Stuff you have fixed today

[Sergei Slovenija]

«Field repair» of gas air oven «Intertnerm» series G7XA (made USA)

Suddenly, the gas air oven stopped working. Days of hard work trying to diagnose the problem. The main electronic boards and the built-in diagnostics with LEDs showed that the engine does not start after the gas is ignited, the flame goes out (automatic triggers).
As a result, the chain of events looked like this:
1. Insects clogged the condensate drain pipe when the oven is used for air conditioning in summer using an outdoor refrigerant evaporation unit.
2. The condensate drain tray of the internal evaporator has overflowed with water and water has entered under the main fan electronics cover (discharge 3,000 m/h air into distribution ducts).
3. The water has evaporated, but the 3-wire terminal block (motor winding control) has corroded on one of the 3 wires. For two years of work, oxides have done their job. 1 contact and part of the circuit board burned out completely.
4. I made a shunt by bypassing the burnt connector by soldering the wire to the leg of the power chip.
Voila! A miracle has happened, contact has been restored and the oven is working.

 

[jerrytug]

A trivial bodge which amazingly worked!
MOT on Tuesday, I have been surviving without a rear window washer because someone cut the pipe and ripped it out of the tailgate (205 Peugeot).
I cut the ends of the little rubber pipe neatly, slid a length of shrink wrap over, and superglued the rubber pipe ends together. Then shrunk the shrink wrap over the joint with a heat gun.
No way was I expecting it to hold the pressure, , but it is fine!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This small rebate plane came my way the other day.
Complete and only really needing a clean.

So all I did was put a cutting angle onto the 3 blades.

This came my way ages ago.
The glass was cracked and the jets were broken.

A clean, a salvaged jet and glass from another Lucas lamp had the in a working condition.

In light and very dim.



The lamp I liberated the parts from and a smaller unit.

 

[qwakers]

Final assembly of the repaint and re floor of my rotten old trailer.

Floor down

front cut from one of the old sides and bolted in.

sides on

a spot of tig welding (i really need more practice... probably only the third time I've welded aluminium with tig)...

Please be nice, I know it’s awful.

last of the sides in

wheels on

mudguards on

the orangeness of the underside is joyous!

done.

 

[nickk]

Finally......concreted around the bottom tread stability bar,it’s been waiting just over 2 years,should take some flex out.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

This small rebate plane came my way the other day.
Complete and only really needing a clean.

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So all I did was put a cutting angle onto the 3 blades.

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This came my way ages ago.
The glass was cracked and the jets were broken.



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A clean, a salvaged jet and glass from another Lucas lamp had the in a working condition.

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In light and very dim.



The lamp I liberated the parts from and a smaller unit.

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Carbide?

 

[Edward Teach]

Only two of the six, cctv cameras were working this morning
the two working cameras, have a different power supply
After numerous testing and head scratching,
It would seem the transformer had packed up,
I found an-other unit, out of an old alarm system, that fitted in the same mounting holes,
And supplied a similar voltage, 15.3v from the original spec'd 16.5v
Not knowing the amps of the replacement unit
Is the ISS. 11A the amps of the old unit, as in the second picture.

Has this got hot, maybe

We have power, and the battery is charging,
We'll see if this one lasts 15 years.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Only two of the six, cctv cameras were working this morning
the two working cameras, have a different power supply
After numerous testing and head scratching,
It would seem the transformer had packed up,
I found an-other unit, out of an old alarm system, that fitted in the same mounting holes,
And supplied a similar voltage, 15.3v from the original spec'd 16.5v
Not knowing the amps of the replacement unit
Is the ISS. 11A the amps of the old unit, as in the second picture.

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Has this got hot, maybe

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We have power, and the battery is charging,
We'll see if this one lasts 15 years.

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Is that a 7.0Ah battery?
It may be too big for the PSU. They burn out the fusable linke in the Transformer.
Drop it down to 3.2ah.

 

[Edward Teach]

Is that a 7.0Ah battery?
It may be too big for the PSU. They burn out the fusable linke in the Transformer.
Drop it down to 3.2ah.

