This seems to make the rounds on the geek blogs every so often.
One of the more famous things I made.
My favorite iRacing livery I made
This seems to make the rounds on the geek blogs every so often.
One of the more famous things I made.
My favorite iRacing livery I made
In reply to theruleslawyer :
Cool! I played Tribes back in the day.
Swapped my truck from auto to manual. The mechanical part is easy, everything bolts in, parts are still available, etc.
I've been driving around for a year or two with a gaping hole for shifters. Finally tackled it. Welded in some metal to get a proper hole for the OE rubber boots to seal against. Laid the rubber boot & metal frame on the floor, drilled appropriate holes, slipped some M6 clip nuts in place, screwed down boot with OE M6 bolts. Easy.
The hard part is making a shift console that looked good. New is NLA, but I did have the remnants of the auto console.
Chopped it up a little more so a new interior boot could be snapped underneath.
Needed a top, considered wood, AL sheet.... Found a big Ford dually fender liner, black plastic, smooth one side, pebble grain on flip side. Cut that to fit the entire console top. Heated it with the heat gun, wrapped around a iron pipe to get the requisite curve along the back edge.
Flipped it over, marked from the bottom where the boot cutout need to be. Cut it out, test fitted with boot, tested in truck, attached to top of original console with VHB tape. Installed everything for real. Done!
Spalted hackberry cut off our property. Milled,and dried.
First time building cabinets.
Little door alarm/disorientation device to give me some advanced warning in case some government agenc......er, uh, home invader decides to infiltrate. Could also be setup as a perimeter alarm with a trip wire for bugout/moonshine still or whatever.
Small harbor freight ammo can
12V 3.5AH sla battery
Nilight 18W spot lights
Cheap Amazon tail light strobe module
Honeywell Wave2 110db siren
SAE cable
Clothes pin diy switch
I saw this jacket online and I wanted it
So I bought a pattern and a bunch of fabric and now I have my own. My mom, a seamstress, helped. Apparently my pattern is the wrong type of sleeve compared to the original, but I'm pretty happy with it nonetheless
Heat treat oven for knife making, or whatever. Note the smoke during the initial runs... the rope-type door gasket was a terribly stinky-smelly-nasty-probably-toxic decision. Theoretically it would eventually "cook in" and stop, but it was so nasty (in my attached garage workshop) that it was cast into the Eternal Bin of Displeasure and replaced with a modified insulating brick - no more smell. On a related note, I have a destroyed connecting rod from Midlana I'm wondering if it could be turned into a knife - but that would require a forge... how hard could it be? 
In anticipation of getting into knife-making, the belt sander will be used a lot and throw sparks and metal dust. A vacuum cleaner attachment was adapted into a dust collector/chute. It can be run to either a vacuum cleaner or pointed into a water bucket.
wife came home with rolling computer cabinet from work. each corner has a swivel caster wheel held in place by one large bolt into a weld nut. E36 M3ty chinesium broke welds on 2 nuts during assembly. death wheel created access to unwelded weld nuts. ok, big deal, so what did i make? behold, the open end wrench with bar magnet:
Not dropping nut into tube: priceless.
Start with a 6 volt, one wheel drive PowerWheels Bronco, $50 on FBM:
Strip all the motors, suspension, motors, wiring, and wheels from a much larger, Craigslist score Jeep:
Fabricate a complete front suspension from on old jack handle, shifter cart steering knuckles, aluminum steering links, rod ends, and coil over shocks, and a power steering box:
End up with a lifted, 4wd, remote controlled, power steering, full suspension, dual 12v lithium battery powered monster Bronco for your Grandson:
Link to video of remote control test (scroll down to post #33 to view video).
AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:wife came home with rolling computer cabinet from work. each corner has a swivel caster wheel held in place by one large bolt into a weld nut. E36 M3ty chinesium broke welds on 2 nuts during assembly. death wheel created access to unwelded weld nuts. ok, big deal, so what did i make? behold, the open end wrench with bar magnet:
Not dropping nut into tube: priceless.
Neat! I'm filing that idea for future use.
Not sure if this counts as something I made vs something I destroyed lol...
Needed a spark plug wrench that would catch the hex portion and clear the porcelain end, but was short enough to slip over the plug inside a tight header clearance. Not shown is the interior of the socket drilled out to 1/2” to allow the porcelain to pass thru.
It no longer has the 3/8" socket for use with a ratchet, but a 3/4” wrench will still work to turn the tool
First project on 3-D printer. Console storage bin lid hinge for Miata. Black filament for final, this was a practice run with supplied filament. Print files from Thingiverse. New toys trip my trigger!
carbidetooth said:
First project on 3-D printer. Console storage bin lid hinge for Miata. Black filament for final, this was a practice run with supplied filament. Print files from Thingiverse. New toys trip my trigger!
Cool! Is that for an NB? If so, will you print me one?
NermalSnert (Forum Supporter) said:Cool! Is that for an NB? If so, will you print me one?
Yes and yes. Don't know what I don't know so let me get some filament and a little more experience under my belt. Is there a way to PM on this forum?
In reply to carbidetooth :
Yes. Click on my user name and you can contact me. I'll PM you. You should get a notice in your email.
All these parts, including the belt grinder the accessories fit, are designed by Jer Schmidt - see his YT channel for more. I chose his designs because he comes across as very genuine, clearly explaining what was done and why.
In order, a tilt table (I already made a fixed 90-degree table).
Next is a "small wheel adapter" - very handy for inside curves. A typical set of rollers goes from 3/8" - 1" diameter.
Lastly is a "contact wheel", intended for grinding large radius concave curves. It's virtually done - but obviously missing the all-important 10" wheel that's on a slow boat.
carbidetooth said:
First project on 3-D printer. Console storage bin lid hinge for Miata. Black filament for final, this was a practice run with supplied filament. Print files from Thingiverse. New toys trip my trigger!
Before printing the final version, research temps the plastic will hold to.
PLA will not hold up to summertime temps. ABS, maybe PETG, definitely Nylon based are all good candidates with their own drawbacks.
Mr_Asa said:carbidetooth said:
First project on 3-D printer. Console storage bin lid hinge for Miata. Black filament for final, this was a practice run with supplied filament. Print files from Thingiverse. New toys trip my trigger!
Before printing the final version, research temps the plastic will hold to.
PLA will not hold up to summertime temps. ABS, maybe PETG, definitely Nylon based are all good candidates with their own drawbacks.
I'm learning much about filaments and their properties and had gathered as much. This on the way, am I on the right track?
PET CF 3D Printing Filament | Filamatrix
Looks like around 250° Farenheit (125° C) is "service temperature". Recommendations for newbie friendly forums?
One issue with Nylon is that it "cold flows", meaning that under constant force, like a screw head, it'll very slowly extrude out from under it, reducing the screw's clamping force.
4cylndrfury said:
Not sure if this counts as something I made vs something I destroyed lol...
Needed a spark plug wrench that would catch the hex portion and clear the porcelain end, but was short enough to slip over the plug inside a tight header clearance. Not shown is the interior of the socket drilled out to 1/2” to allow the porcelain to pass thru.
It no longer has the 3/8" socket for usew with a ratchet, but a 3/4” wrench will still work to turn the tool
About an hour ago I was trying to get a spark plug socket on #7 plug in GT40P heads with headers. Ended up (intentionally) breaking off porcelain to use a mid-deep 16mm socket for removal. Extra stubby plug socket is exactly what's needed. Will be fabricating this SST when it's time to reinstall. Thanks!
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