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Flowering Elbow Projects

Welcome to the Flowering Elbow projects section of the website. Below is a list of past and current projects, in the order they were uploaded.

Earth or Clay Plastering Guide

Bringing together our research and experiences of clay plastering (or ‘earthen plastering’) we have gathered together a fairly comprehensive set of resources that should be useful for anyone into diy renovation, using clay plaster, building with straw, or interested in environmentally sound natural building materials. …

Clay plaster cross section

Composite Oak French Doors / Windows: make your own

Let’s embark on some custom home made, triple glazed, external doors/ windows. Here I use oak, but other woods could work just as well …

door featured

The Cyclone Dust Separator

These pages give loads of information about specifying and making your own cyclone dust separators. The transparent cyclonic filtration units in our example are part of a much bigger dust extraction project: ‘The Dust Sniper’, which is a quiet, multi hose, flexible usage extractor …

dust cyclone

Ambient Energy Aqua Purge Device Journal

You will find herein my journal and notes pertaining to the creation of the Ambient Energy Aqua Purge Device (AEAPD), which varies only slightly in character from many other ‘zero power’ devices of a similar purpose. It may, none the less, be helpful in our continued battle against the insidious tumbling …

Steampunk clothes drying

From Sewing Machine to Scroll Saw

Let’s transform an old malfunctioning sewing machine into a scroll saw so we can make some wooden decorations (and a load of other cool jazz). If, like me, you had an old sewing machine (I tend to collect these things when they are getting thrown out by people) knocking about, then you could try a conversion like this …

scroll saw

24Volt Broken Bosch Drill into ‘Super’ Drill

This is a fix/hack for the Bosch PSB24 VE-2 battery powered drill that may also work for others. The modification has a fun upgrade thrown in …

If your drill is a second hand job, get your cleaning hat on and clean off all the carbon dust and other dirt

Make your own Lathe from other peoples rubbish

Here you will find documented my experiences making a wood lathe, and advice to make your own, from scrap materials …

latheinuse