Melvyn Best
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You think the Volvo is bad try a Mercedes A class
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Barking Mat
Cuddler of hedgehogs.
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Yeah, I know Mercedes A class start by taking engine out.
I've heard that before, even an injector.
Barking Mat
Cuddler of hedgehogs.
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Ok, it's done.
6 - 8 hours to change a starter motor.
Eventually pulled the transmission shaft out, as I was fighting a losing battle.
The sense of satisfaction of finally getting the starter motor home, was short lived, when I attached the battery lead, and the starter motor, just ran, without engaging.
Knew I'd caught the motor wire against the +ve câble, in the battle to get it in, half an hour later, sorted.
Utterly horrendous job.
Delivering to my parents tomorrow morning and running away, at least they have a working car again.
6 - 8 hours to change a starter motor.
Eventually pulled the transmission shaft out, as I was fighting a losing battle.
The sense of satisfaction of finally getting the starter motor home, was short lived, when I attached the battery lead, and the starter motor, just ran, without engaging.
Knew I'd caught the motor wire against the +ve câble, in the battle to get it in, half an hour later, sorted.
Utterly horrendous job.
Delivering to my parents tomorrow morning and running away, at least they have a working car again.
Fitted new MIG gun and hose assembly to my Fema MIG welder. Buildt a cart for it and then got wire feed issues. I have experimented with soda streem gas and maybe that`s how the problem started, or something shortening inside the MIG gun. Wire welded to the inside of the liner. Tried to fit a new liner but same thing happen again. Tried it today with the new gun assembly and it seems fine again.
Bought it 7 years ago. Some low quality components had to be changed like the power selector switches that broke for nothing. Decided now to buy a co2 fire extinguisher and a proper manometer instead of the soda stream setup.
Bought it 7 years ago. Some low quality components had to be changed like the power selector switches that broke for nothing. Decided now to buy a co2 fire extinguisher and a proper manometer instead of the soda stream setup.
Red'n'Black
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I could do with one of those an' all...
Old Fergie 35 tractor, been stored outside, last running allegedly 2 years ago. Needs moving to get access to other stuff.
It's the 3 cylinder diesel. Battery charged but electrics totally dead.
I think there's an interlock on the gearbox, both shift levers have to be in neutral for it to start. Found the interlock switch and that behaves how I would expect on the meter but still no dice. Might be a blown or missing fuse somewhere?
If I run a wire from battery to solenoid it turns over (slowly) but won't fire.
Then it turns out the air filter housing has filled up with rainwater
and is full of sludgy grey mayonnaise. Gave up at this point, will try again next weekend.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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This nice old B&D jig saw was donated to me, as it is going to MIS, it needed to have a PAT done on it.
It failed.
So strip down, the old cable was corroded inside the machine.
So new cable, new blade and a new sticker.
Back in 1998 I did a GCSE in electronics and its taken until today to actually be put to any use, as I finally got around to replacing the key body and the world's smallest button on my bangernomics runaround.
Bits courtesy of E bay for less than a tenner. GCSE put to good use, and the value of my old banger probably doubled. Result all round I think!
I'll put the money I saved fixing that myself towards a magnifying glass in case there's ever a next time.
Bits courtesy of E bay for less than a tenner. GCSE put to good use, and the value of my old banger probably doubled. Result all round I think!
I'll put the money I saved fixing that myself towards a magnifying glass in case there's ever a next time.
DAPPH
as dyslexik as I'm daft
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One of the roller garage door key fobs died . Sent for pair of new first generation replacement ones from China , four weeks later they arrived ..they didn't work .
The batteries were changed ,still no joy despite spending a couple hours of following both the original & the latest new programming instructions
Got the big back lit x 10 magnifier arm set up & found the frequency crystal cans are totally different part numbers , checked itout they are different operating frequencies . The schematic circuit layout is quite different too .. they'll never ever be of any use to me .
So I de-soldered the eight switches off the new replacement fobs then binned what wasn't needed.
I put one of the removed switches in the faulty ones place and Yeah .. I'm back to having a pair of functional door key fobs again. I did have concerns that the heat from the electronics soldering iron might fry the replacement switches but happily it didn't happen .
The batteries were changed ,still no joy despite spending a couple hours of following both the original & the latest new programming instructions
Got the big back lit x 10 magnifier arm set up & found the frequency crystal cans are totally different part numbers , checked itout they are different operating frequencies . The schematic circuit layout is quite different too .. they'll never ever be of any use to me .
So I de-soldered the eight switches off the new replacement fobs then binned what wasn't needed.
I put one of the removed switches in the faulty ones place and Yeah .. I'm back to having a pair of functional door key fobs again. I did have concerns that the heat from the electronics soldering iron might fry the replacement switches but happily it didn't happen .
