Stuff you have fixed today

[Brad93]

Why ,did he have coke going into the hole? Did it develop into a problem over time?

Yeah forge got worse over time.
Not as hot and kept making a ton of clinker, probably where it wasn’t burning properly.

 

[Brad93]

He spoke to one of his pals, engineer who worked with Cecil Swan to make the portaforge, he said tip the tueiron down

 

[mdr]

Is that Corrapol sheeting?

I first looked at the reviews on B&Q for Corrubit (2.2mm thick) and they didn't look great...


Being fair that snagging does look like incorrect support (lack of pitch could probably cause that too). Still, it looks horrible though! I am not after a "30 year old semi-abandoned allotment shed look" but within three years.

I then looked on Screwfix and Corrapol-BT (2.0mm thick). Reviews are not good...


Corrapol-BT reviews on the B&Q website were low too; splitting seems to be the issue.

So I settled on Wickes and the Onduline (3.0mm thick and 20mm wider too). Really good reviews...


Hopefully it'll hold. 15 year guarantee if you can believe it.

I also went with Onduline screws rather than nails. I'm sure both would work but having never done it before and fearing a need to undo something I decided a screw comes back out a little easier than a nail and is guaranteed to be reusable. They only come in 60mm lengths (nail version seem to be 70mm). I didn't over drive the screw (as directed) but they really only needed to be 50mm for me (maybe 45mm). I had to angle grind the tips off quite a few from the inside as they had come through in places.

Doh! I'm posting about the roof again.

 

[nickk]

Yeah forge got worse over time.
Not as hot and kept making a ton of clinker, probably where it wasn’t burning properly.

This was my conclusion,had the forge 19 years,this problem started 2 years ago,thought it was the coke as the lumps seemed bigger,went over them with the waker plate,to no avail,anyway I’ve had 2 good days forging now and it’s back to the old days.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I first looked at the reviews on B&Q for Corrubit (2.2mm thick) and they didn't look great...

I went with the red/brick Corrapol 3mm [also with the screws] for recovering the cave roof on which the felt had started to leak, very happy with the product. I got it from a Company near Glasgow and their service was brilliant.

Sadly, the shed had become very slightly 'diamond shaped' so the ridging sections don't fit exactly with the sheets, but there was nothing the local chap fitting it could do about that....... It just doesn't look as neat as it could have, but does the job intended [i.e. I'm dry in there now. ]

 

[AndersK]

Not yet but you know you will have something to fix when it's getting hot around your neck and realise you forgot to turn on the cooler

 

[Chillitt]

Not sure if Ive fixed it, but I got the old printer working. Kind of. no more than 3 pages at a time, and it needs some extortionate cyan toner to stop it complaining, but at least I now have the 8 sheets I needed printed off. Several times..

 

[4String.]

Sat in Scunthorpe steelworks waiting to unload this:




which is apparently a hydraulic rock breaker , and just had word that the next job is a 15 metre long x 3.7 metre wide lump from Pontefract to Slough. Got the wide load marker lights out to make sure they're all okay to find that nothing works .

An hour stood in the pouring rain later and it turns out that the auxiliary lighting socket on the trailer is wired reverse to the old firms' trailers . Lots of testing and swapping cables around and all is working again . And I've acquired another job for over Christmas checking and cleaning all the connections:

 

[slim_boy_fat]

which is apparently a hydraulic rock breaker

I thought it was a mini-submarine until I saw the name on it & Googled the Co.

 

[dobbslc]

Got this off Ebay.
Bloke said it pops and farts when you put a load on it, I think they all do to a point anyway but I had a fettle as the fast and slow settings didn't seem to work and after an hour of farting about it now seems to have fast and slow speeds that correlate to the throttle setting!
Starts and idles better too
Oh and I put about 200ml of oil in it as that was very low as well.....
Hopefully this will rotavate the mess that is the back garden next spring.

 

[4String.]

I thought it was a mini-submarine until I saw the name on it & Googled the Co.

I stand corrected, yet again .

It's actually a posh wrecking ball, nothing more. The lump that's in front of the yellow tube slides inside it and is connected by a cable to the winch that's on top of the tube. It all fastens on the front of a huge 360 that one of my chums brought down here from Teesside, (135tons all up weight at 40 mph), and is used to break up scrap steel that's poured out into shallow " lakes" in the steelworks.

And I sat for 7 hours waiting for it be unloaded...

 

[8ob]

Took a chance on buying a Brakesafe tester the other day in the hope it was only needing batteries, it was


I like these little squash together gel filled cable joiners

New double sided tape and batteries.

All good.

Bad news is it’s £200 for the annual calibration cert

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@8ob
Does that mean you are going to be certified?


Those gel connections are fantastic. Many a time doing security alarm repairs the have saved my bacon

 

[4String.]

Bought a blow gun for the cab weeks ago and by virtue of being stuck at the services until tomorning I've finally managed to fit it:




Tapped into the air supply under the driver's seat:


,

Took less than 5 minutes and it means I can now bask in the glory of a dust and breadcrumb free workplace . Having paid £18 to the truck wash folk at the services the cab is looking like it should and won't be put to bed tomorrow looking like it's just done a shift at Manvers Main . The next tasks, weather permitting, are a good fettle of the driver's footwell and the dashboard and fit the wind deflectors that I bought months ago to the door windows. In between drinking pots of tea naturally .

 

[4String.]

And that's the window deflectors fitted:




And although it was splendid fun fitting them with M3 bolts, (not ideal when you have big hands ), being able to have the windows lowered by 3" at night should help with sleeping .

 

[4String.]

And the cab is now cleaned and polished to within 10 thou of its life:



Can finally settle down for the night with a beer and book number 2 in what is a fantastic trilogy about Alaxander the Great.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

(Yesterday)

Replaced a faulty trailer bypass relay. What's worse than using Scotchlocks? Reusing Scotchlocks. Whoever fitted the original one just tapped into the taillight wiring really badly and then just taped it up.


Not my way of doing it, but they wanted it cheap and now.

 

[Ashley Burton]

The fun never stops...

Earlier in the year one of our mates fell into the shed (Don't ask) & cracked one of the acrylic windows. Seems the wind wasn't having it, So blew it through!

Grabbed some Ply & boarded it up for the time being

 

[Gragson]

More strong winds & rain coming later, just as well it happened now.

 

[Ashley Burton]

More strong winds & rain coming later, just as well it happened now.

It's not even my bloody shed