lawn in such a poor state
Surely a perfect lawn means you haven't been riding enough!
Unfortunately I've managed the double-whammy of having a tatty lawn AND not being on my bike enough
Our new bedroom is in a dormer extension so nice upright walls are a scarcity. I needed to make a wardrobe and it started out like this. You need to get the first bit in to see what sizes you end up with.
Finished this week, carpets laid and everything in and working. Quite pleased with the result. All made by me and my trusty Festool tracksaw and Domino, except the doors which come from HPP, made to measure.
Not sure whether this counts as made or repaired.
I'm missing some screw cutting gears for my lathe. They are bloody expensive second hand and not available new so I started making some
This is the 40T blank being turned to size
And with the 3/4" bore
I had to make an arbour so it could be mounted in my rotary table on the milling machine. This was my first attempt at single point threading.
Cutting the teeth with a DP16, 14.5pa involute cutter
Finished gear (not quite, I still need to broach the 1/8" keyway)
I mentioned to an art group that I did balloon modelling sometimes. This turned into a request for 50 flowers to decorate the exhibition hall for the Autumn exhibition.
Prior to this I did snakes, worms, swords or dogs. Today I tried my first flower.
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A very simple garden bench seat made from a chunky piece of timber someone gave me ages ago.
Finally finish the control cabinet for my CNC mill that I finished about a year ago. All the electrical bits were fixed to a sheet of MDF hanging from the wall, now in a smart cabinet.
White sheet behind is to control the chips a bit, on the list is an enclosure for the mill.
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Finally finish the control cabinet for my CNC mill that I finished about a year ago.
Interesting configuration - Is it for anything special?
I'm in the process of renovating a 1982 Alfa romeo GTV and during this I found that some of the push button switches weren't working. Replacements cost silly money if you can find them so I chose to get some alternative rocker switches and make the centre console more ergonomic (IMO).
I also wanted to replace the ancient push button radio cassette with something a bit more modern. But the Kenwood unit I fitted has a maximum installation angle of 30° so I had to make a transition piece to reduce the standard Alfa angle of 35° to 25°.
Now the purists will not approve but this is the before and after:
Interesting configuration – Is it for anything special?
Not really, just seemed a fun thing to make.
Having the Z axis horizontal means you don't need a heavy cantilever hanging over the X and Y axis, which would need to be pretty chunky to be stiff enough. I wanted to keep it reasonably movable, but it is still about 30Kg. With the bench, which is all mild steel, you need a trolly to move it.
It was printed on an EOS M290 but designed with the EOS, RenAM and SLM platforms in mind so should be printable on all of them in each of the 3 materials. There's no standalone features less than 250micons.
I think the platform is around €800k and powder runs at around €50-£150/kg.
https://uk.eos.info/en-gb/industrial-3d-printer/metal/eos-m-290
So that’s a no then. Fascinating
Not really, just seemed a fun thing to make.
Fair enough! I can't argue with that 😀
https://misterg.org.uk/cnc-introduction/
@daffy I was gonna say, where the hell do you get inconel from? That explains it.
A keyway broach finally turned up in the post so I could finish the lathe gear. They didn't have a 3/4" arbour though so I had to make one.
Turned a random bit of steel from the scrap box on the lathe then cut the guide on the horizontal mill
Pressed the broach through the guide and gear on the hydraulic press. It's not on the piss, I just can't take a straight photo!
Finished gear. Now I just have to repeat for about another 9 different tooth counts.
I've absolutely ZERO need for any more speakers/audio stuff.
So of course i'm in the process of seeing what 3d printed speakers would sound like!
The transmission line case was a file I downloaded, but have made a few tweeks and additions to fit the speaker cone..
(It was a 36 hour print!).
Need to stuff it and finish it off...then print the OTHER one!
DrP
I made a little bungee cord cargo net that clips onto the back of an Evoc 3l hip pack, so I can additionally stow my jacket.
Oh, and it's the E-bike pack; I don't have an e-bike, but chose it because it has two bottle holders - the newer regular models only come with one.
We have had my daughters kids staying and Tommy, 4 years old, love 'helping' me in the garage. A lot of his helps involves taking things out of my bin and making stuff from it.
