Since I made a candle/bottle holder using Chevy valves, I had to make one using Ford valves. I also made a business card/pen holder from a connecting rod. I will probably add a small clock or round picture frame inside the larger hole. The timing gear and chain is just a piece of wall art with a Ford badge I found on the side of the road.
Millermatic 252 MIG
Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
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after seeing all the stuff that you can do with scrap metal, I can't wait to salvage parts from my next repair work on my vehicles. I use to junk the metal parts whenever I'd work on my vehicles, but since taking up this hobby, can now re-purpose this stuff instead. do most people on this site do this for a living, or is it a hobby? a lot of talent here.
A man recently brought me some farm "stuff" and said he could see it becoming an elephant head and wanted me to make it come true. So I did. Here it is.
after seeing all the stuff that you can do with scrap metal, I can't wait to salvage parts from my next repair work on my vehicles. I use to junk the metal parts whenever I'd work on my vehicles, but since taking up this hobby, can now re-purpose this stuff instead. do most people on this site do this for a living, or is it a hobby? a lot of talent here.
I just do this as a hobby. It makes enough for me to pay for new tools and I have been fortunate these last couple of years. I started out with only a Miller 175, DeWalt Dry cut 14 chop saw, and 4-1/2" grinder. In the last three years it has allowed me to pay for my Dynasty, Bridgeport, Doall vertical bandsaw, horizontal bandsaw, stomp shear, slip roller, lathe, and a 6x12 enclosed trailer to bring items to shows. In other words, all the money I made went right back to more tools.
I am hoping, and my wife hoping even more, that I don't "need" too many more tools.
Millermatic 252 MIG
Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
Arclight Dynamics 4x8 plasma table www.psacustomcreations.com
I just do this as a hobby. It makes enough for me to pay for new tools and I have been fortunate these last couple of years. I started out with only a Miller 175, DeWalt Dry cut 14 chop saw, and 4-1/2" grinder. In the last three years it has allowed me to pay for my Dynasty, Bridgeport, Doall vertical bandsaw, horizontal bandsaw, stomp shear, slip roller, lathe, and a 6x12 enclosed trailer to bring items to shows. In other words, all the money I made went right back to more tools.
I am hoping, and my wife hoping even more, that I don't "need" too many more tools.
Very true. I just keep improving the shop one piece at a time.
My "need" list:
Real welding table. I currently have a piece of 1/8" plate on top of my table saw.
My "Want" list:
12'x'32' extension on the back of the shop so I can move all my misc crap out and get my car lift back.
4'x8' plasma table
Horizontal/vertical rotary table for the Bridgeport
Right angle attachment for the Bridgeport
Upgrade to a 14" or 16" lathe
Finger brake
Home made powder coating oven
Millermatic 252 MIG
Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
Arclight Dynamics 4x8 plasma table www.psacustomcreations.com
I made this lamp out of a variety of gears, a piston wrist pin and a large wood augur. The gear on top rotates and can slide up and down on the wrist pin.
The bottom two gears were cast so it was a bit of a pain trying to TIG them together since they were cast. I have read on here about preheating and post heating to avoid cracks but forgot to do that since I don't work with cast very much. When I welded the washer on top of the second gear I remembered since I saw some cracks in the first couple of welds. I put the item in front of my hear gun for a while until it was too hot to pick up. I know, not very scientific but as an art piece I can say it adds character to the piece. In addition, there was quite a bit of porosity to the weld. I ended up going back over it to smooth it out and add more filler.
I need to get or make a positioner for items like this since I was having a hard time with my starts, stops and keeping the right angle. I used ER70S on the underside of the first gear and SilBr on the second gear and washer.
Millermatic 252 MIG
Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
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I was asked by a customer to make a video showing how some of my bells sound from various distances up to 300 feet away. My dog, Donner, kept barking off to the side until I let him appear in the video.
Millermatic 252 MIG
Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
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I was finally able to get some small clocks of the right diameter to complete a few of my piston and car part items. It is the same item as before, but I took pics using different backgrounds.
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Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
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I wanted to make a piston clock and small picture holder. In order to do that, I had to mill out the slot so that it could hold two connecting rods.
Once that was done I had to find a clock and picture frame of the right diameter. The inside of the connecting rod is about 2-1/8". I found clocks that fit, but the portrait holder is only 2" in diameter. In order to make it work, I had to find a bushing to hold the smaller frame. I couldn't find any DOM of the right size in my scrap pile so I ran some ugly beads inside the 2" aluminum pipe I had. I turned both the inside and outside diameters to what I needed and then trimmed it to fit.
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Millermatic 252 MIG
Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
Arclight Dynamics 4x8 plasma table www.psacustomcreations.com
A few more pieces for an office type setting. An in/outbox and a "hold" tray or a serving tray. Both were made from a couple of scrap pieces of channel.
Millermatic 252 MIG
Miller Dynasty 200DX TIG
Altas 12x36 Metal Lathe
Bridgeport Milling Machine
Arclight Dynamics 4x8 plasma table www.psacustomcreations.com