Archive for July, 2008
Marvelous Mechanical Gadgets
A selection of gadgets, gears and mechanisms.
Posted in: Mechanical Gadgets
Tags: Gears, Kinetic Sculpture
Making Tiny Wheels
My next project is a “Flea Circus Chariot”, this is a basic two wheeled chariot similar to those used on Roman Chariot races. The plan is to make this from brass sheet with the wheels machined from brass rod. The
East London Engineering
I’ve discovered that there’s a 3rd London based Model Engineering Society, out in the East is the “Dockland and East London Model Engineering Society” according to the Model Engineering diary page they are still active, model making and running trains
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: East London, Model Engineering
Moving the workshop
Not as drastic as it sounds, just moving the WorkshopShed Blog from http://workshopshed.blogspot.com to http://www.workshopshed.com. Thanks to my friends at 2020media for supplying the domain name and moving it across very quickly.
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: blogger, blogging, workshopshed
Two taps
My latest mini-project was supposed to be a simple sawing and screwcutting exercise of some aluminimum rods. It proved to be a little more involved than I realised when I found that the thread was 2BA. I purchased a suitable
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Die, Screw Cutting, Taps
CNC stop button?
Need a big red stop button with a USB cable for your home built CNC machine? Perhaps this one from I Want One of Those would be appropriate?You would of course need to remove the cover and modify the functionality
Posted in: CNC
Tags: Panic, Stop Button, USB
Faceplate Dogs
Last month I roughly sawed and filed my cast aluminium blobs into blocks. The resulting blocks were too large to fit into my 3 jaw chuck so I hoped to mount them on the faceplate. There are many ways of
Posted in: Face Plate Dogs, Lathe, Machining, Work Holding
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
