[alien]

that's awesome dude! the black steel bits, reckon they'll rust over time and give you an even more "rustic" look (no pun intended) ?

[Scales]

yeah thats the plan, should just get better with age. I also left a few rusty nails in the wood in various stages of corrode to help the rusticness.

Im seriously considering making half a dozen more or so and flogging them off for some coin. should be able to wrangle around 50-75 at market I rekon. would have to have a think about it. Just need to find some more wood.

[alien]

you'd be mad not to sell them i think.

make them out of different woods so people have a choice.

There's an industrial area not far from me, and a lot of the machinery companies get stuff delivered in crates and pallets all the time, some are hard wood and others just pine, and most have stampings etc on them which would look good once varnished... maybe you can hunt around, as most of them chuck all their wood into a giant bin out the front.

[missmyljdaze]

alien wrote:

you'd be mad not to sell them i think.

make them out of different woods so people have a choice.

and most have stampings etc on them which would look good once varnished...

^^^what Aron said,

you could also try branding the timber using heavy fencing wire bent to shape with pliers and hammer, heated with lpg torch and pressed onto the timber with a piece of steel behind it to keep the wire rigid.

Another effect is "tiger striping" charring the timber with an lpg torch in a rough tiger stripe pattern- then lightly scrubbing with steel wool to remove loose charcoal before the oil, or polish is applied.
Both work best on light timbers.

I make my own polish for my rifle stocks, beeswax combined with turps.
Turps is warmed up [baine marie water bath method- no direct heat to the turps] and lumps of beeswax stirred in until its dissolved, then bottled for later use.
shake bottle well before use, "flood" brush the solution onto the timber, let it sit in the sun, apply as many coats as you want.
wipe off excess, leave to sit to lose the turps smell- and the beeswax smell takes over.

stephen

[Scales]

cool good ideas, ive heard of that beeswax tech before.
I might look into it a bit more soon.

Till then, no one steal my idea.

[Scales]

DarkHorse wrote:

Very nice scales.

What's the weight like?

not too bad, my wall hangar is a decent sized screw into a stud. But I wouldnt be hanging it on one of those pissy little nail hook things thats for sure!
I guess its around 2kg-3kg. Large sized painting weight really.

[DR_JOSH]

made some triple clamps for some gay cafe racer my mate is building




started on some billet foot peg mounts, seems a bit much to me but as long as he pays me I dont care

[NomadGV03]

Some nice work done there.

[Lokidog]

Nothing too special as far as what some of you guys have done, but on par with Shep's paper plane.

[Critical Energy]

Numchuck/bashing stick holder?

[Lokidog]

Yes it is. The aluminum collars on the ends were leaving marks on the walls, so I thought I'd knock up a rack for my staffs. I had a bit of 4x2 pine I found in the park across the road and some new tools I wanted to have a play with.
I still have some pine left, so I think a holder/rack for my chinese sabre and a set of double swords is next.

[DR_JOSH]

Made some massive cogs today, no idea what they are for

[atari4x4]

that's pretty bloody impressive

[Matthew]

DR_JOSH wrote:

Made some massive cogs today, no idea what they are for

cog
/käg/
Noun
A wheel or bar with a series of projections on its edge that transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar.
Each of such a series of projections.

[NomadGV03]

Matthew wrote:

DR_JOSH wrote:

Made some massive cogs today, no idea what they are for

cog
/käg/
Noun
A wheel or bar with a series of projections on its edge that transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar.
Each of such a series of projections.

Thankyou for giving me such useful information i never knew for my drunken friday night

[monley]

Been doing some pretty heavy pipe work lately. P22 chromoly 8" sch 160 pipe all prepped with a 7" grinder. The welding is much harder than the prepping part tho.. Takes around 10-12hours to do one butt weld. The weld area has to be pre heated to 300deg with ceramic blankets(as seen in the back ground in the rest of the spool, will get more pics tomorrow) 3hours prior to the root run been put in, then it has to stay above 250deg between each run getting put in and can't exceed a temperature of 800deg, then after the capping is done it must stay above 150deg 3hours after the welding is done. It then gets x-rayed and MPI'd, once it's passes that, it then gets baked to 700deg and slowly cooled for stress relieving. Very lengthy process

[Fatzook]

Nice prep work.

