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In reply to loosecannon :

That.
 

That is amazing. Not only is it a sweet design and construction but it's for smoking meats. That's doing Gods work. 

made a catwalk for our new feline friend  

Having moved on from Kimini and Midlana, I've been designing and building a CNC router for many months now, one based upon a 24 x 36" granite surface plate, with granite end pieces and what was going to be a granite gantry (that turned into a disaster so switched to steel). Everything is big and heavy, and it should be able to machine aluminum and anything softer. Just the Z assembly is around 30 lbs, not counting the 4" diameter(!) spindle that's another 40 lbs or so... Just hope the servos are strong enough to move everything!

In reply to kb58 :

Oh man I want to see a whole thread on this

In reply to RacetruckRon :

I have a thread on it over on my Midlana builders' forum. You have sign up because it's in the Off-Topic submenu. http://www.midlana.com/forum/index.php

We need to run a Chevy Colorado clutch slave on a Solstice engine and transmission so we will have a bleeder. The Colorado slave is right at an inch shorter than the Solstice version. So I made this. It should do the trick. 

While the shop was accessible, my father had a small project as well. Salt air and probably water ate the driveshaft for his sickle mower. It's a long-discontinued design that uses a 1" square driveshaft. I found a yoke that had a 1" square drive slip joint. I cut the yoke off and turned it down to fit a piece of 2" pipe. 

So I also bought a weld-on series 4 yoke, u-joint, and spline adapter to fit his tractor. A little machining was needed to get the parts to fit for welding.

To turn the yoke to fit the pipe I stuck it to a 1-3/8 aluminum rod using locktight.

Then I set the entire thing in the lathe to get it straight and welded it. 

The old one was in pretty bad shape. 

Then it was time to shoot a coat of paint on it to keep the rust to a minimum. 

It's not perfect but since it only turns about 500 rpm it should do the trick. 

In reply to Toyman! :

Wow thats nice work!

Ongoing project, but it's back on its wheels for the first time in a long while, so that's a win!

I DID NOT MAKE THIS!

I'm not that clever or patient.  SWMBO had a shopping bag of yarn left from previous projects, most from golf ball to tennis ball size.  Watching a movie she breaks out the bag and starts making pot holders.  Great, leave her alone.  Later she's got bags of pot holders made.  It took time, but eventually the pot holders were crocheted, knitted together into an 8ft. X 9ft. blanket!   "Yeah, it got away from me.  But it will be warm in the winter!"

Right, if you don't die in your sleep from the weight .....

I knocked up a quick bullseye pick to assist with some PITA dings on the 850

Built a heavy duty dolly to aid in moving a gun safe.  1800lb casters, 1" x .120 square tube frame, and poly urethane finished plywood top.

Have some local buddies I play softball with. We carry around the team bats and balls in the same bucket. It doesn't work very well. 

So we're going to try this instead.

I decided to learn how to quilt. Probably should have started with an easier pattern, but it came out pretty decent anyway.

That was a lot of 20ga

TIL that OSSA was a Spanish motorcycle manufacturer.

To play along, made a rear receiver hitch for the camper trailer. Coulda bought one for $300, but wouldn't have been exactly what & where I wanted it. Spent $75 in materials instead. Bicycles now hang off back of trailer instead of filling rear of SUV.

In reply to Ethnic Food-Wrap Aficionado :

Wow... It extracts so good it sucked the crankshaft out!  Seriously beautiful.

All the major bits of the CNC router are on. Total work envelop is 20 x 30 x 7". Total weight is a bit nuts, right around 1,000 lbs by the time it's complete, and yes it's intimidating, with visions of roughly 260 lbs rolling off the end of the rails...

What will it be used for? I don't have a good answer, but it'll be able to machine aluminum nearly as well as my mill, so that opens other avenues. Next will be weeks of electrical work - and head scratching regarding software, so there probably won't be any more exciting photos!

Control box

And the AC side, disconnect, contactor, and VFD. Large hammer prevented anything from getting too uppity...

Playing with the kids this morning I got a wild hair to make an Elise for my daughter Elise out of what was in the bucket. 
Not bad, not bad!

Made a new syrup evaporator.  The old one, even though it had fire brick, was not quite air tight enough to have good air control.   New one should be way better, it's just roughed in at this point.

We also updated the shed which is attached behind a kids' play house.  Wind whistles through it, so half walls were put up, the inside lined with corrugated tin.  The shed now has power which makes it the new welding corner.  (propane bottle lives elsewhere)

Inside the play house.  Painted for an upcoming Halloween party.  The black bag hides a chandelier.  House was built because the town Fathers only allowed one tool shed on the property; this is a play house, not a shed.    Even though one wall folds down for a ring mower; creative rules' interpretation?  =~ 0

This is a dual point distributor off a Ferrari Dino 246GT

These things have a wonky advance mechanism that always seems to wear out and lock up (this one managed about 6 degrees of total advance) and relied on the problematic and expensive to replace "Dinoplex" ignition amplifier.

I absolutely love the distributors made by 123 Ignition. In particular their bluetooth programmable Tune+ series. They do not offer one for the Dino so I bought the 6 cylinder version for a Jag/Aston/whatever and and gonna put the guts in the Magnetti Marelli body utilizing the OE Ferrari cap and rotor.

Tear it down

I decided to stick with the 10mm shaft size the 123 uses so I had to make a new bearing holder and machine a fair few bits to make it work

The 123 electronics are very compact. A little machining in the distributor body and they slipped right in

Pressed the magnetic trigger wheel onto the shaft and pinned it in place

And assembled

Pretty proud of that. Can't wait to get it installed and tuned on the dyno.

Hadn't thought about these in a while but seen one on the road yesterday 

I can't compete with that trailer.. but I made this: A Milgate Duck Punt, a replica of a 100+ year old duck hunting boat from West Mersea UK.

Wow, the boat and distributor work are beautiful!