DIY Construction - Building your own stuff

[Hippopatumus]

I'm not usually one for working with dead tree carcasses, but sometimes that is the best material for a job.

My latest project was a stand for a water storage tank. Made out of tubafour and some decent plywood I had laying around.

Water tank is a 50 gallon for storing RO/DI water for use around the house, mainly for my fishtank and hydroponic system. Water goes from filters into top of tank and I run it to fill every few weeks. You can either get water straight from the tap or use a 6 foot hose. The height of the stand allows gravity to do the work. The water comes roaring out, works well.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I'm not usually one for working with dead tree carcasses, but sometimes that is the best material for a job.

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[Phalanges Mycologist]

Sorry for the Bump and double post but I think that this is worth it -

I've got a call from someone I know who works for a builder, there is a building they have been brought in to convert from a largeish old factory to offices and some flats, the business whent bust but not bankrupt it was locked up about 10 years ago and eventually just sold off and apparently all the tools are still in the maintenance room and they have been told to get rid of them - The builders are keeping most of the hand tools but I might be able to get -

Colchester Student MK1 and Bridgeport Mill for little more than scrap price, they look from what I can see to just be sat there little light surface rust from age and disuse there looks to be a shit load of tooling for both as well.

I've got noplace to put them at the moment other than my storage unit but even if I buy them now and dont use them for 10 years I'm not going to turn that offer down if they are in even Needs a full tear down and rebuild condition.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

Sorry for the Bump and double post but I think that this is worth it -

I've got a call from someone I know who works for a builder, there is a building they have been brought in to convert from a largeish old factory to offices and some flats, the business whent bust but not bankrupt it was locked up about 10 years ago and eventually just sold off and apparently all the tools are still in the maintenance room and they have been told to get rid of them - The builders are keeping most of the hand tools but I might be able to get -

Colchester Student MK1 and Bridgeport Mill for little more than scrap price, they look from what I can see to just be sat there little light surface rust from age and disuse there looks to be a shit load of tooling for both as well.

I've got noplace to put them at the moment other than my storage unit but even if I buy them now and dont use them for 10 years I'm not going to turn that offer down if they are in even Needs a full tear down and rebuild condition.

the bridgeport is cool, i don't have a drill press or a lathe.
i tried to make the new hammer head, but the drill bit i used to gauge the hole tore off a chunk of wood instead of drilling a bigger hole.. lol
i used smaller bits to size up but it decided to tear out a chunk anyway. whoops.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

the bridgeport is cool, i don't have a drill press or a lathe.
i tried to make the new hammer head, but the drill bit i used to gauge the hole tore off a chunk of wood instead of drilling a bigger hole.. lol
i used smaller bits to size up but it decided to tear out a chunk anyway. whoops.

Is this for a mallet or a hammer?

All hammer heads need a taper in them so that when the handle is fitted and you put the wedge in it traps it in and wont fly off during the swing, when fitting a mallet head you drill it out with a auger and then drift it out with a file / rasp / float and if it's a hammer head you use a type of punch called a drift to form the eye during forging.

 

[DeeDee Megadoodoo]

I built a whole house in Red Dead Redemption 2, not bragging.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Another as new Marples Plane still new in the Box made before 1939.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

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Another as new Marples Plane still new in the Box made before 1939.

oh good point, it's probably a mallet and not a hammer.
this one is some kind of unique wooden mallet with a metal rod in the handle.
here is a picture, this is before the bit broke off a chunk.

just sanding applewood was difficult so beech is probably just as difficult to work with.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

I don't know if it counts, but I've been getting into leatherworking lately. Mostly small projects to get comfortable with the techniques, but I'm about to make a small messenger out of 4 oz oil-tanned leather for my niece.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

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Another as new Marples Plane still new in the Box made before 1939.

I am doing a project I will photo for the farms, I will be mounting a Brass plate to the bottom tomorrow, this will extend the life of the plane to nearly infinite and reduce Lube for the Soul of the plane.

I don't know if it counts, but I've been getting into leatherworking lately. Mostly small projects to get comfortable with the techniques, but I'm about to make a small messenger out of 4 oz oil-tanned leather for my niece.

NICE!

I am really into Leather goods and tired making my own stuff like pouches, and sewing mods onto my already existing stuff or wet forming a Sheath but I'd love to take it deeper but I don't have the time to do it and do it the justice the topic deserves, I've made a few bits for leather workers like Skiving and trimming knives also a few longer more stout needels but I'd love to learn to to do leather work.

I wish you all the best in your efforts, and I hope you find the passion so many others do in that work.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

i found my dyes after i bought new ones, go figure. now i have twice as much dye and it was only 2 - 3$ per 8oz.

i tried to make a thin sheet of felt with dyed milkweed but it kept staying soft when it was sprayed with water+glue.
after a few days of that not working, i directly applied wood glue without water and smashed it into the fibers with a rolling pin.
once it dried, it was a very hard sheet of glue with milkweed trapped in it. lol.

some of my wood in storage was molding so i treated it with a water +baking soda and it stopped the mold before it stained the wood.

i've seen these before but i never knew what they were called until recently. Alebrije folk art is something i would like to get into:

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

some of my wood in storage was molding so i treated it with a water +baking soda and it stopped the mold before it stained the wood.

