Stuff you have fixed today

[Wildefalcon]

I got a 3kw new motor for my lathe for £45 last Christmas. A Turkish thing, still working.

Is it fixable?

This just cost me £215 for the lathe.

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It's all back together. And working. The motor was given to me, and was used to pump water on a farm, so, no doubt, was secondhand then!

 

[Robotstar5]

The shelving unit in my garage is allegedly capable of 265kg per shelf but sagged that bad under 30kg engines I had to slip odd bits of wood and steel under them to stop them falling through.

Before

The original 9mm chipboard shelves, see how bad they've bowed

I was having some wood delivered for another project so added a sheet of 18mm ply to the order, a bit of circular saw action produced these...

No sagging now, even with at least 100kg on each shelf, sorted

 

[Wildefalcon]

Satisfying!

 

[MattF]

The shelving unit in my garage is allegedly capable of 265kg per shelf but sagged that bad under 30kg engines I had to slip odd bits of wood and steel under them to stop them falling through.

Had exactly the same issue with the shelving units in my previous workshop. That's why I left them there.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

The shelving unit in my garage is allegedly capable of 265kg per shelf.

No sagging now, even with at least 100kg on each shelf, sorted

What i'm understanding from this is that you need to find another 495kg of engines now.

 

[Barking Mat]

The shelving unit in my garage is allegedly capable of 265kg per shelf but sagged that bad under 30kg engines I had to slip odd bits of wood and steel under them to stop them falling through.

Before

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The original 9mm chipboard shelves, see how bad they've bowed

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I was having some wood delivered for another project so added a sheet of 18mm ply to the order, a bit of circular saw action produced these...

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No sagging now, even with at least 100kg on each shelf, sorted

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Some interesting toys there.

 

[Robotstar5]

Some interesting toys there.

Those are the ones that will fit on a shelf

I was going to contact you next year to pick your brains on marine installations for my current project, a Stuart marine lighting set.

I know it's a marine set as it has the optional "deck wash" pump fitted.

 

[Barking Mat]

Those are the ones that will fit on a shelf

I was going to contact you next year to pick your brains on marine installations for my current project, a Stuart marine lighting set.

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I know it's a marine set as it has the optional "deck wash" pump fitted.

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I know nothing about that, but might bé able to heip.

 

[plantlife]

The little plastic shelving unit looks likes it’s holding a bit of weight too!

 

[Robotstar5]

I know nothing about that, but might bé able to heip.

I must have confused you with someone else on here , I thought you worked on boats.

 

[Robotstar5]

The little plastic shelving unit looks likes it’s holding a bit of weight too!

They seem to be coping better, probably because they are narrower and I can't fit too many engines on them.

 

[Brad93]

Is it fixable?

This just cost me £215 for the lathe.

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it's fixable if you know a rewinder

 

[Moose McAlpine]

it's fixable if you know a rewinder

I don't know a rewinder. But i do know a new motor supplier.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A recent donation.

We have already rewired the drill and got it working.

But this happened.

Not impressed.


But I found this.

Well, uncovered it in the mess.

Nice simple fix.

 

[dobbslc]

I fixed the toilet flush handle that snapped yesterday. A new cheap one from Toolstation, five minutes and job done. So satisfying to fix something first attempt after weeks messing around with the Fiat 500
No pictures as it's just a bog flush handle!

 

[lchris21]

Rears today, first a check I had the correct tool to get the hub off. Bought years ago for an A3, it fits.

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Taking the rear caliper off is a pita on the golf with electric parking brake, diagnostics tools required so I decided to try to take the brakes and disk off together without releasing the parking brake.

Held on with two bolts.

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The whole lot came off together and got tied up. On to the very tight hub bolt..



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Looks like the heat shield is held on with the stub axle bolts.

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Old shield off.

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New one back on.

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Bolted back up and on to the other side. Both sides done in ~ 90 minutes.

I did rear on the the missus Mk7 Golf this year, what a faff.....simple 2 piece plate would save hours of work

 

[prepman]

Re-modelled the plastic hinge for my Summit folding chair....hours of work and printing to repair a £25 chair...hey hoo! Mainly due to mis-placing Prusaslicer and Repetier Host configuration files over the years.

 

[awemawson]

My NATO Marching Compass ( 6605-99-531-250 ) has sat in a drawer for decades - mainly as it had a large air bubble in the damping fluid. I did pull it apart decades ago and top it up but eventually it again developed a big bubble.

Well now we have Goggle I unleashed a suitable search to find that this model was only made for about a month AS IT DEVELOPED BUBBLES

I thought I'd have another crack at it today - eventually got it apart - taking out far more screws than were necessary, and topped it up got it back together. Apart from the fact that it's outer (none sealing) glass is cracked and the rubber base ring is a bit perished it's back in working order - for now at least.

So - all you have to do is gently lever off the brass rotating bezel (the bit where my glass is cracked), remove eight underlying screws and lift the sealing cover glass off. Gently lift out the mother of pearl magnetic card from its pivot, top up the fluid (I use cigarette lighter fluid) to form an upwards bulging meniscus, replace the card, again top up to an upwards meniscus, and re-fit the cover glass and eight screws without introducing air bubbles. Below the pivot assembly is a bellows, so as the glass cover is pressed home the excess volume compresses the bellows and with any luck you are good to go.

The brass bezel is retained by a spring clip that sits in a suitable groove in the brass and in the body of the compass - same system as is used for DTI's face glasses.

No during' pictures - I forgot - but here it is finished.

If anyone has a spare rotating brass bezelled outer glass please get in touch

 

[Brad93]

Have a question associated with this.
Regarding part circled in red. Say if I wanted 100 of these pressed out. What would I be looking at for unit cost roughly and tooling?

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£1000+ for the tool

 

[500e]

My NATO Marching Compass ( 6605-99-531-250 ) has sat in a drawer for decades - mainly as it had a large air bubble in the damping fluid. I did pull it apart decades ago and top it up but eventually it again developed a big bubble.

Well now we have Goggle I unleashed a suitable search to find that this model was only made for about a month AS IT DEVELOPED BUBBLES

I thought I'd have another crack at it today - eventually got it apart - taking out far more screws than were necessary, and topped it up got it back together. Apart from the fact that it's outer (none sealing) glass is cracked and the rubber base ring is a bit perished it's back in working order - for now at least.

So - all you have to do is gently lever off the brass rotating bezel (the bit where my glass is cracked), remove eight underlying screws and lift the sealing cover glass off. Gently lift out the mother of pearl magnetic card from its pivot, top up the fluid (I use cigarette lighter fluid) to form an upwards bulging meniscus, replace the card, again top up to an upwards meniscus, and re-fit the cover glass and eight screws without introducing air bubbles. Below the pivot assembly is a bellows, so as the glass cover is pressed home the excess volume compresses the bellows and with any luck you are good to go.

The brass bezel is retained by a spring clip that sits in a suitable groove in the brass and in the body of the compass - same system as is used for DTI's face glasses.

No during' pictures - I forgot - but here it is finished.

If anyone has a spare rotating brass bezelled outer glass please get in touch

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Dont you have to cool the case before filling to get the Bellows contracted