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Nice gate glasgowdan. Hinges look a little small though, rule of thumb for tee-hinge and ride hinge length to be at least 1/3rd of the width of the door or gate.
Brompton with belt drive:
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Busy using up all the wood we've been left with after building the cabin.
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Do you show your work anywhere in town?
Thnks Stoner. Not lately, need to get a larger body of work framed, which is this summer's task. Looking for a decent venue, a bit thin on the ground hereabouts. Planning an exhibition this Autumn, maybe a 'pop-up' scenario 🙂
Ben is that your first belt drive?
I wonder if the tension will cause premature bushing wear.
Malvern Rider, it really is very nice. I have a small collection of Malvern paintings scattered around my house, so I don't get too homesick, plus my daughter loves Malvern and always looks forward to it when we go see friends and family.
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Ben is that your first belt drive?I wonder if the tension will cause premature bushing wear.
It is, yes. Though I've built a few splitable rear triangles for other people who've built their own belt conversions, and they seem to be getting on okay. The main thing that's sub-optimal is that the belt has to be folded when the bike folds - I've got it bending in as large a radius as possible.
There's not too much weight in the gate at all actually, the hinges should last but easily changed if not. We've a kid's party coming up in 4 weeks and I had to make the back garden secure. The gate took under an hr, the posts about the same to cut into the drive. I went with metal supports for obvious reasons, though now I think about it I really should have gone for concrete posts cemented into the ground.
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Nice gate glasgowdan. Hinges look a little small though, rule of thumb for tee-hinge and ride hinge length to be at least 1/3rd of the width of the door or gate.POSTED 9 HOURS AGO #
Lamp and Curtain Rail made from MX5 parts 🙂
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Loving the car part bits, especially the curtain finials.
Made myself a nut bowl practising with the new cnc router at work. 😀
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Geeforce monkey,
I'm a fan of upcycled car parts, did you run the cable behind the crank or figure out a way to conceal it?
Here is my most recent lamp
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Nice lamp locoboy. Where did you get the tube and elbows from?
another knife
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Mowgli,
Thanks,
Tubing and elbows from ebay I think.
Elbows are stainless, tube was galvanised malleable iron, put the tube in a pillar drill and filed off the galvanising, then polished it and lacquered it.
Had a big hunk of ash kicking about, so I split it down the middle, smoothed it off with a hatchet and then power-planed/belt-sanded it.
Chiselled a couple of round sockets on the underside to take some off-cuts of turned pole I had left over, bit of post-mix, a splash of cuprinol and a coat of varnish, bish-bash-bosh and I've a very comfy bench to sit and watch the kingfishers in my brook. 🙂
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That's a lovely job - a bit posher than the path we built in our local park 😉
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I made a coffee table from an old scaffolding board.
Never done anything like it before - wanted something a bit low and rustic looking. Cut the boards to size, belt then orbital sanded them down, glued & dowelled everything together & hey presto.
Bit of lime wax & it's done.
Can't believe it turned out even, square and level - might make something else now!
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Cheers Ben, what timber did you use for your steps? I read that Alder lasts very well in damp conditions, and had lots growing along the brook so used that. Started out using bought-in half-round stakes but at a quid a pop, it's far cheaper to split 2' lengths of alder and then sharpen a point with an axe...
Love the scaffold table! Really suits the room...
I made a door for a lady from work a couple of years or so ago. That lady became my other half, and now I've made her a door canopy to go over it.
Sadly I couldn't now charge her for it!
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I designed the framework in Sketchup picking up on the heart motif she originally asked for in the door shutters, imported it into cnc software and cut it out on the router. The frame is made from old bench tops from the painting and decorating dept where I work, hence the paint splatters.
The 'rafters' are rescued engineered oak floor boards and I shingled it with bandsaw cut oak which I later scorched.
She loves it. 🙂
The canopy in place(rear flat roof balcony area)
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Cutting out the bits on't cnc
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Fitting rafters
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Fitting shingles. Pinned on
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Scorching the Oak shingles
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Done
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I quite like it. Looks a bit art nouveau I think.
So much talent on here! Great stuff guys, loving the canopy Kayak 🙂
Made a few more bits for the 16" wheel bike I'm making for my daughter. Got the dropout and chain/seat stays done. Starting to look like a bike now:
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That bike is coming along nicely.
The chainstay/seatstays look like they used a fair amount of billet!!
kayak23 - loving that little porch canopy.
Can I ask what CNC router that is that you are using.
