What you made, making, bodged?

[Catteeclan]

  On 15/02/2023 at 08:25, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

I suppose it would be bound to have some noise absorption qualities but can’t imagine it’s worth the hassle.

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Agree, kid seems to have money to burn. He's also having a new kitchen.

[Saul]

New bit of garden art, well old primary school project for Little Bits that  has been booted out of the revamped conservatory.  Lots of competitive dad stuff back in those use days.   Twas a Viking study so I made her a battle axe and shield.   Dunno what happened to the axe.  

[skyrider]

  On 15/02/2023 at 13:33, Saul said:

New bit of garden art, well old primary school project for Little Bits that  has been booted out of the revamped conservatory.  Lots of competitive dad stuff back in those use days.   Twas a Viking study so I made her a battle axe and shield.   Dunno what happened to the axe.  

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probably in next door's garden 

[Saul]

  On 15/02/2023 at 16:20, skyrider said:

probably in next door's garden 

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I have asked the Mrs and its was confiscated by the primary school years ago.    Little bits was running around trying to chop the boys with it, luckily it was only made of pine wood, apparently I wasn't told as Little Bits was worried I would have told her off.     When the viking  project was over she was only allowed to bring the shield home, if we wanted the axe back one of us had to go get it.   Only found that out today    

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 15/02/2023 at 16:40, Saul said:

I have asked the Mrs and its was confiscated by the primary school years ago.    Little bits was running around trying to chop the boys with it, luckily it was only made of pine wood, apparently I wasn't told as Little Bits was worried I would have told her off.     When the viking  project was over she was only allowed to bring the shield home, if we wanted the axe back one of us had to go get it.   Only found that out today    

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Never too late

[Catteeclan]

Lots of paint touching up to do but he's happy.

[Earache]

This guy brought a bunch of old boards to me and asked if I could make a table out of them. The boards were the rough sawn oak floor joists from his Grandmother's 140 year old house in Nebraska.

Had just enough material to make the top - the legs ands aprons were made from new oak and relic'd a bit.

One of the more fun projects I've done.

[Catteeclan]

  On 16/02/2023 at 18:54, Earache said:

This guy brought a bunch of old boards to me and asked if I could make a table out of them. The boards were the rough sawn oak floor joists from his Grandmother's 140 year old house in Nebraska.

Had just enough material to make the top - the legs ands aprons were made from new oak and relic'd a bit.

One of the more fun projects I've done.

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Very nice.

[XTreme]

  On 16/02/2023 at 18:54, Earache said:

This guy brought a bunch of old boards to me and asked if I could make a table out of them. The boards were the rough sawn oak floor joists from his Grandmother's 140 year old house in Nebraska.

Had just enough material to make the top - the legs ands aprons were made from new oak and relic'd a bit.

One of the more fun projects I've done.

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Excellent work Eric!

[Pedro]

  On 16/02/2023 at 18:54, Earache said:

This guy brought a bunch of old boards to me and asked if I could make a table out of them. The boards were the rough sawn oak floor joists from his Grandmother's 140 year old house in Nebraska.

Had just enough material to make the top - the legs ands aprons were made from new oak and relic'd a bit.

One of the more fun projects I've done.

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Is that guy really tiny or is the table bigger than it appears to be in the non people pictures?

[Sir Fallsalot]

Last night i discovered the battery tyre pump i have has a duff battery, I used it to pump the XR rear tyre up a few PSI and ran the battery flat even though it said it was 100% charged before i started, so put it on charge overnight but it wont switch on anymore even though it's showing 100% charged. So tonight i stripped it down removed the battery soldered on a length of cable (off the old tv i changed a month ago) to the battery wires and now its a plug in 12v pump, not sure if it will last as the original battery was 7.4v but everything works for now the digital display and pressure cut off setting even the little LED just need a fag lighter plug to finish it off now 

[Pedro]

I've got an old school budget gas stove with no electric spark makers to ignite the gas. I also have an old gas lighter with no gas in it, the long kind you use to light fireplaces and BBQs.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 16/02/2023 at 18:54, Earache said:

This guy brought a bunch of old boards to me and asked if I could make a table out of them. The boards were the rough sawn oak floor joists from his Grandmother's 140 year old house in Nebraska.

Had just enough material to make the top - the legs ands aprons were made from new oak and relic'd a bit.

One of the more fun projects I've done.

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Looks lovely and what a nice project. Cant help but wonder whats holding up his Grandmothers 140yr old houses floor now though

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 16/02/2023 at 18:33, Catteeclan said:

Lots of paint touching up to do but he's happy.

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Hope he appreciates your hard work!

