Stuff you have fixed today

[Blue Chips]

I think it's probably feet of water, 35 PSI equates to 80 feet.

35 PSI = about 71 inches of mercury or roughly 81 feet of water. Even though the 64 reading on the gauge that I got from applying 35 PSI is closer to 71 than 80, the gauge could be, and probably IS, way off.

It appears that @Maker is correct. I just found this listing in the 1920 National Boilers, Radiators and Specialties Catalog. The gauge is virtually the same as mine, and it says that it measures the height of the column of water in the system, in which case it would have to be feet of water. Apparently, my gauge is badly in need of calibration.

 

[sako243]

Kept breaking this locking eye off and picking up another bale of hay for the horse meant I spent 10 minutes grinding back the old rubbish and welding it back on. It's not tidy but the whole headstock was a lash up and is slowly being broken apart but for a lash up it's picked up 2t comfortably and probably shifted 500t plus since built.

Only needs really to take the weight of the headstock when crowded down below 45°, just means I'm less likely to lose the headstock into the stable when tipping the bale off.

 

[qwakers]

well that was a lot of sweat...

final grade and compacted

road fabric and shuttering completed (i know its not straight. i ran out of motivation. never let perfect be the enemy of good enough. its not as bad as it looks in that pic) it gets wider as it gets closer to the road as the depth increases. this is intentional.

and poured. 3/4 ton of aggregate(a guess, may be less...), and 2.5 bags of cement.

i am absolutely knackered.

im even more knackered today....
but i am getting there.

sharp sand dumped ready for the surface.

and one ton of aggregate dropped down dads yard to fill a couple of low spots

 

[qwakers]

oh and as a side note. trailer towed perfectly. no bouncing at all except over speed bumps. whereas when empty before i had issues with it bouncing constantly over the slightest bump. there is a side effect that you feel every bump it goes over in the car much more than before, but that's to be expected.

 

[mtf70]

Heavy duty repair of tumble dryer involving vintage Drummond Round Bed lathe

The original shaft had worn through the bearing and finally parted itself off on the sheet metal.
I dressed off the damaged shaft square then added the stub shaft I turned last night on the Round Bed over this, tight fit and secured with a couple of grub screws.
New plummer block added to back then assemble and we can dry clothes again
Cost was about £12 for the plummer block and some free time but saved £250 or more on a new machine and quite a satisfying excercise.
Just need to trim the strengthening bar to fit around the mod then back to work it goes.

 

[Brad93]

Heavy duty repair of tumble dryer involving vintage Drummond Round Bed lathe

The original shaft had worn through the bearing and finally parted itself off on the sheet metal.
I dressed off the damaged shaft square then added the stub shaft I turned last night on the Round Bed over this, tight fit and secured with a couple of grub screws.
New plummer block added to back then assemble and we can dry clothes again
Cost was about £12 for the plummer block and some free time but saved £250 or more on a new machine and quite a satisfying excercise.
Just need to trim the strengthening bar to fit around the mod then back to work it goes.View attachment 471415View attachment 471416View attachment 471417View attachment 471418View attachment 471419

I done ours the other week. ordered repair kit from hotpoint £20.

drill rivets out the back of the drum, install new shaft & plate with bolts.

The shaft on ours hadn't eaten quite as far down as yours got but the bronze bearing was in two pieces!

That sounded awful, yours must have been squealing like mad.

 

[mtf70]

I've spent quite a bit of time working away this year and the Mrs doesn't generally put it on when I'm at home. I heard it the other day and asked how long had it been that vocal and endured the 'you're always working away and not here to hear it' speech.... so I daresay it has been squealing like a pig on honeymoon for a while

 

[bourbon]

from this

To this. Needs some more paint and filling to do

 

[MattF]

Which type of glue do you use for stuff like that?

 

[bourbon]

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Which type of glue do you use for stuff like that?

Stuff called Paraloid B72, Awkward to use as it's dissolved in Acetone and can be used in lots of different applications, an adessive is only one use. Proportions can be varied and other materials added like fumed silica to create a filler. Big advantage over superglue is that it is reversible

 

[MattF]

Cheers.

 

[brewdexta]

Started to fix the Tom Senior M1, or rather the motor and VFD. I converted the original Brooks Gryphon motor from star to delta by finding the star point and breaking it out into the individual windings. However, it was gutless. Life got in the way, and I acquired another Tom Senior, a light vertical, which meant I've only just got around to fixing it.

I suspect that I have one winding reversed, that is instead of a2 connecting to b1, and b2 to c1 and c2 to a1, one of these is reversed. I thought I would use the induced voltage method testing, using a 10v AC power supply, if its the right way around you get about 4v induced into the other winding. If all else fails I have a new motor, but that involves broaching a keyway.

I'm also replacing the VFD with a cold plate VFD, no annoying fan! I have a 40 ohm, 200 watt brake resistor on order, I'll compare before and after to see how much faster it slows down.

Pics next time, I'm in the pub!

