Project: Silent Overkill
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Well, I jinxed it, didn't I!? Seller has been gazumped and currently we're back to uncertain waiting. Will probably sort itself out in the end but it's massively frustrating when you've been told "Go, go, GO!" and now it's "Wait, wait, wait" :-C
Honestly the second you hit Sold STC you should be locked in and others locked out. The whole "no liability until contracts exchange" annoyed me with the hell I went through because there was no way I was getting back the money I'd already spent if I pulled the plug on them taking almost a year to sort their rear.
Gazumping shouldn't even be a thing.
Gazumping shouldn't even be a thing.
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Totally agree. Also don't see why if you say "I'd like £X for this house" that when offered that amount, it's not immediately sold. "Offers over" fair enough but if you just want to create a bidding war, that's what auctions are for! (Yes, I'm aware you're likely to get less at auction...I'm just bitter, ok!? 
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)Alright. I've just checked and it was very early January when the acetal turned up...so I've literally been waiting all year to cut it. Why? To get it square, I need to set up a table that's got a nice precise grid of holes...and that doesn't fit indoors. Between house-hunting and the fact that it's rained damn near every time I've even looked outside, this has been the first opportunity to do....two cuts. This is why I want some indoor space. With stuff set up, this would have been less than ten minutes work....not the better part of half a day. While I was set up, I also rounded off the corners. I could have done that inside but I might as well make just one mess to clear up rather than two. The corners were routed with a 3D printed guide.
Why that radius, haven't I missed the corner of the actual bed? Yes...but for once, it's deliberate!
With the oversized (for the size of spindle) spoilboard cutter, that's as far out as I can reach with the spindle. Otherwise, I'd end up with towers in the corner as I started to resurface the board.
I drilled and counterbored the holes to mount it using another 3D printed jig. I outdid myself though as I managed, somehow, to get one of them in the wrong place and all of them the wrong size *facepalm* Honestly, I'd modelled M6 threads even but when I checked, an M5 screw threaded in nicely...or appeared to. I even had a bag of M5 screws ordered ready. So I had to do another jig and plunge an endmill to 'move' the hole to the right place - a drill would largely have followed the existing hole.
The rest needs to be done by the CNC itself....but I suspect that's going to have to wait until I move house*. I just don't have the floor space (let alone desk space!) to run it at the moment. Or, to be strictly accurate, I do...but not in a room that I want to fill with plastic chips for a 3m radius! Doing that in an office I share with my wife....might not go down so well! Can't afford a divorce as well as a house move! 
*Edit: I should mention that the top of the chain fell through so we're waiting for that to be completed again before we all start moving again.
Why that radius, haven't I missed the corner of the actual bed? Yes...but for once, it's deliberate!
With the oversized (for the size of spindle) spoilboard cutter, that's as far out as I can reach with the spindle. Otherwise, I'd end up with towers in the corner as I started to resurface the board.I drilled and counterbored the holes to mount it using another 3D printed jig. I outdid myself though as I managed, somehow, to get one of them in the wrong place and all of them the wrong size *facepalm* Honestly, I'd modelled M6 threads even but when I checked, an M5 screw threaded in nicely...or appeared to. I even had a bag of M5 screws ordered ready. So I had to do another jig and plunge an endmill to 'move' the hole to the right place - a drill would largely have followed the existing hole.
The rest needs to be done by the CNC itself....but I suspect that's going to have to wait until I move house*. I just don't have the floor space (let alone desk space!) to run it at the moment. Or, to be strictly accurate, I do...but not in a room that I want to fill with plastic chips for a 3m radius!
Doing that in an office I share with my wife....might not go down so well! Can't afford a divorce as well as a house move! *Edit: I should mention that the top of the chain fell through so we're waiting for that to be completed again before we all start moving again.
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You'd get to cut up my fitted kitchen too! Previous owner did a lovely bodge job of plugging the power cable in to a socket in the wrong place then putting the cupboard partition over it...so the power cable now needs to be actually cut to get the plug out!
Time for a chunky hole this time methinks, assuming I can even get the thing up on my rollers to get it out. I do not have the neck or back to just drag a 60kg unit.
Time for a chunky hole this time methinks, assuming I can even get the thing up on my rollers to get it out. I do not have the neck or back to just drag a 60kg unit.
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I do....it's just 15 years behind me!