I'm glad you caught it in time, I'd hate to lose material especially stuff I've cut myself.

i've seen these before but i never knew what they were called until recently. Alebrije folk art:

Really vibrant colour scheams, not normally something I'm into but they look adorable.

Sadly verry little to report from me, Other than I've renewed my vendetta against plywood - I've been helping a friend build some chicken coops and I've forgotten how much it hates reall woodworking tools and seems to like to eat a diet consisting mainly of Plane Soles.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Sorry for the double post and Bump but I've sent this to @HERE YOU GO and thought I would share this is a English book written in WW2 to give to the public or sell at a low cost as part of the Do It Yourself / Dig for Victory movement and also provide skills training on the cheap.

It teaches you how to build your own tools with minimal skill nearly totally out of wood so no metalworking skills are required, everything from Mallets, to Planes and Bowsaws it's all in here along with tool box's and work benches.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

i've been cutting stone with a diamond edge wet tile cutter.
it's a lot of work, i'm tired just cutting a hand sized rock in half.
i wear a respirator, goggles and apron to cut the stone and my apron is now full of silicate and chalky just after a few cuts. it makes a pretty good mess.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

i've been cutting stone with a diamond edge wet tile cutter.
it's a lot of work, i'm tired just cutting a hand sized rock in half.
i wear a respirator, goggles and apron to cut the stone and my apron is now full of silicate and chalky just after a few cuts. it makes a pretty good mess.
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You're well on your way to making some decent natual sharpening stones there, see if you can play around with the surface finish a bit to make some slightly more corse and others you can lap them smooth - the silicate in the bottom of your saw makes a decent lapping powder btw, you need to drain it off into a container you can evaporate off and let it settle then scrape it out as you need it.

Good call on the respirator by the way, Silicosis is not something you want to tempt.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

You're well on your way to making some decent natual sharpening stones there, see if you can play around with the surface finish a bit to make some slightly more corse and others you can lap them smooth - the silicate in the bottom of your saw makes a decent lapping powder btw, you need to drain it off into a container you can evaporate off and let it settle then scrape it out as you need it.

Good call on the respirator by the way, Silicosis is not something you want to tempt.

aw man before i read this, i rinsed out the tray because it was so full of muddy powder, it started frothing and clogging the saw. i'll be collecting it next time, i wanted to polish the stones and had no idea the silicate dust would be used exactly for that.

i didn't even think about whetstones though, good idea.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

aw man before i read this, i rinsed out the tray because it was so full of muddy powder, it started frothing and clogging the saw. i'll be collecting it next time, i wanted to polish the stones and had no idea the silicate dust would be used exactly for that.

i didn't even think about whetstones though, good idea.

Yea that's how it goes you always find a use for the thing you just threw out, I've kicked myself not realising something until just after it's wound up in the bin - The amount of people I know who just bin brass and Bronze swarf is absurd I save it all and dump it into one of those blue UN food barrels and then melt it down as and when I need it, but I am anal about keeping my workbench clean.

If you want to turn it into a Supper Lapping compound get a bag of powdered industrial diamonds and mix it in a 50/50 mix and then use a very light oil to make it fluid when you need it, it's a trick a lot of Japanese blade smiths have been using to make better hamons and it really does work well as a lapping compound. There is a place I know that I by scrap Inconel from who uses powdered diamonds as a shot blasting media, they use it on some super high tolerance parts made from really exotic materials, they have a separator bath for the used media where they float the slurry through a oil water mix with a strong electromagnet to pull out the ferrous metals and it gives them 5X the life from the media.

They are experimenting with the used media for steel production as well, likely as a carbon source but they are really hush hush about it, supposedly it's for medical and scientific use.

At the moment - I am working on a "Cheap" site tool box, I have a really nice one I made from quarter sawn oak but I am going to do the extended course taking me to 5 years rather than just 3, and some of that I will be working on 0 budget projects in places where theft is a issue, so I am making a Carpenters box from plywood and filling it with B grade vintage tools and self made tools I don't mind much if I lose them, my next 2 years is going to be mostly practical work with a bit of classroom time and a hell of a lot of reaserch, and this isn't the only tool box I'm having to make one's for Carpentry, ones for smithing and then a general box as well for when I need to help out other restoration efforts, part of this will be making tools for them as required.

I am also going to be documenting the work and any historical work I work on to reproduce it as best I can and also for historians to look at, so I'm looking at getting some more camera lenses for myself and possibly a specialist camera or two to aid in the documentation.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

i discovered orange sand in my yard and a lot of places claim orange sand is iron rich.
after reading about it for awhile i found this video. pretty cool.

 

[Sicklick]

Here's a DIY project for KF: say you wanted to shitpost, but you were in prison and weren't allowed a computer so anything you make is contraband. What do? I would just enroll in an education/college program so I can go to classes, steal a calculator, add some Arduino shit to it or whatever and hook it up to the prison wifi and access Kiwi Farms on a TI-82.

EDIT: apparently this is possible. I only thought you could do this with games.

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