BODGES ?

[DAPPH]

Think we ought to have a tread about Bodges we have done or discovered especially safety related ones .
i kick off with a 400 mm or so bench saw & fence , modified by some " Clever Dikky ".

The heavy duty 16 amp motor would not allow the blade to return to the vertical (my investigation on Wednesday ) so they used five strong black nylon cable ties through a drilled hole in the skirt edge of the table top to pull it up almost vertical . The rise 7 fall is jammed solid at max height so this might eb the problem.

The fence mount was made from chip board and some sort of aluminium U shaped channel with flat head furniture bolt resting on the table bed so the fence inclines 8 mm or more upwards at the middle of the blade .

Taking it apart was interesting , things didn't feel right on the blind side of the bed . Getting two guys help me to turn the table upside down over two stout planks I was highly amused to see that the two 8mm bolts used to attach the chipboard fence guide were in fact stainless steel studding split for 10 mm down the middle and splayed out with a screwdriver , then a correct sized washer slipped over the unsplayed end and tightener with mole grips and a spanner'd proper nut on the chip board side


In all my 60 or so years of messing around as an amateur or professional electro mechanical engineer I've never come across that sort of bodge before .

 

[mr haynes]

Welding a snapped handbrake cable as the master cylinder had a bad leak....

 

[Keith 66]

I think this may qualify, Seen on a building site down the road from us a couple of months ago, bunch of eastern european builders. Obviously needed another ladder so bodged this one up. They were up & down it for weeks wonky rung & all. Parm look away now!

 

[Erie Fred]

The normal 120/240 vac breakers "over here" are allowed to be used a switches, and in the factory & offices, "normal" people are
allowed to turn them on/off.

Not so with 480 vac 3 phase ones....No touchy unless you have your certs.

Our sparkies found a 480 vac 3 phase breaker (IIRC 100 amp model) that the workers were switching on/off every day or so.
The small handle broke off, so it had a large screwdriver jammed in there...right into the center of the breaker !

 

[tom2207]

Think we ought to have a tread about Bodges we have done or discovered especially safety related ones .
i kick off with a 400 mm or so bench saw & fence , modified by some " Clever Dikky ".

The heavy duty 16 amp motor would not allow the blade to return to the vertical (my investigation on Wednesday ) so they used five strong black nylon cable ties through a drilled hole in the skirt edge of the table top to pull it up almost vertical . The rise 7 fall is jammed solid at max height so this might eb the problem.

The fence mount was made from chip board and some sort of aluminium U shaped channel with flat head furniture bolt resting on the table bed so the fence inclines 8 mm or more upwards at the middle of the blade .

Taking it apart was interesting , things didn't feel right on the blind side of the bed . Getting two guys help me to turn the table upside down over two stout planks I was highly amused to see that the two 8mm bolts used to attach the chipboard fence guide were in fact stainless steel studding split for 10 mm down the middle and splayed out with a screwdriver , then a correct sized washer slipped over the unsplayed end and tightener with mole grips and a spanner'd proper nut on the chip board side


In all my 60 or so years of messing around as an amateur or professional electro mechanical engineer I've never come across that sort of bodge before .

always nice to see someone elses innovative thinking ,, often theres more effort put into a bodge than it would take to fix things properly.

 

[Stueeee]

My partner Sue bought a 1967 Fiat 500 Giardinera somewhere in southern Italy. Didn't look a bad car, I said I'd give it a once over and service before she took to the UK roads. Here's the sump plug...

Even better, there wasn't even a ghost of a thread in the Ali sump. This bodge was gobbed up with silicone and wedged in the hole -what could possibly go wrong? Fortunately there was a reasonable amount of metal round the hole, so....

Thankfully the car hasn't rejected this imperial BSP 'alien' plug as yet.

 

[Dozzer]

One of the Indian restaurants in Sudbury. They were fitting a new flat roof!!!!
the rungs were bits of old skirting board

 

[Dozzer]

the rest of the car park doesn't make you want to eat there!!

