Stevo's Playhouse

Finished. It's a bit shit but does a job.

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Really enjoying the thread. Top work.

Cheers. I ended up using the standard nuts after all and not the long connecting nuts because either the bolts or the long nuts are not perfectly straight, or the threads on either are not uniform, so they bind up something shocking. Such variation is not noticeable with the regular nuts.

The jaws of the vice go out of parallel easily, even given the depth of wood the bolts are going through and the tight clearance of the holes. I may epoxy the bolts into the fixed jaw or think of some other guide mechanism. But as it is, I was able to lift the table with that 2x3 clamped and not having to really crank down on the hand wheels. So it's enough for sawing, which is what I made it for.

Next jobs are re-finishing my small chopping board then I want to make a mount for my metal working vice that I can clamp into either of the wood vices. A wooden base with another piece sticking out the bottom that gets clamped.

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^ that is such a good idea!

Will be adding it to my TDL

The jaws of the vice go out of parallel easily, even given the depth of wood the bolts are going through and the tight clearance of the holes. I may epoxy the bolts into the fixed jaw or think of some other guide mechanism.

I have just learned about vice rack stops after spotting someone use them in a video on Youtube.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/workshop/workbenches/benchtop-accessories/69605-vise-rack-stop?item=09A0235

I think generally they are to stop the moving jaw racking from side to side when clamping at one side of a wide vice. I need something similar to stick in the underside when clamping something across the top of the vice. I have some 3mm hardboard so might cut a load of squares and stick a small bolt through one corner of a stack of squares and use that.

Went out and did the little cutting board at lunch. Ms_com is back today from a 5 day business trip so I might get to go out to the shed this evening and have a crack at the vice rack stop.

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Big one is from @Chalfie's kitchen and the little one from @Dammit's

Had a meeting cancel on me so scratched the itch. 60mm in total with 6mm and 9mm graduations. Should be enough for most things I'm likely to be clamping.

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In action, and storage.

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Metal working vice mount WIP. Changed bolt choice half way through which screws up the clearance of the heads (hence the recess hole breaking out of side of the piece) so may re-make in future. Or if this works ok, probably not.

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Boredom last night + eBay = bandsaw incoming!

I think you need a lathe.

I have walked past the Parkside one in Lidl many many times......

Keep walking...!

I have loads of parkside tools, the lathe is the only one that is completely useless, and is in fact pretty dangerous, massively underpowered and the tool rest is made of cheese.

Better keeping an eye out for a second hand axminster or record.

Nice, cheers. Good to know as the few PS bits I do have are pretty good. I read that their bandsaw is shit, so I've gone for the Aldi/Ferrex (which is also the Draper and Scheppach one). That is well reviewed for a cheap saw. And it's only costing me £80 hardly used.

Yeah, I was really disapointed to be honest, I have a few of their tools as well, mainly the ones I dont use very often or low powered ones, but they have never let me down.

The other issue with the PS lathe is that the headstock can't be changed, so you cant actually grip the pieces correctly most of the time

Double update. Metal working vice mount and bandsaw.

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The 4" vice looks miniscule.

Maybe I'll make a another mount for this one

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Trug capacity breached. A few jobs to do in ms_com's office.

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The above was to do the below in ms_com's office.

Desk re-arranged (cupboard and drawers swapped from left to right, also used to be black), Billy bookcase chopped to height, skirting board notched out to fit the desk closer to the walls (ultimately pointless as the walls are totally on the piss), wallpaper strip hung and subsequently fucked by taking a chunk out with the bookcase, floor sanded and waxed under the desk, socket swapped for new, cupboard door trimmed along the bottom to miss the skirting.

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But still dicking about in the shed.

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The paper dispenser is an excellent touch

How…how do you have time for all of this