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Not a lot from me recently, but ho hum. Picked up this cast iron mitre vice at a car boot. As you can see, the paint isn't very good and one of the depth stop pegs has snapped off. So, a piece of 16mm square, a grinder and a Vernier produces this: And a prod with the welding stick, followed by a grinder and a file: Various cupbrushes, hand wire brushes and those ones that look like wire paintbrushes for the drill: And then I forgot to take a picture of it in primer, but heres the top coat, using a can of Volvo metallic blue that I found in my paint cupboard: Inbetween coats of paint I also made myself a mallet.
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Feb 27, 2013 20:09:44 GMT
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Absolutely epic! Also curious how you ended up involved. Who was in charge of the music score by the way? Quality tune, singing along as soon as kicked in haha
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Feb 11, 2013 20:20:21 GMT
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colour match is miles out I wish my mig welds looked 10% as good as your stick welding nice handles as well As stated, already know its no match Thank you for your kind comments on my welding and cheers to Grizz also Mk2 handle, half an hour when I got home from work this evening. Much better I think (I will make things other than handles, promise!)
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Feb 10, 2013 20:39:56 GMT
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And so, taa daa! Close up of the cross-bracing join: Next purchase: Nice set of chisels, small faceplate and a revolving centre: Couple of bits of wood: After some faffing about, I hastely threw together this, which is a little bending fork tool for a friend who makes jewellery and needs to bend lengths of wire but currently uses pliars: Second thing, handle for one of my files. I'll probably make a few of these because I need more handles and also its all good practice: Absolutely loving this turning malarky, glad I got back into it
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Cheers for the kind words Grizz Today, cleaning up and fettling, took a cupbrush to the whole thing (only a light breeze over, little harder over the welds) Another pointless weld pic: Stick some oxide primer on it: And then top coat: Closer example of the shade of green: This is one of the blocks that clamps down on the bed bars. The colour match is poor but I think thats my camera flash as it seems alot closer match to the naked eye. I am red/green colour blind though and cannot do shades so that might be part of it:
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Following in Grizz's wooden footsteps here. Been wanting a lathe for years now, and I've finally taken the plunge. It arrived all nicely boxed on Tuesday, and I saved myself £70 by not purchasing the legs with it. This post is about me building my own stand. Bits of 50x50x3 angle, 50x10 at the bottom and 50x80x5 at the top, in a trapezium sort of shape. Clarke hobby MIG for tacking up (not overly powerful anyway, using it for tacking keeps costs down) and little blue 'toaster' stick welder for actually welding it: Build two of those and test pic with the bars box resting on top: Gratuitous weldshot since everyone on RR seems to do them (bit on left is MIG, gas running out, main bead is arc) I then added bits of tube to the base to sit some old weights on for stability. And so far, it looks like this: Things to do: - Get piece of box or something to span across at the bottom, to be bolted in place for rigidity (and easy take down) - Primer it - Paint it (got some paint for nothing which is a close enough match to the green of the lathe)
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Yay more Grizz work I took delivery of a lathe earlier this week (building the stand today) so I expect I'll learn a good deal off you Rian, more of a heads up really to expect to be pestered with questions
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Its a Forza 4 picture but hey, it includes a '73 XB GT. It would be rude not to! Went for the MFP colours due to everyone and his dog making BoB Interceptor clones.
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Dec 15, 2012 20:58:03 GMT
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I too assumed Elvington. The air museum there has a lot of old trucks both related and unrelated to aircraft. There is however an industrial estate there so could have been purchased from one of the businesses based there. For anyone still a little lost, Elvington Airfield is the runway that Hammond made the dragster fall over
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Nov 30, 2012 23:12:26 GMT
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I've helped a few people stick weld who hadn't before (one whom I work with, had never touched any welder in his life) and another who had come for a bit of work experience with us.
