What did you do Today 2018

[Perko7Participant @perko7]

Spent a couple of hours roughing out the 200mm long main connecting rods for my jackshaft drive 5" gauge 'diesel' from 2 pieces of 5mm steel plate bolted together. No access to a milling machine atm so did it 'old school' with much hacksawing, drilling and filing.

Main outline finished, next step is to machine flutes and bosses (once mate with milling machine is back in town) then finish up with fine files and emery before drilling holes for crank-pin bushes, oil cups etc.

[David TaylorParticipant @davidtaylor63402]

The new starting capacitor for my lathe motor finally arrived. I put it on and it seems to have fixed it so I'm glad!

Got a running capacitor for the milling machine too but I thought I'd quit while I was ahead.

The steel garage is scheduled to disappear over the next two days. A new electricity meter is meant to go in on Friday so the solar panels can be hooked up. New workshop building to be started next week. That's the most excitement there has been around here since we moved in.

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Nice work Perko7, nowt wrong with old fashioned methods, early stage in my apprenticeship, marking out, hacksawing, filing, etc.

George.

[SpurryParticipant @spurry]

Posted by Perko7 on 04/04/2018 08:57:45:

. No access to a milling machine atm so did it 'old school' with much hacksawing, drilling and filing.

Looking good. Now that is what I would call serious dedication.

Pete

[Fowlers FuryParticipant @fowlersfury]

What did I do today yesterday?
SWMBO contracted Spring fever (despite the weather) and decided it was that time of year to move furniture around. So we I spent over half of the day, under instruction, shifting stuff around the lounge.
The remainder of the day was spent moving it all back again, where it was before, having endured repeated sighs, 'ummms' and 'no, that's not right".
Today – hopefully – it will be back to the workshop, where at least the same utterances will be from me.

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Do what you do in the workshop Fowler. Bolt everything to the floor and then surround it with other stiff so you can't get at the bolts. That should stop her tricks.

regards Martin

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

There was a lengthly mention of John Harrison on Mysteries at the Museum last night, Fairly well done, never heard of Him before this. Just 1 question. They said He worked on one model for 20 years and then again for another 20 years, Wondered if anyone ever asked Him- Been on the same job 40 years? Do You know times a wasting? I'll get Me coat…………..

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Thanks for the replies on how to do brackets without the smilie – would have been OK but didn't have a 5 year old around when I needed one to put me right.

Would have had a brew day today but had to go to a funeral instead, no brew day tomorrow as lunching with a long long time friend from way back (1966 would you believe ) so brew day/shed day coming Friday for sure! First full grain brew for me, looking forward (hopefully ) to 40 pints of my version of Timothy Taylor Best Bitter coming my way soon!

Chris

[Philip RoweParticipant @philiprowe13116]

To be honest it was yesterday, I broke a M5 tap don't ask how but it was my own stupidity. Ordered a replacement from Tracy Tools along with some other bits that had been on the list for a while. Order timed at 16.27 with ordinary postage, package arrived earlier this morning. How's that for service, not only by the supplier but also the Royal Mail.

Needless to say I have no connection with either organisation apart from being a very satisfied user.

Phil

[EmgeeParticipant @emgee]

Tracy Tools have a long association with the model engineering fraternity and continue to provide excellent tools and service, no association just another satisfied customer.

Emgee

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

Tracy Tool have always provided a good service. I have ben using them since 1980 and can't remember any occasion where the stuff ordered didn't turn up in the next post.

What did I do today, I cleaned and polished my 1959 BSA A-10. I went for a run on it last week and it was filthy with salt mud and general crud from damp roads, I had sprayed it with ACF-50 before I set off so I wasn't worried about the salt causing corrosion. All the muck washed off easily but the one job I hate is cleaning and polishing the Alloy rims and the brake plates, you are almost guaranteed to stub your fingers against a spoke or catch the ends of the split pins in the brake clevis pins.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Spent 3 hours decorating #2 son's dining room for him. I'm too old for this nonsense! not finished yet but at least his fiance is learning how to do it

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Yesterday; bought some 4-5-6 mm screwed rod as needed to redo pillar studs on my vertical cross, needed to put extra blocks under entablature plate to get correct overall height, had made them but somehow forgotten to install ?… , having the height sorted has virtually got rid of the 'tight spot' so …

George.

[Paul 60Participant @paul60]

just finished cleaning workshop now hopefully i can find all the little bolts i have lost

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

This post is not about what i did today but what i am going to do tomorrow. tomorrow I am going to commit murder. i am going to get two of our sailing club members, chop them up in little pieces push them through the mincer & feed them to the fish in the River Blackwater. then i am going to get the fish & batter them with a big hammer.

The reason is this:- over the winter my club project was to remove the worn seating in the lower loung bar area & put new timber framing with ply panels which a (cowboy) upholsterer would cover & I would then fit. in addition I would take 12 small tables , strip  & re polish them-  (difficult to apply due to the silicons in the wood)  I had already taken the the 8 much larger tables on the upper floor and completely stripped & polished them earlier.

Once the framing was complete 2 of our ladies were to decorate the walls . I had been careful not to damage the wallpaper as the plaster was friable & would break away so i applied a plastic trim to cover the edges. the ladies then did the painting & did a very nice job as can be seen in the photos

After that the blinds were fitted

Then i fitted the upholstered seat panels & screwed them down so they would not be moved by cadets jumping on them. i finished this last Thursday. Carpets going down Saturday.

