Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

Welded up some chain link for end weights. Normally there is only 1 16mm bar on them but the ropes can get trapped in the rough cut so it was decided that three bars would stop the swivel rotating round and hopefully prevent that happening.

The young skipper decided he would like a go, he doesn't lack confidence
Made a good enough job for a first ever go at welding.

 

[Farside]

Slowly winning.

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It's like a 1940s Citroen 2CV version of a shed.

 

[Barking Mat]

It's like a 1940s Citroen 2CV version of a shed.

Only badly thought out and constructed.

But it'll do for me.

 

[nickk]

Finished the handrail along the riverbank,bent in situ with a pipe bender,with tubular formers,so have convinced myself to make some flat bar ones,another hot day today,so an obligatory dive off the bank in boxers completed a long slog.

 

[Blobber]

Finished the handrail along the riverbank,bent in situ with a pipe bender,with tubular formers,so have convinced myself to make some flat bar ones,another hot day today,so an obligatory dive off the bank in boxers completed a long slog.View attachment 310912View attachment 310913View attachment 310914View attachment 310916View attachment 310917

Looks like a great place to work, when the suns out anyhow!

 

[bricol]

Looks like a great place to work, when the suns out anyhow!

I want to see it when the sun has been on it! I reckon it'll be a lot more interestingly curvier

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Busy week. 15mm limestone. Thankfully semi polished
Ready for sealing Monday and grouting Tuesday.

 

[Kram]

Made up the second elbow, much quicker than the last! Quite liking these CuPAg brazing rods. Hot citric cleaned it up in seconds and only a little to file back before fitting.
The small hosetail is only to protect the threads.

 

[selectedgrub]

Some more on the bandwagon

 

[nickk]

Welded up some chain link for end weights. Normally there is only 1 16mm bar on them but the ropes can get trapped in the rough cut so it was decided that three bars would stop the swivel rotating round and hopefully prevent that happening.

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The young skipper decided he would like a go, he doesn't lack confidence
Made a good enough job for a first ever go at welding.

Lumpers they are,I’d have used pre- heat with that thickness.

 

[Hood]

Lumpers they are,I’d have used pre- heat with that thickness.

No need, only 16mm dia and easily whacked down to weld. The young lad in the vid is only 17 and a Fisherman so ...

 

[Dieselman 63]

I picked up this M&W tool box a while back and planned to sand it. Well the people who I made the coffee pot stand for offered me payment in kind for that and other jobs I do for them, so I had them sand this box. The fittings I did myself, brushing the rust off and etch priming, which I liked the colour of so much I decided to just keep it and clear coated. I put a wax finish on it and left the inside unmolested as it’s in really good condition.

 

[nickk]

No need, only 16mm dia and easily whacked down to weld. The young lad in the vid is only 17 and a Fisherman so ...

Those links look 60+.

 

[Hood]

Those links look 60+.

I wasn't bending the links, just welding 16mm black bar across the gaps to hold the spinners (white plastic bits), they are old anchor chain that gets chopped up to separate hence the ugly hacks in the centre. They are about 80mm dia.

 

[nickk]

I’ve experienced cold cracking once there in service ,on thick(25 mm plus),steel.

 

[Hood]

I’ve experienced cold cracking once there in service ,on thick(25 mm plus),steel.

Never had any issues with them so hopefully that will continue, they are not getting bent down much, probably less than 5mm mostly. Also there is a wee spot of weld done first which holds them in place and thus heats them a wee bit before the hammer comes out.

 

[Hood]

Ah, just realised you are meaning the weld cracking. Not had that issue with these, some I have stick welded but most with the pulse mig and no issues so far and some have been in service 4 or so years dunked in the depths of the North Sea

 

[MysterG]

My scrap metal pile consisted of a metal dustbin in the corner with everything thrown in it.
Very difficult to see what was there, so I dragged my old welding trolley thing back in from the garden and set to.

 

[My Old Landy]

My scrap metal pile consisted of a metal dustbin in the corner with everything thrown in it.
Very difficult to see what was there, so I dragged my old welding trolley thing back in from the garden and set to.

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I like that as a solution to long offcuts (place thumbs up here..)

 

[Memmeddu]

Polished my car headlights.
Replaced light bulbs
And converted from H1 to H7 high beams .
Obviously swapping from yellow to ultra bright white so I can burn other drivers eyes as they do with me every night
REVENGE