Stuff What I Made

One of my old work places had a changing room for those of us who got sweaty commuting to work, which was great, but the lockers had these incredibly annoying spring loaded hinges that, with your hands full made it very frustrating to get things in and out of them. When you have a 3D printer, there’s a phenomenon where suddenly you find solutions popping into your head for minor day-to-day problems such as this. [Read More]

Towards the tail end of 2017, the famed for its middle aisle supermarket chain ALDI had a deal on a 3D printer, for £300. It was badged as Balco but was in fact just a re-branded version of the Chinese brand Wanhao. [Read More]

Around about the summer of 2017, the engine of the Corrado started making a bit of an alarming noise. At first I thought it was just tappets; it seemed to go away after it warmed up only to come back with a vengeance later. Peering in the filler, the oil looked OK. Then it got worse. Much worse. Long story short, one of the rod bearings on the big end had spun. There was now ample evidence of this given the even distribution of flakes of bearing material throughout the oil. [Read More]

As a teenager in the late 90s, a lot of the music that I owned was on vinyl thanks to it being much more affordable than getting it on CD. Who could have predicted how that vinyl would become fashionable again? Anyway I digress, I’d had this vinyl sitting in a pile for 15 years. I should do something with it, I thought. [Read More]

My milling machine originally came with a normal AC motor. This had drawbacks. [Read More]