Today I MADE

[Tathradj]

May I suggest a DC 12v speed controller.
Not a great cost at all from our favorite
purchase site.

I just bought a 20 amp jobby for an up and
coming project.

Works really really well.

$25.00

 

[sand surfer]

hi lesgold ,any what they call soft soap will do ,ie johnsons baby soap ,you will have to get the cheese grater out for that one and do some grating( i don't like it as sometimes it does not dissolve for some reason, and you have a sticky, slimey mess to clean up)
i use the lux clothes washing flakes (1 level tablespoon full to a lortone 3 pound tumbler, topped up with plastic fill pellets to fill the barrel

i have not used it to clean coins, but when you have a bit of a dull polish on the stones when they come out of the polish ,a day or 2 in the soap brings the polish up to what it should be

 

[mbasko]

Mbasko, could you give some more detail on burnishing soap and where you can get it. I know nothing about it.
cheers

Les

Burnishing compound that I used:
https://www.aussiesapphire.com.au/burnishing-compound-mp103-for-metal-polishingI only got this to try as I was ordering the steel shot & some other gear from AS so just threw it in. Worked well for me with the shot.
Have heard that finely shaved/grated laundry or even basic bath soap gives much the same result at less cost but I've never tried it.
(Edit: posted before reading sand surfers reply ).

 

[Lesgold]

Thanks again guys. More things to play with. I like the idea of the speed controller. Thanks for that Tathra. Will try the soap and see how that works and may even buy some of the burnishing compound. I did notice that my tumbler was a little cheaper than the AS models. Lol. Perhaps this should have been a thread on its own as there are a lot of good ideas out there.

 

[Manpa]

Still some bare wall space in the brides sewing room so I painted these over the past month and made the frames from American Oak, Nyatoah and Blackwood.
This one took over a month to paint, bought frame, found it’s way to a spare spot in the hallway, this is a 40 x 50cm.

 

[Jaros]

Very nice.

 

[Mackka]

Most excellent Glenn!

 

[Manpa]

Very nice Maccka, lovely part of the world.
Do you still paint?

 

[Mackka]

Very nice Maccka, lovely part of the world.
Do you still paint?

Thanks Pa, no not for a while. Maybe one day i will start again.

 

[user 22230]

Dunno how you guys do it. Can paint a car but that stuff not a hope

 

[Manpa]

Dunno how you guys do it. Can paint a car but that stuff not a hope

I cheat Diginit, mine are paint by numbers.

 

[Mackka]

I asked for my post to be deleted as i believe it was wrong to put that painting up as it was done a long time ago. Sorry.

 

[sand surfer]

I cheat Diginit, mine are paint by numbers.

i'd still struggle manpa even with the numbers

 

[Manpa]

Finished this today, a teardrop caravan, had some photos and rough dimensions to work from.

 

[Mackka]

Beautiful as Always. Mackka

 

[Jaros]

I'll need a towball for my truck with 6 kegs to be able to tow it-well made mate.

 

[Lesgold]

Hi Folks,

Just finished making a crevicing tool made from 3mm stainless and Paracord. Ideal for scratching out coins in really narrow crevices around the rocks or cleaning out those narrow slits in rock bars when searching for gold.



Just need a chance to get out and use it.

cheers

Les

 

[Jaros]

looks the goods

 

[Simmo]

Hmm trying out an idea to not scorch the grass!!
Insulation foil and firewall fabric??
We will see??!!




OK, the insulation foil was too close to the heat source and 'melted'.
So i lowered it down and put it on top of the fire wall fabric.
Result.. no scorching under the fire pit!



So today I made a 'blanket, a little bigger than the pit.
Used two squares of fabric and sandwiched one square of foil in the middle.
All sewed up it looks like it will do the job!!

 

[Simmo]

Testing...!