Brad93
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Simple job for me. The beater brush drive belt snapped in my vacuum. took it apart and the whole of the inside is caked in about 5mm of 'shake n vac' cleaned it off with a screw driver, washed in hot water, dried and reassembled. Works better than before.
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Just made me think of the 70's/80's adverts.
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Did you do it?
Brad93
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Nope got sidetracked with other jobs today. Still scraping the jig plate. Lot of work to go yet
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I've noticed in both Germany and Norway they have built in ladders on their roofs. Do you have that in Sweden? How do they attach? And both countries loved a glazed roof tile.Unloaded 8 pallets of roof tiles this morning in 1,5 hours. Enough to get the steam up
All laid out att end of day.
Roof about 50 years old and first one I see without rot so just tiles and sheet metal to replace.
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did you use a clamp to weld itThose of a sensitive disposition look away NOW!
We barely have enough metalwork vices in the workshop at school and certainly don't have any BSW machine screws so when a jaw fell out of a Record #2 vice and we couldn't find the screws there was only one solution... it isn't as if we'll ever be replacing the jaws anyway.
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Took it home and used some stainless filler to TIG it on for good...
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That's unusual ...here in the UK the membrane usually runs along the batons and is over lapped from the bottom up so any water ingress runs off . What's the reason for yours going gutter to apex ?Unloaded 8 pallets of roof tiles this morning in 1,5 hours. Enough to get the steam up
All laid out att end of day.
Roof about 50 years old and first one I see without rot so just tiles and sheet metal to replace.
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Did you bring beer? LolYou lot are a tough crowd to please.
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This is thick board (MDF/Masonite) so limited length. They are overlapped in both directions. They used this method in mid 70's.
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Oh Bother TYA did not say.
Ping it said, as it flew in the direction of away.
Fire up the coffee and queue the music.
Scrap metal in the form of some old bed spanners was cut and filled to fit.
Then brazed in to place and polished up
should have bought two !
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Looks to be a lot of wear in the post socket, is it worth repairing?
Again, I'm lost for words.
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Sometimes life throws you a nice challenge.
A family friend is working in a house in Bath, where some original fixings and features are still in place. He found out he needed a moulding plane to cut replacement MDF for the wooden door surrounds. He couldn't find a router bit or any one willing to do the small amount of work, 30 feet, for a price that did not require an arm or a leg.
In one of the planes I was recently given had a profile close enough to pass. The plan is to remove the lot and fit the old in the main rooms and in areas where it is hard to see fix the new MDF.
Here it is, tired, dirty, blunt and a rubbing strip was missing.
Again a replacement rubbing strip was salvaged from a dead plane. The table saw was the only power tool used.
Here the new wood is glued into place and being planed to size.
The bent bit of wood, LHS is only there to prevent damage from the vice jaws.
When the wood was to size a cabinet scrapper was used to give the final finish.
The important shape of the blade. What can not be expressed in this image is how sharp the blade is.
Finished.
The wood was sealed with a clear sanding sealer, then 5 coats of French polish. Then 8 coats of wax.
A family friend is working in a house in Bath, where some original fixings and features are still in place. He found out he needed a moulding plane to cut replacement MDF for the wooden door surrounds. He couldn't find a router bit or any one willing to do the small amount of work, 30 feet, for a price that did not require an arm or a leg.
In one of the planes I was recently given had a profile close enough to pass. The plan is to remove the lot and fit the old in the main rooms and in areas where it is hard to see fix the new MDF.
Here it is, tired, dirty, blunt and a rubbing strip was missing.
Again a replacement rubbing strip was salvaged from a dead plane. The table saw was the only power tool used.
Here the new wood is glued into place and being planed to size.
The bent bit of wood, LHS is only there to prevent damage from the vice jaws.
When the wood was to size a cabinet scrapper was used to give the final finish.
The important shape of the blade. What can not be expressed in this image is how sharp the blade is.
Finished.
The wood was sealed with a clear sanding sealer, then 5 coats of French polish. Then 8 coats of wax.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Looks to be a lot of wear in the post socket, is it worth repairing?
That is a optical illusion. The hole is still round and no wear. It was a bugger to get the post out. Heat. oil, hammer and a Oh bugger moment.
The whole lot now is de-rusting
But we can still hear you.Again, I'm lost for words.
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Today I have [partially] fixed my hydraulic press. Managed to remove the cylinder from the top beam which I had removed yesterday, the lower plate was being prevented from unthreading by the bend in the beam. BFH sorted that......
I've decided that, rather than trying to straighten the beam ^, I'll make a replacement which I'll ensure is strengthened appropriately
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I already have enough of the beam left from the original build so that's a stroke of good luck. I've just ordered a Starrett hole saw of the size I'll need, so progress is being made.
[Can't recall how I drilled the original but it's pretty rough, probably used the biggest cutter I had and chewed the rest....].
.I've decided that, rather than trying to straighten the beam ^, I'll make a replacement which I'll ensure is strengthened appropriately
,I already have enough of the beam left from the original build so that's a stroke of good luck. I've just ordered a Starrett hole saw of the size I'll need, so progress is being made.
[Can't recall how I drilled the original but it's pretty rough, probably used the biggest cutter I had and chewed the rest....
]. 