my boys hammer

[mick70Participant @mick70]

while back i was asking for ideas of things to make with my youngest 2.

here's a couple of pics of him making hammer, havent got pic of finished item as took it school and head wants him to show it in assembly this aft.

did 99% himself after i showed him using another bit of steel.

pic 1 is mainly him showing you, you must wear safety glasses.

something i got in trouble with from my 6yr old girl who threatened to get mummy to smack my bum for , as didn't have glasses on.

but in my defence lathe was turned off at isolator as was setting up new cutting tool centre height.

just realised pics gone in cockeyed and don't know how to sort sorry

[mick70Participant @mick70]

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Great, that's the time to get them started.

Russell.

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuw, be careful, taking a "Weapon" to skool. In TLOTF a young student took a digital clock he'd made to show his teacher and was arrested. Unfortunately, due to his ethnic origin, the powers that be assumed it was a timing device connected to a bomb.

Don't understand why every mobile phone the kids carry isn't regarded as a trigger device?????

Regards Ian.

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

.a sharp pencil can be a weapon…

 

Now if I was that lad's age again and this time of year… a canon would be fun ..lots of propellant available soon…

(it was all … n my day and most of us lived. We fell out of trees too)

 

edit..  abit more inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOh3d6deKec

Edited By pgk pgk on 25/09/2015 11:57:16

<edit> It was the same stuff teenagers used in my day, but it's also a recipe terrorists have used to kill thousands of people, so its not in the same clalss as pencils and hammers and I'm afraid I have to redact it.

No more explosive recipes please.

 

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 25/09/2015 12:28:15

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Showed the grandson of a friend how to use his grand dads Myford Super 7 so that he could make a cannon for a school project, his grand dad test fired it, then we made it safe, he got first prize. It was about 8" long with a 3/8" bore, and it put a good hole through a tin can 10/15 meters away. It's mounted as a naval/ships gun.

Ian S C

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hardly an issue if a very sensible head has asked the lad to bring it in.

If's when people stop doing these things because they fear the consequences of those in authority who lack common sense that it becomes the accepted way of doing things.

Now we have teenagers who don't know how to cross the road, and how many parents accept the 'virtual' approach to chemistry practicals because it's 'safer' and a generation grows up not knowing how to be sensible with chemicals?

Neil

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