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

@tillydog – very impressive, I remember reading your jet engine blog as well. 👍

@WorldClassAccident

get yourself some eberspacher type fuel line for the heater – the green stuff you have can perish quickly outside. the hose from teh pump to the heater needs to be the same. they are sensitive to fuel delivery.

the fuel pump also should be mounted with the outlet to the heater upwards at 45degrees.

my pump electrics are all exposed under a old VW van driven in teh rain for a year and a bit and are all fine (unlike the crappy fuel hose). i did wrap a bit more electric tape over them but nothing bonkers.

Hmm. I read somewhere else that the fuel pump should point down to the heater which is why I mounted it like that. Any reason you say up? I can switch it over easily enough or even have it horizontal or vertical. Just need to know which is best and why.

I will probably use some old car fuel pipe when I dig the box of bits out for the new car build. That is a braided rubber hose designed for engine bays.

Probably total overkill for this but I have some and after some of the earlier panic over a 12v electrical connector and en exhaust pipe venting below roof height I would hate to upset the H&S gang.

@WCA

Good info here:

https://www.dieselheaters4u.co.uk/uploads/7/7/1/3/77137867/airtronic_l_-_d5-b5_technical%5B1%5D.pdf

My 2nd and 3rd time wheel building. Been waiting for two years to rebuild according to when I posted this thread. Not yet ready to build a wheel without following Ali Clarksons wheel lacing and tensioning videos yet, they’re excellent.

Have replaced the straightpull hubs with 2nd hand Hope Pro 2 Evo hubs, and spokes are ACI Alpina DB with brass nipples (avoiding aluminium since they corroded and broke).

Big conference table in prime Oak and steel.
I work on my own so the scale of this was pretty challenging (4800x1600x40mm) and I’m stoked with how it turned out 🙂
Made in 4 sections.

Just wow – that table!!! Good effort!

Chapeau

Lovely that table

A Window on my Heart

Can anyone else see a surprised looking face in the middle on that?

It is meant to be ‘A cold, hard stone’ but I might have to post if on the “Agh, my eye” thread now 🙂

@kayak23 That table is amazing. I’ve only used oak twice and found it so sensitive to conditions. How on earth do you ensure it doesn’t split and crack into pieces after being installed?

used oak twice and found it so sensitive to conditions. How on earth do you ensure it doesn’t split and crack into pieces after being installed?

It’s a natural material so there’s always a chance things can go wrong. However, all you can do is to give it the best shot by selecting decent material, well-seasoned, in a stable environment and built following the principles of working with wood since forever. It’ll still do whatever it wants though. 🙂

Did a little wall panelling job for the MIL up in Manchester.
Really hard to get anything done when someone insists you have a biscuit, or a tea, or a sandwich every five minutes 😂

Harold was a great help.

I didn’t pre-make the oak trim on top wide enough at the workshop so had to go to B&Q in Ashton.
I almost cried when I had to pay £35 for a couple of poxy strips of oak moulding! 😭
I’ve got shed loads of it in my workshop.

I almost cried when I had to pay £35 for a couple of poxy strips of oak moulding!

I remember when I was building the garden cabin I needed window surround for 8 1m square windows. I thought I would just buy some D profile wood, cut in half lengthways and put one bit in the inside of the glass and the other on the outside. It turned out to be cheaper to buy square cut wood and a router then put the profile on myself. They seem to double the price for any shaping or profiling.

Re-used wood and a group of fish – Old School?

Actually trying to make dowels and holes that fitted neatly.

Very nice WCA. I’d ask what it is/for but in truth nice things that are handmade dont really need a use other than to look at.

WorldClassAccident
Actually trying to make dowels and holes that fitted neatly

Unfortunately and no surprise there are more precise plug/dowel cutters and drill bit sets, but that tend to be pretty damn expensive, like 80 quid a throw expensive.

Make a nice thing for the bog. Or do you have another use.

I normally just sell this stuff as part of NicksArtStuff or at art markets. I am building up a few pieces ready for Hampshire Open Studios in August when I let the adoring public into my house and gallery to admire, and hopefully buy, my art. This gives me something at a lower price point.

In the mean time, like the stone in the block of wood a few posts up, it just looks pretty on the shelf.

