What did you do in your workshop today ?

[skipdiver]

Cleaning paint and wax finish from some birch ply items i'm refurbishing. Lots of white spirit and elbow grease with wire wool and sandpaper. Was dreading it but it wasn't that bad and the parts came up well. Will repaint and wax tomorrow.

 

[MikeJhn]

Thought I would improve the dust extract from my recently acquired Axminster TS-250, I used their big mouth duct, with a little trimming it fits perfectly.



Mounted it onto the rolling base, just need to build the draws and neaten up the extract point to take the crown guard dust extract as well.



Mike

 

[MarkDennehy]

Got out the power tools and some plywood to make a jig to hold my new diamond stones.
I'm developing a dislike for power tools. They're exceptionally fast and accurate but damn are they noisy.
Still, for a jig, I don't mind so much.

And then for fun slammed a chisel into my finger and nicely sliced through to the nail from the side.

That'll learn me.



Also lined the underneath of the holdfast with a scrap of leather left over from the new strop.

 

[ColeyS1]

Fitted the donkey door today

Relieved it fitted easily!


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[Phil Pascoe]

I've just made one for my side workshop, but I've never heard one called a donkey door they're stable doors around here. Nice work. Yours I mean, not mine.

 

[swb58]

Got out the power tools and some plywood to make a jig to hold my new diamond stones.
I'm developing a dislike for power tools. They're exceptionally fast and accurate but damn are they noisy.
Still, for a jig, I don't mind so much.


And then for fun slammed a chisel into my finger and nicely sliced through to the nail from the side.

That'll learn me.



Also lined the underneath of the holdfast with a scrap of leather left over from the new strop.

I feel your pain, well sort of. Also hate those little nicks that don't seem much at the time until you realise that's where the drops of blood are coming from!

 

[steve66]

don't get much time in workshop nowadays, doing a long new workshop build, but after seeing my nephew use a sack track truck for a go-cart I thought of an upgrade, using old floorboards from the re-furbished house for that authentic look but decent wheel's I come up with this for his and his sisters joint birthday present.Long front piece to allow for extending as they get bigger, reinforce underneath neck with 15mm ply

 

[beganasatree]

Thanks Brian18741,I have just showed Janette your spice rack and guess what I have to make next??

Peter.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Brakes, Steve?

 

[steve66]

Brake was added after I took this picture as it hadn't arrived at the time, but was fitted just in time for birthday

 

[Benchwayze]

I fitted a brake to my trolley when I was a kid. I hadn't realised it should have been a 'trailing' brake. :roll:

I wasn't hurt badly, thankfully! :mrgreen:

Nice posh job. Nothing like my one! :lol:

 

[MarkDennehy]

I feel your pain, well sort of. Also hate those little nicks that don't seem much at the time until you realise that's where the drops of blood are coming from!

Yup! And hooray for stjohnsupplies.co.uk

 

[ColeyS1]

I've just made one for my side workshop, but I've never heard one called a donkey door they're stable doors around here. Nice work. Yours I mean, not mine.

Cheers Phil. I was only being silly calling it a donkey door. I really want to make a wooden donkey and have its hooves resting on the bottom door looking out. I just need to settle on the design which seems to be the hard part- Marine ply sheets ready and waiting.

Coley

 

[LancsRick]

Built a fence for my router table as the existing one wasn't versatile enough for my liking. Need a few M6 coach bolts and a couple more slots routing and it'll be sorted. Nice high (15cm) fence, independently adjustable in and outfeed fences (offset), and both fences also adjust laterally to give zero clearance if required. Finally a piece of T-track along the top edge to let me run featherboards or tenoning jigs etc.

 

[MattRoberts]

Built a fence for my router table as the existing one wasn't versatile enough for my liking. Need a few M6 coach bolts and a couple more slots routing and it'll be sorted. Nice high (15cm) fence, independently adjustable in and outfeed fences (offset), and both fences also adjust laterally to give zero clearance if required. Finally a piece of T-track along the top edge to let me run featherboards or tenoning jigs etc.

Pictures, or it didn't happen!

 

[LancsRick]

Will get pics up when it's done . I've nicked the best bits of design I could find on the net and bodged it all together in the way that only an amateur can do

 

[timbo614]

Brakes, Steve?

When I or us (older brothers) first built a kart, probably about 1960, brakes were called "feet".

 

[MikeJhn]

And wasn't mum over the moon when you returned home with scuffed new school shoes.

Mike

 

[Benchwayze]

Shoes? In the 1940s? :-({|=

 

[yetloh]

Shoes? In the 1940s? :-({|=

When my Dad was a lad in the 1920's and on his way to school in his hley plimsolls he was stopped by an elderlty gent who took him off and bought him a pair of "propershoes. Sadly, he would probably now get arrested for child abduction with intent to do god knows what.

Jim