What is the last thing you made? (pics pls)

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 made a picnic table, restored an old pair of cast iron bench ends and made a little table from a road sign. I’m not sure what to do with a bit of tree trunk that I have routed our skyline into. 

Engineered wood floorboards become shelves to fit son’s student flat  

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.

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:

3d printed stainless steel pen with captive rifle bolt mechanism.  Should also be printable in Titanium and Inconel.  No supports needed and printed first time without issues.

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.

The pen is amazing. Shows how far behind I am now with the capabilities of 3D-printing having been away from regular access to the technology for 14 years. Presumably the printer isn’t one in general hobbyist’s reach?

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 😀

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

3D-printed laser-pointer stem alignment tool (from printables.com)

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.

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:

@worldclassaccident

Try makin a putt putt boat like actual magic

@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?

New wheels for the MTBs to stop me having to fanny around with switching tyres:

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.

still making my way through unused bits of kitchen worktop and tiles, these were a bit broken and havent come out perfectly

I got a cheap mini amp so that I can use my old bookshelf speakers as computer speakers but the amp slides around on my monitor stand. I 3d printed a bracket that hooks around the back 2 sides of the shelf.

Christmas Tree decorations out of chain.

82m of post and rail fence. 6x150x32 CCA rails are bloody heavy!

Lawn could do with a bit of a trim.