Stuff you have fixed today

[qwakers]

smack the wheels on, pair of mudguards and job jobbed.

did it with roller and brush as i couldnt be arsed moving the car outside. worked ok, but would not recommend.

all done. seems to work ok and will be nice and strong. will find out thursday... im going with mudguards are optional at this point....

 

[Ton-up]

Doesnt that bounce all over the place with no suspension?

 

[brightspark]

Doesnt that bounce all over the place with no suspension?

will do mine has indispesition . when empty i put 2x 25kg bags of sand in it .stops it jumping around

 

[qwakers]

I learned years ago that they bounce less when solid axles then with those silly little rubber suspension units.

 

[pint]

as long as it's still following and up the right way, let it bounce

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Rusty, seized Hacksaw was pulled from a pond.

So, I used it as a base for teaching MIS members how old tools can be saved.



Again.

French Polish on the handle. There was trace of dead worm, so it was treated.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This was a pig, from the start.

The paint was a tar like coating, over hammerite, over enamel.

Paint stripper was no use.

So it was left to soak in Caustic soda. Even then it took a week.

Warm water washed it off, but it also showed how bad the rust was, how bad the solder repairs were.

Drying the metal out, allowed me to make good some of the joints.

I wish that those 2 images could show how much work went into getting ready for paint.

Pig of a lantern.

 

[MattF]

Pig of a lantern.

But worthwhile for the end result.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Two Butterfly Lanterns.

Neither were complete, but I hoped I could make one out of two.

Theses style lanterns have two pre heating methods. The semi circle bowl and the tube, the tube is a super heater.
It takes fuel, under pressure, from the tank and turns it into a small jet engine.
They are a pain to fix, make fuel tight and pressure tight.

A new ceramic mantle holder. with a new mantle.

Each part was striped and rebuilt. New seals and what not.
That is the NRV and pump.
Pressure gauge, vent and filler.
Super heater, still a pain.
Control valve.
Needle and jets.

But.

But she was not burning right.
The super heater was one issue, both were leaking and not sealing. But a hammer fixed one. The other then behaved.

Then a bit of an issue.
She blew the top of the lantern.
This is why I do testing out of doors.

This was another issue.
This pump rod was bent, so when in use it would twist and undo the nut and washer.

The both pressure gauges leaked..

Finally, one fully working Butterfly.
All works.

 

[Jan-DIY]

Fixed a Fronius TPS2700 with a communication error between main mcu and user interface.

Someone bite the ribbon cable.

 

[bricol]

Finally got round to replacing the pneumatic wheels (that never seemed to hold air for long) on my trolley with a pair of yellow puncture proof ones that I think @8ob linked to a while back


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I used some cheap tyre puncture sealant stuff from Aldi in mine maybe 15 yrs ago. I've worn most of the tread off the tyres now and they still only rarely need blowing up.

I did have to weld spokes in the wheels though, back to the hub. Bent them all over the place very quickly. They've survived all sorts since, including providing mobility of the rear of a Scimitar SS1 once I'd removed the rear suspension - trolley frame wasn't too impressed with that particular load!

 

[Cobbler]

Mended a Matsui dehumidifier, I was given this about 20 years ago with the fan seized. I oiled it & off it went until today. The fan gone tight again, took the fan motor apart & the rear bearing dry as a bone, so oiled it, cleaned out the dust & off it went for another 20 years, maybe. Success!

 

[qwakers]

quad stuff this morning.

it had fuel delivery issues. it would die under load, only run at partial throttle. go from pig rich to lean one min to the next. the mixture screw kept backing itself out.

also the starter motor is knackered.

so new fuel pump, new carb, new fuel and vacuum lines and new starter.

none of which fixed the going lean issue (can you see where this is going?)

new fuel filter.

runs like a champ.

don't get me wrong, all the above needed doing. all the fuel lines had gone soft, the vacuum lines had gone hard and the pump was weak. the carb couldn't be adjusted to compensate for its wear even though it had had new jets.. etc etc.

but 99% of the fix was the filter.

