Stuff you have fixed today

[Seadog]

I wondered what the hard drive was to have a sprocket that large in it, until I realized what you meant, John

 

[Luggsey]

Found this at the local recycling yard a while back. Paid £5 for it.
Looks like a bearing press?
Cleaned up and rust removed today.
Anyone recognize the type?
Love to know its specific purpise?
I may use it one day.....

 

[Brad93]

Found this at the local recycling yard a while back. Paid £5 for it.
Looks like a bearing press?
Cleaned up and rust removed today.
Anyone recognize the type?
Love to know its specific purpise?
I may use it one day.....

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I think it may be for filling bearings with grease

 

[anto44]

Found this at the local recycling yard a while back. Paid £5 for it.
Looks like a bearing press?
Cleaned up and rust removed today.
Anyone recognize the type?
Love to know its specific purpise?
I may use it one day.....

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It looks like an automotive bushing tool but that brass threaded insert makes it way more engineered than any car bushing tool I've seen. Is that an oring on the plunger?

 

[Luggsey]

It looks like an automotive bushing tool but that brass threaded insert makes it way more engineered than any car bushing tool I've seen. Is that an oring on the plunger?

Thats like a mini bearing that can also spin?
Its all very well made and would have been expensive I suspect?

 

[Luggsey]

I think it may be for filling bearings with grease

If it is its made super strong?

 

[Brad93]

If it is its made super strong?

Well packing grease on a precision bearing takes a fair bit of pressure

 

[chrisbeee]

Today, i fitted a new earth ( work return) clamp, to my ageing Pro-90

 

[Melvyn Best]

It looks like an automotive bushing tool but that brass threaded insert makes it way more engineered than any car bushing tool I've seen. Is that an oring on the plunger?

X 2 ,

 

[4String.]

Finally made a start on the "Big Clear Out" this weekend.

Onroot to the shops this morning I called at the tip with the van crammed to the gunnels with pure junk that I've been moving from one side of the mancave to the other for the past 3 years. Offcuts of crappy boards and timber, useless lengths of rusty steel, bits of old lifting gear and all manner of tat, gone! And the end result:



Space to move around and benches to work on . And next weekend's task is to get rid of more junk, and there's plenty more to go, get the dive cylinders away for inspection then construct a welding bench in front of the up and over door:




I'm sick to the back teeth of useless clutter so the time has come to get rid of it all, and the contents of the mancave, shed, greenhouse and my manroom will all be subjected to very close scrutiny which coincides nicely with a 3 year plan me and OH have instigated which will see us moving house and me giving up driving lorries by 2024 when I'll be 60.

 

[redlig]

Screws tightened in 5 pairs of glasses, and a screw that fell out of one pair refitted.

1.4mm diameter screws are all well and good but not when you have hands the size of Eric Olthwaites's shovel .

It does'n matter how big or small the hands are if you cannot see the little blighters in the first place.

 

[redlig]

Finally made a start on the "Big Clear Out" this weekend.

Onroot to the shops this morning I called at the tip with the van crammed to the gunnels with pure junk that I've been moving from one side of the mancave to the other for the past 3 years. Offcuts of crappy boards and timber, useless lengths of rusty steel, bits of old lifting gear and all manner of tat, gone! And the end result:


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Space to move around and benches to work on . And next weekend's task is to get rid of more junk, and there's plenty more to go, get the dive cylinders away for inspection then construct a welding bench in front of the up and over door:


View attachment 277098

I'm sick to the back teeth of useless clutter so the time has come to get rid of it all, and the contents of the mancave, shed, greenhouse and my manroom will all be subjected to very close scrutiny which coincides nicely with a 3 year plan me and OH have instigated which will see us moving house and me giving up driving lorries by 2024 when I'll be 60.

A pound to a pinch of S*** the next job/project will require exactly the piece of "junk" you've just ditched. Don't ask!!!

 

[Luggsey]

My first Oxford 100A welder was scrap, primary winding blown open. Looking on FB I saw two 180A Bantams for sale, spares or repairs? Messaged the guy and noticed that all knobs and swiches were missing as well so decided to pass (£40) to which he said you can have them free if you collect them!
So, this afternoon I undone a 'bung' on top and used my little oil transfer pump to empty the oil out. Good sign the oil was reasonably clean! Much gunk at the bottom but I expected that. I really struggled to get the lid and internals off as a bit of packing between the transformers had slipped acting like a lock! Much frustration and almost lost finger later I managed to poke and break the packer out the way.
There is a lot of oil in these things!
Anyway, founf the flexible earth lead on the power selector was touching the frame, also founf a primary conductor touching another, that may have been me when I removed it. Sorted that and checked insulation resistance, not very good but not short so I powered it up. Long story short the magic smoke escaped and took two 13A fuses with it! Looks like primary windings again!

 

[redlig]

Found this at the local recycling yard a while back. Paid £5 for it.
Looks like a bearing press?
Cleaned up and rust removed today.
Anyone recognize the type?
Love to know its specific purpise?
I may use it one day.....

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As I've said before " come in hand even if you never use it "

 

[4String.]

A pound to a pinch of S*** the next job/project will require exactly the piece of "junk" you've just ditched. Don't ask!!!

Appreciate the sentiment but none of it will be missed.

Everything that went to the tip was pure junk, examples being a dozen Pandrol clips that I picked up because "they look nice", a yard length of press brake tooling, an inertia reel fall arrester (????) and quad rings and Clevis hooks that were seized solid...

I did find 2 seven foot lengths of 6"x4" timber that will be perfect for a gate post refurb that's imminent but all the other junk has been stopping me getting anything done for months going on years now so the time was long past for binning it all. Why I had 5 cb radio aerials is a complete mystery to me and it's the same with hand and power tools. There's at least 3 Black and Decker jigsaws in there that I've never used as well as 5 1/2" drive socket sets, all of which are complete but are slowly going rusty and as I've mentioned before I'll be dead one day so if I sort it out now it's one less thing for whoever I leave behind to sort out.

In truth, I feel so much better for having a sort out. It's a nice feeling being able to get to the benches to work and not be wading through a mess, and it really makes me feel motivated knowing that I have a clean tidy workplace where all the tools are to hand.

 

[dobbslc]

Personally I think you should have had a forum 'drive by'.
Trundle past at 5mph and grab an armful on the way past!
Although I think a few members would have not been able to resist the urge to keep going round
At least the Vark would have been too far away!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

examples being a dozen Pandrol clips

Damn! I've been looking for some of them for ages......whatever they are

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Personally I think you should have had a forum 'drive by'.
Trundle past at 5mph and grab an armful on the way past!
Although I think a few members would have not been able to resist the urge to keep going round
At least the Vark would have been too far away!

Some I am willing to help out. To allow others to be helped.

Others I will be happy to let suffer.

 

[dobbslc]

 

[My Old Landy]

The end fell off my paint pole so I saved the £4.99 on a new one and fixed it

and they said buying a lathe was a waste of money.......