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an angry man at a car boot sale wasn't happy I took this picture, I should have asked if they were stolen
At this month's Open MAKE: Tools event, visitors were invited to explore their own creativity with our four Featured Makers from around the Bay Area, who shared their art, ingenuity, and techniques.
Guests made needle-felted creatures with Moxie, created three-dimensional shapes by sewing sheets of fabric together with Judy Castro, fused plastic with clothes irons, used sewing needles and conductive thread to make circuits embedded in bracelets and badges, and used motors and other tools to take Light Painting to a whole new level.
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view safety goggles and tool belt - _MG_7316 on a black background.
1/2 inch square aluminum rod from hardware store, aluminum bar about 1/8 inch thick from same, pop rivets, 1/4 inch thumb screw, 1/4 inch nuts & lock washer, about 20 gauge hardened steel wire
tools used: scroll saw to cut metal to length and cut channel where wire goes underneath
dremel to smooth edges and cut slots in upper piece for wire
drill for 1/4 inch hole for thumb screw and 1/8 inch holes for pop rivets
pop rivet tool
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Minolta srt101b;
Tamron Auto 1:2.8 f=28mm;
Stein optik 1:3.5 f=200mm;
Kepkor Auto wide angle 1:2.8 f=28mm;
Smc Pentax-m Asahi opt. 1:1.7 f=50mm;
Marumi 49mm 1A filter on Smc Pentax
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Last week I bought 2 Berg and 2 Nooigedagt chisels in a thrift shop.
The large one (2 inch) € 2.-, the smaller ones € 1.70 each.
What I used for modelling the epoxy: Tamiya Smooth Type Epoxy and a set of cheap jeweller's waxworking tools. They're handy for smoothing and pushing crisp edges.
My original plan was to cut out shapes from rolled Epoxy and lay them over but that proved to be horrifically naive since I forgot Epoxy is sticky shit. I got the rough shapes out but had to do a lot of refining.
i used a crochet quilt square that i thrifted at a garage sale a while back. added some ribbon and antique doilies. the fabric for the pockets has cute little girls on it.
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While on the road with this set of tools there's not much I can't sort, short of something breaking in two.
Actually this is a hybrid kit. The Park RW1 32mm/15mm spanner is only needed for pedal axles and wheel axle nuts, so generally I carry it only when I ride my Brompton. The inner tube is also a Brompton item. The 8mm and 10mm spanners are of more use to my Quest whose brake barrel adjusters had a tendency to loosen themselves, but I think I've sorted that one now with Loctite. The only thing missing is the 13mm spanner I tend to carry with me in the Quest, as it deals with the rear axle bolt.
The pump—a Revolution Air Mini Track—is fairly new and replaced my Blackburn Airstik that had given me many years of good service. Strictly, Blackburn gives a lifetime warranty on everything so I might even be owed a replacement. But the Revolution pump, like the Topeak Road Morph and sundry Lezyne models, is much better for high volume and high pressure activity where the Blackburn struggled. Flip out and stomp on the (slightly weedy) footstand, grab the handle and give it the beans. On its first outing I inflated my Brompton rear tyre up to 100psi in no time at all.
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Although not a very good picture , this is one of the first machine tools I ever operated. Strangely enough the drill spindle is almost invisable near the tool rack. This can be moved left and right along the arm which itself can be pulled or pushed to and fro until the drill is above the hole to be drilled.
There ! Now you know all about it!
I found this ancient stone tool on the ground where I park my car. Opened the car door, looked down, saw a pretty rock, picked it up, saw indications of pressure flaking, and realized it was a stone cutting tool. Cool!
What amazing hard work it is to tool leopard print into leather!! The painting is so painstaking and delicious: it allows the kid in me that loved to make things "just so" free rein.
Am puzzled by this tool, found in a miscellaneous items box. It's 16" long, has an 0.40" square shank at one end and the chuck on the other end accommodates an 0.30" square shank such as that on a threading tap.
Homemade English wheel, mounted on a homemade stand. The stand will also hold the sheet metal brake when the wheel isn't mounted.
Kline Creek Farm
West Chicago, Illinois
November 24, 2012
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Saws date back at least to the early Egyptians, who used copper hand saws were about half a meter long and worked much like today's knives to saw their way through soft materials.
The Greeks and Romans improved the basic design of the saw by introducing wooden frames for supporting the blade and setting the saw teeth alternately, in order to get a better more accurate and easier cut.
The big breakthrough for the humble hand tool came after 1650, when the process of rolling wide strip steel was developed in Sheffield and Holland. Wider bladed saws made it possible to do away with the wooden frame, and the steel hand saw, as we know it, was born.
