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What have you made lately?

byke said:
You gonna need to tell us more about this!
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Lots of utube vids on this - the basic idea is drill a smaller hole in the center and then pound it down over a tapered punch or ring sizer.

The nickel is straight forward, but a silver dollar is better. The token I think is from Chuck-E Cheese's but I also remember some place that closed down that it could have come from.
 
I finally made a shiny weld bead. Qualification: This is my second time trying TIG welding. I was standing, hunched over the part, which was clamped to a wobbly tire changer, bare knuckle welding so I could not rest my hands on anything. And I tweaked my back moving an empty shoe box last night, so I was in incredible pain!
 

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ctwo said:
I finally made a shiny weld bead. Qualification: This is my second time trying TIG welding. I was standing, hunched over the part, which was clamped to a wobbly tire changer, bare knuckle welding so I could not rest my hands on anything. And I tweaked my back moving an empty shoe box last night, so I was in incredible pain!
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Need details... what type of TIG machine yada yada yada.....I am looking at the HF Omni pro 220 but don't have space yet for it.
 
Sharxfan said:
Need details... what type of TIG machine yada yada yada.....I am looking at the HF Omni pro 220 but don't have space yet for it.
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I just bought this from byke, an AlphaTIG 200x. The only thing I knew about TIG welding is that you need one to weld aluminum, but they can weld about anything. And the latest crop of these imports are likely the same but there are many online reviews.

As soon as you have a TIG, all your friends will come out with broken off engine castings that need welding. :laughing
 
ctwo said:
As soon as you have a TIG, all your friends will come out with broken off engine castings that need welding. :laughing
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I have no friends here so no worries about that.......

I am about to start working on the hoopty so a nice welder would make it easier to do some things. I do like working the metal.......

I have read nothing but good things about the Omni Pro but am leery about the $900 buy-in and really how much am I going to use it.
 
well it isn't a Pipe Organ... sheesh
but i made some glitter with my table saw. i also made, at the same time (multitasking!!) a heat sink/scab plate for the new regulator rectifier I finally finished installing on my buell. it's true, to own a buell is to wonder what's going to break next but it's so FuUuuuuuUuUN!
 

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As a side note, the wife and I were having breakfast in Davis a few years ago and got to chatting with an older fellow next to us that was talking about his organ(npi) and invited us to his house, which sure seems a little odd, but we went and absolutely did not regret it. He converted his garage and added onto it to house a massive vaudevillian organ that was removed from the Fox Theater in San Francisco before it was demolished. This thing had enough horsepower to fill a theater with thousands of seats and he had this thing in his effing garage. One of the coolest things I've ever seen and it felt like being at the top fuel drags.
 
auntiebling said:
Did you make the pipes too?

Someone was giving a full pipe organ away on craigslist not long ago. Like 5x the pipes as that.
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Didn't make the pipes, but did extend the length of one.

What you're seeing is a facade that covers the real pipes at the back of the building. There are several ranks of pipes behind the facade and many more at the front of the building. While the pipes you can see in this shot don't make noise in this organ, they are real pipes that would function if connected to a wind chest.
 
Budgie, yeah that's just a little bigger than the one I was working on. :laughing

Today I made a sharpening jig for chisels:

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It works pretty well:

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ctwo said:
I finally made a shiny weld bead. Qualification: This is my second time trying TIG welding. I was standing, hunched over the part, which was clamped to a wobbly tire changer, bare knuckle welding so I could not rest my hands on anything. And I tweaked my back moving an empty shoe box last night, so I was in incredible pain!
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I have been TIG welding for a few years, but mostly mild and stainless steel. My aluminum welding sucks.
 
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