Stuff you have fixed today

[Sergei Slovenija]

I would love a milling machine, but cannot justify it at any level. Might steal some ideas off your effort

Take an idea if necessary. A friend gave me a terrible quality cross vice; they came with a drilling machine from Lidl and the like. The built-in wedge adjustments for the skids simply did not work and did not select any play. A little scraping, a file, 1 new wedge and a coating of molybdenum spray from MOLYKOTE, and this vise worked as it should and does not wobble. I wanted to throw them away, but they came in handy.

PS - Using this device, I need to cut slots 5 mm wide and 7 mm deep in a steel washer with a diameter of 62 mm. Like the cross on a giant Phillips screw. With repeatability and accuracy, preferably no worse than 0.2 mm

 

[Cobbler]

Nothing to do with welding, but fixed that white box that my wife puts the dirty washing in! It’s a 20 year old Miele, when it went over to spin it threatened to take off, leaped about all over the place. Looking on the web, looked like the dampers had gone (didn’t know they had them) £23 spent an an hours work & hopefully get another 20 years out of it. I shall be 94 by then, & doubt if I shall care about washing!

 

[MattF]

I shall be 94 by then, & doubt if I shall care about washing!

You'll need to eash your **** stained knickers & trousers occasionally.

 

[Cobbler]

You'll need to eash your **** stained knickers & trousers occasionally.

More likely staring at the roots of daisies

 

[qwakers]

to fix this....

i painted a bit of my spare parts pile...

just gotta bend the car a bit straighter and fit them now...

that was far more work than expected. now to just weld all the spot-welds back up that broke in the crash...

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Bush fix to the freelander intercooler to throttle body hose. Its confirmed that it was the massive split causing “reduced engine performance”

New one on order

 

[Blobber]

that was far more work than expected. now to just weld all the spot-welds back up that broke in the crash...

Are you going to paint the bonnet to match?
Nice save though, for lesser mortals it would have been over the bridge

 

[qwakers]

the downside of buying by the paint code and not having it matched. however i couldn't care less for a track car.

and there is no way id scrap that car. would cost me £25k to build another...

 

[Anguz]

The significant others kia. She rang me this morning after leaving for work, unable to change gear
Went and found her, and swapped cars... managed to get it home without too many crunchy gear changes.
Slave cylinder had a dribble and the reservoir was low
Luckily it's fairly accessible. New one turn3d up and 4.30 this eve, it's fitted, been bled and appears to work on the driveway, didn't fancy a road test in the dark so she can have my car tomorrow.
All in all not too painful

 

[sparkysy]

Pesky sliding door on my vivaro! It's had 3 sets of middle rollers in as many weeks! And a new door handle as I ripped that off trying to open it earlier.
They are made of chinaplastic that disintegrates further with every open and close!!
Tried 2 different suppliers and both have been poor quality and not lasted. Both companies are sending free replacements in a few days, luckily I had a spare one and handle too, hopefully they will last long enough till the new, new ones turn up!

Does anyone have any recommendations for good quality ones?
Sy

 

[Brad93]

Pesky sliding door on my vivaro! It's had 3 sets of middle rollers in as many weeks! And a new door handle as I ripped that off trying to open it earlier.
They are made of chinaplastic that disintegrates further with every open and close!!
Tried 2 different suppliers and both have been poor quality and not lasted. Both companies are sending free replacements in a few days, luckily I had a spare one and handle too, hopefully they will last long enough till the new, new ones turn up!

Does anyone have any recommendations for good quality ones?
Sy

buy genuine and be done with if

 

[sparkysy]

^^^^^Yes I should have!
You know what they say buy cheap by twice or more!

 

[Barking Mat]

Swapped the carb, fuel pipe, fuel filter, and sparkplug on my Stihl MS 180, was chuffed it ran beautifully, for the first full tank of juice, then refused to start after that, just like last week, now suspecting failing ignition coil.

Then I had random plastic bit leftover, took me a good hour to figure out where it came from.

Bloody chainsaws.

 

[dobbslc]

Mat you've put this in the 'stuff I've FIXED today' thread

 

[Barking Mat]

Mat you've put this in the 'stuff I've FIXED today' thread

Well, I thought I'd fixed it for a while.

Bugger.

 

[Bornfree]

Swapped the carb, fuel pipe, fuel filter, and sparkplug on my Stihl MS 180, was chuffed it ran beautifully, for the first full tank of juice, then refused to start after that, just like last week, now suspecting failing ignition coil.

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Then I had random plastic bit leftover, took me a good hour to figure out where it came from.

Bloody chainsaws.

Normally a failing coil starts ok runs for 5-10 minutes and then shuts down when hot.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

When the Kenwood cooked itself, it burnt the socket out.
When the plug was pulled the face fell to bits.


So a quick trip and.......

The sparky who did the wires in the new kitchen was a Twonk.
He left no slack at the socket end, I had to dismantle two units to free up some spare.

 

[lotus_esprit_s1]

Rebuilt my old Mac impact wrench, has been run with damp air on mobile compressor with no water trap and then left causing the bearings to rumble quite spectacularly. Couple of new bearings and cleaned off the casing with brake cleaner and it’s back to how it should be; I have been using the biggest Makita 1/2 18v impact for the past few months, however the Mac still beats it hands down for outright power

 

[Seadog]

Acquired 8 days ago, repaired today when the last of the bits arrived.

Stripped in minutes.

If you look closely at the nylon gear, you can see some mashed teeth at about 5 o'clock.
New part £25.50

Some screws (replacing those that "The Bodger" put in) £2.

Some food-grade grease, £3.

Job done.

The chap that got rid of it had upgraded it with a worm drive to control the grind. Forcing screws in, he'd cracked the top, so had to buy the two pieces of plastic - £30!

New, these are about £260, so not too upset at the extra cost (on top of "free ")

 

[Rrobson]

Garage roof had been pretty ropey for a while now. Corrugated concrete (which thankfully isn’t asbestos and came back negative) which leaked in various places through. Not uncommon to have a puddle on the bench after some rain…

Anyway I purchased some 80mm insulated panels a month or two ago ready to go on. Since which is bought some steel and osb board and managed to drop on a nice day to swap it over.

The new frames were manufactured in advance out of heftier steel so I should be able to utilise some of the extra space overhead for storage of stock and lesser used items.

It’s not quite finished, but it’s somewhat weather tight. Still some cladding to go on, guttering above the door and some run-offs around the perimeter of the roof.

Happy with the overall result but an unexpected downside is the lighting that was sufficient before is now not good enough, so I need to fit some additional lighting. The ceiling is now white-ish ad I thought that might improve the reflection of light but apparently not… not to worry, another day and it’ll be complete.