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Not much more than an African living in New Zealand. :dunno: Mind you I have a Dutch colleague who started talking about growing up with windmills(the grain mill kind) to a group of Aussie colleagues who were thinking about the water pump kind you see on farms. It was just as confusing... :lol:

Seizing the opportunity by the scrotal fur and force-feed it a fresh batch of motivation! :lol: My first paid programming job was on 3270 dumb terminals like these - I think they supported 4 colours too if I recall correctly. The one I used took a good 10mins to warm up enough for the...

Big congratulations on the new great gran kid Bob. I lost a few days along with 20 pages of Bob's updates! Glad the storm lost it's steam even though it doesn't seem to feel like it either. The drawer came out great. I have to say that doing dovetail joints with those jigs using a router is...

Thanks Hew! She is a handful. Got her on Wednesday and had us fooled by sleeping through the first night. Next few nights were like having a baby in the house again and just down to one wake-up for a potty break this morning. Which I hope will continue. Crazy times, crazy people. :eyecrazy...

I wasn't quite happy with the toggle clamp linkage on the spotwelder so I reworked it a bit to decrease the angle of the 'toggle' in relation to the 'toggling point'. I'm sure it has a proper term. Only left a bit of wiring and pulling the protective film off the aluminium. I did test it but...

I feel your pain Bob. Rain season is well underway here with a week of squally showers. Though the sound of sleet on tin is quite therapuetic sometimes. If 4th of July and summer break celebrations haven't helped infect a nation I doubt Disney could do much more damage. Especially as people in...

Hello Bob. I can find you one if you wanted one. There are some decent ones on Amazon. They're much to heavy to freight my way but I looked at a few to see how their clamp mechanisms operate. Referenced this fine fellow's efforts to build mine - Actually mentioned it months(maybe years) ago...

Cold wet weekend, entertaining family and kid's friends. Just barely started on my trammel. The sheetmetal brake made no-nonsense work of the 2mm aluminium sheet cover for the spotwelder. That is close to being done and ready to play with as well. Bit of wiring and tidying up. I might still...

Seems somehow fitting that a vintage vehicle has waited this long to be discovered by the right person and get rebuilt and repaired using a bit of blacksmithing! :thumbup:

Just a quick update today to keep things moving. Winter has finally arrived and along with it much needed rain. School holidays too so between work, kids with colds, wild weather and chores I squeezed a few hours for myself in the shed. Mostly cleaning up and re-organising but the paint was...

Thanks for the lead on the Grip-ons Bob. I do enjoy a good rabbit hole. :thumbup: They sell them here and aren't too pricey. Don't have the L-shaped ones in stock. I'm sure if I ask nicely and buy some of the other useful ones they have I should be able to get one of those too.

I do like a good wood grain. Don't know what it is with women and wanting to paint wood. Anytime I make something nice I get asked if it can be painted white or make it in a light wood instead like that rubberwood that was all the fashion for furniture a few years ago. Ugh and that whole...

Half the fun is playing with the old RC gear and making it work again! :lol: Glad to hear your boy is doing well after the surgery. That is a very nice Lego kit. :thumbup: Funny my son got the tracked loader from the same series - https://www.lego.com/en-nz/product/tracked-loader-42094

Nice update Andy! Great to see you building and casting. That bench came out looking great and the brass badges are a nice touch. It would be a shame to paint it. Did you cast your own wood burn logo? Thanks for the tip on the clear coat over the lettering to seal it and keep the back ground...

That brushless motor upgrade is going to turn it into a low flying object! I don't feel to bad seeing someone else using an old analogue FM Tx/Rx too. I have 2 old Hitec ones with a few receivers and more than adequate for what I use mine for. Though the fully configurable digital stuff like...

Hi Wout! I didn't take photos when I did the work but snuck out at lunchtime to take some. Normally I roll material by just incrementally bending small amounts over a bar clamped to the workbench. Just a small enough gap for the material thickness using the edge of the workbench as a backstop...

Thanks Portland GUitar. Going to be very heavy too so might need a paver or two for it to stand on. Thanks Hewey. Hope it goes a little faster than the muller did. Was a bit sad when I needed to ask Steve a question about how much air inlet he allowed for on his stove and realised I'm going to...

Nice job Hewey, place is looking really spiffy! Big change from the before and after.

Looking forward to your porting Bob. I know they say the coarser burs are better for aluminium but I find the finer ones have a bit more control where the coarser ones like to walk around on the job a lot more. Provided you have a wax, soap or even just kerosene or WD40 to keep the aluminium...

Last weekend I made a start of rolling some 200mmx8mm flat bar to make a large ring for a spacer between two truck brake drums. Idea is to turn them into a potbelly stove. Got the inspiration from a late member of this forum and I guess the build is a bit of a tribute to Steve's memory. Now I...