It's overkill as it's designed for heavy machinery but what you probably need is a toe jack. Ali do them...but want a ton for shipping Amazon do them from £85....but it's a bit excessive!
How about something like these for £20?
Is the plug moulded? If so, you kinda have to cut it off but you could put a re-wireable plug on it afterwards and then you don't need a big hole, you can just take the plug off and thread the cable through.
I do actually have some wheel things and a mini jack, should be just enough to raise it up (assuming the machine's feet are OK).
The plug is standard 3 pin affair, but some bright spark put the cabinet partition between the machine and the plug leaving only a passthrough big enough for the cable. So the plug needs to get cut off and then the passthrough made bigger.
It's just fiddly annoyance that shouldn't take very long, but it's effort
The plug is standard 3 pin affair, but some bright spark put the cabinet partition between the machine and the plug leaving only a passthrough big enough for the cable. So the plug needs to get cut off and then the passthrough made bigger.
It's just fiddly annoyance that shouldn't take very long, but it's effort
Well I'm going to call this an "update" but let's be honest, it's thinly veiled whinging! 
The house move that's holding me up.... there's good news and there's bad news. The good is that the top of the chain found a house to buy and we were negotiating dates. I've packed most of my workshop and moved that into storage as I didn't have room to pack any more. Storage was for three months to overlap the move and give me time to get the new workshop ready. So three days after moving into storage, the new top of the chain falls apart and the people selling the house we were moving to pull out and stay put. One step forward, two giant steps backwards. So now we're in limbo again but with an added storage cost *facepalm*
Also, I can't move everything back out of storage as I demolished the cupboard some of it was in as it wouldn't fit in the new place (too tall) and it wasn't great storage anyway (more dumpage). Had to dismantle it from the inside too as that was the only place left to stand once it was emptied.
To try and break the limbo - as we've no idea what timescales will be now, or what the new place will look like or even, to be honest, IF the new place - I've designed a cheap 2x4 based workbench to fit the gap. Should give me some storage if I buy some more expensive drawers (that I can reuse in anything future) and also provide somewhere to put the CNC and the 3D printer.
3m and 3.6m timber doesn't fit in the car so will have to be cut to size at the yard. Luckily I've still got the battery powered band saw or the jigsaw here rather than in storage.... although all the batteries for either ARE in storage *facepalm*
He....built the bench to house the CNC, he built the CNC to cut the blocks, he made the blocks to cool the PC buuuut I don't know why, she swallowed the fly
The house move that's holding me up.... there's good news and there's bad news. The good is that the top of the chain found a house to buy and we were negotiating dates. I've packed most of my workshop and moved that into storage as I didn't have room to pack any more. Storage was for three months to overlap the move and give me time to get the new workshop ready. So three days after moving into storage, the new top of the chain falls apart and the people selling the house we were moving to pull out and stay put. One step forward, two giant steps backwards. So now we're in limbo again but with an added storage cost *facepalm*
Also, I can't move everything back out of storage as I demolished the cupboard some of it was in as it wouldn't fit in the new place (too tall) and it wasn't great storage anyway (more dumpage). Had to dismantle it from the inside too as that was the only place left to stand once it was emptied.
To try and break the limbo - as we've no idea what timescales will be now, or what the new place will look like or even, to be honest, IF the new place - I've designed a cheap 2x4 based workbench to fit the gap. Should give me some storage if I buy some more expensive drawers (that I can reuse in anything future) and also provide somewhere to put the CNC and the 3D printer.
3m and 3.6m timber doesn't fit in the car so will have to be cut to size at the yard. Luckily I've still got the battery powered band saw or the jigsaw here rather than in storage.... although all the batteries for either ARE in storage *facepalm*
He....built the bench to house the CNC, he built the CNC to cut the blocks, he made the blocks to cool the PC buuuut I don't know why, she swallowed the fly
Well I made a start but you're gonna say it doesn't look much like a workbench! I got everything out of that half of the room so I could remove the racking that wasn't quite working. Set up outside to do the bench but then thought I probably ought to get the shelving on the wall that will be behind/above the bench - easier to do it when clear than afterwards. So that's what happened:
All the wood is stacked on the new shelving ready for bench building. I reckon it's around 120kg total and the brackets are rated for 150kg per shelf....although I obviously stuck four of them in - one at each of the studs and they're on 600mm (23.6") centres. I'll let you know if a loud crash wakes me up in the night!
