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

[SOHC]

I have a tin of Paua shell tiki and a lot of other prison art my grandfather made wile he spent the whole of WW2 locked up in NZ, he was a German and refused to join the army in Germany lol.

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

9 hours ago, Hemi said:

Vella Lavella! been there when pretty young, remember the parents went on a tour to some skull caves because cannibilism etc. beautiful place. 

I asked him if he ever wanted to go back. Pretty strong 'Hell no' was the answer. Told me it was hellishly hot and the water rations were so low they'd save half their tea to shave with. If they didn't shave they'd get jungle sores from ingrown hairs from the heat and sweat. Also said the clothes rotted off them. About the only things he ever said about it really.

 

Apart from when a few of them swam to a chiefs burial plot on some island and looted it of carved shells, my mum's still got some. Bloody NZ bogans.... 

 

Would quite like to go myself some day.

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

10 hours ago, flyingbrick said:

Fuckin imagine raiding a downed plane for plexiglass so you could make a sweet knife handle!!! 

Sounds like they were all at it. Blagging knives off the yanks and building stuff. Doing the old 'homer on the bosses time', with bullets...

He also  made a pendant for my nana by cutting the huia out of an old sixpence and sticking it on a heart shaped bit of plexiglass from the windscreen of a zero (bloody Mitsi's). Think my sister has that...

[toyabusa]

Rimu coffee table out of a slab a mate milled, legs are 50mm shs squares I mitred and tig'd up

[toyabusa]

Matching Tv stand and working on a couple of bedside tabes the same style at the moment

[Kimjon]

10 hours ago, toyabusa said:

Matching Tv stand and working on a couple of bedside tabes the same style at the moment

Holy fuck, that's an i-max cinema...not a TV!

[toyabusa]

Sorry for the rimu spam, got the bedside tables pretty much sorted today. Might add drawers later but thats a lot of work tbh

[Kimjon]

Brought some angle iron to finish the wall.

Came up pretty good. I used boiled linseed oil on it like I did to the barn door steel work, stops it rusting but looks raw and rustic looking.

Guy at engineering shop said yesterday was their biggest day for sales since opening.

[63Ragtop]

I've got those bedside table/bookshelf!

[tortron]

2 minutes ago, 63Ragtop said:

I've got those bedside table/bookshelf!

 

[tortron]

Back on that titanium buzz

My MSR stove

 

Made new legs and valve handle

 

50 grams baby

 

Legs not currently crimped in place. Dunno if I will, can shave a gram or two trimming the excess off and cleaning the sticker remains off them too.

 

 

[Kimjon]

Bit of a random project.

Always wanted one of these. So brought it on an impulse buy when it was on sale at super cheap auto last week.

Problem was it's useless just flopping around on top of the bench. I tried all sorts of Mickey Mouse ways of holding it down with clamps etc, none of them were successful. So I decided that a purpose built stand was in order:

Hmmmm...what colour should I paint it? I know...red???

Yip, red was a good choice...

Location wise, this is a dead space in the shed that is of no use for anything else, so I stuck it there. Ive mounted a metal bender in a similar spot between the other doors and I really like it, works great in that spot.

I used M12 wedge anchors to bolt it down to the concrete. Its not going anywhere now, and I'll be able to swing off that handle like a big gorilla without fear of face fucking myself!

Calling it a win!

[Bling]

On 20/08/2020 at 14:56, tortron said:

50 grams baby

Could you cut a leg off each support, leaving just the top flat section? Seems like it would be strong enough unless you're loading up huge pots.

[tortron]

Probably yes. Although I use this one with bigger pots for max calories. A 20g butane cooker will always be lighter.

 

Have some shorter sections I might try that out with, but it's actually quite easy to bend, it may want heat treatment

[63Ragtop]

Finally got my old 1950s drill press finished. Had to make up this small plate to mount the toggle switch. Please with how it turned out, looks the part.

all wired up thanks to my mate Darrell, and ready to go for another 70 years.

[bathcollector]

Made a pipe chick to go with the bloke I done back in March. Dem nipples.

[Willdat?]

Playing with the laser cutter this week, using Inventor and Slicer for Fusion. All flat pack designs without glue.

[BlownCorona]

A+ job on designing it so that the tops of the monitors are flush. 

i hate when my dual monitors at work get bumped out of alignment. 

[kws]

I'm the kinda psychopath that wants the task bar aligned, lol. That circular monitor stand is cool

[Willdat?]

On 28/08/2020 at 20:07, BlownCorona said:

A+ job on designing it so that the tops of the monitors are flush. 

i hate when my dual monitors at work get bumped out of alignment. 

Thanks, yeah it's only taken a few years, this base keeps the monitor at 30 degrees to the wall. 

On 29/08/2020 at 19:51, kws said:

I'm the kinda psychopath that wants the task bar aligned, lol. That circular monitor stand is cool

My favourite feature you can't even see, tucked cable routing, as that's where the cables come through the desk. Task bar aligned not so great for such different sized monitors...