Truly Art for Arts sake

@Kayak23

Can i ask the paint colour of the wall panelling? Looks superb

But no Stabila level?, tut tut 🙂

My son’s chain guide broke so I knocked up a prototype in tinkercad and printed it out to test. Turned out pretty good so I just fitted it to the bike, works a treat.

My son’s chain guide broke so I knocked up a prototype in tinkercad

👌👏

@Kayak23

Can i ask the paint colour of the wall panelling? Looks superb

But no Stabila level?, tut tut 🙂

It’s Farrow and Ball, Elephants wanger or something.
Nobody pays me enough for Stabila levels! 😭

Built in desk with pull out computer tower thingy.

My wife sent the first photo back from her pilates class, apparently this contraption is super useful and also hard to acquire.

A bit of googling told me they go for $200+ with shipping on top…

A couple of springs, two M10 stainless bolts and washers (about $10), plus an off-cut of 18mm ply from my scraps pile, and I made this:

For bonus points the curved foot pedal bit is made from an off-cut of a seat tube from when I trimmed one down to fit one of the kids’ bikes 😄

Busy couple of months…

@stanstorey – That’s a bit special! Very impressed.

@stanstorey stick that up on The Gate Appreciation Society on FB for a bit of free advertising 😉

Crikey, that’s some gate! 👏

Blimey – I need a bi-fold gate for my driveway. I wonder how hard it would be to knock up something like that?

Thank you people!
I’ve just asked to join the gate appreciation society on FB 😄

@stanstorey

Busy couple of months

That is amazing craftsmanship, that’s one helluva gate.

@kayak23

Built in desk with pull out computer tower thingy.

another fantastic job.

Big conference table in prime Oak and steel.
I work on my own so the scale of this was pretty challenging (4800x1600x40mm) and I’m stoked with how it turned out 🙂Made in 4 sections.

That is bloody lovely, so much attention to detail, do like the inlays on the top, or whatever they actually are :). Even the under table “tray” is superb.

You chaps are really bloody talented.

I’ve been considering today on buying a drum sander. its how much would i use it 😕

A couple of things I finally remembered to take photos of…

An insect hotel that was actually my partner’s Christmas present, but only recently put the finishing touches to and got up on the fence. Made mainly from old fence boards that fell victim to Storm Arwen.

A quick beer holder I made as a birthday present for a mate, to make a change from just giving him a carrier bag of beer 😀 Made from bits of our old shed, nailed and glued together. Carved a praying hands emoji with a Dremel… it’s an in joke. It might not be pretty, but they say beauty is in the eye of the beer holder… IGMC 😀

Love the hotel and beer holder! 😊👌
Nothing better than a gift made for someone specifically.

@kayak23

It’s a natural material so there’s always a chance things can go wrong. However, all you can do is to give it the best shot by selecting decent material, well-seasoned, in a stable environment and built following the principles of working with wood since forever. It’ll still do whatever it wants though. 🙂

Yes, I very quickly learnt I couldn’t shove a half finished project in the shed and expect it to be the same shape weeks later.

I had some oak boards under the sofa “acclimatising” for a while. These were then made into a cabinet for the same room. I had to move it to the shed for a while and the joints moved apart or became misaligned. Then after a week or so back in the house, almost like magic, it was back to how it was before

Thanks kayak – agreed. Wish I had the time to make stuff for myself too! However, having said that, today I made a quick little stand for the rear of my bike out of scrap ply for when I need to store or transport it with both wheels off, but not upside down, which, believe it or not, is sometimes. I had one for my old bike that was shaped to the chainstays, which is quite bike specific… No idea why it hadn’t occured to me to use the thru-axle.

Goes neatly with the board I made for the fork to stop the bottom getting scraped up when the front wheel’s out (much more common) out of ply, a couple of tee nuts and 15mm Talon clips.

Inspired by spring and a bit of sunshine over the weekend

@thenorthwind Great idea, you could add a chain holder as well by bolting an old ring or part of cassette to the RHS.

wife saw a tiered planter at the local garden centre for £90 ….I had some left over wood from a bench that I made last year…. so I put the spare wood to good use….

Thanks @nixie, that’s a great idea.

Ooh, you’re going to be in trouble for letting that chain drag on the rug! Best get that tensioner added quickly.

@sanchez89

Looks liek Elephant’s breath (farrow and ball)

We got the “same” but in Dulux.. Bleached Lichen…

DrP