Random slightly cool stuff you built but not worth its own thread, thread

[Bluebear01]

I wanted to upgrade our oven for the wife’s 30th, but there seems to be some kind of kitchen tax on nice ranges. I had no idea you could spend so much on a glorified indoor BBQ! So I got a ratty old one of Trademe that was supposedly a good brand and got stuck in. 

It was in a poor state, looked like it had never been cleaned a day in its life! I found most parts needed replacing and there were a few mouse nests inside... 

Friends and family were keen to help out which was great. After a few weeks of scrubbing and some parts hunting I could put it back together. I lucked out with a UK crowd that were dirt cheap on shipping and had most parts I needed. I had to get some bits locally, like some lengths of towel rails for the handles.

It came out mint, and a fraction of the cost of a new one! Now I’ve just got to shoe horn it into our small kitchen! 

[Kimjon]

I'm not in love with this fence, but it's a million times better than what was there. Hopefully when painted black, it'll blend in better?

Hard to see, but there's a hot wire on top to stop cows eating my trees!!! Those trees were all planted on the same day about 4 years ago, the ones the cows can't reach are 3m tall, the ones they can reach are 1m high bonsai trees...fucken cows!!!

[igor]

Yep, cows'll do that and their neck reach is always a lot more than it looks like it should be.

[63Ragtop]

I posted this in the shed thread awhile back, started it nearly a year ago

Started with OG native wood kitchen sink unit, circa 1950s state house. Pretty much just used the front and the old t&g floorboards on the side there, replaced and extended the frame as those old units are quite shallow.

The bottoms of the drawers were worn down almost a centimeter in places from years of work, I squared it all up and replaced the thin mdf shit with this 13mm very sexy ply off cuts from work.

Bottom won't full outta these! Painted the unit with the cheap dump shop paint I scored, got a little sidetracked sorting the whole shed out.

And that's how it's sat for at least the last few months as life, work etc got in the way. 

[63Ragtop]

So old mate Ben gave me a kick in the ass Saturday and we cracked into it.

Counter sunk and drove the hex heads down, then planed the fuck outta it for a hour or two, made a lot of mess!

Little bit of boiled linseed oil and looking good for a bunch of reclaimed recycled and remanufactured junk.

Finished off the end bit today, very happy, can't wait to bolt the vice down. Thing is stupid heavy, solid and will keep everything inside tidy. 

[ajg193]

That silage bale green paint brings back childhood memories of garage cabinets that smell of mouse nests and have screws and bolts that have sat in there for 20 years without moving

[KP_wag]

9 hours ago, ajg193 said:

That silage bale green paint brings back childhood memories of garage cabinets that smell of mouse nests and have screws and bolts that have sat in there for 20 years without moving

And other rad stuff such as corroded chrome tapware, yesteryear newspapers and wooden boxes of oldschool AF who knows whats

[JoKer]

and @Vintage Grumble mags tucked at the back

I hear bush is coming back

[ajg193]

I made this pohara M16x2 tap on the Barry lathe as a test today. I'll need to get some actually hardenable steel (the black is from attempted hardening of unknown steel) and make a nice one. Will also benefit from a bigger end mill for cutting the flutes

[igor]

Not me but my dad. He spends rather a lot of time in his shed.

 

[ajg193]

Started making a mailbox for my dad as a Christmas present today. Another couple of days to coat it with heaps of polyurethane and then a layer of paint inside and it should be good.

Made from recycled rimu so it has a few imperfections, I added a load of apprentice marks to it and will leave them in so I have a story to tell

[ajg193]

It now has a self closing door, should keep the rain out. Even features a home made knob

[Kimjon]

Had a full day off, which is rear lately. So not being one to waste a minute of the day...

 

I'll give it a day or more to cure...then attached the backboard to the pole.

Ridiculous over engineering at its best, but it looks semi authentic. Stickers and all from its stadium past, as a former lighting tower from a sports stadium now repurposed to continue bringing joy to people in it's new form.

 

 

[tortron]

Add a ring for a chain block for engine removal?

[HighLUX]

And perfect to add pulley setup for hanging animals to gut/skin

[Kimjon]

18 minutes ago, tortron said:

Add a ring for a chain block for engine removal?

 

7 minutes ago, HighLUX said:

And perfect to add pulley setup for hanging animals to gut/skin

I was thinking of adding a pivoting arm that I could hang my water blaster off, kind of like those washworld places. But yeah, it will be used for the above for sure, as current I hang the odd deer in our house garage much to my kids delight and my wife's disgust.

[MaxPower]

started digging a well today for water got to 3m deep, water level is 5.2M would like to go to 7.2-8-2m deep. have 900x900 well rings coming next week. can't afford to pay a well driller to put a bore down. 

 

[rusty360]

Fark that's impressive! Just watch it dont cave in on ya!

[HighLUX]

Thats some sweet primitive engineers Max but 2 questions, how you know where the water table is and how you gunna sort out water ingress once you hit the water table and still have 3 meters to dig?

[MaxPower]

1 hour ago, HighLUX said:

Thats some sweet primitive engineers Max but 2 questions, how you know where the water table is and how you gunna sort out water ingress once you hit the water table and still have 3 meters to dig?

i divined for the water, used a post hole borer with 1.5m homemade extensions till i hit the water, i will put a submersible sump pump with float switch on it when i hit the water, i will stop digging at about 4m then lower the concrete rings down and keep digging and stacking the rings, if the pump won't keep up then I'm deep enough. the rings will stop the hole collapsing and the rings have been cured for more than two months. thats the plan anyway