Stuff you have fixed today

[JOEPRO]

My BR600 bought a couple weeks back £83 spares or repair auction basis.



Fully stripped down, restored and first start up today running great

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This came my way, as the owner could not get it to work.

Getting it to bits was made difficult by a bent thread.

This needed some heat, a bit of force and a bit od swearing.

Last of my brush primmer.

I had to use a new C clip, as the old one was bent to bad to reuse.

All done.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This RN Bone saw came my way the other day.

Just good enough to cut some Pusser's Shag.

This was very tight, it looks like some one had used a Loctite on it.

The finish here was dead, it was breaking down into a sticky mess.

It turned out to be some good Box wood.

Took the Danish oil very well.

All done.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A nice, complete Wall light.


The glass is original. You can tell that by:
The thickness of the glass.
The end where it fits the springs.
The flattened bulge.

A quick test showed it was fuel tight, but the wicks were rotten.

Looping a wick into a situation like this is not really approved, it should be one wick, for one burner.

2 new wicks, a bit shorter than I expected, but the specs sat they are correct.

Exhaust style paint, on the old reflector, as we have an issue with getting a new one.

Opps.

The cost a a new reflector is to much, as is the cost of tin plating one item. So, taking advise I now am using it as a heat refactor.

About 200 to 400 wats of heat will be reflected back into the direction of the lamp.

 

[Bobupndown]

Clutch change on my son's Peugeot 108. Release bearing was getting a bit grumbly and the pedal bite point was very high.
Although this is a small car with a relatively light gearbox it's still an awkward brute to wrestle back up into place on your back on the floor.
I really do need to get a twin post ramp, that and a transmission jack would have made this job so much easier. View attachment 464438View attachment 464439

Well after my disaster in the "what I broke today thread" I finally got the replacement sump and built it all back up again (for the 3rd time) and so far so good. No untoward noises, nice smooth clutch pedal and a decent bite point. To say I am glad to have this car finished is a huge understatement, it just seemed that everything that could go wrong did, bolts fighting to come out, sockets dropped into barely accessible nooks and crannies.
Would have worked out cheaper and simpler to get a garage to do it but got there in the end!

 

[qwakers]

next thing workshop related is the need for more offroad parking. there's only one place left...

this took hours, the absolute gits that put this wall up used 6" block. who does that?!

another long overdue job was to get power out the front. if id had any sense when i was building up the place originally i would have put water out here too.. however that's not happening now, so just power it is.

and im powering it off a fused spur, so i can switch it off when not in use.

 

[roblane65]

next thing workshop related is the need for more offroad parking. there's only one place left...

this took hours, the absolute gits that put this wall up used 6" block. who does that?

who ever's got lots of 6" blocks probably

 

[Bobupndown]

next thing workshop related is the need for more offroad parking. there's only one place left...

this took hours, the absolute gits that put this wall up used 6" block. who does that?!

Had to demolish an old garage built of those when I was about 13 with nothing more than a sledge hammer and a bolster.

 

[MattF]

this took hours, the absolute gits that put this wall up used 6" block. who does that?!

The type of person who would've been chuckling their socks off, when building it, at the thought of how much they'd be getting cursed at for doing so in future.

 

[Robotstar5]

Trying yet another fence/wind break behind Mrs Robo's "solar garden" at the stables, so far we've had a woven wattle panel, bamboo and mesh which the wind & weather have all wrecked.

Before

So today I fitted a picket fence panel, let's see how long it lasts

 

[RWD3M]

Trying yet another fence/wind break behind Mrs Robo's "solar garden" at the stables, so far we've had a woven wattle panel, bamboo and mesh which the wind & weather have all wrecked.

Before

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So today I fitted a picket fence panel, let's see how long it lasts

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You should have had a chat with @qwakers , hes got a bunch of 6" blocks that would have made a great windbreak!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

As pulled from a river.

Boiled in Citric acid and attacked with a wire brush.

On the Dibber we found a name Elewell.

Then given a wax coating when warmed.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Nice record 52 vice was mine the other day.

In bits.

New bits, the old pin was shot.

With bling

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Tidy Little No0 vice.






It bits. The jaws are not off here. As I needed a lot of heat and a new set of Impact bits.

Boiling in citric acid.

Pressured washed off.

I was tempted to leave unpainted, but to be honest the finish was not good.

So we paited it.

Any flaws in the casting will be shown when gold leave is applied.

 

[qwakers]

i might have slightly overloaded my trailer with wall debris when taking it to the tip. by about 150%....

it'll be reet! turned into bugger when i went over a particularly aggressive speed bump and bent a axle so the tyre was cambered enough to be hitting the bodywork even when empty.

now the correct fix is to put a 1 ton plus solid axle underneath. the fix available to me is a porta-power and a sledge hammer.

its straight again... for now.

 

[Onoff]

i might have slightly overloaded my trailer with wall debris when taking it to the tip. by about 150%....

it'll be reet! turned into bugger when i went over a particularly aggressive speed bump and bent a axle so the tyre was cambered enough to be hitting the bodywork even when empty.

now the correct fix is to put a 1 ton plus solid axle underneath. the fix available to me is a porta-power and a sledge hammer.

its straight again... for now.

You can take a trailer to the tip?

Here it's a max of 2 black sacks of rubble, 4 times a month. Same with plasterboard.

 

[qwakers]

Yup. there are trailer size limits before i need to register each visit with a yearly limit same as vans.. this trailer is about 1% under said limit.

theoretically its 8 bags of rubble at a time but there is no requirement for you to bag it...

guy at the gate said "got a good load there, ill call that 8 bags and the week resets tomorrow"

in other words, get it unloaded and i don't want to see you here again today.

plaster board is also 8 sacks or 2 sheets.

can even take asbestos and tyres now. in other words its back how it used to be.

 

[qwakers]

nothing too exciting. just a bit of lorry fiddling this evening. replaced the reversing camera screen mount due to brittle breakage, and fitted a better phone mount.

this was simple, ish, 5 holes and a 2 degree bend to make it follow the contour of the dash.

 

[Dcal]

Today (just now) I fixed the gear change on my Daughter's car.
She rang and said she had broke down.
She was stuck at the side of the road and couldn't get reverse, first third or fifth?

I immediately thought a shift cable had popped off, so headed off with cable ties, tying wire Ans a few tools to see if I could make a temporary repair

Arrived and found all cables attached and no reason it shouldn't go into the missing gears, but after a bit of feeling about I found the positive battery terminal cover was jamming one of the cable.

Retrieved the cover, put it back on the battery and everything is back to normal.

I wasn't expecting such a quick simple and permanent fix.

 

[Gregb23]

Also a car fix today. Water ingress into the electronic handbrake mechanism had resulted in rusted and stripped the splines in the mechanism on the nearside of the Volvo. Handbrake firmly stuck on, refusing to come off even through vida. Luckily on the drive at home rather than elsewhere.

Stripped down both sides and two new calipers and motors fitted and all hopefully fixed, offside not far behind.

Would prefer a mechanical handbrake but not the modern way...