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The ramps he made totally by himself.
The horse he asked me to glue the legs on because he didn't want the screws to show.
The boat I glued the cabin and rear spoiler/car deck on, but he did all the shaping with my sanding block that I was trying to use for the car.
@chives I like that. The Evoc bag has a much more comfortable strap than my old bag, but it's lacking in a lot of ways, somewhere to stash a bulky jacket being one of them, and there's not really anywhere easy to attach your own straps. It can't sit on top because the main zip is there (stupid place for it IMO). Guess you can't get in the front (back?) pocket with your setup, but I don't really need that anyway.
Not sure if I posted it at the time, but I made a rain cover for mine:
@thenorthwind, the net just clips on. The main compartment is pretty easy to get to, (just one clip to undo, though that particular one hooks around the carrying handle - not sure it's necessary). But it would mean unclipped a few more to get to the rear pouch. The net stores easily in one of the small dividers in the rear pouch when not required.
Ibhad an old scots dresser way beyond restoration. I broke it down years ago and now have a section of quite nice pine, mahoganny and ash.
So a made this pile of smaller bits that will become a cigar box. Which will then become a cigar box guitar.
All hand planed and sawed.
So ibguess technically the last thing i made was "a start"
A Hoiho ( Yellow eyed penguin) in walnut maple and sapele on an oak base.
In homage to Feathers McGraw I added his disguise in photoshop
Do you want a lump of paduakfor red accents jimw?
Joshvegas, that’s very kind for you to offer but I don’t want to put you to any trouble .. I have been using wood dyes for more vivid accents recently and I have some red dye.
Honestly its no trouble i have kilos of the stuff and i think the birds are amazing.
Would be delighted to send you some!
Smells* better than dye aswell.
*Probably poisonous mind.
That would be great then joshvegas How do I send you dm on this forum?!
Oh bloody hell when did messages fully stop working?
@jimw i have set up a classified.
Hopefully messaging through that works. If not i think the description will help you find another way to contact me.
Lawn could do with a bit of a trim.
Now starting to get very jealous of jimw's creatures 🙂
Looking back the other night I stumbled on the nuthatch - top notch as always.
What are you shaping them with - just by hand? Chisels? Rasp? Power tools? All of the above?......
And how on earth are you doing the bronze(?) bird feet?
All great work.
Finished last night. Open Pro's on Surly Ultra New single speed hubs.
Thanks for your comments mickr
What are you shaping them with – just by hand? Chisels? Rasp? Power tools?
The basic shaping of the blocks before gluing together is done on a bandsaw and bench sander. After that I do as much as possible by hand with gouges- I have been collecting them over the past 45 years so have a reasonable selection. They are then finished by hand. Very occasionally I will use a dremel type tool where the grain is particularly awkward in tight spaces but it’s so noisy and a bit unwieldy I keep that to a minimum.
The bronze work is done entirely by hand- fabricated from small pieces of different sized wire and sheet silver soldered together. I have been silversmithing for almost as long as I’ve been carving.
Thanks jimw. I was particularly wondering how you managed where the grain was awkward so that answers the question (the stoat in particular looked to have some fiddly bits). I wondered if the feet started out as brazing rod.
Made a stringing / tracking rig for my cars. I never take my cars anywhere - not even for getting tyres changed (as the absolutely mullered jacking point on my Cayenne will attest to).
I'd previously string aligned my cars using the same technique but with axle stands. It gives good results but it was a bit clunky. I designed these stands and string holders in Solidworks and chucked them in with another big 10mm mild steel job.
New tyres on the Volvo yesterday, double checked the tracking today, Bob on.
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For any 40k fans out there, printed on saturn 3 ultra, 50mu apologies for rubbish phone pic!
Nice terminator DT78, I love these new sculpts GW has put out.
