Stuff you have made today

[Mike Pinches]

I’ve turned this Husqvarna 254
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Into this and box of bits!

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Carb needs a clean and rebuild. Sadly the piston is junk, cylinder is marked but I can’t feel them with my fingers. Replacing both. Hoped to keep as much of it original as I could.

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You can use oven cleaner to remove the aluminium transfer off the cylinder wall. Once the transfer has been cleaned off a quick 'hone' with some 400grit wet and dry, and the original cylinder will be to be re-used.

I used to fix saws professionally and have never had an OE cylinder that has had the actual bore damaged in a seize. The plated bores are very resilient and far tougher than the piston so what you feel on the cylinder is molten aluminium stuck to the wall rather than gouges out of it. Chinese replacement cylinders are a complete lottery, most of them being rubbish. If you must get a replacement cylinder then Meteor are ok, I tend to use Meteor pistons for rebuilds.

 

[Migmac]

You can use oven cleaner to remove the aluminium transfer off the cylinder wall. Once the transfer has been cleaned off a quick 'hone' with some 400grit wet and dry, and the original cylinder will be to be re-used.

I used to fix saws professionally and have never had an OE cylinder that has had the actual bore damaged in a seize. The plated bores are very resilient and far tougher than the piston so what you feel on the cylinder is molten aluminium stuck to the wall rather than gouges out of it. Chinese replacement cylinders are a complete lottery, most of them being rubbish. If you must get a replacement cylinder then Meteor are ok, I tend to use Meteor pistons for rebuilds.

Cheers, you’ve answered a question I was going to ask.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Very impressive. What's the flue for?

Its a shower fan vent

 

[selectedgrub]

It rubs the lotion on it's skin

 

[magnet]

Victorian teas maid for the nights with no power

 

[DAPPH]

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Victorian teas maid for the nights with no power

No power ...... Thanks you've just reminded me to check the standby genny is Ok & run it for 1/2hr then to get the empty 47kg propane replaced with a full one as well as refill a 22 litre jerry can with Fuel Saver added petrol .

 

[Onoff]

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Victorian teas maid for the nights with no power

At least you can still play tapes.

 

[magnet]

At least you can still play tapes.

I see what you did there

 

[roblane65]

today I made a bit of progress on the lamp project
I went to see @doubleboost a while back to Identify the the threads in the lamp holder, he said npt but then ran a 1/4 bsp tap through .

and kindly gave me the tap . which meant I could use any bsp fitting to attach the holder

Tig brazed on and the chain to the jack base

not overly happy with the brazing but it'll dress up . there was a largeish void and broken off piece of casting on the back of the base so I silicone bronzed that to , more dressing to do ! I was struggling to see very well even though the helmet was on auto it still seemed way to dark .
As we stand

got some oak worktop for the base and what to do for a possible shade
the silicone bronze courtesy of DB as well .

 

[arian]

Victorian teas maid for the nights with no power

That small, it looks like it was originally a bedroom fireplace.

At least one aunt had a coal fire with a swingng plate, so you could move a kettle from warm and adjacent to over the fire to boil .

 

[magnet]

That small, it looks like it was originally a bedroom fireplace.

At least one aunt had a coal fire with a swingng plate, so you could move a kettle from warm and adjacent to over the fire to boil .

Its a standard 16 inch fire. I can remember my Grandma having a thing much the same. Even when she got a new fangled cooker she still used the fire as an extra hotplate.

 

[Tigman]

I've been doing a bit of pipework , cant remember the last time I done a thread on the machine ! George Fischer machine works a treet

 

[northwest]

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I was just thinking tonight that a tea cosy is going to be handy soon, I can see them becoming popular again with the colder days (and nights) and the wearing of more jumpers becoming the norm.

 

[Onoff]

I was just thinking tonight that a tea cosy is going to be handy soon, I can see them becoming popular again with the colder days (and nights) and the wearing of more jumpers becoming the norm.

Who else used to have to clear the snow to then lift the lethal, concrete coal bunker, sliding door (also concrete). Then chip away at the frozen mass of coal. Legging it in the morning from the scratchy blanket covered, bed to find Mum warming your school clothes on a leccy bar fire.

Spoilt I was!

 

[magnet]

Who else used to have to clear the snow to then lift the lethal, concrete coal bunker, sliding door (also concrete). Then chip away at the frozen mass of coal. Legging it in the morning from the scratchy blanket covered, bed to find Mum warming your school clothes on a leccy bar fire.

Spoilt I was!

I can mind chipping the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows. Twas colder than a well diggers **** in there

 

[mechman]

I can mind chipping the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows. Twas colder than a well diggers **** in there

Once put a snowball in the bed room it was still there next morning, Barsteward freezing, (early sixties)

 

[Onoff]

I can mind chipping the ice off the inside of the bedroom windows. Twas colder than a well diggers **** in there

Aye, but we were 'appy! Wanted for nowt...

 

[magnet]

Aye, but we were 'appy! Wanted for nowt...

Agreed.... but i think we were all just more accepting. Its just the way it was.

 

[MattF]

It made men of us.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Agreed.... but i think we were all just more accepting. Its just the way it was.

Not sure on source but seems about right, I saw a title about how this might be the first time in modern history a new generation has been worse off or the same as its parents.

Maybe its inevitable all this growth and massive increase will start to tail off as it would have to come from somewhere population growth energy resources etc.