Engineering Mayhem

A major service was due for my MY06 9N3 Polo GTI, which recently ticked over 90,000km. I ended up changing the Timing Belt, Timing Belt Te...

I use a metal bin to organise the medium-length bits of stock in my shop. These are all the odds and ends that aren't long enough to ma...

A set of tapping guides helps keep your tap straight when threading, and makes starting the thread a lot easier. I made some simple ones...

I made a metric M12 draw bar for my mill, as the original one was 7/16" and not suitable for the majority of my tooling. It consists of...

My lathe bench is in it's second iteration. The first was made with random pieces of steel welded together poorly with a cheap arc weld...

This page is a collection of engineering fails that I have seen or experienced. Cracked nuts  These were found inside the the wiring bo...

This page is a collection of various engineering hacks that I have done:  Emergency Thong Repair My workshop foot protection (/thong)...