Aluminium

A soft silver metal, easy to cut and form. It's low melting point makes home casting a possibility

Web Camera Gantry

Web Camera Gantry

For an upcoming talk, I need to show a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino on camera. So I built a frame to support the webcam.

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PSTOIC Medal 2022

PSTOIC Medal 2022

A last minute medal was needed for the “Bring something STOIC” so I used the milling machine to machine a billet.

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Getting Started with a Milling Machine

A wooden crate from Arc Eurotrade

Andy sets about unpacking and setting up a small bench top vertical milling machine.

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Machined aluminium shower repair

Machined aluminium shower repair

Our shower door has 4 sets of rollers that hold the sliding door. The top two have screws that you adjust to make the door level. When the door shuts, a magnetic catch seals the side of the door but

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You are my density

You are my density

It can be a bit tricky to determine the nature of a mystery metal, and in the home workshop it can be even harder to tell the purity of a metal. So I looked up the density of Aluminium and

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