Archive for September, 2012
Waterproof Screws
I’ve been reading “South” – The Story of Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Expedition. The environment that the men and their equipment had to survive is one of the harshest in the world, temperatures significantly below zero, high winds, salt water and confined
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Materials: Stainless Steel
Tags: galvanic action, temperature
Solar Time Keeping invention
Yesterday I attended an IET talk by Mike Groom who is both an IET member and a member of the British Sundial Society. He told us about the history of solar time keeping, sun dials and heliochronometers. He also recounted
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Tags: heliochronometer, Sundial
Box Repair
This was simple project to repair a childs wooden toy box. The origional design had some flimsy metal hinges nailed in with some thin pins. As my daughter manhandled the box the hinges bent and the pins came loose. Rather
Posted in: Repairs
David Gingery on Kindle
Some of the David Gingery “Build your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap” books are now available on kindle. The prices are not much better than the paperback versions but those can sometimes be a bit hard to get hold
Posted in: Casting
3 interesting electric motors
When I was younger I would borrow books from the Library such as Usborne series and the Know How Book of Batteries and Magnets and then create things in my bedroom based on my notes taken from the books. Back
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Tags: Electric Motors
Bekonscott
The other week my father was visiting so we took the family to see Bekonscott. You can find it just off the M40 a junction up from the M25. “Bekonscot Model Village and Railway is the world’s oldest original model
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Tags: model village, trains
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
