Stuff you have fixed today

[droopsnoot]

I was just going to grind / file it down but thought I'd try and get the most of the material off with the lathe.
I clamped it in the 3 jaw and dialled it in.

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I've never used a lathe. In my head I imagine that you'll switch it on and as soon as the tool hits the "edge" of that brazing, there will be a massive bang and several broken things. Does that not happen? Is it because you're taking off a really small amount each time?

 

[Dcal]

I'm no expert eiither and just try stuff. If it works it works.

Brass and cast iron are relatively soft and with a sharp tool and small cuts they machine well, even with interrupted cuts.
I just used whatever insert was in the tool and hand fed, I'm sure there's is far better ways of doing it, but as I said if it works it works.

Don't know how I managed most of my life without a lathe.

 

[arian]

Get stuff left on shed home workbench without even a mention most times to fix.
This! I had to have a word about, should have been chucked in the bin from manufacture for lifting meat joints from oven pan.

Really useful please fix it...

Apologies for the jig, best I could be bothered with, migged both sides, the other prong will probably fall off with a sneeze..

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Best thing I've found for lifting meat out, especially when it fills the pot, is bear claws. Ebay. No good for pulled pork mind, despite their claims.

 

[RobCox]

Got fed up with the bodgy way wipers on my M300. They had flat plates of steel to hold the rubber on when I got the lathe. I replaced the rubber when I tarted it up but chips and crud keep getting under the tailstock in particular so I though I'd make new ones all round with some felt to keep the ways oiled.

Four stages of machining (they're all slightly different, of course):

Material is aluminium - whatever came out of the scrap bin. Rubber scraper and felt (before soaking in oil):

A 1/4" paper punch makes the holes very nicely. Fitted to the tailstock:

and carriage

Looking at the manual after I'd finished (I know, RTFM first!) looks like this is closer to the original than the tacky plates that can be seen on top of the carriage - even the hole centres are wrong on them!

 

[DAPPH]

why didn't you throw a bit of weld on the other side while you had it in the workshop?

More brownie points at a later date when they are seriously needed ?

 

[awemawson]

Today I unstuck a 'Spragg Clutch' that WASN'T stuck

My Eurospark 'sinker' EDM has had it's electrolyte tank stuck in the raised position for months - I was putting off fixing it. The tank is raised to surround the workpiece with electrolyte by a hydraulic cylinder, which also pulls it back down. As a safety feature there is a gear engaged with a rack on the body of the machine whose turning is controlled by the spragg unit. Up it free turns, but going down it can hold the weight of a full tank, but the cylinder overcomes it to lower the tank.

Being stuck in the up position meant that access is extremely difficult. The tank sits on an aluminium casting with bronze bushes which slides up and down a very heavy ground pillar.

Having got the clutch assembly at last off the sliding casting it was still stuck - it is lubricated by a nipple positioned between the bushes. Pumping grease in a high pressure eventually gave just a bit of movment, and warming the casting with a gas torch eventually freed it off - much operating up and down and full operation is now restored.

Pictures below are from October 2017 when I last dismantled it to replace the tank bellows.

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[RWD3M]

The granddaughter's washing machine packed in at the weekend, it wouldn't spin.

The door was catching on the drum. I knocked up a new hinge pin and it's all sorted now.

Did I mention, the granddaughter is only 3

 

[Dcal]

Today I got my shaper back together, adjusted and working again.

Checked the table and all seems reasonable, couple of hundreds of a mm out both ways, but that's close enough for a bodger like me.

 

[Danez]

replaced the drivers door latch on the jag

i may or may not have lost my rag and attacked the metal ‘security box’ with a dremel

 

[Dcal]

Today I fixed my Parkside petrol washer.

Couple of weeks ago it started getting harder to start and it finally got to the stage where it just wouldn't.
It was very easy to pull over, so first I checked the compression and found next to nothing.
Checked the valve clearance and they were tight, so I adjusted them but no improvement.
Squirt of oil made no improvement either so I pulled the head off and checked the valves.
Exhaust was burnt, inlet was ok.

Engine seems to be a Chinese GX200 Honda copy, so I ordered a valve kit and gaskets off eBay (for about £25 all in) and they arrived a few days ago.

The valves are not exactly right, they in are too small, but the inlet was near enough the existing exhaust, so given what it's for I decided to use it.

Seats looked ok and the inlet came up nice with a quick lap but the exhaust wouldn't play ball.

However I have a valve seat cutting tool the right size, but it turns out, not a suitable guide.
I do have a lathe, so I made a guide to suit.

Exhaust valve seat came up easily after cutting so I rebuilt it.

It now has 70 odd psi (I don't know if that is good or bad) but it started easily so I'm calling it fixed.

 

[badabec]

To celebrate, did you walk around with valve grinding tool stuck to your forehead like a Dalek?

 

[redlig]

Not quite what I fixed by any stretch of the imagination but I thought it was worth a glance even in the wrong thread .

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^^ All sorted, and not a Snap On or Milwaukee to be seen!

 

[redlig]

^^ All sorted, and not a Snap On or Milwaukee to be seen!

If any of those high teck supports were to fail there would be a few Snap Of limbs.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

If any of those high teck supports were to fail there would be a few Snap Of limbs.

Aye, my toes were curling watching that.

 

[Porkypine]

Love the way those guys just crack on with it out there.. When I was on the railway there was an Indian gang on the concrete train, they were always getting me to weld up all sorts of cranky "special tools" they'd thought up, nice bunch of lads, tho only a couple of them spoke English..

 

[Barking Mat]

At least when they jacked it up using bottle jacks, they were simultaneously winding up stands.

Not ideal, but impressive.

 

[JOEPRO]

My power tools storage was taken care of today (just the small battery stuff but good to have a central place for it off the floor and bench)

 

[sako243]

No piccies but finally bit the bullet and drilled a hole in one of my pallet forks to accept a tow ball.

Only used it once this evening but should have done it ages ago! The little New Holland is usually quite handy for shunting stuff around but then that currently means getting the Argo out of the way. The Land Rovers are sometimes a little too big but despite the JCB being twice the size it's more maneuverable with 4WS.

 

[lchris21]

..fixed the paintwork on my Yamaha 250 side covers by stripping it then powedercoating it in wrinkle finish.