Stuff you have fixed today

[addjunkie]

Dont forget, its running with no load at all!

 

[qwakers]

its spring and weight governed, so its a static rpm engine, whatever the load, it should stay at the same rpm.

 

[Farside]

What did it come off? Perhaps something that needed in excess of 3k rpm.
Might be nothing more than simple adjustment needed.

 

[qwakers]

it can be adjusted by changing the spring and the weights. it also has fine adjustment on the rod that comes out the front of the crankcase, it is currently set to min rpm and is nearly at max rated rpm for the engine. none of the spring and weight kits would have the rpm that high when backed right off.

funny story, it came out of a sileage bailer, sold at auction as overheating and locks up. when i pulled the cooling covers off it was packed with sileage. no airflow at all. they engine swapped their bailer because they couldn't work out they needed to clean the cooling fins out i pulled the heads off and it was perfect. put it back together, bled the cooling system and ran it for 30 mins with no issues. it however only took me 6 years to get around to figuring out how to shim the heads to the right compression ration

 

[GRW]

That's a Lister-Petter ST2 or SR2 by the look of the engine & rocker boxes.

On the side of the engine you should find a sort if boomerang shaped extrusion with 2 adjusting screws with locknuts on opposing faces. This is your run speed governor adjustment.

Most of these engines were built to run up to 2250 rpm I believe, (a lot for gensets at 1500/1800 rpm) but some were "Screamers" for 3000-odd rpm.

Lovely robust engines.

 

[dobbslc]

Maybe it's the sound on the video but it doesn't sound like it's running way too fast.

 

[Mart63]

Another 3D printer fix. Front fan failed on an Ender 3 Max Neo. Didn't have time to run cables back to motherboard, so chopped wires , soldered and heat shrink tubing.

 

[Craig-SM]

yesterday actually I fixed the stuck rear caliper on the kia
old and new , wasn't a lot left on them and I would have known sooner had some pleb not cut the wear tags of them !
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all done by torch light after work was a hell of job winding the piston back as my old tool has only one disc and it was a bit on the large side
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another new tool on the list .

BTW highly recommend this brake rewind tool for non-ratchet type calipers, works a charm on 2 and 4 pot too.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thsakzo-Caliper-Ratchet-Ratcheting-Spreader/dp/B0CHJ7DZ64/ref=sr_1_13_sspa?crid=LJ6UN82DLBAP&keywords=brake+caliper+rewind+tool&qid=1706182392&sprefix=brake+%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-13-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&psc=1

 

[m_c]

More big yellow shenanigans :/

One of these was more problematic than the other-

At least my drilling on centre seems to be improving

I also had a closer look at the front bucket.
I'm not sure one pack of 7018 rods is going to cut it :/

 

[qwakers]

back to working on this beastie.

a nice bit of manual rewinding of the rotor.

 

[nickk]

After my assistant crushed his thumb in the gears,owing to the handle we were lifting by,I’ve secured them with a 9/16” unf

bolt,locked em solid. I suspect the bolt was a Land Rover spring/shackle bolt ,as I had several.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Unloved sales man Wooden bench model.

Degreasing and cleaning the metal work, all but one bolt was saved.

The slats were placed in a Meths Vapor tank over night. Then sanded, they should of been bleached a bit, but I had no wood bleach.

Hot caustic soda to remove the paint. The modern stuff did not make a dent, a blow torch made to much black smoke.

A wash and scrub with a pan brush and hot water.

In paint.

New SS M4 fixings.

The slats, after sanding were given a few coats of fruit tree fed bee's wax.

In use.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4GdWK_WoNs


Rusty old iron.

Hot Citric to remove the rust.

Having a good dry.

When warm I applied bee's wax and oil.
This was was from a hive that spent the summer near blackberry bushes.

This is how dark that wax was.

One coat.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Rusty Avery Potato scales.

I found out, if I striped the old paint of etc, the vale would be less than the £5 I paid for them.

Don't mix theses bits up, they are factory tuned to suit one position.

A dam good wash and scrub.

This was the worse of the rust, but a bit of TYA TLC.

Spot the new fixings?
No, well I used old stuff I had.
It caused issues later, I had to balance the beam, as the replacements were different weights.

as I was assembling the parts I was applying Fruit wood bee's wax.

Those replacements fixings and the mix up of the pivot bars caused me a few issues.
But that what 5am is for.

Full weight set.
4lb to 1/4oz.

Setting them up

You use 2 weights, place them in the scale. Then see which one is down.
Swop them over and it should swop to the other side. If not you will have fun, many coffees and much grumpy.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A fun and educational build.

 

[Shiny Steve]

I had a little play with the foot plate for my big pillar drill. Someone had knocked a lump out of it in the past, I seem to have had a bit of success with loe hydrogen rods, it was bloody horrible to weld lots of porosity.

 

[Dozzer]

No pics. but fixed other half's VW golf undertray that was hanging down,
Made a small flat bracket that bolted onto subframe and supports the tray.
Why do they make them so that its a flimsy bit of plastic on the edge holding them up!!

 

[bricol]

No pics. but fixed other half's VW golf undertray that was hanging down,
Made a small flat bracket that bolted onto subframe and supports the tray.
Why do they make them so that its a flimsy bit of plastic on the edge holding them up!!

For holding the plastic from falling down it's not so flimsy . . . but when asked to hold up a tonne plus of car at speed when it gets rammed into the ground, maybe not so much?

 

[dobbslc]

Phone call from wife and boy yesterday,
We've broken down in the Fiat 500
What now?
The AA turned up in less than an hour and jump started it so they got home.
On a brief inspection I found this hiding under the battery tray.
Good job it didn't stall on the way back!


A mate had a bit of 25mm multicore cable courtesy of TFL so I made a new lead up.

Cleaned the bolts etc and refitted and now it works ok.
An easy fix after a very poor few weeks of almost everything going wrong.

 

[bricol]

Phone call from wife and boy yesterday,
We've broken down in the Fiat 500
What now?
The AA turned up in less than an hour and jump started it so they got home.
On a brief inspection I found this hiding under the battery tray.
Good job it didn't stall on the way back!
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A mate had a bit of 25mm multicore cable courtesy of TFL so I made a new lead up.
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Cleaned the bolts etc and refitted and now it works ok.
An easy fix after a very poor few weeks of almost everything going wrong.

I'd be checking things like the accelerator cable (if it has one?) - anything that might have acted as the earth lead and got cooked and is now about to fail itself