Stuff you have made today

[DAPPH]

A ghetto biltong box. Fancied some biltong for a while and in tesco found a great lump of rump steak in the reduced counter. So old pc fan, 12v power supply, cardboard box, and some aluminium tape later I have this beauty in the kitchen.
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Is that cabling on the RH side of the middle picture the power cord for a low wattage heater bulb placed below the saucer inside to assist the speed of drying ?

I made my jerky / biltong using the electric oven on fan at the plate warming setting of 50 oC for 18 hours , with a kebab stick holding the door open , the bottom oven tray was the source of our gravy stock for a couple of days .

Tip
Putting the meat in the freezer for a couple of hours to start it crystalizing with ice allows you to make super thing slices as it's nice & firm to cut with a sharp knife.

 

[DAPPH]

Today I helped our lads make an old Chestnut disappear. They had already stripped it out so I trollied along with the truck and lifted the stick out for them.

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Bit tight in there so kept it small


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Interesting shape in the rot

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The spalted area infected with fungus adjacent to the rot is a valuable section of wood , if you can get it cut & air dried off the ground as quartered timber ..it's great for turning patterned rods , bowl's, lamp sticks etc.

 

[8ob]

The spalted area infected with fungus adjacent to the rot is a valuable section of wood , if you can get it cut & air dried off the ground as quartered timber ..it's great for turning patterned rods , bowl's, lamp sticks etc.

Thats a lot of words just to say cut me off a lump

Bob

 

[DAPPH]

PVA in the backboard slot. Expanding PU glue blobs on the mitre faces. I masked the inside. The outside will get sanded. On the original, the external, front to back corners have a subtle bevel I need to recreate with a router against a fence.

Ratchet strap courtesy of @Pete. Shout if you want it back btw!

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Mitered corners are brilliant if they are accurate as they are very strong .

I made a 1300 high x 800 x 800 shelved HDF box on wheels for my portable routing bench using as many mitres as possible so I got the extra strength ( used proper expanding wood glue too ) putting a white Formica top on it so there was a 50 mm over lap all round and then cut a centre hole in the top so I could fit a mounting set up for my big Bosch router mounting plate , put home made oak lipping all round the outer edges of the table top .

Once I'd got my saw bench set to cutting 2 x 45 degree cuts to a marking knife cut line I scribed a fine line on the calibration dial so I could easily set it up for checkable repeat cutting it was a calibration line thickness & a half to the left of the official indicated 45 degree angle when looking at it with a magnifying glass at right angles. I found that when using glasses I often viewed the line slightly at an angle so hade a few thou difference to try and dl with .

In the end I used my new router table with a clamped up at each end fence and a 2 inch cut 45 degree cutter to do all future mitres .

 

[DAPPH]

I might experiment and try that too. Wonder if there is a notable difference in flavour depending on drying speed.

None that I discovered .

 

[DAPPH]

Managed to clean out our kitchen today. What a mess.

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If that's what it looks like after you've cleaned it ............... I'd hate to have seen what it looked like prior to you cleaning it.

 

[Cuthy246]

Is that cabling on the RH side of the middle picture the power cord for a low wattage heater bulb placed below the saucer inside to assist the speed of drying ?

I made my jerky / biltong using the electric oven on fan at the plate warming setting of 50 oC for 18 hours , with a kebab stick holding the door open , the bottom oven tray was the source of our gravy stock for a couple of days .

Tip
Putting the meat in the freezer for a couple of hours to start it crystalizing with ice allows you to make super thing slices as it's nice & firm to cut with a sharp knife.

Cabling is for the fan. No heater on this set up.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Got all the boards on for my corridor, which is definitely not a shed now just need a dry day to fibreglass it.

 

[Kram]

I previously had a bad experience with this en3b mild steel. In places its ok, others it is horrible to turn. After a failed screw cutting attempt I said never again, only use it for plain handles or similar, no parting!
That was a while ago and I'd forgotten the bit about plain or parting, and I wanted a handle.

It did turn rough, and I hate doing it, but I covered the ways and used p120, p240 and p800 to polish it up. Need to put a 4mm slot in the end and weld it up.

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[dan.taylor.1]

I previously had a bad experience with this en3b mild steel. In places its ok, others it is horrible to turn. After a failed screw cutting attempt I said never again, only use it for plain handles or similar, no parting!
That was a while ago and I'd forgotten the bit about plain or parting, and I wanted a handle.

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It did turn rough, and I hate doing it, but I covered the ways and used p120, p240 and p800 to polish it up. Need to put a 4mm slot in the end and weld it up.

Yeah en3b isn't great for turning, you want en1a as it's got lead in it, or any of the engineering steels en8, 16 etc. En3b is great to weld where you need a bright round.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Next one.......happens?

 

[Dr.Al]

Yeah en3b isn't great for turning, you want en1a as it's got lead in it, or any of the engineering steels en8, 16 etc. En3b is great to weld where you need a bright round.

I think it's the sulphur that makes EN1A free machining, not lead. As I understand it, "EN1A Pb" has lead in; "EN1A" doesn't.

 

[AndersK]

Both sulphur and lead is used to make free machining steel, lead gives the best result. Both are not desired for welding.
Lead in steel is coming to an end in some years from now so enjoy while it lasts

 

[DAPPH]

I've made th bathroom different , it's taken me five days to remove the rarely used bath , cut & cap the bath's water pipes and remove most of the screws set in the floor &wall by the so called installing experts . Just got two more difficult for me screws in the floor showing 2 mm of head to remove and then cut the old waste pipe off , extract it and put a new wall tile over the filled up outlet hole then start the tedious job of gently scraping off a couple of cartridges of Gripfill contact adhesive & silicone sealant they used to stick the bath in place .

Found that the flexi hose fittings to the bath tap mono block unit were only finger tight .. leaving evidence of frequent drippage under the bath ..thankfully I had the whole floor under the bath tanked & fitted with Detra one way membrane , fully tiled around all the walls & floor then grouted up before the bath was put in .

For it was always my long term plan to perhaps have a tall half bath with a side gate for me as I become more & more disabled if I couldn't use the shower & seating any more on my own .
What has puzzled me is that the bath hot supply comes off a 22 mm main copper pipe as a 15 mm copper pipe then has an adaptor on the end of the 15 mm copper pipe to take it back to 22 mm on the end of which was a 22 mm plastic hot water pipe which went on the hot tap. Bath cold tap was also 15 mm off a 22 mm copper pipe but was 15 mm all the way .

Is this likely to have been because we have a balanced flue combi-boiler or because the installers were cowboys on subcontract ?

 

[Kram]

Yeah en3b isn't great for turning, you want en1a as it's got lead in it, or any of the engineering steels en8, 16 etc. En3b is great to weld where you need a bright round.

I dont see any use for turning a low strength leaded steel that cant be welded.
I quite like en16m/usacut55 which is high strength with sulphur, and should weld ok.

Ive still got half meter of this en3b 16mm and another 30mm, to use up

 

[MysterG]

Millionaires shortbread. No square tin of the right dimensions so calculated the area of a circle for the first time since school ...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Millionaires shortbread. No square tin of the right dimensions so calculated the area of a circle for the first time since school ...

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Send it to me, I will QA it for you.

 

[MysterG]

Send it to me, I will QA it for you.

Would it survive our postal service

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Would it survive our postal service

Good point, I have a suggestion.
You bring it to me.
I QA it and I will report back to you.

While you wait.