?

There are a few of them, one is a Mexican 302 W ( supposedly a thicker/stronger block), a couple of stock 302W`s, a Boss 302 which is a 4 bolt main Windsor block with Cleveland heads ( rare piece) and there is a Nascar Winsor engine.

Bob

 

[Dr.Al]

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

Yep, that's a first for me. I hadn't expected that

 

[Bullet2012]

There are a few of them, one is a Mexican 302 W ( supposedly a thicker/stronger block), a couple of stock 302W`s, a Boss 302 which is a 4 bolt main Windsor block with Cleveland heads ( rare piece) and there is a Nascar Winsor engine.

Bob

Got a couple of 351 Windsor’s here, both Mexican with the GT40 P heads.

 

[Prajna]

Anthony's "Stihl" strimmer broke. The handle bar bracket disintegrated and it is some kind of weird alloy that welds badly, so I made a new (somewhat red-neck) one from some rusty 20x20x2.5mm angle that was the only suitable material I could find in my stock pile/scrapheap. 2mm E6013 Pecol rods @ 55 - 70A. The welds could have been better if I wasn't rushing to get it back on the road for him. I don't think it will fall to bits as quickly as the Chinesium original.

 

[4String.]

A pot of tea with the new Kelly Kettle:





Excellent fun, took 3 minutes to boil and cost a handful of kindling, thanks for the tip @8ob .

 

[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.

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Well.
Parts are fortunately on stock.
cost just some caps and 2 BC337.
This device cost about 7k sterling.
Now it is back in business.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

It seems while I've been away the whole family have been saving jobs for me.

It's nice to be popular

 

[James1979]

Well.
Parts are fortunately on stock.
cost just some caps and 2 BC337.
This device cost about 7k sterling.
Now it is back in business.

You’ll be opening a shop soon

 

[AndersK]

A pot of tea with the new Kelly Kettle

Looks like Moonshine to me

 

[Jan-DIY]

You’ll be opening a shop soon

That is what Iam planning.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Yesterday this was transformed from this.



The classic MOD metal tray tool box, with hasp.

As you can see it was very rusty..



The inside was not as bad. Yesterday was lessons in rust removal and the safe use of angle grinders and other power tools.

The inside was soon on it's way to being rust free.

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The outside was first treated to a off the shelf rust converter. One to reduce the dust that would be produced. Plus to seep into the many seams.
It is applied, you have 2 coffees then wash it off.

It always makes me laugh, you remove the rust converter/remover with water. That then will seep into the seams and defeats the point of converting the rust.
In this case using blow torches we dried the seams out after the water wash.



Then wire brushes were used, the coffee drinking was lots as I watched.
The finish was very good, but they missed the part of keying the surface before paint.




TA DAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It just needed some TYA finishing details.



BLING.

But it is just a white box.
So what makes a tool box?




Tools of course.

Why white?
2 reasons.
One is that things like that from the MOD should be repainted and the NSN stamped out.
"Should be".

Plus.
I had enough grey primmer and white paint.

 

[James1979]

That is what Iam planning.

Where is that?

asking for a friend…..

 

[Jan-DIY]

Try to start in the next 2 months.