Thread experts?
A few years back, I went into Clerkenwell Screws, passed the man behind the counter a bolt from a second hand table and asked if he had any nuts for it. Almost immediately he came back with the...
View ArticleWorkshop Electrics Basics
After a few comments from various readers about the complexity of my previous thoughts on workshop electrics I agreed to write an article for the shed blog for the readersheds National Shed Week. The...
View ArticleFaceplate Dogs
Last month I roughly sawed and filed my cast aluminium blobs into blocks. The resulting blocks were too large to fit into my 3 jaw chuck so I hoped to mount them on the faceplate. There are many ways...
View ArticleCNC stop button?
Need a big red stop button with a USB cable for your home built CNC machine? Perhaps this one from I Want One of Those would be appropriate?You would of course need to remove the cover and modify the...
View ArticleTwo taps
My latest mini-project was supposed to be a simple sawing and screwcutting exercise of some aluminimum rods. It proved to be a little more involved than I realised when I found that the thread was 2BA....
View ArticleMoving the workshop
Not as drastic as it sounds, just moving the WorkshopShed Blog from http://workshopshed.blogspot.com to http://www.workshopshed.com. Thanks to my friends at 2020media for supplying the domain name and...
View ArticleEast London Engineering
I’ve discovered that there’s a 3rd London based Model Engineering Society, out in the East is the “Dockland and East London Model Engineering Society” according to the Model Engineering diary page they...
View ArticleMaking Tiny Wheels
My next project is a “Flea Circus Chariot”, this is a basic two wheeled chariot similar to those used on Roman Chariot races. The plan is to make this from brass sheet with the wheels machined from...
View ArticleMarvelous Mechanical Gadgets
A selection of gadgets, gears and mechanisms. The post Marvelous Mechanical Gadgets appeared first on Workshopshed.
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