On Friday a club member decided to donate some cheap & nasty wall lights to replace the ones we already had.

SOOO a so called retired electrician & his mate turns up.(no certification to do electrical work) totally ignores the heap of dust sheets stacked on the floor next to them. Rips the old fittings off the wall, pulls down chunks of plaster complete with wall paper. Gets plaster down the backs of the "non removable" seating. Stands on the seats, lays the tools all over the table tops

Decides that the lights cannot be finished that day & will come back AFTER the carpets are done because they have some jobs to do at home. Leaves the ONE fitted wall light with a big patch of damaged wall & wall paper round it to be repaired & re painted . Does not think of placing a paptress over the damage to cover it. ( did not know what a paptress was!!

Then F's off leaving a mess for the 2 ladies to clear up & acts as though they are doing the club a big favour

This picture is just one half I will not bore you with pics of the other half– rant over as tomorrow I will be in prison & the knife crime total will have risen by 2

 

 

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 08:32:52

[EmgeeParticipant @emgee]

Sam, sounds like a case of poor planning to me, sparks should have been in first.

Emgee

[Clive IndiaParticipant @cliveindia]

Posted by Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 08:16:19:This post is not about what I did today but what I am going to do tomorrow. Tomorrow I am going to commit murder. I am going to get two of our sailing club members, chop them up in little pieces push them through the mincer & feed them to the fish in the River Blackwater. Then I am going to get the fish & batter them with a big hammer.

Battered fish is always best. This punishment is not harsh enough for sailing people!

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by Emgee on 07/04/2018 08:43:28:

Sam, sounds like a case of poor planning to me, sparks should have been in first.

Emgee

Agreed, but try telling that to the well meaning idiot who decided to donate carp wall lights on thursday after everything was almost done.

But how do you tell them they are carp & to poke them?

 

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 11:45:45

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by Clive India on 07/04/2018 09:55:23:

Posted by Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 08:16:19:This post is not about what I did today but what I am going to do tomorrow. Tomorrow I am going to commit murder. I am going to get two of our sailing club members, chop them up in little pieces push them through the mincer & feed them to the fish in the River Blackwater. Then I am going to get the fish & batter them with a big hammer.

Battered fish is always best. This punishment is not harsh enough for sailing people!

Oye!!!- watch it– nothing wrong with the sailing fraternity- Are you forgetting our heritage? Or are you another one who wants to deny us of our glorious past — & future

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

As an angler, I find this debate most interesting, because so-called "water sharing" doesn't seem to work too well. There's a great example about three miles from my home, where an angler can pay a lot of money for a day's salmon fishing on the Spey, and have it totally ruined by canoeists who pay nothing. There are many other examples nation-wide, including yachtsmen ruining fishing, and what the answer is in this overcrowded isle I wish I knew. Don't misunderstand me, yachting and canoeing are great sports at which Britain produces world champions, but we do need some answers.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

I thought the maritime punishment was keel hauling. Your ?electricians? sound like some of the so called trades men who did repairs to houses in Christchurch(NZ) after the earth quakes 7 years ago, 2000 or 3000 houses are still waiting for their second or third repair of a repair, while others are still waiting for the first repair to be done, hopefully not by some cowboy builder.

Ian S C

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

The first day of spring weather (touch wood!) here on the Moray Firth, so began a monster clean-up in the workshop. First job was to sort out all of my spanners and screwdrivers (nearly 100 sockets, plus a load of open-ended and ring spanners, 20-odd screwdrivers, plus a stud extractor, bearing puller, and no end of other stuff. It's now all been cleaned up and stashed in one of those big red tool trolleys I treated myself to last December. Tomorrow it's the turn of all the lathe tooling. The pile of rubbish for the tip (sorry, recycling centre) seems to grow by the hour………

It's been no surprise that Britool and Snap-on tools I bought in the 1960s have cleaned up like new, some but far-eastern stuff shows rust spots in the chrome.

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by Mike on 07/04/2018 13:28:23:

, including yachtsmen ruining fishing, and what the answer is in this overcrowded isle I wish I knew. Don't misunderstand me, yachting and canoeing are great sports at which Britain produces world champions, but we do need some answers.

How do yachtsmen ruin fishing? you have me on that one. Can you elucidate, briefly, because I have been sailing since 12 & never knew that i was doing that.

I have visited Inverness twice, & whitehills, on my 2 single handed round UK trips & apart from a few dolphin watchers near Chanonry point I had no idea I was upsetting anyone round the Moray Firth.( where i assume you live from your posts) Or anywhere else for that matter. When I lived at Berwick on Tweed (in the 50's & then later in the 90's)- plus many holidays with my grandparents  I did fish the Tweed  & its tributaries extensively & i never once had problems with canoeists.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 21:25:39

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Sorry, Sam – not talking about proper ocean yachtsmen such as yourself but the inconsiderate dinghy sailor idiots who plagued the English reservoirs, lakes. and rivers when I lived south of the Borders. Sail past

my house any time you like, and I'll give you a friendly wave any time. When you fished the Tweed you were lucky – you should see some Scottish rivers now.

[John Billard 1Participant @johnbillard1]

I am fitting DRO to my Dore Westbury mill that I made nearly 35 years ago. X and Y axes in place and nearly there with the Z.

John B

 

 

Edited By John Billard 1 on 07/04/2018 22:10:30

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