Thanks for the Votes
The voting for shed of the year is now complete and the votes are being counted. The results will be announced for shed week next month. The winners from each category will now be put before the judging panel DJ
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Shed of the Year
Tap Terminology
There are many different types of taps, Steven Grantham comments on his blog that there are 38 pages of them in his catalogue. Here’s a few reasons why. Threads There are many different types of thread, metric fine, metric coarse,
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Tags: Taps, Terminology, threads
New Shelf
So that that my furnace bits and pieces did not have to sit on the floor I decided to build a simple metal shelf. I bought some angle iron (15x20x1mm) to form two of the sides. I also used an
Posted in: Workshop Furniture
Tags: Brazing, Steel, Storage
The shed smoke alarm works
I decided to do a bit of brazing in the workshop last evening and rather regretted it. After cleaning the metal, setting it at right angles and putting on some flux, I started to heat it with my medium sized
Posted in: Safety
Tags: Brazing, fireball, flaring, regulator, torch
Jackdaws and mouldable firebrick
My father reported that he’d had a jackdaw fall down his chimney whilst he’d been sailing around the Clyde and Aaran. Being a helpful son, I looked up some websites for “pot toppers”, “chimney hats” and “Bird Guards”. Whilst looking
Posted in: Heat Treatment
Tags: firebrick, Flowerpot furnace, forge, hearth
Lessons involving heat
This bank holiday weekend I was working on the gates for the drive. Not surprisingly the pre-drilled holes in the gate posts for the mountings were in the wrong places so I had to re-drill them all and fill the
Drawer for lathe tools
This seemingly simply project has taken nearly 5 months to complete. Part of the reason is that the bench did not have any back legs. I’d simply let the bench top be supported on the original shelves with the two
Posted in: Storage, Workshop Furniture
Tags: Tools
Books on gears
Dug North has been compiling lists of books on gears on his Automata blog so I thought I’d share them with you. http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2009/04/list-of-books-on-gear-design-and.htmlhttp://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2009/05/more-books-on-gears-theory-and_06.html As you might expect for an automaton maker, Doug has written quite a lot on gears on
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: Automata, dug north, Gears
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
