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#3195347 15-Feb-2024 03:57

elpenguino:

Tinkerisk:

Yes, it's the smallest pendulum clock, but I just wanted to build it because it literally shows how time passes and you're supposed to appreciate it (time, that is, but maybe also the clock). It's a lot of fun to build carefully. I have it in black because it fits timelessly everywhere.

Timeless clock ? So it's not working then ?

Just a suggestion - why not show us the one you built rather than the official photos? This is a DIY thread after all. 😃

Timeless design.

Because at the moment I can't get to it at any time, as it is in the climate room of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in order to adjust it correctly according to various series of measurements. In the meantime, it has aroused so much desire among the researchers there that I'm afraid I'll never see it again. But I have been given a solemn promise not to touch it. 🤭

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#3195350 15-Feb-2024 07:08

Correctional edit: „Longitude“ written by Dava Sobel. Not „Latitude“. I was unfocussed when I wrote this. 😆

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#3195432 15-Feb-2024 10:00

Tinkerisk:

elpenguino:

Timeless clock ? So it's not working then ?

Just a suggestion - why not show us the one you built rather than the official photos? This is a DIY thread after all. 😃

Timeless design.

Because at the moment I can't get to it at any time, as it is in the climate room of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in order to adjust it correctly according to various series of measurements. In the meantime, it has aroused so much desire among the researchers there that I'm afraid I'll never see it again. But I have been given a solemn promise not to touch it. 🤭

I knew I should have put a smilie on that first line as well. 😀😀

If you're into clocks, next time you're at greenwich, visit the museum of the guild of clockmakers (near guildhall IIRC) - they're got all sorts of whacky time related gizmos.

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#3212452 31-Mar-2024 11:22

Ordered a whole lot of 12V garden/deck lighting stuff from AliExpress, which only took a week to arrive. Awesome, I thought, it will be a nice Easter project. However, now that I’ve opened the packages, the 2-pin waterproof plug and sockets on the different components are slightly different (pin spacing and thread pitch). Not quite the plug and play solution I had anticipated, but not insurmountable. Just a lot of cutting, splicing and heat sealing instead. As long as I cost my time out at $0/hr it will still turn out a relatively cheap experiment. Exercises the problem solving part of the brain.

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#3212588 31-Mar-2024 19:22

Dingbatt:

Ordered a whole lot of 12V garden/deck lighting stuff from AliExpress, which only took a week to arrive. Awesome, I thought, it will be a nice Easter project. However, now that I’ve opened the packages, the 2-pin waterproof plug and sockets on the different components are slightly different (pin spacing and thread pitch). Not quite the plug and play solution I had anticipated, but not insurmountable. Just a lot of cutting, splicing and heat sealing instead. As long as I cost my time out at $0/hr it will still turn out a relatively cheap experiment. Exercises the problem solving part of the brain.

The wonderful thing about those "waterproof" plugs is that they all look the same but are totally different.

Ive gone with aliexpress lights now since the overpriced locally available "stainless" ones I got were all held together with mild steel with a token yellow coating parts so disintegrated within a year or 2. I still have all the parts for if I choose to put them together again but the plastic all yellowed and went brittle so I would have to try to 3d print a new diffuser for it and other things that make it just too much work.

Got a link to the lights you got?

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#3213264 2-Apr-2024 16:31

richms:

Got a link to the lights you got?

Not a link, but they are generic ones that seem to have multiple vendors for the same thing.

Here is an image from the AliExpress App

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#3221110 21-Apr-2024 18:27

Recently rebuilt our old garden seat. Acid dipped the wrought iron(heavy) ends to remove the existing paint, sand blasted them, and painted with Hammerite. Slats are Kwila and all bolted together with 316 stainless bolts and nylock nuts. Very happy with the result.

Found a table with matching ends at a recycle(scrap) yard last weekend so in the process of rebuilding that.

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#3221116 21-Apr-2024 19:34

k1w1k1d:

Recently rebuilt our old garden seat. Acid dipped the wrought iron(heavy) ends to remove the existing paint, sand blasted them, and painted with Hammerite. Slats are Kwila and all bolted together with 316 stainless bolts and nylock nuts. Very happy with the result.

Found a table with matching ends at a recycle(scrap) yard last weekend so in the process of rebuilding that.

That is very nice!

Be careful sitting on it until the kwila stops bleeding it's orange stain though!

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#3221165 21-Apr-2024 20:07

That's why it is on the lawn and not the pavers.

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#3221193 21-Apr-2024 21:20

If it feels a bit wobbly the original seat had bracing from the hole you see at top of the arch on the leg ends to the centre of the slat above.

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#3221195 21-Apr-2024 22:18

The seat didn't have any bracing when we got it and was rather wobbly. At the moment it is rock solid.

I think it may have originally had a curved bracing strap in the middle screwed to the back of the slats. This brace would then have had further braces down to the hole in the ends.

Something to look into and make over winter.

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#3243448 31-May-2024 22:23

Have just finished a matching table to go with the bench seat.

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#3243456 31-May-2024 22:51

I am making a LH thread bolt and screw on handle for my lawn mower.

The bits which tie the upper/lower parts of the handle so they can be folded down has always rattled loose when I mow the laws (this is true of other lawn movers I have had), so I wondered if a LH thread will fix the issue.

Will finish the lathe work this weekend to try it out.

Next will be making a 16mm draw bar to hold my MT4 ER32 collect chuck in place in my lathe so I can make some linking pins to tie my hammerlock shelving sets together for earthquake robustness., the are short, need a couple of groves in them close together and the ER collets seems the best option.

This is all new learning opportunities for me.

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#3243513 1-Jun-2024 13:08

sir1963:
I am making a LH thread bolt and screw on handle for my lawn mower.

The bits which tie the upper/lower parts of the handle so they can be folded down has always rattled loose when I mow the laws (this is true of other lawn movers I have had), so I wondered if a LH thread will fix the issue.

Will finish the lathe work this weekend to try it out.

Next will be making a 16mm draw bar to hold my MT4 ER32 collect chuck in place in my lathe so I can make some linking pins to tie my hammerlock shelving sets together for earthquake robustness., the are short, need a couple of groves in them close together and the ER collets seems the best option.

This is all new learning opportunities for me.

Would it be worth trying some Loctite or using a nylock nut before trying LH threads?

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#3243522 1-Jun-2024 14:06

BlargHonk:
sir1963:

I am making a LH thread bolt and screw on handle for my lawn mower.

The bits which tie the upper/lower parts of the handle so they can be folded down has always rattled loose when I mow the laws (this is true of other lawn movers I have had), so I wondered if a LH thread will fix the issue.

Will finish the lathe work this weekend to try it out.

Next will be making a 16mm draw bar to hold my MT4 ER32 collect chuck in place in my lathe so I can make some linking pins to tie my hammerlock shelving sets together for earthquake robustness., the are short, need a couple of groves in them close together and the ER collets seems the best option.

This is all new learning opportunities for me.

Would it be worth trying some Loctite or using a nylock nut before trying LH threads?

We regularly fold down the handles

I would not have learned anything and not had some fun learning

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