Replaced Caterpillar Tracks on mini Digger
We discovered a couple of days ago, at the weekend, that one of the caterpillar tracks had split and ripped half way across. We can see rusty steel wires sticking…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
The Tools we are using on this Project
We discovered a couple of days ago, at the weekend, that one of the caterpillar tracks had split and ripped half way across. We can see rusty steel wires sticking…
It took another three weeks to finish off tweaking the design of the scorching machine, with many iterative changes as we test and adapt the machine (As usual things take…
This week, we created a machine to slice up our pile of random insulation sheets (which can be up to 150 mm thick) and started putting them into the walls…
For our week’s work, we got on with the next three sections, the L, M and N which forms a U shaped inset. We first got all the tile battens…
Today, following on from Saturday’s work, we designed and built a slate cutting guillotine with supporting stand which has rubbish collection built in. The guillotine sits on top of the…
We continued with the task of slicing up the wider rolls (four of them) into a little bit narrower width (380mm because we are using narrower slates than we envisaged…
Today, we made a dispenser to hold a roll of rubber membrane (20m long strips 500mm wide wrapped on a cardboard tube) so we could easily unroll each roll of…
Today, for this hot Sunday. We tackled a long overdue job of servicing the toilet in the back of the Garage. There was an overflow problem and it seems to…
This morning, the various steel parts were welded together to form four new adjustable feet, much stronger than before. We can now have confident that our mobile scaffolding will support…
This afternoon, we needed to replace the threaded rod that are currently employed on our mobile scaffolding tower to allow for adjustment for each wheels to balance and stabilised the…