 

[Geoffm]

Heavy duty repair of tumble dryer involving vintage Drummond Round Bed lathe

The original shaft had worn through the bearing and finally parted itself off on the sheet metal.
I dressed off the damaged shaft square then added the stub shaft I turned last night on the Round Bed over this, tight fit and secured with a couple of grub screws.
New plummer block added to back then assemble and we can dry clothes again
Cost was about £12 for the plummer block and some free time but saved £250 or more on a new machine and quite a satisfying excercise.
Just need to trim the strengthening bar to fit around the mod then back to work it goes.View attachment 471415View attachment 471416View attachment 471417View attachment 471418View attachment 471419

Nicely done.
When we were hard up newly weds, I got a basically free dryer, missing the back and well worn. It was always noisy, but got worse. My wife came home to find the oxy set on the back porch and I was crawling inside the drum welding a bolt in to replace the worn axle. I didn't get it centred on the drum which had flogged out as well so it was out of balance and even noisier, but it kept it going for a bit longer until we could replace it.

 

[MattF]

Heavy duty repair of tumble dryer involving vintage Drummond Round Bed lathe

The original shaft had worn through the bearing and finally parted itself off on the sheet metal.
I dressed off the damaged shaft square then added the stub shaft I turned last night on the Round Bed over this, tight fit and secured with a couple of grub screws.
New plummer block added to back then assemble and we can dry clothes again
Cost was about £12 for the plummer block and some free time but saved £250 or more on a new machine and quite a satisfying excercise.
Just need to trim the strengthening bar to fit around the mod then back to work it goes.View attachment 471415View attachment 471416View attachment 471417View attachment 471418View attachment 471419

Drummond & Bosch. You have good taste in tools.

 

[DAPPH]

Finally fixed the gap between my recently obtained non working ..... now repaired 5 cu ft compressor and the user end .
It cost me nearly £40 ( screwfix ) for hose , connectors and an air jet gun . I can now disconnect the hose and gun from the hose & store the hose & gun away safely . Its only taken me seven months to garner enough spare cash for this planned event .. after finding almost £9K for other well planned essential to me things

 

[DAPPH]

Finally fixed the gap between my recently obtained non working ..... now repaired 5 cu ft compressor and the user end .
It cost me nearly £40 ( screwfix ) for hose , connectors and an air jet gun . I can now disconnect the hose and gun from the hose & store the hose & gun away safely . Its only taken me seven months to garner enough spare cash for this planned event .. after finding almost £9K for other well planned essential to me things

*&^%$£"(*& it the planned celebration of using the repaired compressor didn't happen .
The new hose , pair of plug in connectors and female connector were great, but would not connect into the compressors air line female socket as the neck was too long .
Nipped out to Screwfix ( 1,7 miles away ) and purchased what looked to be a shorter necked male connector only to find it is about 1 mm to big for the female .

Arrrrgh ! I went back to Screwfix asked for a second female connector .that fits the nozzles , this time to put it on the compressor .... " Out of stock , delivery to store expected by 12.00 hrs. Saturday " .
So the service / repair of the dead 9 yr old dehumidifier has to wait yet another day.
I purchased a new one just incase the old one has a smoke tablet hidden inside , if it lives it will be time clocked for use in our log cabin to keep things dry over winter . Cost so far £186.24

 

[qwakers]

im even more knackered today....
but i am getting there.

sharp sand dumped ready for the surface.

and one ton of aggregate dropped down dads yard to fill a couple of low spots

Nice straight line to work with now. just have to render the face and point the joints. do that tomorrow.

 

[My Old Landy]

Back on the air after 11 months with no antenna! It fell down in the wind last year.
Today, with the help of a good friend, it got put back up. We found the feed and the 40m element were damaged so they got sorted and back up and running

 

[qwakers]

Nice straight line to work with now. just have to render the face and point the joints. do that tomorrow.

a scratch coat put on the wall edge to take the render, might take a couple more coats in the middle.... and the joints and edges of the slabs filled with coloured mortar.

not much more work to it now before i can start putting block down...

 

[qwakers]

bit of a more challenging job was to make my crane work by remote control. i bought a remote that should have been able to replace the wander lead entirely. now either im very dense, or there is absolutely no way to wire it to work in both directions. i DID manage to get it to go up, but not down.

so 2 240v ac double pole double throw relays and a bit of ingenuity, i wired it so the relays are emulating the switch on the wander lead. the lead is now attached permanently to the side of the winch, and the relays behind it, so it now works up and down. i would like to have the estop button on the remote work too, but i cant do it with the relay wiring method, so it'll have to do with the emergency magnet release instead. the estop button on the original control still works.

and yes, i will put the relays in a enclosure. but not today. i wanted it to work first.

the beginning (no those connectors are no longer there, i had the old wires i was using for testing still attached to identify the connections, the wires are all black but are numbered.)

the new wires attached to the back of the switch to go to the relays. i know i said i wont use blue insulated connectors anymore, and i wont on a car. with no vibration and moisture they are fine here. plus its all i had in the required size.

and the end result.

final function test.