I have a smaller capacity similar 12v battery.
I will check it out.
Thank you.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I have a smaller capacity similar 12v battery.
I will check it out.
Thank you.

We hardly have a stand by battery in PSU for CCTV systems.
Due to the issues it can cause.

It looks like a 2Amp PSU. That is a 2amp maxium, not per output.

 

[nickk]

I had to make a frame to hang a twisted PAINTING? on a wall,the PAINTING? is 32mm out of square,the canvas creaked as I fitted the angle around the edges so I had to get brutal with it and remove the cross brace at the back as it was bowing whilst we tried to untwist it,I screwed the angle to the outside edges,then forged 4 corner brackets from flat and tapped them m6 in position,all hung on secret hooks.
When we hung it to the wall,the bottom right corner stands off 6” so I plan on making a concealed jaw,hooking over the outside edge.
When I measured this job last summer,I was anticipating an awkward job as I also had to make most of it in situ,due to restrictions climbing the staircase and negotiating the doorways,on arrival today to fit the customer informs me it’s worth £10k FFS! .

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Looks like a treasure map [X marks the spot], drawn by a three-year-old.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

informs me it’s worth £10k FFS! .View attachment 339254View attachment 339255

If they paid £10k for that I'm sure I've got some drawings from my primary school days they may be interested in

 

[nickk]

If they paid £10k for that I'm sure I've got some drawings from my primary school days they may be interested in

I’d been thinking similar when I swept the floor of swarf!

 

[Edward Teach]

I had to make a frame to hang a twisted PAINTING? on a wall,the PAINTING? is 32mm out of square,the canvas creaked as I fitted the angle around the edges so I had to get brutal with it and remove the cross brace at the back as it was bowing whilst we tried to untwist it,I screwed the angle to the outside edges,then forged 4 corner brackets from flat and tapped them m6 in position,all hung on secret hooks.
When we hung it to the wall,the bottom right corner stands off 6” so I plan on making a concealed jaw,hooking over the outside edge.
When I measured this job last summer,I was anticipating an awkward job as I also had to make most of it in situ,due to restrictions climbing the staircase and negotiating the doorways,on arrival today to fit the customer informs me it’s worth £10k FFS! .View attachment 339254View attachment 339255

It's upside down

 

[zeppelin builder]

He's in Sweden.
Apparently, no greys there.

mostly blondes

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This static model came my way the other week.

It was complete, but needed a lot of attention. Some it would be easy to do. Some had to be repaired to a point it would not get any worse.

The rear axil was bent is 3 places and on three planes. I could not remove it, with ouit major damage to other parts. So I dodged a pair of pliers to fit into the holes to bend the axil into shape.

The front end was also bent, a sign it was well played with.

This took about 4 hours to bend straight. But the metal was getting work hard, so I got it to a point were it worked, but it is not perfect.

Some of the nuts and blots are glued into place, then painted over. I think it was from when it was built, rebuilt or repaired.

Dam thing is a dust magnet. The staic it stores is so great you can see dust motes moving towards it in the morning sun.

 

[nickk]

It's upside down

Funny you say that,we had to ask her,which way up? She also wasn’t sure and had to look hard for an autograph .

 

[Moose McAlpine]

The customer informs me it’s worth £10k FFS!

It's not worth 10k, but that's what they paid for it..

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I got this AVO Megga in November last year.

I spent some time researching how to use it and the common faults found on it.
Plus what MOD?WD gear it was most likly used on.

So I got it opened, some one has tried before, the turn butcher is a good term here.

Few things that are clear to see.
The Valve is gone, It has blown so bad the glass is loose.
Fear not a after market kit was avaialble to convert it to a modern valve.
Was being the key word.

The other issues were the Caps are shot as well as a few blown resistors.

All that was fixable, but at a cost.

The killer was this:

The main transformer has gone.
On the top the shellac is leaking, a sign of over heating.
It was left tsting for too long.

Lower down you can see the soft iron laminations are bowed.

This transformer is customed tuned to each machine and needs a lot of setting up to get it working, if you can get a spare.

So it got a good clean, inside and out and will be used as a display unit.