Zed Shed Antics - Something will happen!

[scobie140]

Your scrap piles are more impressive than most fab yards! Can never have enough though.

[ATTAK Z]

Words fail me ... that oven ! ... you're crazy !

[veeg33]

That's a big sheep you got there..... Needs a trim now since we have some good sunny weather . 

 

Great work as usual. Best ever post in this forum by far. Always looking forward to your next update. Good level of technical content along with lots of banter, loving it! 

[LRF4N]

Your oven reminded me of this beaut 

[Ebized]

 

That's what a lot of us look like now in Lock-down!!

[neo]

Like reading these, keep'um coming 

Edited May 25, 2020 by neo

[andybp]

Keyser has anyone told you that you're "special" really really "special" 

But I hope there is no cure for it cause it's awesome 

[Keyser]

Morning, hope everyone had a fun weekend?

 

@andybp

 

I would take offence to the comment about being special even from a fellow battery licker like yourself, however I looked back over the last couple of pages of this thread and think you may be right

 

In answer to your question - My wife, on numerous occasions and many eye rolls have been given when she asks “what are you making now”? and I tell her

 

 

A quick update from the end of last week,

Firstly in case anyone was checking my maths for the electric supply to the car cooker, I ran it on a 32Amp supply which won’t run 10KW in fact it tops out about 7.5KW I think the total on that circuit was 6.KW (ish) and then I ran 2.8KW from a 13amp plug on the other side which is in tolerance for that circuit

 

 

Back to the bug, I second coated it but it looks like @Beb snuck in and changed the powder coat for some of his favourite colour the little sneak

 

 

 

I soon put that right with the final coat of Blue

 

 

Then the Shaggy Beast came back in

 

 

Nothing to do for an hour …………………….

 

I swept the floor

 

 

Ahh it’s done, seems I missed a few bits with the final coat

 

 

 

It’s far from perfect unfortunately, the masking tape left marks in the orange, not sure why, maybe that the first coat didn’t cure right, it was supposed to be a 60% cure time but controlling temps in that huge oven is not easy or accurate, or it may be that due to so many coats the base coats softened during the final bake. Not going to worry to much as this is an off roader and we have a few options to improve it if we decide to – I’m not cooking it again!!

 

The rest came out spot on

 

 

 

 

Then I started taking the Shaggy Beats apart

 

 

 

It is now extinct

 

So The Bug is now here

 

 

I’m going back to finishing the other projects now, that’s the new powder coating oven and the lathe, then it’s back to sandblasting The Bug frame and I have another project waiting in the wings.

 

Keyser –  “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Keyser

[ATTAK Z]

Lovely ... I like the contrasting colours

[Paul K]

given that your elements are purely resistive .......10kW at 240v is 41.66A.....watch your breakers!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Keyser]

40 minutes ago, Paul K said:

given that your elements are purely resistive .......10kW at 240v is 41.66A.....watch your breakers!!

Thats what Iwas trying to explain -

 

I did 6.5KW on the 32 Amp breaker - 6.5KW = about 27 Amp

Then

I did 2.8KW on a 13 Amp extension lead - 2.8KW = about 11.5 Amp fused at 13 Amp

 

So I agree the total was above the 32 Amp breaker but I did split it  

 

Thanks for looking out for me though, appreciated.

 

[Paul K]

different circuits will be fine

 

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Paul K

[DoogyRev]

4 hours ago, Keyser said:

 

Nice colour combo, looks great 

 

[Stutopia]

I miss the violet.

[Keyser]

7 hours ago, SuperStu said:

I miss the violet.

I'll do the vibrating sieve in Violet just for you shall I?

[Keyser]

Morning,

Well dunno about you lot but I was swamped yesterday with work, looks like 80% of my clients are back to work in at least some form.

But you don’t want to know about that, you want to see cookers

 

 

There ya go  

 

That’s the cheap Smeg oven I bought from Gumtree worked out less than buying the bits I wanted and it has triple glazed doors  

 

So stripped it down to get this lot

 

 

Left some scrap

 

 

This element has had better days

 

 

 

But then it is not new

 

 

I needed to dump the scarp so I also dumped the old powder coat oven

 

 

I may have pinched the Stainless steel side panels and put them in my pile of bits in case they come in handy for something later on

 

Onto the oven door, the small door was stripped down

 

 

But Smeg has some kind of mirrored glass on the outside which I don’t want and the door is to thick to fit in my door design,   so I stripped it completely

 

 

 

Then milled 3mm off

 

 

Made a new frame

 

 

Front

 

 

Back, but using the glass from my old powder coat oven so all 3 panes are clear

 

 

That’s laid to one side ready for when the doors are made.

