Stuff you have fixed today

[DAPPH]

MY empty Kielder battery drill case got flipped off an outside bench by a strong gust of wind six months ago , landing as sods law dictates on one corner causing the two clam shells to seperate . Arrrrgh! or Olde English Industrial Language to that effect . .

Realised that with care the two blown skins that are ultrasonically welded to make each half of the clamshell could be gently drilled and with some packing pieces and a strip of 2mm engineering WPM a new hinge could be made and fitted to the two halves .
Three hours later after having had to use the bench saw , bandsaw and the drill press as well as the battery drill , I used 18 off 3 mm hex headed machine screws with nylock nuts to gently pull the new hinge & packers onto the case body .
If it dies before I do , I might consider asking Kielder if they sell replacement cases for their product. Piccy's to follow after I've finished digging out the mancupboard in a day or so's time .

 

[Mart63]

The Geeetech A10 at work, again. The fan stopped working the other day so I tried to order another one the same. Turns out you can get a 24v fan but not with the same size plug. I ordered the correct size jst plug with wires already attached and connected the 2 together with a soldered joint and heat shrink to insulate. What I didn't notice is the new plug was wired back to front so it didn't work. Had to pull it all apart and redo it. Works now. What a pain.

 

[mtt.tr]

The site radio development a fault, when you press the next button the mode changes.



Simple PCB, found it works via a resistor ladder, one of the switches had excessive internal resistance.


New switch ordered and soldered in and it's fixed. Nice and simple.

 

[DennisCA]

I bought a pair of old fog lights for my Saab, only 10€. When I get them I can see they say Bosch Halogen and Made in Sweden. They have no CE mark so they are older than 1984. Made in Sweden, not bad for 10€.

Treated with plastic restorer to the left, just cleaned with soap and water on right.

There's some rust, I put linseed oil on it... I figure that's good enough for now. Possible to do a better job later, separate the glass from the body with a thinner bath.

Plastic restorer on both

Tried applying some yellow headlight film, first time ever so I did a lot of mistakes, apparently you can use heat to make it go easier. Will do that on the next one. I like the yellow shine, will see though how I proceed, good thing is I can just remove it for a clear look.

I am cooking up my own circuit to make the lamps run on different voltages, so I can run the things as front position lights during the day, and when I need the fog lights (was real foggy recently) I can just press the fog-light button and they glow full strength. Also need them to shut off when the low beams are on and fog light switch is not depressed. I'll need three relays to make that logic work.

 

[bricol]

Anything like my 80's Lancia fog lights, some time in the oven at 200C will soften the glue to allow the glass to be separated and clean off.

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

Mrs said, "there's something rattling really badly at the back of the golf, people were looking at me".

Easy fix, till they also rust out .

 

[Prajna]

Nice fix.
Odd place to crack on the back?
Would expect the frontside, because of cutting force?

Yeah. Perhaps he was not cutting with it. Maybe it was run over or something fell on it. Pity I didn't grab a 'before' pic because there was a deep groove in the rib, as if someone had hit it with an axe. I would ask him but I'm not sure my slender grasp on Portuguese would be sufficient to make sense of the answer.

 

[qwakers]

something red and shiny arrived today...

these where sold to me nice and cheap, and as needing rebuilding. however, to my delight, they do not need a rebuild, just a mild refresh. no parts required.

there are 2 core issues making them a bit sticky. one the pins are siezed to the calipers and the pads. the second is that the pads are stuck to the caliper body. neither are unusual brembo issues.

first things first, hammer the pins out using a pin punch and a big hammer.
no surprise they are sticky. then in the pillar drill they go and spin them and scotch brite them til shiny. I then tweaked them straight until they span true in the drill chuck and refitted them to the caliper the verify goodness.

then i tested piston movement and found one slightly stiff piston. i popped it out with air, cleaned it up(piston and seals are perfect) and pushed it back home a few times til it moves freely.

then i filed the edges of the pads to take the smoo off, the same with the caliper lands, added some antiseize to the mating surfaces and reassembled.

much betterer.

 

[Pete.]

