Home made stubby

[shotbybothsides]

Stubby Mk1 by Shot by both sides, on Flickr

Messing about on the lathe today:
Made with black Acetal plastic, turned, drilled and tapped M5, then polished with Autoglym metal polish on a rag when still spinning.
Picture looks a funny colour as it's lit by flourescents in the garage.
What do you think?

 

[Maniac]

Looks nice but presumably doesn't work as an antenna any more?

 

[Ewazix]

A piece of hand crafted art, but surely, if it's plastic it isn't going to work is it? :?

The external twig acts as the FM2 diversity receiver (covers part of the FM band width) it's only used for certain wavelengths & signal qualities so may not be noticed depending what channel and where you are. If BMW could have got away with a tiddler I'm sure they would have, but nice looking work

 

[shotbybothsides]

Good points both, mainly interested in the look, for a change and for use where whip may be at risk

 

[deka]

i like and who needs a radio

 

[It's a fair cop...]

I went a slightly more over engineered route, using stainless steel turned, drilled, counter bored, to take an m5 shoulder bolt then parted off and put back in to machine the internal taper to match the taper on the aerial base.
Sorry, no pic, but o.p. will know what I'm on about

 

[andysat]

I went a slightly more over engineered route, using stainless steel turned, drilled, counter bored, to take an m5 shoulder bolt then parted off and put back in to machine the internal taper to match the taper on the aerial base.
Sorry, no pic, but o.p. will know what I'm on about

Can you take a pic?

 

[shotbybothsides]

I went a slightly more over engineered route, using stainless steel turned, drilled, counter bored, to take an m5 shoulder bolt then parted off and put back in to machine the internal taper to match the taper on the aerial base.
Sorry, no pic, but o.p. will know what I'm on about

Can you take a pic?

X2

 

[Machine monkey]

Nice bit of turning I know a bit about these things and that's a good job

At the risk of teaching you how to suck eggs. Watch them fingers!!!

 

[Maniac]

Nice bit of turning I know a bit about these things and that's a good job

At the risk of teaching you how to suck eggs. Watch them fingers!!!

I think watch them legs is also worth mentioning?! Hope you're on the mend MM. (sorry, thread hijack)

 

[shotbybothsides]

Nice bit of turning I know a bit about these things and that's a good job

At the risk of teaching you how to suck eggs. Watch them fingers!!!

Thanks MM
Good point about fingers

 

[Bing]

Lovely

Taz might want one of these. He has a stubby fetish...

 

[It's a fair cop...]

sealed top and bottom with 'o' rings

 

[shotbybothsides]

Like it, very neat job

 

[It's a fair cop...]

cheers, matches the stainless dust caps but thats another thread... :wink:

 

[ronk]

------ with Autoglym metal polish on a rag when still spinning.

Fingers have been lost like that!

We've probably all done it at times but its not a good practice and shouldn't be encouraged.

 

[It's a fair cop...]

------ with Autoglym metal polish on a rag when still spinning.

Fingers have been lost like that!

We've probably all done it at times but its not a good practice and shouldn't be encouraged.

And people have been killed driving cars, and yet we continue with this reckless practice... :wink:

 

[shotbybothsides]

cheers, matches the stainless dust caps but thats another thread... :wink:

Got me thinking about stainless dust caps now, I see it's an oddball thread, is there a tap available or did you screwcut it?
I guess I only need a couple of threads and can undercut the rest inside the cap body.

 

[ronk]

------ with Autoglym metal polish on a rag when still spinning.

Fingers have been lost like that!

We've probably all done it at times but its not a good practice and shouldn't be encouraged.

And people have been killed driving cars, and yet we continue with this reckless practice... :wink:

And thats why there are basic rules in order to minimise risk!

 

[It's a fair cop...]

We've probably all done it at times but its not a good practice and shouldn't be encouraged.

And people have been killed driving cars, and yet we continue with this reckless practice... :wink:

And thats why there are basic rules in order to minimise risk!

Which are what we apply on a daily basis in machine shops all over the world. 36 years on the tools and still a full compliment of digits, no doubt echoed by millions like me. Trust me, where I works is a lot safer than the a1 at tea time...