I always say, (as it works for me) to hold the torch so the rod is pointing straight down (and so 90 degrees to workpiece) then tilt 45D towards you, and then 45 to your right (if right handed) then lay a bead of weld by pulling.
All I can really say is practice. You'll find what works for you and you'll learn what power settings you'll need for what size rods (making sure you get good penetration into the joint)
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Sept 25, 2012 20:09:52 GMT
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Simo's should have Mk3 Golfs, they have most other stuff and pretty good prices. Theres one in Strensall (North of York) which I believe is still active, although not sure of its status in regards to what they'll let you do. They did tend to have the older stuff (only place I could find bits of Bluebird) but they may have been forced to adhere to H+S now and not stack the cars on top of one another (you know the sort of 'proper' scrappie)
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Aug 26, 2012 21:42:10 GMT
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My friend linked me to this because it has a Bluebird in it. It also has a rather tidy 190E also.
The plate on the Bluey looks familiar for some reason, anyones on here?
Speakers down, its not anyones type of music really.
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Aug 17, 2012 21:22:39 GMT
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Is that first one used in the awesome film that is Maximum overdrive: First thing I thought of. Same style, probably the mule though? Different companies probably made versions. Not all communicate in morse code beepings though
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Depending on the branding, Fonte NI is the type of cast rod we use on cast at work (no idea of the brand but ours come in bright orange plastic sleeves) So look for that wording
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Daft gas bottles like this, is the reason I use my hobby MIG to tack things up (hold with one hand tack with the other sort of thing) and then do the proper run with MMA. No use for people doing lots of thin sheet but I could use the MIG for that if need be
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Jun 19, 2012 19:58:18 GMT
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Bright bloomin' pink SD1 I have the street machine with this in somewhere We have that one kicking about at work somewhere (Quality reading material to have left at lunch breaks) Don't forget theres that comedy tank engined one around also.
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Apr 26, 2012 21:24:25 GMT
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The wiper-stop-at-lights thing. My E36 has a few settings like this. Flick it down and you get one wipe. Up 1 (from off obviously) and that gives you intermittant but does nothing when the cars stopped (so reverts to off). Move off and it wipes again and resumes normal timing. Next click up for constant wipe (speed 1), when stopped at lights etc it reverts to intermittant. Next click up is constant speed 2. I assume that also reverts to intermittant when stopped, if not it may go down to speed 1 again. Higher spec'd models did have the programmable intermittant timer though. And a childs seat that slid out from under the middle of the rear bench. Or so the handbook tells me. It has the daftest rear wiper though. Flick it once and it wipes, but its now on intermittant. So if you only want to wipe once you have to push the stalk twice, do two wipes and effectively turn it on, then off again. But you get used to it. The 'leccy windows also work for 30 seconds after engine off (but not key out, have to turn power back on to wind up) Oh and a little BMW branded torch in the glovebox that has a holder that it charges from. My Bluebird has not much other than lots of cubby holes and two trip meters in the dash. (I assume Nissan knew they would be used as mini-cabs )
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Apr 17, 2012 21:33:32 GMT
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Shonky old picture but I own (as many here do) a generic-own-store-brand Dremel knock-off. It has a pendant attachment. I sometimes make fiddley small scale stuff and needed a drill press. So make one Left side: In operation: And as you can see I made a little drill vice too: I have a couple of other things I've made but I've not got pictures of them (I have a chisel at work that I made out of a piece of car spring, forged to shape and tempered) as well as other things I've made for home.
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Mar 31, 2012 11:50:34 GMT
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Yep, had the Haynes manual for a few years now (owned the car for 4 and a half or so, driven for 3)
This is all also reassurance that my guesswork is correct. I can sometimes guess is thats whats needed (hence assuming it was the rocker cover gasket) but because its best to ask and find out I'd rather be told that I am correct by people who know what they're talking about instead of diving in on an assuption and being wrong and breaking something. This is however the limit of my knowledge as it were so I'm in unknown terratory for the most part.
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