Stuff you have fixed today

[prepman]

Got the timer/programmer working again on my 38-year old Hotpoint washing machine. Decided it would be to hard to dismantle, so played it safe with some contact cleaner and some lube (in very limited quantities and places and it's working again. Roll on the big 40

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Recently replaced a pump on the Kenwood washer. Looked at the old one and realised that the central worn out part is a clip in unit.
It could be sold as a separate item...it could. Instead the whole pump is scrapped. Landfill bound.
Again it isn't about saving cash......such a damn crime......throwaway culture.

 

[500e]

£26
For Yettie DRL bulb & hour to change

 

[prepman]

£26
For Yettie DRL bulb & hour to change

Is that a garage hour @ £50 +vat?

 

[500e]

I understand some main dealers are on £150

 

[Onoff]

one in the motorhome etc.

I initially read that as monochrome and thought "I always thought binoculars were colour", mind I have had a beer...

 

[DAPPH]

today i replaced the (structural) rotten ply wood with a steel frame and plastic sheet for the rear tailgate, and replaced the rotten front panel whilst i was at it too.

much better'er.

and yes i know the door isnt square. dont care its only about 3mm out anyway...

Had to use spring snek halter hooks to stop the link of the antiluc fasteners bouncing up undone & watching the tailboard go skidding across the road ( several times ) I also made one of the hinge pins an inch longer so I could drop a small R clip in a drilled hole top stop the board easily coming off .

 

[Farside]

Got the timer/programmer working again on my 38-year old Hotpoint washing machine. Decided it would be to hard to dismantle, so played it safe with some contact cleaner and some lube (in very limited quantities and places and it's working again. Roll on the big 40

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I took one of them apart, once.
Never again.
Still twitch when I think of it.

 

[prepman]

As matter of interest I've ordered these as a further option (no, 2), realistically priced. Modify holder again or 3D print one.
What is interesting is the existing fixture has a moulding that is a bayonet style but without the internal metal parts...so it was a deliberate act to make it non-generic. The 2 contact prongs in the base have short wires spot-welded to the bulb. It could have been a bayonet or wedge bulb holder. Think I'm up to about £50 now in parts...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254410812690?

 

[Blobber]

Got the timer/programmer working again on my 38-year old Hotpoint washing machine. Decided it would be to hard to dismantle, so played it safe with some contact cleaner and some lube (in very limited quantities and places and it's working again. Roll on the big 40

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I think i might have a new one in a box of "useful one day" spares, when it stops heatwaving down I will have a look

 

[DanZac]

when it stops heatwaving down I will have a look

Brilliant.

 

[Cobbler]

Perhaps we should have a sub-section on here “what I should have fixed today” 229 pages so far, I think that might add a few more

 

[qwakers]

please dont judge my welding too harshly... i know my alu tig is terrible....


rad mods to keep the inlet pipework as far away from the turbo as possible.
cut off the old inlet (scary part!)

and welded a plate over it (can you spot where i dipped the tungsten?)

cut a hole in the new location and tigged the elbow on to it.

pressure tested it (it leaked. big surprise. bit more welding and it now doesnt)

put the fans back on to check fitment.

fitted into the car 3 times before i got it fitting.......

not much room in there! its almost touching the steering rack. will put a dent there to stop it vibrating a hole into the pipe.

and started to plumb the much simpler cooling system up.

 

[DennisCA]

Replaced the turbo bypass valve on my Saab which was broken, man it was caked in oily mud. Of course everything got cleaned up good before going back.

Then I replaced the spark plugs, and about time too!

I am surprised the car ran as well as it did

I found some NOS plugs, NGK BCP7EV plugs with the older gold-palladium plating instead of iridium or platinum. Got two changes worth and the saab people said the turbos liked these older ones over the newer replacements.

 

[T5 TDI]

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The plan for theses two T15 heaters was to fix one by using parts from the other one.

But the best laid plans of mice, men and TYA..................


The biggest fear was, as both wicks are seized that the adjuster had been forced and broken.

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Both wicks were rotten and seized.
You tear the wick down to the tails.
Then gently pull it apart.


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The wick support was in need of a good clean.

There is no tool or easy way the do this.


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So I made one.


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New wick fitted in to one.


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This is the other heater, again a seized wick.
You can see the arms that raise and lower the wick.
Yes they are that slim and weak.
But they work very well through.



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Hot plate removed.

Both are burning away very nicely.

That pic with it burning nicely with the new wick took me back to my childhood and that freezing winter or 1961. We didn't much heat in our old Victorian house and an identical paraffin heater used to come out when it got really bad. That pic made me think of the smell. Pretty evocative for a four year old child.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

That pic with it burning nicely with the new wick took me back to my childhood and that freezing winter or 1961. We didn't much heat in our old Victorian house and an identical paraffin heater used to come out when it got really bad. That pic made me think of the smell. Pretty evocative for a four year old child.

Yep, we had one of those too.

 

[Cobbler]

Yep, we had one of those too.

And us.

 

[prepman]

And us.

Remember the 'Esso-blue" ads.

 

[Blobber]

And us.

And us! we had polystyrene ceiling tiles as well, not a fire hazard at all

 

[prepman]

And us! we had polystyrene ceiling tiles as well, not a fire hazard at all

But the asbestos tiles protected them.......

 

[dobbslc]

But the asbestos tiles protected them.......

Along with the lead paint...