From disk drive to slabs
A tip from the Home Foundry and Casting group, indicated that you could get some good quality Aluminium from old computer hard disk drives. Compared to the other options of drinks cans (too small) and old car parts (too big)
Posted in: Furnace
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Disk Drive, Melting
Paper stronger than cast iron
What do you do if you are a scientist in Sweden and can’t get any cast iron to build your steam engine out of? You invent some paper that is stronger than cast iron of course. By bashing their wood
Machined blob
This weekend I machined up one the castings from last week’s melt. Here’s the stages from scrap to machined results. Step 1Some scrap ali that I found round the back of the shed, sawn up into suitable sized pieces to
Posted in: Casting, Lathe, Machining
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Metal Work, Scrap
“how to knurl a bent steel bar”
“how to knurl a bent steel bar”, this was the search that one of the Workshop shed readers had made against the site. Well, I’m afraid I don’t have any complete solution to that problem but here’s my independently thought
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: bent bar, knurling, Metal Work, Steel
Red Hot – Casting
This morning the flower pot furnace was lit and I cast my first aluminium. I’d finally got good weather, all the safety gear and tools were finished and I’d sawn up an old strip of aluminium into small chunks to
Posted in: Casting, Furnace
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Flowerpot
Life after trench
Lots of people are moaning about the wet weather, I’m not one of them. Thanks to a lovely combination alternating heavy rain and sun the lawn is almost back to normal. Following the digging of the trench for the workshop
Posted in: Electrics
Tags: Trench, Turf, Underground Cable, Workshop Supply
Suppliers
I learnt about a couple of suppliers today, the first is Maidstone Engineering Supplies, a good all round supplier of materials, tools and steam components. http://www.maidstone-engineering.co.uk/ The second is Metal Supermarkets who have stores all over the UK and a
Posted in: Uncategorised
Materials: Aluminium, Brass
Tags: Bar, Rod, Sheet, Steel
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
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