English saw makers developed the wider type handle still in use today, while continental makers produced a pistol-shaped handle. The fact that a saw can "sing" was discovered both in Europe and in the U.S. at about the same time.
As furniture and joinery work became finer and more detailed, specialist saws were developed to help craftsmen achieve the desired effects. Sash, tenon, keyhole and dovetail saws were developed with thinner blades, finer teeth and steel or brass strengthening bars began to appear, together with new types of open handles for ease of use.
Today's hand saws use double-sharp steel edges to cut through wood, metal and just about anything else you can imagine. The diversity of specialty saws is staggering. Saws do everything from prune a hedge to hacking through drywall. Take a moment to appreciate the diversity and the handiness of the humble hand tool, the saw.
Photograph of a Hydro-Tel lathe manufactured by The Cincinati Milling Machine Co. of Ohio. Part of a collection of photographs from Dean Smith and Grace Ltd. Photographic Department. This photograph carries nothing on the back of it.
Three Keighley engineers, Joseph Dean (1824-1909), James Smith (1834-1906) and John Grace (1840-1904), formed the partnership Dean, Smith & Grace in 1865. The men borrowed money to buy land from the Duke of Devonshire and built the Worth Valley Works. According to their 1889 catalogue, they manufactured machine tools “for locomotive, marine and general engineering, ordnance manufacturers, boilermakers, shipbuilders etc. etc.” and had already procured various government contracts. By 1883 their debts had been cleared and in 1898 the partnership became a limited company.
In the early years of the 20th century, some rebuilding and restructuring took place and the company started to specialise in the manufacture of industrial lathes. Their reach was global, doing trade deals with Australia, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Spain, Mexico and Argentina.
At the outbreak of World War One, now trading as Dean, Smith & Grace (1908) Ltd., the firm’s efforts were recognised in a letter from Lord Kitchener. The letter, dated 22nd October 1914, acknowledged the importance of the work undertaken by the firm and its employees in playing their part towards the war effort. During this period the company also manufactured breech blocks for guns. From 1938, the firm was run by Sir Harry Smith, James Pearson and Bert Laycock.
During World War Two, Dean, Smith & Grace financed their own Spitfire as part of a nationwide drive to raise money for fighter planes. They produced lathes for all branches of the armed forces, the government’s Ministry of Supply and for the Admiralty, and became one of the first traditionally all-male firms to employ women. At their output peak they were producing 107 machines per month, meaning one-fifth of all the lathes manufactured in this country were coming from Dean, Smith & Grace. In 1948, a new range of lathes was exhibited the Machine Tool Exhibition held at Olympia in London, which led to considerable trade with Canada.
According to advertising from the time, by 1960 they were manufacturing 13” to 30” swing engine lathes, surfacing and boring lathes, and precision tool room lathes. The works at this time boasted many labour-saving devices including mechanised accounting machines, colour-coded signalling systems and index systems for accounts and stores control. Staff benefitted from a superannuation scheme, a canteen (with DSG-stamped cutlery) and a surgery “with sun-ray and infra-red lamps for treatment during working hours”. The company also had its own sports field and pavilion for its cricket team and other sporting activities. The firm boasted of its employee loyalty, recognising long periods of service – in one case over sixty years.
A new foundry in Lawkholme Lane, the Nelson Works, was built between 1962 and 1965. In 1974 the company was sold to US company Monarch Machine Tool Co. The firm then became independent again in 1992, rebranding as DSG Lathes. There was a management buyout in 2005 and former Rolls-Royce engineer Nigel Grainger took over as managing director. He initiated a rebrand and a complete overhaul of the product range, including the launch of new aerospace and pipe lathes. In 2008 the company went into administration and was bought by Newsmith Stainless Ltd. and traded as Dean Smith & Grace Lathes Ltd. In 2012 the company was sold on to Machine Tool Technology Group who in 2015 made the decision to move the firm from Keighley to Halifax.
Dean Smith & Grace is now a Belgrave & Powell Ltd. company operating out of Preston in Lancashire. According to its website “it still develops new machine tools but also offers robotics and automation, CNC retrofitted solutions, rebuilds, machine tool services and breakdown support for all types of machine tools with the same level of professionalism and pride in the name instilled in the business over a 150 years ago”. An example of a Dean, Smith & Grace lathe is held in the Science Museum Group’s collection.
The original photograph measures approximately 260mm by 205mm and is held in the Keighley and District Local History Society's physical archive. It was scanned on behalf of the History Society by Billy Stride in 2021.