Dave, I think using Photoshop (or similar) to create a pair is possibly outside the rules

John

Nice one Dave, though your swarf doesn't look the same

Really need to get on with my efforts, though it's not far off yours

Or am I luring you all into a false sense of security? But if it was Fake News I wouldn't tell you, would I? Or would I? Perhaps it's a double-bluff…

Dave

PS I promise that I didn't use Photoshop™

Nope, you used another photo editing software instead!

My entry for the 2017 Christmas Challenge.

Candlesticks made from mild steel, yellow Dymo tape and acrylic tubing & rod. All found in the scrap box, indeed the candle was marked ‘Decimal currency 2p’, so it is at least 40 years old. The steel bases could also be old CDs. If you don’t have any, get off to your local charity shop and buy a couple of Barry Manilow or Pan Pipes CDs. Either way, they are resistant to tipping, in the choppy waters of the Norfolk Broads or in order to withstand the celebrated Grand Union Bore. They are rather like a Captain’s Decanter, at least if you are captain of a Monitor… I had the had the idea at 7am Thursday morning and the job was done by 5pm. If you don’t ‘get it’, they are modelled on canal boat engine exhaust stacks. My lathe wasn’t big enough to face the ends, not having a Steady, but I realised I could square off the ends in the mill. Acrylic resists burning, but melts, so it should be safe, with care.

Then, on Friday, I had another idea, in collaboration with Mr Kipling, using preassembled foil, pastry, filling, and icing. The cherry was surgically removed and a pin drill used to mount the candle-holder without cracking the icing. This had the advantage that I could eat them afterwards, although the candles were a bit chewy. It took longer to find the Cherry Bakewells in the local shops, that it did to make them into candleholders.

Indeed! You don't think those candles were giving off strange fumes, do you?!

However, I have to say he's taken it more seriously than Dave (S.O.D) 

Edited By David Standing 1 on 03/11/2017 16:45:34

if you were half as good with a lathe and milling machine as you apparently are with image editing software, you'd have had a proper pair of bloody candle sticks made long ago!

As we are Model Engineers, I made a brace of model candlesticks…

Is the cat forgiven yet?

Dave

Gently punch a depression into the underside of the fan blades using a broad head centre punch or similar, it will sit easier on the lightning conductor then.

Sit the blade over a plate with a small hole in when you punch the depression so it only causes local movement of the fan metal.

That may well then also show up where the blades are heavy, by them dipping to one side when mounted on the lightning conductor.