 

[Windy Miller]

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Rusty, seized Hacksaw was pulled from a pond.



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So, I used it as a base for teaching MIS members how old tools can be saved.



Again.



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French Polish on the handle. There was trace of dead worm, so it was treated.





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I was issued with a hacksaw identical to that on 4th September 1978 - the day I started my apprenticeship at HM Dockyard, Catham. Still in regular use now. I have several others, but I always seem to gravitate toward the old faithful!

 

[DAPPH]

I was issued with a hacksaw identical to that on 4th September 1978 - the day I started my apprenticeship at HM Dockyard, Catham. Still in regular use now. I have several others, but I always seem to gravitate toward the old faithful!

I too did my full time tech school apprenticeship ( 66 till 69 ) bench fitting and then for anther 12 years afterwards only using them , I find there is much more control even with wrecked hand with the file handle grip than the more now common pistol grip , plus I don't ever recall skinning my knuckles on a pistol grip hacksaw unlike a pistol grip one .

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

The lens retaining clip in my spare welding mask has slowly been rusting and fatiguing it's way out of existence for years now.

And I wanted to fit a cheap 4×5 True Colour filter instead of a fixed shade lens, as this is usually used by observers/helpers rather than me nowadays, which the clip would not have survived (way too weak to cope with the additional thickness of the ADF).

So I bent up a new clip from a length of gas welding rod...

It's far from perfect, but it works pretty well, and I still have the original clip if I want a fixed shade at some point (or as a template to make a new one).

 

[Morrisman]

My sister asked if I could pop round and screw a couple of pieces of wood to her wall, so she could put a stair gate in. Sounded simple, so I grabbed a bunch of various size screws and a couple of battery tools and went round.

3 1/2 hours later it’s done….. and I’m absolutely knackered. My diseased bod seems to get weaker by the day.

The hard part was fastening to plaster board wall. She bought some of those little spring butterfly fixings, but the plasterboard was fastened up by the blobs of cement method, meaning no room to use them, there was but a 3/4” gap.

Loads of head scratching, puffing and panting, and I went back home and got the big hammer drill, some hefty 4” screws and big rawl plugs.

The wall behind the plasterboard drilled horribly, just seemed to break up as I went into it, starting with a smaller drill and working up. But eventually I got four big plugs in, and carefully tightened down on the huge screws. Amazingly all four got a good grip, and the wood batten appears rock solid.

I slept for five hours straight last night. Not done that for months. The sleep of victory.

 

[Onoff]

I slept for five hours straight last night. Not done that for months. The sleep of victory.

There's some evidence hydrogen sulphide can be effective in treating neurological conditions.

Hydrogen Sulphide-Based Therapeutics for Neurological Conditions: Perspectives and Challenges - PMC

Central nervous system (CNS)-related conditions are currently the leading cause of disability worldwide, posing a significant burden to health systems, individuals and their families. Although the molecular mechanisms implicated in these disorders ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Now then, if you bury plasterboard and it gets wet / comes into contact with organic matter guess what gas does it gives off? I'm thinking your breathing in all that lovely dust...

Mad? Well yes I am but maybe one day I'll be seen as one of the greats of medicine!

Gypsum is too used in Chinese medicine...

 

[Morrisman]

There's some evidence hydrogen sulphide can be effective in treating neurological conditions.

Hydrogen Sulphide-Based Therapeutics for Neurological Conditions: Perspectives and Challenges - PMC

Central nervous system (CNS)-related conditions are currently the leading cause of disability worldwide, posing a significant burden to health systems, individuals and their families. Although the molecular mechanisms implicated in these disorders ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Now then, if you bury plasterboard and it gets wet / comes into contact with organic matter guess what gas does it gives off? I'm thinking your breathing in all that lovely dust...

Mad? Well yes I am but maybe one day I'll be seen as one of the greats of medicine!

Gypsum is too used in Chinese medicine...

Interesting, breathing plasterboard dust, coincidence, or…

We had a different view of H2s when I worked offshore.

 

[dobbslc]

Do a couple of lines of ground plasterboard dust and let us know if it helps.