Stuff you have made today

[northwest]

The other job I was on today was sorting out the tray for the CNC Lathe, now that it is going to be bench mounted and without the benefit of the stand I set to and made a frame from 40mm Box for it to sit on and give the tray some rigidity, I also welded up a couple of holes in it and this made it buckle quite badly so I made double sure the box section frame was square and flat then welded the tray to it, came out well in the end, at the powder coaters now:



Used my pal's job as a work table, one thing I know his work WILL be flat and square so a good base to work from:

 

[selectedgrub]

8 hours and it's alive

Wow, I admire your patience.
Is it running windows 95?

 

[AndersK]

That's over my pay grade but it might be Linux

 

[Cobbler]

I have a friend who loves frogs, so I made this for a Christmas surprise. Thanks to hotponyshoes as he supplied the hoss shoes a while back.

 

[Blobber]

Had 180 of these electric fence insulators to fit today and being a tight watsitt i wouldnt pay the 6 or 7 quid for the installation tool, so a hole saw and a bit of round nylon bar made me this, worked perfectly

 

[Pete.]

Made a couple of turntable weights as a Crimbo gift for a friend. For flattening warped vinyl discs and improving sound quality by all accounts.

 

[nickk]

First day back at work since covid on the 3/12/21.
Some handrail terminating flanges,with plenty of drainage for the galvanisers.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Started to make a cage for the Soil pipe at a local Scout hut. The scallies come along and kick it to bits covering the field in waste so not good, I am trying to put something around it to protect it. I am going to hammer a couple of lengths of rebar into the ground and weld it to them, we will see.
It needs some tabs for anchor bolts welding on:

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I can get power to the area so I will take the set and use a couple of those nice Fincords I nicked from @Tinbasherdan to weld the RHS on and the rebar "legs" They are nice rods Dan. Bring more!

I’ll probably be down on Sunday, I’ll drop you some more in

 

[3000alloy]

Well there you go. Rough and ready, but it sure does the job for shunting the trailer about.

 

[mtt.tr]

Some swarf

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Only one cutter was harmed in the making of the swarf (pesky clearance/retraction heights in F360!), and it fits.
Just need to countersink the bolt holes from the opposite side, trim the two oversize sides, machine up the bars for in the slots, and I might get the first servo motor bolted onto the big lump of iron that's been sat in the workshop for the past year or ten...

What machine out of interest, I'm awaiting my motor mounts for my conversion

 

[God mode restorations]

Today I started making the rear two uprights and beam for my lorry. In a rush to get things done some absolute faffn spud as put the uprights on the wrong sides. It's makes no difference except the factory weld of the box will be on the outside and not inside..

 

[Hood]

First I made a top from some 5mm aluminium and bolted it to the top of an old stainless frame I had so that I had a place for the, newly acquired, mini press brake.

I then adapted the quick and dirty rod bender I made years ago for a specific job so that I could make a U loop in some 8mm stainless. The adaption was to put a socket over the bolt so that I got the correct radius

Worked well, really should make up a better one some day.

I then bent some 60mm x 5mm 316 stainless in the new press and welded the loops to them.

Next up I went to cut a rack on the plasma but the bleeding gaskets went in the compressor again so I had to make some more. Found some carboard and cut them out.

Compressor now running again so I was able to cut the rack, this time I cut with a higher current and it cut better, even leaving the centre of the small 'a' unlike previous attempts. I then tried to bend the tabs but that didn't go great, the bend happened at the slots rather than further in, I was kind of expecting it but....
Not sure how to overcome the problem, possibly having a backing bit of metal to support as the fold is done would be the way but I am not sure if the brake will be good enough as it is only supposed to do 4mm aluminium at that length, we will see.

Before I headed home I soldered up a mast head light, it is a local restaurant that has it for a display piece but people keep prodding it and the solder gave way and the glass fell down. Wasn't making any promises and actually didn't think I would make anything of it as I don't have the right gear but I managed to get it back together with a soldering bolts and some solder, not the neatest but not any worse than the previous repairs that have been done.

 

[MattF]

First I made a top from some 5mm aluminium and bolted it to the top of an old stainless frame I had so that I had a place for the, newly acquired, mini press brake.

C'mon. Where's the link, for the weak-willed amongst us?

 

[Hood]

C'mon. Where's the link, for the weak-willed amongst us?

Here you go.

Beach Side Seafood Restaurant-Arbroath | Old BoatYard

www.oldboatyard.co.uk

 

[Hood]

I presume you were really meaning this one though

Hydraulic sheet metal folder bender press brake 305mm 12" | eBay

The S12 R/T hydraulic press brake has a folding capacity of 305mm (12"). This machine will fold 5mm thick steel up to 100mm, 3mm thick steel up to 200mm widths and 2mm thick steel for up to 305mm widths.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[MCKDAVID]

First I made a top from some 5mm aluminium and bolted it to the top of an old stainless frame I had so that I had a place for the, newly acquired, mini press brake.

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I then adapted the quick and dirty rod bender I made years ago for a specific job so that I could make a U loop in some 8mm stainless. The adaption was to put a socket over the bolt so that I got the correct radius



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Worked well, really should make up a better one some day.

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I then bent some 60mm x 5mm 316 stainless in the new press and welded the loops to them.

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Next up I went to cut a rack on the plasma but the bleeding gaskets went in the compressor again so I had to make some more. Found some carboard and cut them out.
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Compressor now running again so I was able to cut the rack, this time I cut with a higher current and it cut better, even leaving the centre of the small 'a' unlike previous attempts. I then tried to bend the tabs but that didn't go great, the bend happened at the slots rather than further in, I was kind of expecting it but....
Not sure how to overcome the problem, possibly having a backing bit of metal to support as the fold is done would be the way but I am not sure if the brake will be good enough as it is only supposed to do 4mm aluminium at that length, we will see.


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Before I headed home I soldered up a mast head light, it is a local restaurant that has it for a display piece but people keep prodding it and the solder gave way and the glass fell down. Wasn't making any promises and actually didn't think I would make anything of it as I don't have the right gear but I managed to get it back together with a soldering bolts and some solder, not the neatest but not any worse than the previous repairs that have been done.



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got some proper gasket roll here want me to stick a bit in the post? almost as good as old kellogs packets, not quite, but almost....

 

[Hood]

Thanks but have some ordered, was going to nip up to Dingbro and get some but the wallet was still in the bike jacket so couldn't

 

[MattF]

I presume you were really meaning this one though

Hydraulic sheet metal folder bender press brake 305mm 12" | eBay

The S12 R/T hydraulic press brake has a folding capacity of 305mm (12"). This machine will fold 5mm thick steel up to 100mm, 3mm thick steel up to 200mm widths and 2mm thick steel for up to 305mm widths.

www.ebay.co.uk

What's it seem like, quality wise? Decent bit of kit?

 

[MattF]

but the wallet was still in the bike jacket

That old nugget.

 

[Hood]

What's it seem like, quality wise? Decent bit of kit?

Aye seems pretty good for what it is, time will tell but it made short work of the 5mm stainless.