Stuff you have fixed today

[cardiffrob]

Finally traced an annoying wiring fault in an Airbus A319.

 

[MCKDAVID]

^^^^^^aye, know those jobs, 2 days to get into the fault, 2 minutes to fix it, and 2 days to put it all back together.... happy days...

 

[m_c]

Finally traced an annoying wiring fault in an Airbus A319.

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Just twisted the wires back together and wrapped a bit black tape around them?

 

[Ton-up]

It was a Scotchlock, wasn’t it…….

 

[Barking Mat]

Just twisted the wires back together and wrapped a bit black tape around them?

Which airport to avoid please....

Hmm, Cardiff ?

 

[cardiffrob]

^^^^^^aye, know those jobs, 2 days to get into the fault, 2 minutes to fix it, and 2 days to put it all back together.... happy days...

...and another 2 days to wriggle back out of there.

 

[Edward Teach]

Finally traced an annoying wiring fault in an Airbus A319.

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Lol,
I hadn't seen the Marshalling Signals at first
.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Few minutes pottering be fore 2 large things distracted me.



This was sent to me and described as Not working, spares or repairs.

So I fired up the music and was distracted again. Ok it is wash day. But why don't you have a spare one.



New Mantle. Tilley ones are not suitable. I think they will work, but as I was working from an unknown. I fitted a new one.
Also cleaned the 3 legged burner.

The pump washer was very dry, no spares, yet.
But it was intact, so a soak in warm cooking oil and working between thumb and fingers had it to a state I could have a go.





Warming with Meths, it does make a very disturbing noise. The pump was working, but will get a full service when parts arrive.
The filler and vent cap do need new seals. But red grease had them working enough to allow a test burn.

Working.
Spares on order.

Happy Me.

 

[Danez]

replaced the badly designed air filter in my 306 with a pipercross

old one looking a bit weathered

 

[Bullet2012]

replaced the badly designed air filter in my 306 with a pipercross View attachment 299481
old one looking a bit weathered
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What’s bad about the original ? The new one will draw warm air in, def not good

 

[Danez]

What’s bad about the original ? The new one will draw warm air in, def not good

heavy and mounted way too low and there's a chance it can suck up water if you go through too deep a puddle and the metal airbox isn't sealed tight


I don't think the warm air intake will be a noticeable issue on a car with 90bhp. I am planning on shifting it to behind the headlight eventually mind but the induction kit only came with piping to mount it where it currently is.

 

[Geoffm]

heavy and mounted way too low and there's a chance it can suck up water if you go through too deep a puddle and the metal airbox isn't sealed tight


I don't think the warm air intake will be a noticeable issue on a car with 90bhp. I am planning on shifting it to behind the headlight eventually mind but the induction kit only came with piping to mount it where it currently is.

I used to have a tuned Toyota Corolla Gti with a 4age motor. A cold air box made 1 kw on the dyno with the same cone filter.
It had a motor built to light rally spec. My wife used it as a daily driver. You can get 3 car seats across the back seat if you buy the right ones...

 

[Arc Tourist]

Put on my best ripped jeans to have a go with the new petrol strimmer today, but found that the line spool needed some modification to be more user friendly. The spool had a partition in the centre which limited the amount of line it would hold and made it a pain to wind. So, I put it in the lathe and shaved the partition down. Its the little things that make life easier.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Put on my best ripped jeans to have a go with the new petrol strimmer today, but found that the line spool needed some modification to be more user friendly. The spool had a partition in the centre which limited the amount of line it would hold and made it a pain to wind. So, I put it in the lathe and shaved the partition down. Its the little things that make life easier.

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I may be wrong but on ours that's all that holds the wire in, cutting it out would mean it just chucks all the wire out at once.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Put on my best ripped jeans to have a go with the new petrol strimmer today, but found that the line spool needed some modification to be more user friendly. The spool had a partition in the centre which limited the amount of line it would hold and made it a pain to wind. So, I put it in the lathe and shaved the partition down. Its the little things that make life easier.

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On mine the two holders allow two cords to be round on at once,

 

[dan.taylor.1]

On mine the two holders allow two cords to be round on at once,

Every one I've ever used has had a little gap where you pinch the wire and then wind one half each side.

 

[Arc Tourist]

I may be wrong but on ours that's all that holds the wire in, cutting it out would mean it just chucks all the wire out at once.

It works fine Dan, just like the strimmer I had overseas.

 

[Arc Tourist]

On mine the two holders allow two cords to be round on at once,

The line is wound in the same direction and the feed holes are on the same horizontal plane so the line still winds off without issue. The only difference is I peel off 20 feet of line, fold it in half and thread it through one hole until it reaches the middle and start winding. Seems simpler than trying to deal with two lines and the spool, where sometimes you need three hands. Anyway, its worked for me over the years, so I guess I'm also like a dinosaur in the age of mammals.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Got this 300 Vapalux the other day, got it working and was pleased.

I was advised not to fit a Tilley Mantle to it, as it may/will not function as designed.

So I had to try, as I have many Tilley mantles.


Oh.

Open the vent To put out the flame/light.
Do not use the "pricker cleaner" as that will dump liquid fuel.


New Mantle, new coffee and away we go again.

 

[Red'n'Black]

The mower. The handle snapped off where it bolts onto the deck, again. Becoming a bit of a Trigger's broom, this one.

Found a piece of oval section tubing in the scrap pile, think it was once part of the kids' climbing frame.
A bit of re-shaping with a vice and a BFH to fit the handle tubing into one end.
A while ago somebody posted a link to a set of unbelievably cheap but good quality Chinese hole saws, I knew I'd find a use for them some day.

Welded up. Hopefully by not flattening the tube where it meets the deck bracket it'll be a bit less prone to fatigue.

A couple of coats of Halford's finest, think it'll do. Not bad for a 20 year old machine.
I cut the tube at 45deg with some vague idea that it'd spread the load and be less likely to crack around the weld line. Seems to have worked OK for the other side so far