I would love to get a little CNC router for the garage (not that I have the space) to do my own stuff with & perhaps sell some bits & pieces on ebay.
I've been looking at the OOZNEST OX CNC - it seems very reasonable for what you get.
Ours (College where I work) is from [url= https://www.worldofcnc.com ]World of cnc[/url].
It wasn't cheap at around 8k, but it's a seriously useful bit of kit and I'm learning more every week on it by doing lots of [s] foreigners[/s] important testing and research projects. 😆
Edit; That Ooznest one looks awesome. I'd consider that for home I reckon. I like how it fits a hand router.
Ours is liquid cooled so is much quieter than a regular router.
Cheers Ben, what timber did you use for your steps?
It's whatever we had spare in the park - some beech, some pine, nothing fancy 😉
kayak23 - Member
Ours (College where I work) is from World of cnc.
Cheers. I've looked at the World Of CNC stuff and perhaps they are aimed at the industrial side of things. Probably well suited for your educational environment.
I have no idea where the CNC would go if I was to get one! I've just got loads of ideas of things I would want to do with it!
I could go for a small one, but then I'd probably find i wanted something larger within months....
Just a pipedream at the moment... 😀
Yeah, I pushed to have a smaller table due to workshop space, wish I'd gone full 8x4' now.
Go big or go home 🙂
Yeah...I'd probably go for 1x1.5m If I was going to do it. Would be the biggest I could accommodate, I reckon.
Have you seen the buildyourcnc.com stuff from the US? It's all effectively wooden CNC machines - apart from the rails/drives etc.
I can't work out if it's a good idea or the wrong material for the job; I suspect it's the latter.
They do an 8x4' vertical mounted router to save space, so perhaps that could be your next bit of capital investment!!
Here:
https://buildyourcnc.com/item/cnc-machine-greenLean-v1
World of CNC (aka Marchant Dice) are overpriced for what you get, and that's putting it in a way that won't get this site threatened with legal action.
Routers aren't really my thing (machines built out of big lumps of cast iron made to much metal are!), but routers built from wood are usually pretty poor. They're usually dimensionally unstable, resonate, and generally not that strong. If you do put the time/effort into building a wooden structure that is strong and stable (aka fully sealed torsion box construction), you would normally be cheaper/quicker making it from metal, and the metal one would still be more stable/stronger (unless you use some really stupid design!).
A well built CNC router will even handle aluminium with minimal effort.
If you are serious about building a CNC router, head over to mycncuk.com and have a read through some of the build threads.
I made a art?
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House warming present for a Norn Iron futbol nut
That's brilliant 😀
just made a bluetooth boom box from old speakers and stuff
and one of those cheap bluetooth amplifier boards
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Inspired by the lamp a few pages back, I made my own out of the remains of my old engine.
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Made a little toddler picnic table:
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The top lifts off, and there's space under there for two plastic trays for sand or water.
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Used up most of the wood from an old pine bed frame, with one extra 2x4 for the legs.
Recently finished a couple pieces for the house.
Drinks cabinet
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Hnefatafl Viking Board 🙂
Love this game.
Board drawn by me 🙂
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As always, some strong work! Favourite thread on here!
And OMG, my eyes, obvs
Favourite thread on here!
Yup yup! Jam packed with inspiring stuff.
Not making but i've spent the last two Saturdays in work tarting up an old printing press (Colombian Eagle Press, early 1800's - for the STW print buffs 😆 ) for the reception. The budget (eff all!) didn't stretch to getting the old paint removed and a lot of detail has been lost, but it turned out alright.
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That's a work of art.
Turned an 80s TV cabinet into a sideboard. Built an hidden steel backbone inside to stop it folding in half now it's on legs.
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Love the sideboard 🙂
Bust the drop out on my Stanton Sherpa and am bit worried the replacement won't be here before this weekends SSEC so milled up a new one at the weekend.
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It's not perfect but close enough 🙂
Another game board... only hand drawn sketch at the moment.
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Soft top for my kit car! Only had a hard top for it which was a little inconvenient as had to commit to a full day without the roof as no room to carry it!
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Built-in bed over a stair.
Following on from this thread (which is closed because I started it so long ago lol)
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/diy-built-in-storage
It's now complete. Went well, although a bit more exacting than my usual projects.
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(handles were my son's choice - I would have done something in the plywood itself)
That bed storage unit is perfect for my house...we have the same stair issue...you're not my neighbour are you?
If I'm not your neighbour, I'm guessing you also have a 1980s house?