Sheetmetal shears failure
Sheetmetal working is something that I’ve recently taken an interest in. A gift from work gained me a few pieces of equipment to allow me to expand my skills in this area. One of these is a small set of
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Tags: cutting, Sheetmetal, Tools
Shortening the screws
So that the Topsy Turvy Clock has a good finish I decided to trim some of the brass screws so that they would be flush with the plates rather than sticking up proud. To facilitate this process I made a
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Tags: Filing
Gate modification
We recently agreed to look after a relative’s dog for them and realised that we needed to make a few changes to accommodate the dog safely. One of these was making the back garden gate so that it would not
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Tags: Garden Furniture, Gate
Spacers
A simple but important part for the clock was the spaces that connect the two clock frames together. These were a simple machining job, brass rod was faced off and drilled with a 2.3mm drill. It was then parted off
Posted in: Topsy Turvy Clock
Materials: Brass
CapSense Switches
As a little side project, I’ve been looking at some capacitive touch switches and their suitability for workshop projects. Element14 and Cypress Semiconductors kindly provided me with an evaluation board for the CapSense MBR3 switches as part of the Element14
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Tags: switches
Small screwed bush
The next component to machine was one I like to call the “Top Hat”. It fulfuls two purposes, it holds the clock mechanism to the face of the clock and it acts as a bush to support the spindles that
Posted in: Machining, Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: tapping
More clock shafts
After my previous success drilling a tiny but deep hole through some brass rod, I got thinking about how to machine the outsides. Referring back to my diagram the idea was to take a 4mm rod and machine most of
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Tags: Spindles
Pepper’s Ghost
A few weeks back my 3 year old daughter gained a “Sooty” magic wand on the front of a magazine and has been trying to make things appear and disappear ever since. To help her “magic things” I was thinking
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Tags: Lighting, magic, Pepper's Ghost
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
