Projects
Welding Projects
One of my work colleagues mentioned that he had a “arc welder” that he’d bought because he’d like to be able to weld. Perhaps he’d been watching flashdance that week or perhaps he’d had more charitable thoughts on his mind?
Filing Nuts
I was lucky enough to visit the Model Engineer Exhibition at Ascot over the weekend and managed to attend one of the lectures by the chaps in the blue coats from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. The talk
Posted in: Projects, T-Nuts
Tags: Filing, Model Engineer Exhibition
Tool makers clamp – work in progress
They say that the thing that separates the humans from the animals is the ability to make tools so I’m feeling all human at the moment. Over the last couple of weekends, I’ve been working on a tool makers clamp,
Posted in: Projects, Projects, Tool Maker's Clamps
Building the flowerpot furnace
2020 Vision said: “Just wondering how you got the air into the flowerpot? Was it through the holes at the bottom or did you somehow cut a hole in the side? I would have thought the latter could weaken it.”
Posted in: Casting, Projects, Projects
Tags: Flowerpot furnace, Hole cutting, Teracotta
Spindles
Back in the 1940s the idea of “Make Do and Mend” was common, however over the last 60 years the disposable culture has slowly taken over. My friends from PSTOIC are the kind of people who will happily repair something
Posted in: Projects, Projects, Repairs
Tags: Mending, Metal Work, Plastic, Spindles, Steel, Wood
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
