Oil pen

Oil in can.

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Old felt tip pen.

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Oil pen. Good for controlled oiling without dripping (hinges, clocks, etc.).

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Box Spanner

46mm (across flats) low torque, box spanner, for restricted access on long threads.

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Welded bead around perimeter to add strength.

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Body is scaffold pole, 60% penetration on hex seam to avoid internal excess metal…

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Ford transit mt75 gearbox quickchange

Original gear lever assembly

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Pin and spherical part (some chrome alloy) may have been brazed

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Welded & machined assembly adds an extra 20mm to the selector end

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Gearbox housing spacer cast and machined from aluminium

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Completed assembly reduces top-end throws from 6″, to 4″ ~ 33% reduction.

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knoba – metal casting furnace

knoba – ball turning fixture for lathe

Wiki – Lever

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Torque gauge chuck adapter

Adapter is mild steel.

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Chuck was off an old model makers drill (3/8 unf).

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Machine taper allows adapter to fit onto both re-machined gauges.

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Tohnichi gauge left, Waters gauge right.

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Deterco.com – Waters Torque Watch

Tohnichi – Torque gauge

Wiki – Machine taper

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Emery roll dispenser

Made out of scraps around the workshop: 4mm & 6mm plywood, 10x26mm pine, 4mm rosewood dowels, stainless steel sheet, mild steel pins, nylon 66, brass rivets with a linseed oil finish…

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A little flourish around the hinge area…

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Nylon feed rollers.

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Sprung cams trap the emery, but allow it to be pulled out easily

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Lids are hinged for refills…

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Now fitted with the added possibility of a tea shelf…

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knoba – Emery Roll Dispenser – 2015.dxf (link below)

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knoba – Emery Roll Dispenser – 2015.dxf

knoba – Folding bar

WorkShopShed – Home site

Homemadetools.net – Online tool maker community

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Knurling copier & profiler

Single wheel knurler; mild steel, high tensile steel, stainless steel & brass.

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Filed, drilled, reamed & bevelled. Captivated dowels & countersunk bolts.

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Lever stops the sacrificial nut & bolt from elongating the body…

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Used on a tool post, near the tailstock off a live centre, profiles, formers & patterns can be made from silver steel…

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knoba – Knurling Copier & Profiler – 2015.dxf (link below)

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knoba – Knurling Copier & Profiler – 2015.dxf

West Yorkshire Steel – Silver steel.pdf

Ebay.co.uk – Stainless Steel Dowel 3x12mm

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Toothed drive centre

Sprung loaded silver steel single point captivated by m4 grub screw

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Arbor machined to fit one of my 5c lathe collets

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knoba – Toothed drive centre – 2015.dxf (link below)

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knoba – Toothed drive centre – 2015.dxf

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Concrete path

I really need to sort out this concrete path…

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Sliced up paving slabs will provide form-work. Can be left in situ as a feature.

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Diamond disc cutter…

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Impromptu slab sizing jig fixed to trestle…

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Stone bevelling jig…

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Cut to size, bevelled edges and stuck with industrial adhesive.

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Right side up (cut face), looks good…

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Form-work laid to pegged-out levels. Can pour concrete as individual panels, as and when.

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Panel centre features; molds made out of cement, water and a little PVA glue.

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Pattern mold made from coke bottle and a pen top lid…

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Using crayon as a release agent…

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Cement mix poured on top of mold to produce an inverted pattern…

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Wood block stuck to back of inverted pattern as a handle…

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Mix for medallions: 1 sand, 1 cement, 1 iron filings…

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Inverted pattern into tube, mixture packed in & pressed out…

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Wet medallions…

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Dry medallions (to be used as a centre feature in each panel)…

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Alternate panels poured (so I can work on each one without stepping on a previous wet panel)…

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Medallions were pressed in after tamping & striking each panel.

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Mix for panels: 1,3,3 (cement, sharp sand, ballast).

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Bostik.co.uk – Gripfill adhesive

Source4me – Concrete mix calculator

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Bearing puller

Disc can be drilled to suit other similar applications as need arises.

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Forum – Homemadetools.net

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Screwdriver Rack

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knoba – Screwdriver Rack – 2014.dxf (link below)

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Perspex – Fluorescent Cast Acrylic Neptune Blue 7T97

knoba – Screwdriver Rack – 2014.dxf

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Wood turning fixture & rests

Lathe wood turning fixture & polished 304 stainless steel rests

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Extended rest.

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knoba – Radius keepers

knoba – Spur drive

Homemadetools.net

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