Stuff you have made today

[Ubique]

That's a very old trick - useful though! I've used a two-leg parallel bearing puller in a similar situation, rotating the legs (suitably clamped together) rather than the threaded bar. I've also seen three welding rods fused onto the nut and then twisted together with a bolt jammed between them and the stud - does the same thing, just requires a bit of thinking and seeing what is to hand.

 

[Kram]

With the dinse done I had a go at assembling the thing!

I think Im out of rectus fittings, so three of those to make tomorrow.

 

[bricol]

The guy I bought it off of didn't realize it had left hand threads and forced things until it stripped them.

On a particular car forum, a lad in American was documenting his engine rebuild (now they are over 25yrs old, the cars are able to be imported into the USA without having to meet their regs) - mentioned he'd used his fantastic super duper impact gun to undo the crankshaft bolt - it put up a fight and must have been well seized in, as he broke the crank . .. the posted picture wasn't good to look at!

I asked in reply, if he had been aware it was a left hand thread . . .

Oops!

 

[Matchless]

Made this work again after it broke down two years ago on the way to Bert's (of tea hut fame) funeral, he rode one in Egypt so I was a bit upset when the magneto failed, fitted a pair of H cams while it was in bits and lined the tank against ethanol as it was rusting, 1941 Matchless G3L bought in Latvia 24 years ago, ex Russian army, used by a village blacksmith after the war, was fitted with a Russian magneto, piston and carb when found.

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Part of the Victory parade, Sunday, Goodwood revival,

 

[Onoff]

Today I made the mistake of getting over confident. Wanted a big funnel. Had a handrail weather cowl and bit of handrail. Ground off the galv, banged in some panel pins to give a nominal gap and set about it with the MIG.

Ground down the series of tacks.

It leaked so I blobbed a bit more weld on. Ended up blowing through all over the place. Kept eating into the thin funnel material.

Tbh I wasn't letting the welds cool before moving to the next and started getting the hump with it

Gave up!

 

[Hood]

I got a control handle in to repair.

I was going to vee it right out, fully weld then bore/tap but when I took it apart it had a helicoil in so I wondered if I could just weld it the way it was. Vee'd it out a bit and clamped to a chunk of steel.

Filled it up with weld.

Ground flush and it seems to be doing its job.

Next up was a steel hauler knife, both sides worn, normally I would tig but decided to give the wee stick welder a go on pulse and see how it performed.

Seemed to be fine so after 5 or 6 2.5mm rods I ground it down.

Repeated on the other side.

Job done, not sure if it was much quicker but I was wanting some messing around with the pulse function as I haven't had much chance to use it since I got it earlier this year.

 

[Ubique]

An update on my earlier post in this thread for anyone that's interested, as the saying goes - no plan survives first contact with the enemy....
Had to make one modification at work, I'll do another one, not as essential as the first, just a bit of fine tuning.

Here you can see the cable (in the orange sleeving) disappearing along the side of the gearbox, just for context.

Propshaft disconnected, moved to the side of the transmission tunnel & gearbox lowered, the cable disappears under the black shroud, the gearbox is about 820mm long.
Second pic is with shroud removed to expose the connector.

Pushing the replacement plug into the socket, I use the camera on my phone to illuminate and observe as it's slim and small enough to see what's happening without getting in the way, it does mean I'm operating one-handed though.

All good, seemed to come to a hard stop which meant the plug was fully inserted.

Except it wasn't....
The gearbox casting has a hump in it, causing the shoe to bind on it, there is no flex in the pins or socket so it won't ride over it. Closer view below.

Out came the die grinder and a Dremel to re-profile and clean, worked a treat.

All that's left to do is slice a 10degree piece out of the box section about 200mm down from the 'business end' to tilt the head down and make it easier to insert the cable with the tool already in situ.
I'm a bit concerned that the re-profiled lower 'legs' may be a bit fragile, I may end up re-making it in steel.

 

[henry Kadzielski]

I got a control handle in to repair.

Not worth the hassle @Hood. They crack over time due to corrosion, the insert is there to give some strength and particularly to stop the clamping alan bolt from getting seized in by the corroding alli. I just keep spares and change them out when they break. I don't know from your end but here they have trippled in price over the last 10 or so years. They are nice when they work and on ,most parts they are very reliable, but when then give trouble . On commercial boats I change out the fluid every two years, this stops the jelly forming and blocking the schroder valves. Just my two cents worth

 

[DennisCA]

Not made, but put back into working shape

 

[Hood]

Not worth the hassle @Hood. They crack over time due to corrosion, the insert is there to give some strength and particularly to stop the clamping alan bolt from getting seized in by the corroding alli. I just keep spares and change them out when they break. I don't know from your end but here they have trippled in price over the last 10 or so years. They are nice when they work and on ,most parts they are very reliable, but when then give trouble . On commercial boats I change out the fluid every two years, this stops the jelly forming and blocking the schroder valves. Just my two cents worth

There are only two boats here that have that system, Both Cleopatra boats made in Iceland. I don't do any work on them, except fabrication/welding/machining etc, I leave the marine engineering to the other guys

 

[selectedgrub]

Sliding ash tray collector.

 

[MysterG]

A bit more of the garage/workshop storage saga for me today.
This set of shelves (had them since I was about 11 )



used to be here, with bikes hanging on the wall above them. The bikes went earlier this year (not ridden for 15 years or more) so space above them became available.
In their place I built this strikingly beautiful piece of craftsmanship. With a view to mounting the shelves on top of it, with a few screws into the wall for good measure.



Which allows me to move the compressor from under the work bench.



Creating space for me to fill with stuff from my massive welding trolley, which is too big, takes up too much space and cannot be moved more than about 2ft in any direction anyway.

 

[toddy]

Well it isn't metal but the last week I have been rebuilding my car port. From a crappy plastic thing to one that is now made from solid oak.

 

[Barking Mat]

I'm on day two of clearing the future workshop, two more trailers of crap to the dump.

Should be cleared by tomorrow evening, then it might warrant a photo.

Fingers crossed.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I'm on day two of clearing the future workshop, two more trailers of crap to the dump.

Should be cleared by tomorrow evening, then it might warrant a photo.

Fingers crossed.

And a trip to the post office.

 

[Barking Mat]

And a trip to the post office.

Still pending, you don't seem short of toys currently.

I have been very busy Mr Aardvark.

Got to get on with some of my sheet.

 

[Barking Mat]

But I've found your box I had mislaid for the last x weeks, it was in the workshop unsuprisingly.

Easier to pop a letter in the post, than deal with ex eu countries...

Clearly your fault.

More sedatives ?

 

[Mick Annick]

A window grille, same customer I’ve been working for in a town half an hour north of here, she’s been burgled three times this year

Will fit it Thursday - stuff to do tomorrow here.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

But I've found your box I had mislaid for the last x weeks, it was in the workshop unsuprisingly.

Easier to pop a letter in the post, than deal with ex eu countries...

Clearly your fault.

More sedatives ?

No reload the Punt gun.

 

[Fraserb]

Making some shadows.