Safety First - Home Shop Improvements

First film of 2019! Just a bit of fun, trying out a different camera and a faster edit computer. No prizes for lighting and focus here. Or the colour balance for that matter. Or the audio. Mustn’t forget that.

It was much too cold for time consuming setups, and I just wanted to get cracking.

As it’s all pretty self explanatory there’s no commentary on this one, I’ve added a few captions instead.

In spite of my best efforts, my garage is often a bit cluttered and perhaps not ideally suited to welding, grinding and blow-lamping.

In this film I marginally improve workshop safety by fitting a CO2 fire extinguisher. I realise I could have just hammered a nail in the wall, but there’s much less fun in that.

You’ll see me make a plywood backboard board from some scraps of an old packing case, make an anti-swing bracket from polyphenylene ether engineering plastic and make an overly elaborate aluminium hanging boss. The horrible noises from my mini mill were telling me I was pushing my luck running a 20mm cutter with 40mm depth of cut.

Trying to turn a roughly spherical end has moved a ball turner project further up the to-do list. But it’s a long list, and I doubt I’ll have one by this time next year…

Towards the end of making the boss I’d machined myself into a corner and could no longer grip the part I’d made. A tight fitting ABS plastic sleeve came to the rescue for the final drilling and tapping operation.

Sometimes the best Christmas presents are the things you’ve been promising yourself, but never actually got around to buying. Cheers Ben.

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Shot: HDC-HS700 1920x1080 50i AVCHD
Edit: FCP7 ProRes 422 / DeInterlace
Mic: n/a

Видео Safety First - Home Shop Improvements канала The Recreational Machinist