Stuff you have made today

[Hood]

Not too bad, getting paid 10 times, then sell them a new one.... Good deal..

I don't sell the new ones, I have in the past made stainless ones for a couple of boats but that was because I managed to find some well caps in the scrappies so it made it reasonable, having to buy 430mm dia x 30mm thick stainless new would frighten me, never mind the fishermen

Quite a few of the fishermen now use wear plates made from pressed steel that the hauler makers supply. Some boats can get them to work, others can't but I still reckon skimming the plates works out cheaper in the long run.

 

[Mick Annick]

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What’s the low sink / bath (?) for?

 

[MCKDAVID]

aye was wondering that, if you could have machined a ring to take a steel plate, that was consumable, but I suppose by the time you've done that, then faffed about getting teh worn and old bolts out etc, you be quicker skimming as you say....

 

[roblane65]

What’s the low sink / bath (?) for?

Dog wash perhaps ?

 

[Ubique]

Dog wash perhaps ?

It's so the seven Dwarfs can do the washing-up for Snow White

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

What’s the low sink / bath (?) for?

As Rob said. Dog shower

 

[roblane65]

Me and mate did a bit of a garage conversion type job with a big tray and thermo mixer just for washing the 5 or dogs they had , thats a bit posher though
When you gonna get that door on !

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Me and mate did a bit of a garage conversion type job with a big tray and thermo mixer just for washing the 5 or dogs they had , thats a bit posher though
When you gonna get that door on !

Final push tomorrow.
Skirting in both rooms. Seal the shower (grouted earlier gotta love rapid set) freezer door on. And make some changes to the poor design to make this section look finished rather than a bodge. Swap 600 for 500 door add frame and infill.

 

[roblane65]

I do love it when kitchen planner go theres a couple of end panels and a door to make that .

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I do love it when kitchen planner go theres a couple of end panels and a door to make that .

Had to make the towel rail unit and the shelves from panels. Not as easy with the in frame profiles
Came out smart though. Bet the designer wasn't happy. Made em cough up more parts to do the job right

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I do love it when kitchen planner go theres a couple of end panels and a door to make that .

The 500 door idea is mine tbh. Easier to stick a 1000 corner base divide in the 600 and hang a new door than it is to modify around the soil pipe and fit a new unit.

 

[roblane65]

I've had the same a few times with end panels , usually when the front edge has a slightly different profile and you can't rip a piece of the front and back of panel to make something up , Normally there not very happy when you point this out and want more panels .

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I've had the same a few times with end panels , usually when the front edge has a slightly different profile and you can't rip a piece of the front and back of panel to make something up , Normally there not very happy when you point this out and want more panels .

Wrens painted range are only pained both sides on one edge. Pita as standard practice for me to split a panel in half when used mid run.
Always good to be economic with panels for the unexpected issues.

 

[DAPPH]

Dog wash perhaps ?

When I was starting out as a SE alarm installer for a company training me up ( 1982 I was fitting hidden sunken magnetic contacts to the top of a door & frame .
I looked down to my left behind the door , there was a lovely white enameled bath in the room to the rear of the door .
I laid a thick covering of folded dust sheets in the bath & over the baths edge .

Got busy everything done , wires connected ....coming down the stepladder , the pin hammer in my tool belt hoop on my right caught the top handle of the steps and it flipped out the wire loop on the belt on to my left foot head down , to then pinwheel & land shaft down in the bath with a dull clang then gracefully slide down the back of the bath on to the dust sheet . The owner came screaming in when he heard the dull clang ..before he'd even got to the dog washroom he was shouting " You've put a chip in my brand new bath that'll cost you £400 for a new one . My boss was called ..looking daggers at me & said it would be an insurance claim against the company .

I was puzzled .......it was only a couple of hours after we'd left the place I realised that the chip was a good 9 inches down on the bottom of the bath , I'd wiped the bath out to remove any dust or chips of wood from my 3 inch long hand auger
Realised there were no enamel fragment chips in the bottom of the bath or on the newish yellow duster cloth I was using. Pointless telling my boss , as far as he was concerned it was going to cost him on his insurance premiums & I doubt he would have backed me in front of the customer .
It gave me great pleasure to go to a pub party nearby almost 15 months later to find he'd been put away for embezzlement . Who needs money to pay their debts?

 

[selectedgrub]

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Propeller

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Final push tomorrow.
Skirting in both rooms. Seal the shower (grouted earlier gotta love rapid set) freezer door on. And make some changes to the poor design to make this section look finished rather than a bodge. Swap 600 for 500 door add frame and infill.

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Before pic in the quote.
Lot of bloody work I'm not being paid for

 

[Feet 'n Inches]

I came into my local men's shed the other day to see two of the guys drilling into the end of a 3" cylinder of wood about 9" in length with a fairly big Forstner bit. One was operating the pillar drill, the other holding on tightly to keep the cylinder level (kids, don't try this at home!). OK, so it worked, but the risks were pretty high to say the least. I decided to knock up a vice that could hold a piece of round, square or rectangular timber so that the ends could be drilled. Now we don't have any milling or turning equipment or other more sophisticated machinery for that matter, so everything I make tends to be done mainly by hand. The vice is a mix of offcuts and reclaimed steel including Dexion racking angle for the slide guides. It may look crude but it does do the job.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I came into my local men's shed the other day to see two of the guys drilling into the end of a 3" cylinder of wood about 9" in length with a fairly big Forstner bit. One was operating the pillar drill, the other holding on tightly to keep the cylinder level (kids, don't try this at home!). OK, so it worked, but the risks were pretty high to say the least. I decided to knock up a vice that could hold a piece of round, square or rectangular timber so that the ends could be drilled. Now we don't have any milling or turning equipment or other more sophisticated machinery for that matter, so everything I make tends to be done mainly by hand. The vice is a mix of offcuts and reclaimed steel including Dexion racking angle for the slide guides. It may look crude but it does do the job.

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Situations like that I usually knock up a clamp. Bit of 2x stock with a half round of the correct diameter jigsawed out then clamp it down each side of the 2x stock.

 

[Brad93]

A rack for pressure washer tips. Believe they're Rectus 26 size.

 

[jordhandson]

I made a couple pairs of floor board clamps, they took me about half and hour to make from scrap 3mm plate I thought id done good, using my how to get over this problem, till father said they do them in screwed fix for 12 squid each. , any how, they worked and I have 24 squid in me pocket.