DAPPH
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I like your post ,
When we were considering buying another 20 acres adjacent to our small mammal farm , we looked into the cost of getting a similar machine @ £ 3.6 K complete with half a dozen attachments including a trailer like that for working our proposed vinyard planting & a five acre market garden .
At the time EU killed it off by putting down severe restriction on what vine plantings & wine production the UK could plant .
When we were considering buying another 20 acres adjacent to our small mammal farm , we looked into the cost of getting a similar machine @ £ 3.6 K complete with half a dozen attachments including a trailer like that for working our proposed vinyard planting & a five acre market garden .
At the time EU killed it off by putting down severe restriction on what vine plantings & wine production the UK could plant .
Lewis_RX8
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sorted out a puncture in the work vans tyre. i need the practice and i DONT need the hassle from the company to get it fixed, so its quicker and easier to fix it myself.
Is that the rope glue and knot method that comes in the little kits ?
Done one like that on the car and it's done a fair few miles fine on it quite impressed with it for how easy and cheap it was also handy as could easily do on the roadside without a jack even
Alan Reynolds
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Came down this morning to no power and rcd tripped.Traced the culprit to the TV dead. Took off the back and removed the power supply board and found a fry up. OH is lost without her programmes so I might take a punt and bodge fit in the only bridge rectifier I could find in the junk box. Why don’t they fit a bit of insulation ender these things?
Prajna
Fixing things for the love of it
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This one cost €1,400 or thereabouts. Not sure what tooling it came with but certainly a rotovator and mower and, apparently, a sodium floodlight. Lots of it are a bit ropey, there's hardly any shoes left on the trailer brakes, a lot of bodging all round, but plenty of bodging still left for me to do. The trailer handbrake consists of a toilet chain welded to the foot break pull-rod, which has bent it. Gonna bodge that better. Anyway, it's very nice to have people bring me their machines to weld up and hammer on.
brewdexta
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My laptop died a while ago. I didn't really miss it until o had to start commuting to London on the train again.
So I bought an identical second hand model, but with a dodgy screen. The idea was to add a second SSD and dual boot into Linux and swap out the screen.
I bought the second laptop a while ago, a new 256Gb 1.7" SSD arrived, I installed it but couldn't get into the BIOS, password protected.
The usual removal of the CMOS battery to clear the password doesn't work as its flash BIOS, no power needed.
So, the BIOS in my old laptop had no password, all I needed to do was swap it with the second laptop.
This was an excuse to get a hot air soldering station.
Put a bit of foil around the BIOS chip, or at least what I thought was the BIOS chip
It unsoldered nice and easily, a spot of flux and I dropped the new BIOS chip that I had taken out of the old laptop onto the slider pads, a bit more heat, and nothing, wouldn't boot.
Turns out I was being too careful, being right handed the right side of the chip was fine, the left looked a little dry. A spot more heat and it now boots nicely. I'm into the BIOS and the new disk now appears.
I shall be installing Zorin onto the new disk tonight.
Next job is new USB socket and battery in my Samsung Note 8. I'll use the heated bed on the 3D printer to soften the adhesive, needs to be around 110c I believe.
Cheers
Andy
So I bought an identical second hand model, but with a dodgy screen. The idea was to add a second SSD and dual boot into Linux and swap out the screen.
I bought the second laptop a while ago, a new 256Gb 1.7" SSD arrived, I installed it but couldn't get into the BIOS, password protected.
The usual removal of the CMOS battery to clear the password doesn't work as its flash BIOS, no power needed.
So, the BIOS in my old laptop had no password, all I needed to do was swap it with the second laptop.
This was an excuse to get a hot air soldering station.
Put a bit of foil around the BIOS chip, or at least what I thought was the BIOS chip
It unsoldered nice and easily, a spot of flux and I dropped the new BIOS chip that I had taken out of the old laptop onto the slider pads, a bit more heat, and nothing, wouldn't boot.
Turns out I was being too careful, being right handed the right side of the chip was fine, the left looked a little dry. A spot more heat and it now boots nicely. I'm into the BIOS and the new disk now appears.
I shall be installing Zorin onto the new disk tonight.
Next job is new USB socket and battery in my Samsung Note 8. I'll use the heated bed on the 3D printer to soften the adhesive, needs to be around 110c I believe.
Cheers
Andy
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This belt sander ambled to me a few weeks ago.
Lovely bit of kit.
But.
But a quick rummage.
Plugged in, after a PAT.
The motor worked, but no belt drive.
Again, my spares bin came to my help.
So up and running.
Double sided drive band, tooth or ribbed.
Lovely bit of kit.
But.
But a quick rummage.
Plugged in, after a PAT.
The motor worked, but no belt drive.
Again, my spares bin came to my help.
So up and running.
Double sided drive band, tooth or ribbed.
