Stuff you have fixed today

[Seadog]

Another job from the same chap.

A metal box, the hinges had detached due to poor manufacturing. There was barely a line of solder along the edge.

Cleaned, tinned and reattached. Interestingly some text came through the silver paint due to heating.

"First aid outfitt", "Aircraft/dinghy large".

So probably WWII.

 

[Hitch]

I was at a customers site in Edinburgh last week for some service work.
Struggled to get these out of their housings. Much much worse than expected, very damaged o rings, and sides of the plugs scored badly.
Decided to bring them back, as we didn't have time to polish them up or the specialist tooling to refit the new rings.
Palletised to send back for the customer to refit, luckily they're on a 3week shutdown.

 

[Seadog]

I was at a customers site in Edinburgh last week for some service work.
Struggled to get these out of their housings. Much much worse than expected, very damaged o rings, and sides of the plugs scored badly.
Decided to bring them back, as we didn't have time to polish them up or the specialist tooling to refit the new rings.
Palletised to send back for the customer to refit, luckily they're on a 3week shutdown.

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What are they?

 

[Hitch]

They're automated valves essentially. The bottom section moves in and out across 3 positions, 1 clear path through the built in filter, 1wash position to allow the filter to be cleaned and 1 drain position, to allow the crud to be sent straight to drain.
Top bit is basically an air assisted spring that opens and closes, the black bit is an extension with a magnet inside, then there's a clever bit that links to a computer on the top (left wired up on site) to allow automated control of them and position sensing.

 

[Brad93]

Helped my pal begin stripping this motor. London made. Suspect it's 1930s.

At first glance i thought it was a slip ring motor, but it's not, it has four brushes ant 90° and a commutator. My pal whose motor it is thinks it's a repulsion-induction motor.

Four wires coming out of the case but no indication of what is what.

Data plate says:
Electro Dynamic Construction Co.
London
190v 3HP ~1 50Hz.

So at the rewinders, we first done an insulation test at 250v which it passed fine, then we checked for continuity on the terminal block finding what we think is the stator and the field going by the resistance readings.

So we hook it up to the rheostat give it some voltage and we get nothing - not even a hum.

Dave (the rewinder) recons it could be some sort of series motor.

We have to crack the thing open to see where the leads to the brushes terminate and hopefully work out what's going on.

Very interesting piece of history no doubt well obsolete now.

If Dave isn't sure of how it works (50+ years in the industry) you can be sure it will be a valuable learning experience.

Anyways will be back on that in two weeks time so i will try and get more photos to update.

 

[sardine]

Scrapped post hole digger , missing one blade and both handles busted, a rummage in my junk pile turned up am offcut of 6" pipe for the blade, two curtain poles, steel tube for handle bushings and some M10 studding.

I will swop the blade bolts for hot rivets to match the other sidebwhen I get some .

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

It was a good day yesterday, many things done, much coffee drank, much fun was had.


Only in the order I find them.

Oh yes, all I did was watch, advise and took the pee out of the pongo, crab, booty, wafu etc.

This was a table, well it was until evri got hold of it.

Gluing up the damage.

Expanding foam glue and tape.

This is a SIF Egg beater drill, just in need a clean.

Hot citric acid had the rust off.

Finished.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Looked good, it was complete, but.

^

6 of the cooper rivets had broken and someone had glued it back together.

We made a tool to hold the new rivets in side and new rivets fitted. The rivets were made from copper wire.

New wick and away we went.

This is a French table lantern, but fitted with an English globe and mount.

See french words.

Polished up.
Oh yes the crab drove the Bisto van.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This Pifco road side lantern was just in need of a clean and new bulbs.

Ok, not the best image, but this shows it is a older design, as it is nut and bolt construction.

We had one flashing bulb left, but it works.

Not everyone at the Shed want to make, restore or fix.
Some just want to sort.

A good selection.

The rubbish.

The saved.

Sorted and cleaned.
Also explained why these have taken over from the LARGE collection of molding planes.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

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Oh yes, no power tools were used.

