Post pictures of something you have made!

[kod38]

Scratch built 1/24 scale VW thing.
Built from straight styrene tube and rod, scabbed parts from various kits, and even some real automotive parts used.
This is pre firearm hobby.lol

 

[11Charlie]

300 Blackout MFG work station for cutting my 556 brass. Used scraps from around the house.

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Oh I so want one for my man cave!! Do you sell these?

 

[kod38]

Oh I so want one for my man cave!! Do you sell these?

J- If the model I sold it years ago for $150
Took me a month to fab .
The 300 blk, Michael or I can walk you through the build up?

 

[11Charlie]

J- If the model I sold it years ago for $150
Took me a month to fab .
The 300 blk, Michael or I can walk you through the build up?

I'll hit him up thanks.

 

[kod38]

I'll hit him up thanks.

Squirrel daddy jig, harbor freight 2" chop saw.
I used pcv pipe , plywood , and door trim for my mounting .
The brass drops through the hole in to the bin.
Saw is under $30 with coupon
Jig is $10

 

[wired]

I'm a plant engineer for a chemical plant. Out here in the stix we use evaporative wastewater ponds for non hazardous waste. We spray it up in the air and it evaporates. Easy to do in the desert in the summer. Not so easy in the winter. I looked into a few options to speed things along but the costs for a propane fired forced evaporator unit were into the $150K range and would only evaporate about 1000 gallons a day. That would keep us out of trouble in the winter but not by much. I decided to build a steam fired unit that lay in the bottom of a transfer station to boil off the tank cleaning water etc. using the 800 HP boiler I bought last year. I had 200 foot of schedule 80 pipe installed in the transfer pit with a condensate trap feeding condensate back to our 800 HP boiler. I also designed a external float system to control the steam solenoid that feeds the coils and the pump that transfers waste water to the evaporative pond. So, in the end the unit evaporates off 1000 Gallons per hour . We run it a few hours in the morning and allows us to put off or completely eliminate costly pond expansion to expand the business. Also installed in the system are two high volume fans that pull vapor from the production area trenches and keep the production area air clean. Very pleased with this and consider it a major feather in the hat.

 

[kod38]

Before and After 440 Cuda piston i did just now

 

[wired]

Sprayed red sealer on this today. I had to spray red sealer to prevent bleed through of the black primer. Candy red will be the final color with holographic gold flake in clear for the rally stripes..



A year ago...

 

[ageingstudent]

I'm a plant engineer for a chemical plant. Out here in the stix we use evaporative wastewater ponds for non hazardous waste. We spray it up in the air and it evaporates. Easy to do in the desert in the summer. Not so easy in the winter. I looked into a few options to speed things along but the costs for a propane fired forced evaporator unit were into the $150K range and would only evaporate about 1000 gallons a day. That would keep us out of trouble in the winter but not by much. I decided to build a steam fired unit that lay in the bottom of a transfer station to boil off the tank cleaning water etc. using the 800 HP boiler I bought last year. I had 200 foot of schedule 80 pipe installed in the transfer pit with a condensate trap feeding condensate back to our 800 HP boiler. I also designed a external float system to control the steam solenoid that feeds the coils and the pump that transfers waste water to the evaporative pond. So, in the end the unit evaporates off 1000 Gallons per hour . We run it a few hours in the morning and allows us to put off or completely eliminate costly pond expansion to expand the business. Also installed in the system are two high volume fans that pull vapor from the production area trenches and keep the production area air clean. Very pleased with this and consider it a major feather in the hat.

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I think your cap deserves a feather. And maybe a fat raise. Wow and I was all proud of my home made cartridge trays and the jig I had to make to get the holes uniformly spaced lol.

 

[ageingstudent]

How about a nice little keepsake box for mama? I spend so much time in the shop and at work I thought I'd let her know I think about her. She doesn't know I'm working on it

Wood is African Ribbon Mahogany with a natural oil finish.

 

[Tilos]

I built/fab'ed this dueling tree with paddles/tubes I bought on ebay.

 

[wired]

Sprayed this today. Base with a couple of layers of clear. Next week I'll sand it and lay down the Z/28 stripe stencils and spray clear with a helping of holographic gold flake for the stripes. Then clear over the hood and trunk again, another week and then sand for final paint to the rest of the car and lots of clear in the booth. Cant do the whole car in my garage. Just preliminary base work. Real PITA keeping the dust down in there.

 

[Heyjoe]

The door doctor's on site

 

[medicmike63]

I didn't build this but I did assemble and integrate the first two prototypes of this. AFAIK this is still the world's most productive digital printing press...

 

[SWMR2]

 

[kod38]

Pirate Harley Davidson piston I did the other day.

 

[kmk1012]

Not exactly off-topic since it's gun related but it's something I designed and made in my own shop. A .22 conversion kit for the 1911 that only replaces the barrel and the magazine. It uses the original .45 slide and spring. When installed, the only original parts not in the gun are, yup, the barrel and the magazine. It totally functions as original (except for recoil and cost) and locks open on the last shot (most of the time. .22 being not all that consistent). Anyway, an interesting project. I'd hoped to market it but just as I was finishing up the prototype, .22RF became real scarce and sorta took the wind out of my sails so on to other projects.
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The barrel was cut from barstock and rifled.
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I had the magazine flat laser cut to my drawing then made a bunch of forming tools to fold it up in my little press brake.
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Then spot welded it with my Harbor Freight spot welder with custom electrodes I made.View attachment 416038

Having proven a full-function .22 conversion could be done without making new aluminum slides etc. I had hoped to market the idea and be able to work on another of *too-many ideas*. No such luck so far

How has this project come since? That looks fascinating!

 

[wired]

Heres something I did today. Long day!

 

[wired]

Got it home. I'll give it a week or more until I sand and buff it. If I didnt very few people would n
know. Turned out pretty good. Need to put it all back together now.

 

[SWMR2]

nice looking car (MR2 guy) you building it as a fun driver/drag car then? If you haven't all ready www.bringatrailer.com is always a fun sight to check out daily.