fun with metal

i have a growing collection of junk art abominations in front of my house. this is an addition to the clan :grin: i got into some fun on Sunday, so much so that it extended into Monday evening. The fun, being the creation of a junk art lobster, just for fun! the fun started off innocently...

I got a call from a customer saying that his hydraulic sausage stuffer is not functioning correctly. i took a look and found that the control valve actuator fulcrum had failed due to excessive wear in the captivating pin and the fulcrum. the fulcrum is a stamped piece of 16 gauge galvanized...

My brother asked me if i could design a slide nailer for a job that he is working on. he is in the construction trades and needs to bang in a bunch of nails into areas he can't reach by hand he asked that it be somewhere around 30" long and needed it to be able to take punishment. here is my...

I reclaimed some aluminum from a casting from a Hobart Meat Saw. the part is considered consumable by the manufacturer, so i get about 6 or 7 of these castings a year on average i have used the aluminum for all kinds of beating devices and press plates and spacers. this time a clamping pallet...

i want to make some T nuts for my shaper's rotary table I thought for a first project to plane a piece of aluminum on 5 sides. (i planed 5 sides because one side was milled flat on a vertical mill) i was successful at making a rectangle. it is the uncut diamond! (the milled side is show...

Hello Again! i have a customer in a panic their Mettler Toledo 90* conveyor needed a pulley, so i decided to make one from scratch. i made the pulley mainly because MT is in Ohio and also because right now is not fast enough for this fickle customer! i first used my Shenwai SW900B lathe, to...