A minor repair today. The bottle would not stay on my prressure washer's foam blaster because the neck of the bottle is too thin it just jumps the thread, of course it only does it when full of shampoo which ends up on the floor.

I turned an ally collar to press inside the neck and support the thread. Now it fits nice and snug.

 

[sako243]

No piccies yet but got the wee Gaston Dufour mill I got off @8ob wired into an 11kW static phase converter.

Found a happy setting for it to at least do the slow traverses and spindle. Doing other bits and bobs needs tweaking of the phase converter knob but at least once I make a draw bar I can do some milling.

There's a big gennie outside which can power it for bigger jobs but that needs plumbing in properly.

 

[galooph]

The Surf's MOT is looming, and I've been waiting ages for a dry/still day to fix a small hole in a sill. Was visiting Dad this morning, so didn't make a start till 3pm, finally slapped on a thick coat of epoxy mastic (by torch light!) as the light faded.

While I'd got the sill opened up, I thought I'd try spraying some ACF-50 forwards and back. Was very impressed with the way it wicked/tracked over time. a thin film appeared from the sill lower seam (between the spot welds) which then tracked up the outside of the seam - could see the grime changing colour!

Thanks for championing it, @tom2207

I certainly missed my 2-post lift, though - not as easy when you're lying on the floor welding overhead!

 

[nickk]

Sprayed some new pattern wings back in Easter,now fitted,not the best of fits,good job I have a die grinder. The other sides similar quality,good enough at £100/pr ,for a van.

 

[Rannsachair]

I finally got fed up with the angle of lean on my old beemer sidestand:

So off with the old stand, turned a slightly overside pin out of a shaft reclaimed from a dogfood processing machine, its tough but machineable.

Then ream holes in frame and stand to suit, then build up the stop for the stand (on the stand) with weld.

Will see how it lasts:

Angle has significantly improved.

 

[doubleboost]

Damaged threads on a pipe fitting 1 3/8 BSP
EN3 B (mild steel)
Tig weld with A18 mild steel filler rod .
Be a bit video next week

 

[nickk]

After the “desperate mowing “ malarkey,I’ve gotten around to fixing the trusty Honda mower that my dad bought at least 30 years ago,bent crankshaft,by me running into a steel plate,partially straightened from a glorious 7mm ! to a mild 1.5mm,achieved without stripping the engine,somehow enabling it to start first pull? However it still only ran on choke ,so a carb problem was suspected and solved when I noticed the main jet was blocked,result.

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

Not really fixed but now sounds much better. Front and rear brake heat shields on the Golf were rattling. The fronts are easier than the rears as the rear hub has to come off. In the end I was able to rip both off in 5 minutes.

Rear.

Front.

Putting new ones back on will be a bit more tedious, caliper and disc off at the front and everything including the hub off at the back.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Not really fixed but now sounds much better. Front and rear brake heat shields on the Golf were rattling. The fronts are easier than the rears as the rear hub has to come off. In the end I was able to rip both off in 5 minutes.

Rear.

View attachment 416133

Front.

View attachment 416134


Putting new ones back on will be a bit more tedious, caliper and disc off at the front and everything including the hub off at the back.

Wasn't there an aftermarket 2 peace kit for the rears that did away with all that messing around.

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

Wasn't there an aftermarket 2 peace kit for the rears that did away with all that messing around.

Wasn't aware, just bought new ones on eBay.

For the rears I was thinking I may just take out the two brake carrier bolts and the hub bolt and see if I can lift the full assembly out of the way. That would save a lot of messing about with vag-com.

 

[bricol]

I suppose MOT testers see a fair few Golfs - the rear discs on my Lancia should have shields - mine looked okay under 20 yrs of muck and brake dust, so I had them blasted and powdercoated in with a load of other stuff . . . they came back lovely and black . . . and lacey . . . they would have looked good suitably shaped and providing support to a lovely lady . .

So I left them off. I know others have failed inspections with holey ones fitted - but I reckon if they had took them off beforehand, the tester would have been none the wiser.

 

[nickk]

Here’s the said mower in action mowing the areas I can’t access with the topper.