Cutting neat notches in a stainless steel cooker hood chimney

[MJPD29]

I like the look of a nice galv install too, but I wouldn't have it in my kitchen!

I feel I have to ask, what is a 'distressed look' socket? I can't help but wonder if it's just the rusty old crap I've been ripping out recently someone has dug out of the skip?

Its even better when people pay 30 quid for a length of rusted 'industrial' look glad conduit. Might leave some in the rain for a considerable amount of time and make a fortune.

 

[pc1966]

Its even better when people pay 30 quid for a length of rusted 'industrial' look glad conduit. Might leave some in the rain for a considerable amount of time and make a fortune.

Or folk paying over the odds for designed jeans with holes/cuts in them. I find they appear as if by magic in any jeans I wear!

 

[Baddegg]

Clamp a bit of wood in the underside and then rest on a bench....

 

[happysteve]

Clamp a bit of wood in the underside and then rest on a bench....

For the cutting and drilling?

Yeah, that's what I did

 

[telectrix]

For the cutting and drilling?

Yeah, that's what I did

i was just trying to fathom out how baddegg was going to clamp a piece of wood to the underside of his jeans.

 

[Baddegg]

i was just trying to fathom out how baddegg was going to clamp a piece of wood to the underside of his jeans.

Wouldn’t be the first time tel ?

 

[happysteve]

Just to close this thread off, said I'd post pictures of the finished article so here we go.

In the end it was a lot of fuss about nothing (cutting a stainless steel cooker hood chimney). I had to be careful not to scratch it as I worked on it, but liberal use of masking tape sorted that. It was a lot thinner than my off-cut - I reckon it's about 0.5mm (my offcut was 1mm thick) so the main issue wasn't so much the overheating and the cutting, it was stopping it flapping about while I did so! Jigsaw on slowest setting, really fine-toothed blade, timber offcuts to clamp it. All good.

Also, because of where the notch ended up, I didn't have to make the arch, I just had to cut a couple of straight lines. I'm sure I'll find other uses for the 25mm punch!

Here's the finished job:

The feed was from the adjacent downstairs WC, where the service cupboard is located:

Someone was asking what a "distressed look" metal-clad socket is... it turns out it's a regular Contactum metal-clad socket, galvanised:

The client bought them from here. So, £39 for each socket, (including £14 back box).

I was quite pleased with the job, because the client preferred my old tarnished conduit/saddles etc that had been sat in the shed for a while, so it was nice to get rid of some old stock!

 

[DPG]

Just to close this thread off, said I'd post pictures of the finished article so here we go.

In the end it was a lot of fuss about nothing (cutting a stainless steel cooker hood chimney). I had to be careful not to scratch it as I worked on it, but liberal use of masking tape sorted that. It was a lot thinner than my off-cut - I reckon it's about 0.5mm (my offcut was 1mm thick) so the main issue wasn't so much the overheating and the cutting, it was stopping it flapping about while I did so! Jigsaw on slowest setting, really fine-toothed blade, timber offcuts to clamp it. All good.

Also, because of where the notch ended up, I didn't have to make the arch, I just had to cut a couple of straight lines. I'm sure I'll find other uses for the 25mm punch!

Here's the finished job:

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The feed was from the adjacent downstairs WC, where the service cupboard is located:
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Someone was asking what a "distressed look" metal-clad socket is... it turns out it's a regular Contactum metal-clad socket, galvanised:

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The client bought them from here. So, £39 for each socket, (including £14 back box).

I was quite pleased with the job, because the client preferred my old tarnished conduit/saddles etc that had been sat in the shed for a while, so it was nice to get rid of some old stock!

Nice job you've done there. Can't for the life of me think why someone wants those sockets in their house though.

 

[MJPD29]

Looks like a good job. I cant understand why people buy that stuff either though, especially paying that sort of money for them. Im sure if you went into any of the factories I work in and told them you'd replace their old sockets that look like that with new ones they'd be more than happy to accept and it'd be cheaper!

 

[happysteve]

The client was after a certain look, and was very pleased with the results, so as far as I'm concerned, all is good

 

[telectrix]

has the client recently been paroled? that might explain it.

 

[Baddegg]

Lovely job @happysteve ?

 

[pirate]

That looks really cool, imho!
Those vertical slots on the screw heads though.....LOL!

 

[telectrix]

That looks really cool, imho!
Those vertical slots on the screw heads though.....LOL!

i do mine the same as you should be hanging off the yardarm..... vertical.

 

[pirate]

Tel, I bow to you on this one...BUT...only because it's a kitchen so there will be condensation about, and that moisture will run off the face plates more easily if the slots are vertical...
but for aesthetics, they should be horizontal. I've told you before, i keep my yardarm on the deck, horizontal, so the sun is always over it!