I need to finish my Astreaus and I might post some pics of that.
ha fellow hammer fan, yep new sculpts are great, thats not an 'offical' model though. ive a couple of land raiders and dreads to paint up too
ive literaly got thousands £££s of offical stuff - wanting to kitbash and use the spare bits up on kits led me to resin printing.
honestly on the table you cant tell.the difference from official models
This was a random YouTube video which popped into my feed which may be relevant to some. Near the end, he mentions that some of Garmin's cheaper subscriptions options are not published so require some clicking around to get the lower rates (though he is, I assume, US-based...)
Wrong thread - oops
Vlad made a **** up?
My 4 year old grandson was asking some very pertinent questions about Father Christmas, his Elves, access to houses and time and motion studies. More accurately he couldn't understand how Father Christmas got into the houses without chimneys and how he did the whole world in one night when it takes ages to walk to Arty's house and he only live just down the road.
I explained a bit about particle physics and the speed of light but this seems to sail over his 4 year old head so I built him a magic Elf Portal to show him.
Look in the mirror and you can see, not only the normal reflection but, miles into the distance, even though the mirror is only an inch thick. He loved the photo with his head actually appearing inside the portal itself. Suddenly the magic of Christmas was back on and everything was good again. I felt like a good granddad for saving the magic of Christmas.
"Dear Santa, please can I have an Elf Portal for Christmas to fit my catflap"
I have a good friend who is into woodwork so I made him a marking guage out of brass and stainless steel for christmas.
My wife wanted a screen to put in front of our patio doors so that when we have to sleep in the conservatory when the Xmas family Invasion happens, we aren't woken up by the faces of nieces & nephews staring at us at 7am ....
found this on fb marketplace for a tenner
some plywood from the skip at work got repurposed
and its now 'upcycled' , got to think of something to do with the iron inserts that i removed
Nice work on that marking gauge^^^^
last work job of the year - swivel bridge bearings/wheels, one of the originals had collapsed, quick measure and new complete more substantial units knocked up Solidworks.
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Nice bearings. Got any pictures of the bridge?
Nice bearings. Got any pictures of the bridge?
Its this rusty POS, it transfer big blocks of PU foam to various locations - not my department or remit but I'm the only person on site with Solidworks. The original collapsed wheel/roller is adjacent to the new bearing, the problem is the bolts are threaded into a blind section and were rusted and snapping in removal. Rather than spending hours drilling them out I made a pair of complete new assemblies and mounted them inboard of the originals.
Sandwich plates go on top of the existing 100mm RHS and clamp everything in place. Just tested it - working fine.
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I have tripped over that bloody pile of wood so much in the last few weeks i promise i will send it!
Not as exciting as the stuff above but first cake this year
Pecan, prune and chocolate with lots of brandy. A little dusting of icing sugar and the festive gluttony can begin....
Excellent!
Thanks. I should point out they were under strict instructions to customise them.
So they went nuts with a sharpie. ?
@joshvegas love this!
Did you make the boxes yourself? If so, what thickness wood did you use? I fancy having a go at making my kids something similar.
Did you make the boxes yourself? If so, what thickness wood did you use? I fancy having a go at making my kids something similar
Every thing was made from recycled wood i had lying around.
Boxes were recycled ash and meranti cored plywood, about 4mm thick. They were a real pain to be honest. I hate gluing up boxes:-D
I thought i had added more detail in an edit.
Inspiration was mainly from Del Pucket on youtube for "just do it ethos". But i put a bit more effort in refining.
The neck is through the end of the box and sits in a notch at the back, i did that rather than go all the way through so they sit flat on the floor.
Hopefully you can see how i constructed the boxes thick oak ends rebated all round for the ply mean the box os pretty robust. Of it was for me i would have used a nice cigar box or possibly made a more refined box, but wanted kid proof.
Scaled length of the bigger one was 560mm and i just marked the other two fretboards starting at the first fret position. So about 530mm ish?
Frets were from chickenbone John, he seemed to have the best price for them. Tuners were amazon specials.
Boxes were 200mm by 250mm ish. In retrospect i would probably drop two or three frets off the high end and moved the bridge back a bit so they were a little shorter overall. But keeping the biggish fret spacing (lots of scope for ****y fingers when barring the chorsd)
They are DAD tuned.
That's ace Daffy!
Love the lamp.
Great lamp 🙂
Very clever. Nice work.