Stuff you have fixed today

[Farside]

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!

I just drilled a hole in the cistern top, fixed a length of fence wire to the plunger top and made a flat hoop for a handle, cos I'm not a savage.

 

[Farside]

So little needs to be removed to get the gearbox out, and it's all done from the back.

Blimey, just like they used to do it.

 

[bourbon]

Repair Cafe today. Don't look too close. I aimed the mig roughly at it for all of two seconds. rest of the time was painting.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Ive recently got a little steam engine that I'm refurbishing. It works fine, but the crankshaft runs though the firebox and the holes for it aren't in alignment. After 60 years running its not a big problem, but it annoys me.

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so I though I'd weld the hole up so I can redrill it later

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the casing is only 0.5mm thick, so I clamped it to some 1/4" thick copper and fired up the mig welder as I'd been doing some welding on my car earlier.

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and after bit of cleaning up its good to go, and still flat.

Even New they did not.
I have a unused one in a box, the holes do not line up.

 

[8ob]

More truck mending, fitted a new set of air bags. Don’t last long in this game, give me springs any day.

And fixed a Transit brake judder, disc looked ok but had about 6mm run out. Turned out to be three sheered of bolts and of the two remaining one was in cracked out thread.

 

[octo0072000]

More truck mending, fitted a new set of air bags. Don’t last long in this game, give me springs any day.

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And fixed a Transit brake judder, disc looked ok but had about 6mm run out. Turned out to be three sheered of bolts and of the two remaining one was in cracked out thread.

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too many ugg a dugga's Bob

 

[JOEPRO]

£35 for a new coal scuttle? No thanks



It was like welding tin foil but got it done and the metal is stronger than a new one would be anyway

 

[daleyd]

Fixed our bathroom fan that had been playing up for a while.

It started by surging, taking ages to get going and then eventually packing up altogether.

Measured the incoming voltage, along with the switched supply and on both sides of the internal fuse, all ok.

Quick google suggested there is a capacitor EC1 on the top left of the circuit board which fails and gives the same symptoms ours has, so took a punt and got some Panasonic replacements from the bay of thieves. It was a 220uf 10v cap, got 220uf 16v replacements. Quick wiggle with the soldering iron and some copper braid, a few burnt fingers getting the new one in, but got there in the end.

Quick test on the table, jobs a good un, and for the princely sum of about £5 I’ve got another 9 capacitors in case it ever goes again!! (Pic was from when I took cover off, it’s had a good clean before going back!)

 

[8ob]

too many ugg a dugga's Bob

I reckon you are right, in the wrong hands they are lethal. Think tyre fitters

Bob

 

[bricol]

£35 for a new coal scuttle? No thanks

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It was like welding tin foil but got it done and the metal is stronger than a new one would be anyway

I simply can't bring myself to pay that much for a big tin can, knowing my grandparents, and parents, chucked much much better ones.

So I have a lin-bin to one side carrying enough for a mid-evening top-up, away from the heat, topped up from a repurposed plastic 20 ltr paint tub sat in the kitchen

 

[qwakers]

my lorry decided it didnt want to be watertight...

in the storm last week I discovered my cooker hob full of water and my ceiling wet.. ohhhh dear.

all that time ago when I fitted my solar panels I used 2 1 meter roofing battens bolted to the roof skin with riv-nuts to hold them. I did it in a hurry and the plan was to come back and fibreglass over the battens to make it totally waterproof. of course I promptly forgot about it and 5 years later it separated from the sealant I used and water poured in.... oops.

so i make a couple of alloy box sections up and fitted them instead, because y'know, wood isn't waterproof, and riveted the panels to them.

that'll work.

 

[Nomad]

I fixed my garage roof - it was leaking when I got the keys 5 years ago and I’d run out of temporary patches so had to do it properly this time

Old roof held up with pit props, home to several colonies of slugs


Old joists and timber replaced


then @just@ go and pick up a 1.2 x 2.4 sheet of OSB using the trusty workhorse.


The main problem was it’s in Wales - and they have folk driving 15mph to avoid speeding tickets in 20mph zones !

 

[Hopefuldave]

I just drilled a hole in the cistern top, fixed a length of fence wire to the plunger top and made a flat hoop for a handle, cos I'm not a savage.

What's wrong with a piece of string?

Don't know who made the cisterns in my bathrooms, and can't find matching lever and plastic pivot bracket, so 3D printed the brackets, piece of 16mm stainless tube each for handles - look odd, but work.

 

[Farside]

then @just@ go and pick up a 1.2 x 2.4 sheet of OSB using the trusty workhorse.
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A Hemorrhoid Blue Marina Estate!
Used to have one, RGA 40M, total workhorse with the 1.8 engine.

 

[minimutly]

I fixed my garage roof - it was leaking when I got the keys 5 years ago and I’d run out of temporary patches so had to do it properly this time

Old roof held up with pit props, home to several colonies of slugs
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Old joists and timber replaced
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then @just@ go and pick up a 1.2 x 2.4 sheet of OSB using the trusty workhorse.
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The main problem was it’s in Wales - and they have folk driving 15mph to avoid speeding tickets in 20mph zones !

In Wales, in an earlier century too by the looks of it...

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

My doorbell started ringing randomly after all the rain, it seems like an old rubber spacer had absorbed some moisture and become marginally conductive. So time to make a new one.

The problem spacer.

Found a bit of PVC plastic rod.

Threaded.

Push fit, I may have to knurl and glue it in if it works lose.

Job done, M8 for rear wire connection.

 

[minimutly]

I really could do with a “what I fooked up today” thread....
Anyway, a 4 inch slitting saw, scrap. Must be the 3rd one now, ripped some teeth out, lodged in the job. perhaps I need to look up appropriate speeds and feeds for these things....

 

[minimutly]

I really could do with a “what I fooked up today” thread....
Anyway, a 4 inch slitting saw, scrap. Must be the 3rd one now, ripped some teeth out, lodged in the job. perhaps I need to look up appropriate speeds and feeds for these things....

One boogaad slitting saw...
Can these be recut? It never got hot.

 

[ajlelectronics]

A bit of painting. Rover Tahiti Blue.

 

[Blobber]

Now winters coming I though I best give the heating the once over, the underfloor heating pump is always temperamental and sticks when not used so Im assuming the water additive is not doing its stuff, being a sealed system and im a cheap skate I just got a ltr bottle, the tubes/bottles with the vent adaptors are 2/3 times the price for less splosh

I thought I had a radiator around with the large style vent plug so I could use a funnel and a bit of pipe but it appears not

Oh well Ill knock the top of the system, take a lock-shield off and wack it straight down a pipe, sorted