Had to notch out the end of my click-lock floor wall (for screwing things to) and cut off the end of one of the uprights because the roof slopes. Luckily I had the portaband still handy so that wasn't a drama. Didn't have my decent metal drills but I had my mobile kit and that has HSS-G metal bits that will do. Put them in my mill as a drill press....oh. I have mill, I have drill bits...but the chuck is in storage with the rest of the tooling *facepalm* Hand drill it is then
The shelves are 18mm structural ply and I've notched the back edges round the uprights so stuff doesn't fall down the gap
The plan is to fill the bottom shelf with those small plastic crates (from Ikea) you can see in the bottom right of the picture. The top shelf will have the size that's twice the footprint of those and deeper.
That was yesterday and today I've got all of the timber cut to length ready to assemble.... hopefully!
All the wood is stacked on the new shelving ready for bench building. I reckon it's around 120kg total and the brackets are rated for 150kg per shelf....although I obviously stuck four of them in - one at each of the studs and they're on 600mm (23.6") centres. I'll let you know if a loud crash wakes me up in the night!
Had to notch out the end of my click-lock floor wall (for screwing things to) and cut off the end of one of the uprights because the roof slopes. Luckily I had the portaband still handy so that wasn't a drama. Didn't have my decent metal drills but I had my mobile kit and that has HSS-G metal bits that will do. Put them in my mill as a drill press....oh. I have mill, I have drill bits...but the chuck is in storage with the rest of the tooling *facepalm* Hand drill it is then
The shelves are 18mm structural ply and I've notched the back edges round the uprights so stuff doesn't fall down the gap
The plan is to fill the bottom shelf with those small plastic crates (from Ikea) you can see in the bottom right of the picture. The top shelf will have the size that's twice the footprint of those and deeper.
That was yesterday and today I've got all of the timber cut to length ready to assemble.... hopefully!
Long overdue some progress pictures but I've either been working or knackered
I've got two coats of Osmo Top Oil on but it really needs more. The wood just soaks it in - anyone would think it had been kiln-dried or something!
I've kind of given in at two coats on the bottom deck. Not because that's all it needs but because I just can't handle climbing over the mitre saw to get into or out of the room! Shelves have multiplied since the start. If I put the AMS on the shelf like that, I get enough room for 2/3 of an extra shelf. 3D printer will go underneath it and the small CNC on the far right. I might actually be able to run the CNC then!
I've got two coats of Osmo Top Oil on but it really needs more. The wood just soaks it in - anyone would think it had been kiln-dried or something!
I don't doubt you feel like you've done it and can relax once you've moved....we'll, for those that have actually managed to move!
For reference, making this one came in at about £120. A bit more if you were starting from scratch as I already had screws. Definitely more if you put in the drawers I'm going to but you could do those cheaper....I just can't be doing with the extra hassle and also want them to handle the ridiculous weight I'm going to load into them
Definitely check the wood isn't twisted or split though. I could definitely have done better on that front as I did have some wastage where some lengths were too twisted to use. You could certainly fix that if you had a planer thicknesser (or planer-jointer)...but I don't, so I didn't. Oh, and if you weren't aware wood that isn't twisted/cupped/bowed/trashed instantly rules out any of the big DIY stores...you need a builders merchant but they may well deliver too. If you get treated wood, it could well be quite wet because it's often not dried after treatment. This can then mean if you store it indoors (or don't immediately screw it down flat) it'll warp horribly. All this is untreated, sawn CLS and sold as C16 but actually graded as the higher quality C24.
For reference, making this one came in at about £120. A bit more if you were starting from scratch as I already had screws. Definitely more if you put in the drawers I'm going to but you could do those cheaper....I just can't be doing with the extra hassle and also want them to handle the ridiculous weight I'm going to load into them
Definitely check the wood isn't twisted or split though. I could definitely have done better on that front as I did have some wastage where some lengths were too twisted to use. You could certainly fix that if you had a planer thicknesser (or planer-jointer)...but I don't, so I didn't. Oh, and if you weren't aware wood that isn't twisted/cupped/bowed/trashed instantly rules out any of the big DIY stores...you need a builders merchant but they may well deliver too. If you get treated wood, it could well be quite wet because it's often not dried after treatment. This can then mean if you store it indoors (or don't immediately screw it down flat) it'll warp horribly. All this is untreated, sawn CLS and sold as C16 but actually graded as the higher quality C24.
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