Welding Week 2
For our second week of Artist Welding we got started with MIG welding and between the three of us managed to tack together a nautically inspired design seen at the front of the phonephoto below. We then moved on to
Posted in: Welding
Sunday sandcasting
It’s been over a year since I last fired up the flowerpot furnace. A multitude of factors have got in the way from weather to needing to work on the gates to being too busy enjoying other things. I switched
Posted in: Casting
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Flowerpot furnace, petrobond, sand
Rusty old art?
Most shed based engineers spent a lot of effort avoiding getting their work and tools rusty. Artist Tom Deko has however, actively sought rust to give colour and life to his recycled metal sculptures. These can been seen until 17th
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: rust, Steel
Welding 1
First lesson in welding, experiments with a spot welder. Got to learn what can and can’t be done with a spot welder. Like all welding the joints will hold better if the metal is clean from rust or corrosion.
What no Metrix Hex!
I was thinking of making the pin components for the knurling tool out of 8mm A/F hexagon bar so the heads could be used with a spanner for tightening. The pins provide the pivots for the arms and also the
Posted in: Uncategorised
Materials: Mild Steel
Tags: Bar, hex, Suppliers
Knurling tool slots
I’ve finally finished machining the slots in the end of the knurling tool arms. It’s been a slow process as each pass of the milling cutter only took of 0.5mm and I had to machine both sides of the slots
Posted in: Knurling Tool, Machining
Tags: knurling
Wallace & Gromit present: A World of Invention
“Aardman Animations has been commissioned by the BBC to produce a brand new live action show featuring Wallace & Gromit. Wallace & Gromit present: A World of Invention, will take a light-hearted and humorous look at real-life contraptions, gadgets and
Posted in: Inventors, Mechanical Gadgets
Tags: aardman, Inventing
Making a stirling
One of the first things you’ll discover on the web when you set up a home machine shop is the Stirling Engine. These are ideal projects for model engineers of every level as they can be very simple or highly
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: making, Stirling Engine
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
