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

[NickJ]

Filming high frame rates for more than a few minutes chews memory and is massively annoying to review, 1 hr of footage at 240fps will take 10hrs to review.

Can you not split the analysis into smaller chunks?

[h4nd]

Yep. I got 50GB from an 11min drive to work (I wanted a shifting background to exercise the processor/compression a bit).

Nope, it'll be a 1 hour heli mission, 10 min active time, so 40 min to just watch that. Budget allows hiring a student to count 'em.

I was gonna try smacking it with OpenCV / OpenDataCam for laugh

[EpochNZ]

47 minutes ago, h4nd said:

Budget allows hiring a student to count 'em.

Can I send in a brochure that includes my incredibly competitive "shit job" rates?

[oldrx]

Panhard is now adjustable, have tacked since pic, will test fit before fully welding, big thanks to @sheepers for turning down the threaded rod and s13 lh thread from some adjustable arm thing.

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

Dug out my old Sanyo stereo system, circa 1981. Tape deck is koozed but rest of it makes a great sound. The cabinet however looked terrible, all the lamination had peeled in the sun. I pulled the entire top off, discovered it had a rough finish so smeared on some filler, sanded, brushed on some varnish and sanded again before applying some Temu woodgrain vinyl and trimming with a scalpel. Looks much better...

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

Reason I got it out is I won a record on the radio, so keen to get my beer crate of albums out. I've ordered a new stylus for $30 and looking fwd to traumatising the kids with arcane music and the rituals in playing it... 

I've even got the smoked glass doors somewhere I think. Be good to refit them and experience the satisfying magnetic closing 'clunk' again...

[SOHC]

Indian 741b instrument pannels I made

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

How good...

Sounds awesome. Weekend of tunes upcoming...

Could be some albums getting an ultrasonic bath too.

[ajg193]

Reminds me of that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where the grandpa loves old records and says they sound better than CD even though they are shit

[locost_bryan]

On 04/03/2025 at 18:47, Lord Gruntfuttock said:

Dug out my old Sanyo stereo system, circa 1981. Tape deck is koozed but rest of it makes a great sound. The cabinet however looked terrible, all the lamination had peeled in the sun. I pulled the entire top off, discovered it had a rough finish so smeared on some filler, sanded, brushed on some varnish and sanded again before applying some Temu woodgrain vinyl and trimming with a scalpel. Looks much better...

Cool.  The vinyl on my Pye Isotronic has also suffered sun damage, mostly shrinkage on the corners, sounds like it wouldn't be too hard to replace?

[locost_bryan]

55 minutes ago, ajg193 said:

Reminds me of that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where the grandpa loves old records and says they sound better than CD even though they are shit

Sounds like you're setting yourself up for a beating from the audiophiles...

[h4nd]

OG Weller iron refurb. Baby h4nd could have done better rebuilding this 1/3 century ago. I got the sizzle noise out.

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

Looks like my one. You can still buy different sized tips for em...

[h4nd]

1/4" slab, gets both sides of the SMT resistors, caps at the same time :-)í

[ThePog]

CNC routed a box to hold all my cooking stuff for camping.

 

[rusty360]

A good mate has a collection of anglias - needed a new bbq plate.

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

@h4nd's Weller soldering iron post reminded me I've been sorting tools lately. Bought a stack of tool foam from Temu, got half it as freebies, satisfying work. Just need a pen, ruler and scalpel...

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

^ Those weird cutouts are for soldering gear, but normal tools quite easy, just cut to depth req'd and peel out shapes...

[Doug Hill]

Well it's in the room now. 

Mini me wants a "workshop" underneath so I'll get a workbench and some shelving in there. And he can decorate that part in typical 3 year old tornado fashion 

[Valiant]

I've wanted one of these for ages. A little petrol motorthat I could convert to gas. This one came up on Market place, I lowballed the guy and ended up selling it to me for not much. I knew it had an overheating issue and no wof. Borrowed a trailer, drove to Oamaru and picked it up.

It's pretty tidy, came with a spare 2y new front indicators, new water pump, new thermostat, and new alternator so that was nice. 

It was overheating due to a blocked radiator, got that to the radiator shop for a clear out. The drag link off to HBI engineering for a rebuild. I gave it a good wash, fixed lots of niggly little things got a WOF, drove it round, got sick of putting petrol in it so I pulled it to bits again to convert to gas.

Pretty basic LPG stuff, Impco 125 gas carb and throttle plate adapted to the factory manifold and a reverse engineered carb hood to attach to the factory air intake.

 

I pulled the carb to bits and gave it a good clean up, added the factory toyota cable guide to the throttle, reworked the cable bracket and that was all very nice.

it has an Impco regulator and electric lock off mounted on drivers side whichcame to bits for a good clean too.

I mounted an 80L tank on the chassis rail where the petrol tank was. 

All looking good, time to start it, which took some thinking because I had a dual fuel carb that wasn't getting a vacuum signal to the right place, sorted that out and away it went. Apart from a knocking noise.

When I welded up the air injection pipes a ball of mig splatter fell into the exhaust port and made its self known. So off came the head. Now it has shot peened pistons and combustion chambers which is nice. The blob didn't do much damage. I put it back together as is, its all good!

Anyway. That sucked but it wasn't the end of the world.

So now it runs really happily on gas.

Goes nicely. Really smooth. Great light throttle response. Way simpler than it was on petrol.

I replaced all this.

With this.

Future plans may include a tipping deck but for now I'm pretty stoked to have it running and uses usable as it is.