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 16/02/2023 at 22:16, Sir Fallsalot said:

Last night i discovered the battery tyre pump i have has a duff battery, I used it to pump the XR rear tyre up a few PSI and ran the battery flat even though it said it was 100% charged before i started, so put it on charge overnight but it wont switch on anymore even though it's showing 100% charged. So tonight i stripped it down removed the battery soldered on a length of cable (off the old tv i changed a month ago) to the battery wires and now its a plug in 12v pump, not sure if it will last as the original battery was 7.4v but everything works for now the digital display and pressure cut off setting even the little LED just need a fag lighter plug to finish it off now 

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Ah you see the marvellousness of this thread new tables and a superb make do bodge in just two posts. Brilliant. 

[Earache]

  On 17/02/2023 at 15:51, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Looks lovely and what a nice project. Cant help but wonder whats holding up his Grandmothers 140yr old houses floor now though

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Should have mentioned that - the house was torn down as the property it was on was sold. The guy just wanted to save a bit of the house as a memory of his childhood and grandmother.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 17/02/2023 at 16:08, Earache said:

Should have mentioned that - the house was torn down as the property it was on was sold. The guy just wanted to save a bit of the house as a memory of his childhood and grandmother.

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Thought it might be something like that, very sweet. 

[MooN]

tool box made by me many years ago as a trainee.

 

and last summer I made some new shutters for the front of the house 

[Clive]

  On 17/02/2023 at 19:54, MooN said:

tool box made by me many years ago as a trainee.

 

and last summer I made some new shutters for the front of the house 

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Amazing what can be made from old pallets..  

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 17/02/2023 at 19:54, MooN said:

tool box made by me many years ago as a trainee.

 

and last summer I made some new shutters for the front of the house 

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Dovetail joints 

[Pedro]

  On 17/02/2023 at 19:54, MooN said:

tool box made by me many years ago as a trainee.

 

and last summer I made some new shutters for the front of the house 

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Way cool!

[MooN]

Side case all fixed. Swapped the lid off the 2 nd hand one and then fitted the retaining strap from my original to the “new” lid. Job jobbed! 

 

i also started rebuilding the damaged bits of the broken lid with some 2part epoxy sausage.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 18/02/2023 at 11:39, MooN said:

Side case all fixed. Swapped the lid off the 2 nd hand one and then fitted the retaining strap from my original to the “new” lid. Job jobbed! 

 

i also started rebuilding the damaged bits of the broken lid with some 2part epoxy sausage.

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Satisfying.

[Sir Fallsalot]

Todays bodge was for the Beta. The one thing i'm missing is a mirror but there is nowhere to mount one, the only space on the handlebars to put a generic clamp mounts the mirror too far in and i cant see past my elbow so i decided to make a mount and bolt it to the hand guards
Started off with this bit of aluminium bar i picked up in work a few years ago and offered it up to where i want to mount it

I need to cut out a groove so the bar of the handguard locates in it, i used my chop saw which has a metal cutting blade in it to do multiple cuts to create the groove

Lots of filing after this to take away the ridges and the curve of the blade but it's something i will do at the end as its a lot of work to do and then find out i don't like the end result

I need to put a taper on the end so it doesn't clash with the wind protector part of the hand guard 

I have to guess the right angle so have a few attempts to get it right zero engineering skills used here LOL

The part cut off and cleaned up 

Mounted on the handguard almost finished didn't have a tap with the correct thread pitch for the mirror so got to wait until the one i ordered arrives quite pleased with the way it turned out

 

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 26/02/2023 at 13:41, Sir Fallsalot said:

Todays bodge was for the Beta. The one thing i'm missing is a mirror but there is nowhere to mount one, the only space on the handlebars to put a generic clamp mounts the mirror too far in and i cant see past my elbow so i decided to make a mount and bolt it to the hand guards
Started off with this bit of aluminium bar i picked up in work a few years ago and offered it up to where i want to mount it

I need to cut out a groove so the bar of the handguard locates in it, i used my chop saw which has a metal cutting blade in it to do multiple cuts to create the groove

Lots of filing after this to take away the ridges and the curve of the blade but it's something i will do at the end as its a lot of work to do and then find out i don't like the end result

I need to put a taper on the end so it doesn't clash with the wind protector part of the hand guard 

I have to guess the right angle so have a few attempts to get it right zero engineering skills used here LOL

The part cut off and cleaned up 

Mounted on the handguard almost finished didn't have a tap with the correct thread pitch for the mirror so got to wait until the one i ordered arrives quite pleased with the way it turned out

 

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Not really a bodge job is it, that's a good looking solution nicely done

A mirror attached with a bit of duct tape wobbling around now that wold be a proper bodge