 

[Martinb]

2 Polish lads on a job opposite a site I was working on.

 

[brightspark]

2 Polish lads on a job opposite a site I was working on.

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i used to do similar 4 tables a pair of steps on top and a drum of cable on top of the steps

 

[Stueeee]

Snapped this while we were on holiday in India a few years ago. This power and telecoms coming in at the rear entrance of a really posh hotel which had a couple of attendants garbed in Raj era finery at the extravagent front foyer.

 

[DAPPH]

Snapped this while we were on holiday in India a few years ago. This power and telecoms coming in at the rear entrance of a really posh hotel which had a couple of attendants garbed in Raj era finery at the extravagent front foyer.
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What the eye doesn't see , the heart doesn't grieve until there is a major fire .

 

[dobbslc]

I saw this in a site cycle park....

I can hear that Queen song Another One Bites The Dust...

 

[OJCar]

Snapped this while we were on holiday in India a few years ago. This power and telecoms coming in at the rear entrance of a really posh hotel which had a couple of attendants garbed in Raj era finery at the extravagent front foyer.
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By the standards of Infrastructure Installation in India, that is a nice, neat job.
(I kid you not!)

In Patel Naga in Delhi there was a three phase type steel wire armour cable about 160mm outside diameter came up out of the tarmac road, over the top of an iron man hole cover and back down under the tarmac on the other side.
You could tell it was three phase type where the traffic running over it had worn through the insulation and armour to expose the conductors and you could see the Red Yellow Blue insulation beside the polished copper conductors.
You could tell it was live by the way the thing spat and arced in the wet ...

A more typical job.

 

[OJCar]

Never say we don't do infrastructure bodges in this country...



Took five Open Reach Technicians the last two working days to knit one new line into the existing two lines.



Hard to show in photos, but the new line is wrapped around the existing two lines in multiple places and caught in the trees.

( I used to do this job 43 years ago, but never down to this standard. )

 

[sparkysy]

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest, we had a line fault in December and it took them a whole month to fix it, multiple engineers attended and one finally found it on the overhead spans where it had rubbed through on a tree. They didn't cut the tree back just did as you pictured above!

 

[Anguz]

But in these days of elf n safety the guys with the wire won't be allowed the chainsaw

 

[DAPPH]

I’ve seen enough bodges in my lifetime. The most recent was found when my cheap electric jack hammer stopped working on the first bit of hard work attempted.

I found the reciprocating gearing had earlier failed and someone had welded on a bolt (and not very well, either), without a bearing, as an eccentric drive which was doomed to failure soon after purchase. I found the earlier broken parts - stuck in the grease inside the tool!

After fixing it properly, it has since worked faultlessly.

eBay or Face book Market Place etc ........ a real bargain for some one ???

 

[aesmith]

Company I worked for did building energy management systems. The wiring for sensors was twisted pair telephone type cable, multipair where possible. One building we were seeing random temperature readings, as if there was some sort of interference. Checking on site we found a spare pair had been punched down, a 13A plug attached and plugged into a mains socket. At the other side of the building the same pair was picked out from nearby marshalling box, and wired to power a radio.

 

[Smallfry]

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest, we had a line fault in December and it took them a whole month to fix it, multiple engineers attended and one finally found it on the overhead spans where it had rubbed through on a tree. They didn't cut the tree back just did as you pictured above!

Doesnt surprise me either. We have had no internet or phone for two weeks recently.
In the recent wind, further up the lane, a two foot diameter tree had fallen onto the overhead lines, and snapped them clean off. Also had pulled one of the poles towards the tree, and left it at a 30 degree angle. Tree had mostly been cleared, leaving a stump on one side of the lane, and most of the branches on the other. The cables were laying in the road, all plain to see.
Guys from Openreach knocked on our door because they couldn't find the break