[shandy92]

nice work andy, got a pic of the finished product? what gets welded to the ends as it looks rather short in length.

[Fatzook]

shandy92 wrote:

it looks rather short in length.

Short and heavy. Shed 160 is just under 1" thick in the wall.

I'm keen to see some weldout pics too.

[shandy92]

Oh right, had no idea it was so thick. to me it looked maybe 15mm thick (5/8")

[monley]

Fatzook wrote:

shandy92 wrote:

it looks rather short in length.

Short and heavy. Shed 160 is just under 1" thick in the wall.

I'm keen to see some weldout pics too.

Didn't manage to get a pic of it all assembled as they took it to another work shop first thing this morning for x-raying
The wall thickness is just under a 1" as Pete said (23.1mm)

Here's the only pic I got of a weld

Shitty pic thanks to the iPhone camera

Here's a pic of the next peace of the spool

8" to 6" reducer that I had to modify. The 8" pipe is sch 160 (173 ID) and the 6" sch 120 is 141id so I got it machined out to suit the 140 but the stupid fitter made it 150id for some reason ....2hours later and pad welded back to 130 we got our own fitter to machine it out to 140 then it come out right the 2nd time after another 2hours on the lathe and die grinder



And here's it all tacked together



24hours worth of prep time and another 32hours of welding to be done. Good thing the Asians like welding
That section then goes onto the another 90deg elbow which is joined to the 2 valves. Total cost of this project is around 1.2millon

[shandy92]

awesome stuff there andy, is it for an oil, water or gas line?

[monley]

shandy92 wrote:

awesome stuff there andy, is it for an oil, water or gas line?

Cheers
700deg superheated steam for turbines hence the pipe been chromoly and been so heavy

[atari4x4]

EPIC stuff man, although i didn't realise that you were asian.

monley wrote:

Good thing the Asians like welding

[zooky08]

Fan room for a gold mine.

[DarkHorse]

Pretty lame compared to some of the above, but I've been 'improving' the new place...

First up was an awning down the side to give the dog some undercover area when he gets shut outside, and also a short-term storage area for some of my crap out of the rain:




Just some 70x40 pine, bracketted to the fence and a strip of timber under the existing gutter. Got it done just in time for the rain

(Have since run some guttering around the edge which feeds into a downpipe at one end.)

Next up was a bit of decking to hide the shitty concrete and crap garden edging. First version was 90mm boards with 19mm spacing. Chucked some of that in:

...then decided that the spacing was too big and the angle was wrong (no two lines in that yard are square to each other) so I fixed the angle and dropped down to 10mm spacing. Much better:

Have also reclaimed some of the wasted garden bed space for the mutt.

All pretty lame but it's keeping me out of trouble for a while...

[Jezza86]

7" grinder ay monley, ill have to come do some "leadership audits (bitch about jimny stock grease and bearings) " on monday

[Jezza86]

monley wrote:

shandy92 wrote:

awesome stuff there andy, is it for an oil, water or gas line?

Cheers
700deg superheated steam for turbines hence the pipe been chromoly and been so heavy

at least its only 40 ata here, its 50 ata at QAL

[suzkboy]

This is a small robot cell I have been working on this week pretty basic compared to what we normally built at work, but having a project complete to my self is good.
The cell basically picks up bags of cheese off one convey and places it in to a pre formed cardboard box. The welder at work built the basic frame and I have fitted and welded up every thing else up in side. Ill post some photos once we have it finished and some of the othe machines at work

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[DarkHorse]

Update:
Just about there, added some LED uplights. There will be another 3 shining down the awning posts on the house side and that will be that.