How not to do it. Scary

[Mark P.Participant @markp]

Hi all just seen this on the instructables website http://www.instructables.com/id/Torno-del-pobre-poor-man-lathe/ I may be a bit Heath Robinson but this scares me!!

Mark P.

[Mark P.Participant @markp]

[StovepipeParticipant @stovepipe]

I see what you mean ! Where will he end up – A&E, or the funny farm ?

Dennis

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

An old classic, almost as mad, possibly even more dangerous. A contender for The Darwin Awards if there ever was one:

**LINK**

Muzzer

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Mmm…you might need more than safety specs for that one

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

I should have worn safety specs yesterday. I went through the annual ritual of welding the body of the mower back together. Used bits of old tumble drier this time. I thought I'd done quite well, given that I nearly skipped it this year due to massive splits. In earlier years I've just built up a latticework of 1" by 1/8" rolled steel bar. My technique is to build up a big molten lump of weld on the good steel, which eventually drips onto teh rusty bits and sticks quite well. Trying to weld the rust directly just blasts holes in it.

Just my luck, mowed about a square meter then hit a partly buried kerbstone. Shock puts 90-degree bend in blade, opens whole new sets of tears in body thropugh which large facefull of hurt-shaped gravel gets me in the face and motor assumes somewhat wonky angle.

This time, it's the skip, stepson is donating far less exciting electric mower

I'm sure the extra metal I'd added weighed more than the original body shell by the end.

Neil

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