Learn how to work with metalworking tools during this workshop and make your own rattle.

This instructable is for everyone who wants to learn how to make a rattle out of metal or for everyone who wants to learn the basics about welding, drilling, milling, and saw.

Step 1: Needed Materials and Tools

needed materials:

- a piece of steel plate (2x25mm) at least 25 cm long

- a square steel tube (25x25mm) at least 2 cm long

- a round steel tube diameter 10 mm at least 15 cm long

- a round steel tube dameter 10 mm at least

- a small piece of aluminium 1mm thickness, at least 8.5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide

- a steel roundel M10

needed tools:

- mill machine (if you don't have one you can also use a grinding weel but the result will be different)

- welder (doesn't mather if semi-automatic or manual)

- metal saw (electric and manual or just manual) **make sure the saw has a metal blade

- pen and ruler

- drill machine

- metal dril diameter 11mm

- file

- scissors or utility knife

Step 2: Saw and Drill the Baseplates

first you need to saw of 2 pieces of the metal plate each one is 12 cm long.

next you drill a hole (diameter 11 mm) in both plates at 1.25 cm from the top and from the left. To make sure you drill the hole wright you can use a center punch to make a small pit in the metal.

After this u can take the file to clean the edges or if you have a metal beld you can also use this.12

Step 3: Saw Tubes

you need 4 pieces of tube:

- one piece of 10mm diameter tube, 15cm long

- two pieces of 14mm diameter tube, 0.8 cm long (as the spacers)

- one piece of 25/25mm square tube, 2 cm long

after you saw the tubes, you can sand them on a machine of with the fill

Step 4: Make Slot for Plastic

Take the square tube you just saw and use a manual metal saw to make a slot in the middle of the piece as in the picture. the slot bust be about 1cm deep.

Step 5: Saw Aluinium Piece

saw or dut a piece of aluminium with next dimensions:

- 2cm height, 8.3 cm long

the tickness of the aluminium must be around 1mm, it must fit tight in the slot you've just made.

If it's too thick, you can use a piece of sandpaper to make it thinner.

Step 6: Gear From Roundel

We had to prepare a lot of gears for a workshop so we took all the gears, fixed them on a bold and milled a slot out. after the first slot is milled, you rotate the roundels with 60 degrees and repeat the proces, after 6 times you have a gear for your rattle.

* if you don't have a milling machine you can use a grinding wheel.

WATCH OUT IF YOU WANT TO USE A GRINDING WHEEL, make sure your roundel is fitter tight!

the result will be different as with a milling machine but the rattle will work the same