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

[SOHC]

6 minutes ago, Firetruck said:

A machete's next on the list?

I all ready have one

[flyingbrick]

I made this red-dot mount for my bow.

[igor]

Laser scope on a longbow? Sounds like a plan.

[Seedy Al]

On 01/11/2017 at 17:20, flyingbrick said:

I made this red-dot mount for my bow.

Is that for hunting Indians? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[flyingbrick]

1 hour ago, igor said:

Laser scope on a longbow? Sounds like a plan.

Its not a laser pointer but a (nearly) zero parallax red dot sight. It projects a red dot onto a curved  piece of glass and the dot stays on target regardless of your heads position.

 

Absolutely brilliant on bows.

 

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

That is a little flasher than the ones we used to make as kids out of broom and baler twine...

 

As an aside, the guys at work cleared an old site a while ago and the broom had grown to trees. I saved a chunk of stump around 100mm thick to see what it looked like turned on the lathe.

Of course it sat for years, dried and split before I did anything with it, but looked like it had an interesting pattern...

[flyingbrick]

Mine isn't that flash compared to others out there., I think mine was reduced to around 900$ from $1200 but guys spend many times that amount.

 

Like everything else though- My skills cannot match its abilities so buying better is no help.

 

I just like that i can practice at home in the city. Cant do that with guns

[Mof]

@Cazza

Needed a bike carrier, and I'm cheap, so I made one. 

This is the upright. I cut a short length off the top end  (because the tube wouldn't fit through the lathe chuck) and machinedout the inside so another piece of tube would fit down it. Then welded it back on

Ground back, lovely 

Started on the removable crossbar/sticky out bars top bit

 

Finished. I tweaked up the angle of the bars since then. The tube pointing at where the bikes go is so it can be "folded" up

Smooth

So originally I was attaching it to the car into the hitch reciever. This is the part at the base of the upright that goes into the receiver. 

Aaand I didn't get any pics of it on the car in this guise, so use your imagination. 

I did have to make an adaptor to fit the samurai, as when I made the bumper/towbar I guessed what size the hitches were, and was a size too small.

Handy though because now it cleared the spare tyre.

Then I bought the 'Cruiser. It had a standard tongue towbar. 

Made a part to fit the tow ball. This tube is actually the end of a Terrano rear upper trailing arm with the bush removed. One of the nuts I welded on is in where the arm was welded on

And I had to dog-leg it to clear the tyre.

Other than the foam and plastic end caps from para rubber, the rest is just scrap steel from under the bench and cost me nothing 

/Lingor out

[Cazza]

that's brilliant! Will show to Duddley and tell him to get his weld on!

[AALAWS]

Needed a costume for a mates action hero party a few years back.......had a few weeks between contracts and whipped this up....... just because.

[Nominal]

Nice work. Good that it's poseable as well!

[Mof]

Nice work! 

Now let's see you transform into a truck 

[Steelies]

ok that is fuckin rad. love the window shine

[73crownwagon]

Just casual whiped this up today at lunch/after work out of an old diesel tank and stainless exhaust. Will add a few more bit to it tomorrow. 

[Yowzer]

On 15/11/2017 at 17:33, AALAWS said:

Needed a costume for a mates action hero party a few years back.......had a few weeks between contracts and whipped this up....... just because.

Man that is boss

[Valiant]

Shit yeah Optimus Prime is 11/10.

[scooters]

bitchin... how many hours did that take ?

 

[AALAWS]

15 hours ago, scooters said:

bitchin... how many hours did that take ?

 

2 weeks solid ha ha 90 - 100.
He needs a few mods for better mobility, but thinking of putting him up on Trademe.....

[BlownCorona]

wait untill right before something like armagedon expo etc for max profit?

 

[flyingbrick]

I dont think anything here is going to top that costume!

 

Adding fake patina/wear/age would work well with the slightly imperfect surface of the cardboard!!!