 

Next we, the long suffering Mrs K was called in to help, bend 2.5m long strips of steel which I can’t do on my own

 

 

2 were made and riveted inside the frame

 

 

This is where my angle strips allow fixing and give me good corner joints

 

 

Next 2 bits of box cut to length

 

 

Riveted on some plate

 

 

And welded to the base

 

 

Some insulation

 

 

Then the covers were riveted on

 

 

It’s getting really heavy now

 

#staysafe

 

 

Keyser - “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” – William James

 

 

[Stutopia]

Was there an oven light to nick from the SMEG to assist with your viewing window?

[Keyser]

16 minutes ago, SuperStu said:

Was there an oven light to nick from the SMEG to assist with your viewing window?

 

There was two

 

Plus I have the ones from my origional oven and I may have bought extras from the bay of E to give me lots of ilumination

[Stutopia]

2 hours ago, Keyser said:

 

There was two

 

Plus I have the ones from my origional oven and I may have bought extras from the bay of E to give me lots of ilumination

Always one step ahead.

[Mikey_S]

When do you start taking bookings for alloy refurbs? 

[Keyser]

Morning, Getting less and less time in the Zed Shed now, but we have a weekend coming up so I can keep posts coming for a few more days  

 

First I got Mrs K in to help with the next part of the project which is the doors, cutting the big sheets is hard on your own! and always handy to have someone to rivet while you drill

 

 

After the outside panel was on, we added support bars for the hinges

 

 

Marked and drilled

 

 

Hinges on

 

 

Soon had both doors on and checked

 

 

But the hinges. WOW! they were a PITA, now I’ll admit the big ones were ones I had laying around and we bought  the smaller ones as the same design, they are cheap and designed for gates, that probably went against us, I wanted “cranked” hinges as it allows a lip on the hinge side which helps to get a good seal when the door is shut – keeps the heat in – but the hinges just will not line up, if you hold them flat to the frame the doors won’t close properly.

 

This was the solution

 

 

The hinges were welded on at an angle to get the distancing correct, mind you if you look at them carefully you can see they are not even round

 

 

That oval shape may be partly to blame, but welded at an angle has meant the doors work properly now  

 

Next I got the triple glazed window out (glass protected by the cardboard for sparks)

 

 

Lined it up

 

 

Welded a frame around it

 

 

Then cut a hole in the door

 

 

On to the thermometer

 

 

Now that has seen better days, also as the probe is short I had a recess in the old door, I want to avoid that if possible this time round, a quick search of the inter web found me a replacement thermometer with a 150mm probe for a few pounds so that has been ordered.

I built this box for it

 

 

The idea is that when I add this foam, I acquired as it’s out of date

 

 

Like this

 

 

I will be able to drill through and mount the thermometer, the theory is that I will be drilling through foam not rock wool, anyone drilled through rock wool? – it bunches up and wraps round the drill bit, I’m trying to avoid that issue – hope it works.

If you look closely at the frame in the pic above you can see the holes I drilled around the frame and filled with foam as well – fully insulated door   

The sides of the window were done just to stiffen them up.

 

Now that takes a day to dry so ………………………

 

I got the car cleaning kit out and pulled the toy out of the car port where she has been sat undriven for weeks!!

Looks like a barn find

 

 

Looking better now

 

 

 

Now I’m no detailing expert but I was happy with the shine

 

 

Be safe guys hope work is coming back for you – or not if you are happy chilling at home on furlough  

 

More tomorrow (work not withstanding)

 

Keyser - “I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re sceptical.” – Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

 

[Keyser]

16 hours ago, Mikey_S said:

When do you start taking bookings for alloy refurbs? 

 

Very soon - I have doen them before

Happy to practice on your wheels

 

[Beb]

16 hours ago, Mikey_S said:

When do you start taking bookings for alloy refurbs? 

How pink do you like your wheels?  

[Keyser]

17 minutes ago, Beb said:

How pink do you like your wheels?  

I'm doing the ones on your Scooby pink mate

[Stutopia]

1 hour ago, Keyser said:

 

The idea is that when I add this foam, I acquired as it’s out of date

 

 

 

 

 

Seems like the perfect brand - where did you find it?