Stuff you have fixed today

[Keithmac]

It changes colour as well , not watched the Gaztube vids so it’s probably all explained in them.

That's my lads 106.

 

[Bullet2012]

That's my lads 106.

Almost exactly the same then

 

[sako243]

Got rid of some "clean" stone the builders trashed. They were instructed to keep tarps / DPMs etc., over the French drain around the front of the house. Surprise surprise they didn't. They offered to clean it (yeah charging me) so I told them you pay for a 15t load of stone and I'll dig it out.

We were going to repurpose it but between the neighbour (carpenter / roofer) and builders there were a lot of nails etc., and with a wedding imminent didn't have anywhere convenient to dump it. So I popped around to aforementioned neighbour and said did he want any stone - there might be a few nails in it but they're your nails anyway. He said yes please so I duly stole his tractor and trailer and filled it up.

Tyres pumped up to 50psi+ and took it back around to him.

Just put a new piece of drainage coil in and finished painting the band so now time to go out and refill with the actually clean stone.

 

[addjunkie]

Got rid of some "clean" stone the builders trashed. They were instructed to keep tarps / DPMs etc., over the French drain around the front of the house. Surprise surprise they didn't. They offered to clean it (yeah charging me) so I told them you pay for a 15t load of stone and I'll dig it out.

We were going to repurpose it but between the neighbour (carpenter / roofer) and builders there were a lot of nails etc., and with a wedding imminent didn't have anywhere convenient to dump it. So I popped around to aforementioned neighbour and said did he want any stone - there might be a few nails in it but they're your nails anyway. He said yes please so I duly stole his tractor and trailer and filled it up.

Tyres pumped up to 50psi+ and took it back around to him.
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Just put a new piece of drainage coil in and finished painting the band so now time to go out and refill with the actually clean stone.

15ton doesn't go far!

 

[sako243]

15ton doesn't go far!

Nope about 2/3rds of the pile gone ready. We had to bring in 465t to do the drives.

 

[addjunkie]

Nope about 2/3rds of the pile gone ready. We had to bring in 465t to do the drives.

That would have been financially painful!

 

[sako243]

It wasn't too bad actually. It was 100t over our estimate but because I did the roller and the dumper work the machinery costs were significantly lower than I expected.

Friend I use normally works on the basis of labour costs are roughly equal to material costs (worst case) and in this instance we were drastically under.

 

[Smouser]

Taking the 'Stuff you have fixed today" literally.

Fixed a toolbox to my Ifor Williams trailer so I can keep more ratchet straps in it.

I used some rubber strips to go inbetween the chassis and the toolbox.

Some silicone on the bolts/washers to hopefully prevent water ingress.

Box fitted

 

[Keithmac]

Been re-writing the Idle Control code for our Golf over the past week (probably 12+ hours in it now!).

Managed to get it compiled this morning and loaded into my MS1.

It was time well spent, completely different car to drive now at low revs.

Untangling my 17 year old code took most of the time really. Probably 500+ lines of code to get it right.

Been out this afternoon for a good drive with my daughter (she's on laptop duty and learnt a fair bit about cars work recently).

Job jobbed!

 

[dobbslc]

You are of course mad!

 

[ajlelectronics]

Now that Assembler is far easier for me to understand than Python. It's just so logical. Python left me completely cold and although I can get by in C++ I don't really like it.
I wrote an electric gate control system in Microchip Assembler many years ago with timers and all sorts. Can I get the hang of millis(); in C++ though? Not a chance.

 

[Keithmac]

Now that Assembler is far easier for me to understand than Python. It's just so logical. Python left me completely cold and although I can get by in C++ I don't really like it.
I wrote an electric gate control system in Microchip Assembler many years ago with timers and all sorts. Can I get the hang of millis(); in C++ though? Not a chance.

Yes I like assembly language, nice and methodical.

It's setting bits for certain functions and following them through multiple cycles of the code that took me the most time.

I took each state (cranking / starting / dashpot / main idle loop / closing and all important sanity check at the end to stop any possibility of idle runaway), and worked through them step by step.

I also use custom Idle VE control and custom Ignition control at idle and have to set these off with various flags.

I've always wanted to have a crack at C or C++

 

[Keithmac]

You are of course mad!

I was never happy with how the stock firmware controlled idle, plus my cams didn't help matters so I took to learning assembly language (probably 20 years back now) to sort it.

Mainly trial and error at the start!.

I dread to think of the code that goes into modern drive by wire and mechanised gearboxes. Probably majority of it is written by machines?.

I think my daughter was quite impressed when it worked!. We had been having a chat while I was writing it the night before.

 

[Keithmac]

Just for completeness, this was the end of the final code.

I added a last ditch attempt to save idle if it ever got that low.

Works well as you can actually set off with no throttle input now (if you are careful enough with the paddle clutch..).

On my previous code I added additional idleDC (Idle valve duty cycle) and it could jack up the IdleDC if you were on/off throttle quickly.

Now I have used an Increase of Idle Target RPM for the dadhpot event, feed to my closed loop Idle Valve control. No additional Duty Cycle added.

We were our for an hour trying to get it to go wrong and it didn't miss a beat.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

I fixed the pulley-maid clothes dryer that fell out of the kitchen ceiling.

The pulley having been directly screwed into lath and plaster for god knows how many years, finally pulled out of the plaster thankfully without bringing much of the ceiling down with it.

It now screws into a 125×125 spreader plate made from an off-cut of iroko, which is screwed to multiple laths and a joist.

I did however manage to line it up skew-diff... Which will irritate me until I have a chance to fix it, although my partner thinks it looks pretty and no-one will look up there anyway.

At least we can dry clothes and get at the sink again for now...

 

[8ob]

Untangling my 17 year old code took most of the time really. Probably 500+ lines of code to get it right.

Been out this afternoon for a good drive with my daughter (she's on laptop duty and learnt a fair bit about cars work recently).

Job jobbed!



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I tried to change values on an emerald cams ecu while on the move, failed miserably because everything moved so insanely fast. Ended up back on a rolling road, got there in the end.

Bob

 

[Keithmac]

I tried to change values on an emerald cams ecu while on the move, failed miserably because everything moved so insanely fast. Ended up back on a rolling road, got there in the end.

Bob

I always datalog almost every road session then go through them with a cup of tea and make adjustments afterwards.

With my MS1 and TunerStudio the Tablet/ Laptop does all the heavy lifting and it will adjust fuel tables Live, far faster than a person could. Some cells have 10,000 plus data points and it uses all of them plus O2 feedback to make a decision on the VE for that cell.

Amazing if you know how to use it but could also be a disaster if not!.

My GTO-TT is still old school reading the logs and adjusting the fuel injection tables, always more than one way to skin a cat as they say!.

 

[bricol]

My old laptop refuses to fire up, so currently I can't communicate with the Emerald in my Caterham - must remember to dpfind something that will, 'cos you can sure when indonneed to talk to it. I won't be able to find anything.

 

[Maker]

I fixed two rolls of film, after developing and bleaching them.
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I think I'm gonna finally give in and pay for Lightroom and NLP to edit the scans, I've not been particularly impressed with a single picture I've scanned so far, and I must have about a thousand by now.

Free trial of Lightroom and Negative Lab Pro has convinced me they're worth paying for, the results are worlds apart from what I could do in Darktable, GIMP or DxO. It'll convert a whole roll of negatives in one click too, where Darktable would take me ten minutes per image and they'd still look a bit naff.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few simple servicing jobs.

New pick up braids, motor serviced and wheel bearings.

Juts a service, new braids and new tyres.


The motor in this age car is fantastic.