Stuff you have fixed today

[Hopefuldave]

Forgot to take pics, but a mate dropped in to see whether I could look at one of his Bluetooth earbugs and on-the-handlebars wireless phone charger... that had both gone intermittent. Blimey those earbugs are cramped! Usual thing, bad solder joints on the only bits done by a human, and a component lead cut *just* too short... Fiddly-simples

Solder wick works a lot better with flux, when it's years old!

Dave H. (the other one)

 

[Arc Tourist]

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........................................ And in my opinion walking into a clean and tidy workshop is much more conducive to maximum efficiency and productivity.

As I've just relocated the contents of our storage unit to the new garage, presently there's nowhere to put a workbench. Your photo here has given me the inspiration to think out of the box and put it in front of the roll up door. Why didn't think of that.

 

[Guzrik]

The new to me bandsaw has had some TLC.

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Gear box had some goop in it that didn't look much like grease worrying amount of flakes too. Cleaned it out and added some Moly.

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I'm hoping that will slow down the demise of the gears..

Need to replace the blade as it has a dodgy part somewhere but still cuts

I recently put new 80w transmission oil back in mine. Is moly better?

 

[JMS1972]

I recently put new 80w transmission oil back in mine. Is moly better?

Moly is better than nothing which is what it had in it!

I have no idea if its better than transmission oil but I had a big tub of Moly to hand so that is what it got.....

 

[Maker]

Fixed my Raspberry Pi.



It runs "Raspotify", which claims to be A Spotify Connect client "that just works", and to be fair to them, it did for nearly a year. For no apparent reason it stopped connecting last night. Tried rebooting it, reinstalling Raspotify, reflashing the OS, flashing the latest OS, (desktop and headless). After about six hours it just happened to start working again.

Still, far cheaper than a proper network streamer.

 

[KimB]

I Forgot I had my watch on whilst welding earlier. A spatter landed on the end of the dial knob. Used a nail file to file it down and then braso to buff it up. Very happy as it was like 1mm blog on it

 

[Melvyn Best]

I Forgot I had my watch on whilst welding earlier. A spatter landed on the end of the dial knob. Used a nail file to file it down and then braso to buff it up. Very happy as it was like 1mm blog on it

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I’ve never worn a watch for work since I was an apprentice and was helping the foreman , he had just greased the speedo cable on his own car and had me hold the cable off of the seats while he fed it into the outer cable, his expanding watch strap shorted out on his instrument panel causing a nasty burn on his wrist.

 

[My Old Landy]

I’ve never worn a watch for work since I was an apprentice and was helping the foreman , he had just greased the speedo cable on his own car and had me hold the cable off of the seats while he fed it into the outer cable, his expanding watch strap shorted out on his instrument panel causing a nasty burn on his wrist.

Probably why it is recommended you disconnect the battery before working on cars

 

[awemawson]

I've not worn rings or watches for ages for fear of catching them on electrical or mechanical things when my hands are buried in machinery.

 

[minimutly]

I’ve never worn a watch for work since I was an apprentice and was helping the foreman , he had just greased the speedo cable on his own car and had me hold the cable off of the seats while he fed it into the outer cable, his expanding watch strap shorted out on his instrument panel causing a nasty burn on his wrist.

Exactly this, I had my Casio strap across a 12v transformer I was turning into a battery charger, took me a second or two to twig what the pain was. Every link imprinted into my wrist. On another day I dragged my hand across the open edge of a door - the brass bar caught my silver ring - ripped it clean open. Better that taking my finger off I suppose.
So no watch or wedding ring for me since.
Oddly, I can usually tell the time to within 20 minutes, lunchtime within 10...

 

[nickk]

I removed this on Friday,amongst other things,the sprocket needs realignment by shaving 3.2mm off the inside and one of the self aligned bearings has a cracked housing.had to get angry with that sprocket,it wouldn’t budge.
Can you guess what it is?

 

[Nick DV]

Haven't got a clue!

 

[KimB]

I’ve never worn a watch for work since I was an apprentice and was helping the foreman , he had just greased the speedo cable on his own car and had me hold the cable off of the seats while he fed it into the outer cable, his expanding watch strap shorted out on his instrument panel causing a nasty burn on his wrist.

I have a rubber strap with rubber cover on the watch. The only exposed metal is the little button on the band and the small knob on the side of the watch.

 

[Munkul]

Can you guess what it is?

some sort of conveying system for logs?

 

[Migmac]

Bit off a forestry machine

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Can you guess what it is?

Dangerous? Loaded with potential?

 

[bricol]

I've not worn rings or watches for ages for fear of catching them on electrical or mechanical things when my hands are buried in machinery.

Worked with a guy in Germany (Hi Lambert ) who shorted a welder through his wedding ring . . . managed to not do it for 20 yrs, but one morning, he nearly lost a finger. Was off work a couple of weeks, came back with a still very charcoal looking band of skin around that digit . . .

 

[James1979]

The stories above are why I don’t wear any jewellery at all. Just not worth it.

Seen a finger degloved. FIL used to be a policeman and worked with a guy who chased a scrote over a fence. Landed on the other side minus finger - it and wedding ring were still on the palisade!!

I am surprised if not astounded that it has been several hours since Kim’s comment and no one has commented on getting weld splatter on ones knob

 

[pawsnizzy]

The stories above are why I don’t wear any jewellery at all. Just not worth it.

Seen a finger degloved. FIL used to be a policeman and worked with a guy who chased a scrote over a fence. Landed on the other side minus finger - it and wedding ring were still on the palisade!!

I am surprised if not astounded that it has been several hours since Kim’s comment and no one has commented on getting weld splatter on ones knob

That would be a bridge too far James - I abhor smut and innuendo of any kind!

 

[Wedg1e]

Seen a finger degloved. FIL used to be a policeman and worked with a guy who chased a scrote over a fence. Landed on the other side minus finger - it and wedding ring were still on the palisade!!

My dad and his brother were taking a shortcut through ICI Billingham in their teens (not up to no good, but it was a hell of a long walk around the perimeter fence ) when a security guy spotted them and shouted the classic "Oy! I want a word with you!".
So they legged it and climbed the fence, which of course had a barbed wire top. My uncle jumped down, catching his signet ring on a barb and leaving his finger up there.

One of my exes was an A&E nurse for 25 years and some of the tales she told would make your teeth curl.