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mtt.tr
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Its a Sebastian, its awaiting me to finish the electronic leadscrew. For an old unloved machine its pretty accurate.
DennisCA
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I made a custom coupling for the FP2. The drain hole for the vertical table (moves the X-axis) for cutting fluid is in a very tight spot once the table moves to the extreme right of it's travel, it only has a little clearance between the saddle and table during that time.
The elbow coupling I bought did not fit so I made my own with an integral hose barb, that allowed me to get size down. I had brass to make this from, but brass is expensive and I was afraid of screwing up. Aluminum seemed to work.
The elbow coupling I bought did not fit so I made my own with an integral hose barb, that allowed me to get size down. I had brass to make this from, but brass is expensive and I was afraid of screwing up. Aluminum seemed to work.
Assume you mean the twists!
Try and keep even force on the wrench,however sometimes they bend need a bash on the anvil,or a push with the fly press,if I’ve hit the twist even with a copper hammer ,if it’s red ,it’ll mark.
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Tangledfeet
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A tiny project but I'm chuffed with how well it has turned out. Made a dowel jig out of short lengths of bright mild steel (25 x 3 equal angle and 25 x 3 flat) lightly TIG welded together - and a 6mm hole marked out as accurately as I could. Works well and I'm just about to glue and clamp up some iroko.
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Is it tethered there? It could be easy to get carried away and pull it off the shelf......
arther dailey
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I made my old honda mower work again, had the thing second hand must be 30 year ago, it finally played up today, started first pull as ever after winter lay off, mowed then died..ahh didnt turn the fuel tap on, tap on mow away then it died, so pulled carb bowl off, grott in that so going to pull carb removed fuel pipe to notice only a dribble, ah! so blow back in tank and straight away got a mouthfull back, then it stopped, hmmm undone the cap and flows perfect, checked cap for vent but couldnt find one, so just re assembled and left cap loose ish, ran for hour perfect, so reckon I must have put wrong cap back on the mower last year ? going to treat it to an oil change I think its earned it. so not exactly made, but it made my day keeping the old thing running.
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I do not really understand wood, it grows, it shrinks - madness. Last summers dowel now has huge gaps.
Biscuit jointer arrived today.
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I made my old honda mower work again, had the thing second hand must be 30 year ago, it finally played up today, started first pull as ever after winter lay off, mowed then died..ahh didnt turn the fuel tap on, tap on mow away then it died, so pulled carb bowl off, grott in that so going to pull carb removed fuel pipe to notice only a dribble, ah! so blow back in tank and straight away got a mouthfull back, then it stopped, hmmm undone the cap and flows perfect, checked cap for vent but couldnt find one, so just re assembled and left cap loose ish, ran for hour perfect, so reckon I must have put wrong cap back on the mower last year ? going to treat it to an oil change I think its earned it. so not exactly made, but it made my day keeping the old thing running.
I'm also someone who favors a "classic" lawnmower.
Mines is a MTD rideon with a horizontal twin Briggs and Stratton.
First cut yesterday and it started and ran fine but when you tried to cut, it bogged and no power so I thought carb.
Took it apart cleaned it, saw nothing obvious so rebuilt it and put it back on - still the same.
Then I thought governor but to adjust it I had to strip all the front panels off.
I adjusted it and still the same but with everything off I noticed that after a run, one exhaust pipe was red hot and the other stone cold.
These things fire both cylinders at the same time so there was no misfire but it was obvious it wasn't happy.
Pulled the plugs out, one was fine the other soaking.
On further examination I noticed this
The insulator had broken off and was floating about on the electrode.
I've never seen a plug fail this way before but I found an old plug and it ran perfect (after it burnt off all the fuel in the exhaust)
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Yup! It can be, erm, obstreperous..!
Is that the brown stuff that splits? I've got some somewhere...
Dave H. (the other one)
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A bit of fun.
My cold copper sulphate seams to be working..
My cold copper sulphate seams to be working..
DennisCA
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I had time for another small project last night. Replaced the broken plastic lever on the washing machine door with one from aluminum. This is a great washing machine, bought it 2nd hand in 2008 for 100€ and it's still going strong. So worth keeping going.
Is it tethered there? It could be easy to get carried away and pull it off the shelf......
Good thinking, I'll make something, just in case
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Had to do the exact same to our washing machine , Weak plastic parts
