POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[savarin]

In keeping with my stingyness of not supporting large manufactures greed just like my coffee machine tray I had to purchase new bottles for my soda stream.
Imaging my surprise when I got them home and found sodastream had changed their dimensions so they wouldnt fit my functioning machine.
The old size is the purple top. The new type is taller and slimmer.

No way was I paying for a new machine if I can alter the old one to fit the new bottles.
A little action with a rat tailed file and I opened out the base so I could slip the machine over the new bottle.

Only slightly more fiddly than the original method but so much cheaper, $0.00, my kind of price.
It worked. Take that soda stream.

 

[GoceKU]

Today i stopped by friend of mine to get one of my spare rims welded. We were talking how when i got that set of rims its size 18" was considered very big. Now with cars on 20" rims from the factory they seem small. He did a good job welding it, there was some dirty aluminium that bubble up but he managed to weld it up from both sides. Now i'll have to clean it up and make it smooth. Now that the set is complete i may use it on my 607 for winter tires.

 

[great white]

In keeping with my stingyness of not supporting large manufactures greed just like my coffee machine tray I had to purchase new bottles for my soda stream.
Imaging my surprise when I got them home and found sodastream had changed their dimensions so they wouldnt fit my functioning machine.
The old size is the purple top. The new type is taller and slimmer.
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No way was I paying for a new machine if I can alter the old one to fit the new bottles.
A little action with a rat tailed file and I opened out the base so I could slip the machine over the new bottle.
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Only slightly more fiddly than the original method but so much cheaper, $0.00, my kind of price.
It worked. Take that soda stream.

Maybe machine yourself a “spacer” to raise the soda machine so your new bottles will fit in without having to lift up the soda machine?

Or do the new bottles fit in “as is”?

 

[savarin]

I can tilt them then they slip in with no problems

 

[FOMOGO]

Or! an air over hydraulic, solar powered, bottle placement arm, yah, that's the ticket. Cheers, Mike

Only slightly more fiddly than the original method but so much cheaper, $0.00, my kind of price.
It worked. Take that soda stream.

 

[finsruskw]

Today i stopped by friend of mine to get one of my spare rims welded. We were talking how when i got that set of rims its size 18" was considered very big. Now with cars on 20" rims from the factory they seem small. He did a good job welding it, there was some dirty aluminium that bubble up but he managed to weld it up from both sides. Now i'll have to clean it up and make it smooth. Now that the set is complete i may use it on my 607 for winter tires.
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Wonder what a DOT or DMV inspector would have to say about that?

 

[great white]

Wonder what a DOT or DMV inspector would have to say about that?

Depends on the degree of original damage and quality of the weld.

Lots of specialty shops out there that repair bent/cracked Al rims. But they tend to follow a very detailed process. they don’t just scuff up the Al and go at it with a tig machine.

I’d be more concerned about the “dirty aluminum that bubble up” comment. That usually means the aluminum wasn’t thoroughly cleaned before welding and the “contaminants” that bubbled up could have made the weld porous, or possibly weakened.

If theres what looks like black flecks in the weld surface, its most likely a porous weld, and thus, suspect….

 

[great white]

Was wondering how I was going to strip the paint off the fins on the FJ1200 engine without spending the next 3 weeks on it with a sanding block.

Then I remembered a family friend dumped a bunch of tools off when her husband passed away. I dug out this cheap little thing:



And roughly 5 minutes later:



They still need some fine work with a sanding block and some finer grits, but 5 mins is waaaaay better than a couple weeks of manual labor.

When done, I said a little “thanks Shawn” to myself under my breath to my passed on friend….

 

[ChazzC]

In keeping with my stingyness of not supporting large manufactures greed just like my coffee machine tray I had to purchase new bottles for my soda stream.
Imaging my surprise when I got them home and found sodastream had changed their dimensions so they wouldnt fit my functioning machine.
The old size is the purple top. The new type is taller and slimmer.
View attachment 425604
No way was I paying for a new machine if I can alter the old one to fit the new bottles.
A little action with a rat tailed file and I opened out the base so I could slip the machine over the new bottle.
View attachment 425605
Only slightly more fiddly than the original method but so much cheaper, $0.00, my kind of price.
It worked. Take that soda stream.

Nice fix. It won't be that easy for me if I drop the glass bottles as the mechanism on my SodaStream is different:



Why is it different? Well . . .









My wife & daughter got him for me many years ago when my daughter worked for Williams-Sonoma – they said he begged them to buy him for me.

 

[great white]

Assembly begins:



Scratched the new frame paint in a couple places, but thats par for the course when the frame wraps so tightly around the engine everywhere. A little paint touch up and no one will ever know.

The objective is to get it back together as a roller. I need the space to put the wife’s mini cooper in the heated shop over winter so I can change the timing chain and valve seals…