 

[Blobber]

I might have forgotten last time I used the skip find ride on mower it wouldn't restart after I had finished using it so it just got pushed away
anyhow I remembered when I got it out to cut the grass today , the starter was dead and had taken the starter solenoid with it! managed
to make 1 good starter out of 2 and a rumage through the solenoid box has got us going!

 

[sardine]

Scrapped post hole digger , missing one blade and both handles busted, a rummage in my junk pile turned up am offcut of 6" pipe for the blade, two curtain poles, steel tube for handle bushings and some M10 studding.

I will swop the blade bolts for hot rivets to match the other sidebwhen I get some .



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Apparently curtain poles have the strength of dry spaghetti.

 

[m_c]

Apparently curtain poles have the strength of dry spaghetti.
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Curtain poles will likely be some form of softwood probably pine. For tool handles beech is the easiest to get in the UK.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Nothing too exciting. I bought a mounting bar and a phone holder for my Honda 750X . The phone holder is all metal and quite nicely made for the £8.oo price. The only issue with it was that the spring in the rotating holder is not strong enough to eliminate wobble when its in either of its horizontal, vertical, or other choice of positions; so I eliminated the spring, cut the screw to length, filled the adjuster cavity with epoxy, and retightened the screw. Happy with that.
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[Stueeee]

been working on and off on this Jones & Shipman grinder for a while now. I bought this machine with a comprehensive (but not complete) set of accessories at pretty much scrap value knowing it had some faults. Having sorted the wheelhead elevation that wasn't, the busted switches etc. I then discovered that the powered workhead motor just bursts into life as soon as 415V power was applied to the machine; and that it couldn't be turned off until the power was disconnected.

Needless to say, coudn't find a wiring diagram anywhere in Googleland, so just traced all the wiring and found the point where some genius had looped out the contactor and overload that starts/stops the workhead motor -the heatshrink sleeving and nylon zip ties are a clue to where I started poking about and changing stuff.

Still got a few bits and bobs to do on this machine, which is good as I have a long queue of precision grinding jobs to do whilst using it.

 

[lchris21]

...I just stuck the instrument mounting bosses back on, the handlebar clamps are nothing to do with me

Horrible stuff to weld, full of crap, but at least the speedo shouldn't fall off again like it did after his first ride .

He's wisely threaded the handlebar mounts from the bottom......good decision I thought

 

[Smouser]

The paint on our porch roof frame started to look a bit tired and it required a recoat.

On closer inspection, the wood was badly rotten so I decided to fix it 'properly' instead of just hiding things with filler.

I stripped out one side of the rotten wood while an upright piece of timber supported the roof.

I sent the missus to Wickes to get us a length of treated kiln-dried C16 timber with clear instructions that she needs to check them because there are loads of bent/warped bits.

She did good. Got us a perfectly straight piece of wood. However, it was as rough as a badger's ****

My fault, of course, I didn't say I wanted a smooth and straight piece.

Luckily it was not too hard to sand down a bit.

I did sand it a bit more after the above photo.

Painted the frame and everything looks nice and fresh again.

 

[Brad93]

been working on and off on this Jones & Shipman grinder for a while now. I bought this machine with a comprehensive (but not complete) set of accessories at pretty much scrap value knowing it had some faults. Having sorted the wheelhead elevation that wasn't, the busted switches etc. I then discovered that the powered workhead motor just bursts into life as soon as 415V power was applied to the machine; and that it couldn't be turned off until the power was disconnected. View attachment 449094Needless to say, coudn't find a wiring diagram anywhere in Googleland, so just traced all the wiring and found the point where some genius had looped out the contactor and overload that starts/stops the workhead motor -the heatshrink sleeving and nylon zip ties are a clue to where I started poking about and changing stuff.

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Still got a few bits and bobs to do on this machine, which is good as I have a long queue of precision grinding jobs to do whilst using it.

looks like you've had a good deal there. The machines either been repainted or had very little use.

 

[nickk]

Replaced this rotten tailboard hinge cross member,piece of 80/80/5 box,had to create pockets for the assistor spring ends to seat into.

 

[OJCar]

An Aldi Air Compressor Air Filter screw thread.




(Humbrol Polystyrene Cement, clamp and no saga)