Random stuff you made.

[Captain Call]

Nice welds are a myth. They only exist on Instagram. The real key to nice work is the grinder

Yup.

Take for example my first stainless weld, with a stick even. Still in service. No leaks and it still functions in the rv bay at the car wash.

 

[tracyb]

Nice welds are a myth. They only exist on Instagram. The real key to nice work is the grinder

goddammit dont be giving away secrets!

 

[Gbkeith]

Sliding cut gate.

 

[Void_of_Light]

Got tired of having air in my compressed water system.

Nothing major, but I ended up making 4 double flares and none of them leaked.

I also put a copper pipe through the wall to route the drains outside.

 

[Firstram]

I hope that water separator is self draining! I set up an after cooler and it's amazing how much water never makes it to the tank. Is that a Flexzilla garden hose?

 

[Void_of_Light]

I hope that water separator is self draining! I set up an after cooler and it's amazing how much water never makes it to the tank. Is that a Flexzilla garden hose?

It is, I was getting 2 20oz coke bottles of water out of the tank after 30 mins of using the blast cabinet. Now it's just a light mist.

It works well. the tank just barely gets warm now when before it was too hot to touch.

The hose is left over from the sandblaster. It's what I used to connect the gun to the bottom of the cabinet. It's a Harbor Freight knockoff of flexzilla.

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

I need to learn how to grind down welds and not leave a mark. Some of my weld grinds are noticeable on this. But fawk it.

Here’s something that might appease Arse more.

Got tired of laying hoses all around. Had scrap 1x1 and scrap leaf spring parts laying around so used them.

Looks like me in the morning.

 

[M92PV4U]

 

[Clb]

Should finally stay put...

 

[urjb]

Made a froe.. so I could make split cedar shingles for this “troll house” thing the GF “needs”.

 

[[486]]

in the future, you don't gotta double flare copper, single is just fine

 

[Lee]

My front line tractor (don't fucking laugh, it's the best one my dad left me) would barely pull itself out of the shed the other day. Of course haying season is upon me, and I really need that machine, but it needs a clutch unbeknownst to me until now). So I brought it to my shitty little shop that at least has a concrete floor. It's not flat or level, but it's barely better than dirt and offers some shade.

Well my idea of using an engine hoist on the front half was not gonna work.

So, I had a bottle jack, some scrap 2" square tubing, and these aluminum wheels with bonded rubber tires ( that came from a ski tuning machine I scrapped years ago).

I farmer welded it all together and got it in place, with an old hydraulic jack from a Harbor Freight pipe kinker to hold up the back end.

I have to say, it worked surprisingly well. I can only imagine how well it would work on a good floor.

Did you live? That gives me the heebie jeebies.

We had mostly IH when I was a kid, 806, 2x 1466, and a 1486. 806 was the only open station.

We had a frame on solid metal wheels that grabbed under the front frame rails and bolted to holes in the frame. Rock solid and fixed to the half you're moving.

 

[FleshEater]

Did you live? That gives me the heebie jeebies.

We had mostly IH when I was a kid, 806, 2x 1466, and a 1486. 806 was the only open station.

We had a frame on solid metal wheels that grabbed under the front frame rails and bolted to holes in the frame. Rock solid and fixed to the half you're moving.

Maybe too many of these gave him the confidence to overcome the sketchiness.

 

[arse_sidewards]

in the future, you don't gotta double flare copper, single is just fine

Usually don't need it for steel either. More likely to have a leak though.

 

[Johnny Longrifle]

Did you live? That gives me the heebie jeebies.

We had mostly IH when I was a kid, 806, 2x 1466, and a 1486. 806 was the only open station.

Not ded. Finally got all the parts and the machine shop got my flywheel back to me. Going back together was not near as smooth as coming apart, but my tractor tricycle worked and nothing got dropped and I didnt get squished.

My dad left me a bastard herd of green, red, yellow (Ford) and this orange prick.

Maybe too many of these gave him the confidence to overcome the sketchiness.

Farming is bullshit. Fixing broken tractors is even more bullshit. Takes lots of beers to get it done.

 

[ExWrench]

My dad left me a bastard herd of green, red, yellow (Ford) and this orange prick.

Maybe you could get Skittles to sponsor your fleet

 

[Clb]

New youboob channel

 

[ExWrench]

Took a scrap of weathered fence board that means something to us for reasons, flame-darkened the cut ends, linseed oiled it, and made it the base for 3 forged coat hooks to hang in our entryway.

Hooks have 1/4-20 tapped holes & hold the wood in place via 2-1/2" hanger bolts.
Center one is solidly centered into a stud, outer two are into drywall anchors


EDIT: to clarify, I didn't make the hooks. Bought 'em from Timothy Dyck the Canook blacksmith yoot hoober.

 

[[486]]

Took a scrap of weathered fence board that means something to us for reasons

First time with the wife, she got her head caught in the fence and you couldn't help yourself
shotgun wedding shortly thereafter
whole passle of li'l half lamb half humans running around a few months later

I'm gonna make bank selling this story. I should be a riter

 

[FleshEater]

First time with the wife, she got her head caught in the fence and you couldn't help yourself
shotgun wedding shortly thereafter
whole passle of li'l half lamb half humans running around a few months later

I'm gonna make bank selling this story. I should be a riter

Hire a good editor.

 

[[486]]

Hire a good editor.

FRONT!

 

[Gbkeith]

Hire a good editor.

Sometimes I wish there was a double like button to click.

 

[ExWrench]

First time with the wife, she got her head caught in the fence and you couldn't help yourself
shotgun wedding shortly thereafter
whole passle of li'l half lamb half humans running around a few months later

I'm gonna make bank selling this story. I should be a riter

At our old house, we replaced a fence my wife's dad had built her 17+ years earlier and we saved a few boards to maybe use for artsy craftsy stuff, possibly to make something cool for him. Basically, "we can always throw it away later, let's save some pieces & huck 'em in the shed".

Her dad never got to see our new house before he passed, but I hung a couple pieces of the old top rail on high walls:

and have used pieces of face board for a pipe-framed shelf:

+ now the coat hook setup above. It's all meaningful to us, and we dig the rustic look.

 

[M92PV4U]

 

[Slander]

At our old house, we replaced a fence my wife's dad had built her 17+ years earlier and we saved a few boards to maybe use for artsy craftsy stuff, possibly to make something cool for him. Basically, "we can always throw it away later, let's save some pieces & huck 'em in the shed".

Her dad never got to see our new house before he passed, but I hung a couple pieces of the old top rail on high walls:

and have used pieces of face board for a pipe-framed shelf:

+ now the coat hook setup above. It's all meaningful to us, and we dig the rustic look.

He got lucky he never got to see that

 

[ExWrench]

He got lucky he never got to see that

 

[M92PV4U]

I lost the adapters for my larger brushes and swabs for my not to be used on guns anymore rifle cleaning kit...

This is a ⅛" pipe cut to 10". I started opening it up with a small vary bit to a letter "i" sized bit for a 5/16-24 tap. The vary bit allows for a nice stright start for the final twist drill bit.
now if I decide that it needs to be longer I can repeat the process and extend it with 5/16-24 all thread.

 

[Steve300xcw]

cant tell you the last time I actually cleaned a barrel on a gun

 

[M92PV4U]

cant tell you the last time I actually cleaned a barrel on a gun

I lost the stupid adapter, I was trying to clean the corrosion out of the barrel of the maglite in the background of the picture.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Of course you are still using maglite's