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

[HKM400]

10 minutes ago, 440bbm said:

Thats wicked, seems time consuming asf.  The black diamondy thing is doing my OCD in not being in the centre at all. What's the reason for that?

Thanks! Yeah takes awhile to cut each piece but it’s not too bad. I looked at a lot of snake/cat eye photos and sometimes it appears like the pupil isn’t centered in the iris, so tried to replicate that

[h4nd]

Middy's phone has a soggy battery, and she's complained it doesn't always charge in the car.

The cig plug was coming out of the socket, so

Now I can go back to ignoring the phone battery

[h4nd]

Oh yeah, and @governorsam gave me a Jaffle iron yonks ago, I finally put handles on it for holiday beach fire eating

[vivaspeed]

This is kind of random project thread worthy.

So I’ve owned this old single axle car transporter for over 20 years (apart from a short period where a mate owned it, then I bought it back).

In about 2005 I gave it a rough wire brush and painted it tractor red and put a new timber deck on it (necessitated by a mates Fiat 131R almost falling through the rotten old deck).

I’ve been meaning to give it a refurb for ages, but it kept passing wofs and just looked like shit.

It progressively got worse until @azzurro borrowed it and it had some structural failures where the spare wheel mounted (coincidentally while also towing a Fiat on it). He kindly patched it up before returning it but it needed attention.

After moving back up north I decided it was time to tackle it and strip it right down and give it a birthday. Fix a few bad welds. Paint, new electrics, new deck etc.

Anyway. After a few solid weekends of work it’s just like a new one.

P.S. if you want to buy it, hit me up. It’s only small (suit Viva, 1200, Escort, Starlet etc).

[azzurro]

A+ job bro.

Nice trailer to tow and reverse etc, one careful lady owner.

Suits small cars, but allergic to FIATs.

No regerts, would FIAT with this trailer again. 

GLWS

 

 

 

[NickJ]

Coffeepot only just fits on the gas cooktop and disasters have struck, a few solutions have been tried but didn't really work, a stainless sheetmetal idea has been floating around in my head that holds the pot up and directs the heat to the pot but with only basic cutting tools I never managed to get far, having just managed to get my cnc router running on sheetmetal, this was a golden time to put a brew on.

As @ajg193 asked about my process, I've taken a few photos along the way.

First up draw a sheetmetal part and create toolpaths in Fusion, I also make the stock as a seperate body so the machine can place workholding holes in useful places:

The idea of this design is the smaller tabs project off the cooktop grill to support the pot while the skirt and larger tabs direct the heat.

First machine op, g clamp 0.55mm sheet to the bed and drill 4mm holes:

Second op draw fold lines:

And finally cut out:

This was bit of a disaster, personally I hate working with stainless but I also want coffee, now!

Knowing plenty of coolant was compulsory, I got ready with a can of crc, of course this turned into a flame thrower after 50mm of cutting and by the time I hit stop the cutter was toast, I gave it more cutting depth to shift to undamaged flutes and went back to the messy option of heaps of cutting oil, the mdf spoil board was getting pretty smokey by the end of the cut but we got through.

Clean off the burnt mdf, add some folds and done:

Test run confirms the idea works, but I think improvements are possible.

Turns out the tabs didn't quite like the weight once the heat came on and I think a change to the wider tabs could maximise the surface area for heat transfer.......

Well, at least the pot won't fall over so easy now  

[tortron]

Bicycle sprocket m8

 

Our stove top actually came with a cast iron one stock,but nowhere else I have ever taken my coffee pot has ever had one

[NickJ]

11 minutes ago, tortron said:

Bicycle sprocket m8

 

Our stove top actually came with a cast iron one stock,but nowhere else I have ever taken my coffee pot has ever had one

Thats pretty much what I initially tried, down side was it soon warped and triggered a deepdown ocd, off to reinvent the wheel I go...

Giz cast adapter

[440bbm]

On 20/04/2024 at 21:28, vivaspeed said:

This is kind of random project thread worthy.

So I’ve owned this old single axle car transporter for over 20 years (apart from a short period where a mate owned it, then I bought it back).

In about 2005 I gave it a rough wire brush and painted it tractor red and put a new timber deck on it (necessitated by a mates Fiat 131R almost falling through the rotten old deck).

I’ve been meaning to give it a refurb for ages, but it kept passing wofs and just looked like shit.

It progressively got worse until @azzurro borrowed it and it had some structural failures where the spare wheel mounted (coincidentally while also towing a Fiat on it). He kindly patched it up before returning it but it needed attention.

After moving back up north I decided it was time to tackle it and strip it right down and give it a birthday. Fix a few bad welds. Paint, new electrics, new deck etc.

Anyway. After a few solid weekends of work it’s just like a new one.

P.S. if you want to buy it, hit me up. It’s only small (suit Viva, 1200, Escort, Starlet etc).

She looks a million bucks now! good work.  I need to do the same with my old girl.

[h4nd]

Old guy next door who loaned me that big van, died a couple of years ago, and his daughter isn't really coping with home ownership. She's been away ~3 months looking after an ex who was having heart surgery. So I had a bit of time to think as I wombled around doing this, and concluded doing something for a neighbour was pretty appropriate for Anzac day.

 

[SOHC]

Made this exhaust yesterday, 

[SOHC]

New sides for another truck, 

[SOHC]

Custom muffler.

If anyone needs shit made or repaired, I have no work 

[tortron]

I have, what is guess is, a coin purse from the 1950s. It's about 2mm too small to put a bank card in, and pull back out easy.

So I made one slightly bigger, original has 3 sections, but I made this one 2. Just sealed the edges, will sand them down tomorrow to tidy them up

Water lizard skin, with nz lamb interior.

Aaaannnd wife has claimed it. So il probably make another just out of leather for me

 

Sewed with my vickers machine. It flew through even the 4 layer bits like it wasn't there.

[h4nd]

I stuck a wee metal plate to the wall just inside the garage door, so I could sick a torch to that, so I could keep ignoring the lighting wiring.

[63Ragtop]

Did some more electrolysis over the weekend, thought I'd pop it in this thread.

One very old dirty greasy and rusty thing.

Filled up the tub and then realised I should move it outside for the weekend, 60ltrs=60kgs!

Looked like this after it's 48plus hour bath 

And shiny and chrome after a quick wire wheel, until I paint most of it tonight.

[h4nd]

Neat! What's your electrolysis setup, pls? (Volts, solution, electrode, resulting amps?). TiA

[63Ragtop]

Yeah it's quite effective as long as you're not in a rush.

I dessove sodium carbonate, this stuff in the water to raise the ph.

And just run this thing through the part and an old bit of rebar. 

This was the lathe chuck half way through, was quite a jump up to the 60ltrs. Didn't fizz as hard which is why I left it all night.

 

[nzstato]

It’s a fun bit of electrochemistry

just don’t be smoking or making sparks around the bubbles…..

[63Ragtop]

Which is why I moved the big tub outside, I had visions of me walking out in the morning, pushing the door remote and sparking up a shed full of hydrogen!