Stuff you have fixed today

[Rrobson]

@MattF because the milling machine motor was literally an inch clear of the original roof, so I’ve added some extra height at the back for the machine, some storage and just general useable space. The area above the garage door when it is open is wasted because it’s inaccessible so no point having the extra space there. Also as you say, water would run off the back and pool on the pad running under the rear wall into the garage, that should mitigate some of that

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Not sure if it is fixed or made today.

A friend is in needs of a bench polisher.
I had a spare bench grinder.

So, when I was away I found out the specs and ordered two mop spindles.

But they did not fit, Oh well.
Managed to get some that fitted.

Two mops.

The RHS spindle had a small burr, but that was soon removed.

 

[qwakers]

i could do with a spot more consistency with the alu tig, but its way better than the one i crushed flat in the accident...

 

[Norsk]

My tipping trailer wouldn't tip.
Turns out the solenoid had broken through the housing. Called the Norwegian dealer for a new one,£550!

Ordered one from ebay and bodged the housing with to courses of epoxy,some plastic and a mig wire hoop.

Will hopefully last until the new one arrives.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

I made a machine/jig for a hell of a job to sand deep and even grooves.

A cross vice handles the X and Y coordinates; for the Z coordinate, I will sequentially place plates under the clamp with the part.

As we increase the height of the floor with the part, we cut deeper.

Anything you can think of to avoid buying a milling machine, oh yes.

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I remembered and found in the pile of “metal just in case” the remains of such a device. I removed the extra gears. When the long rusty bolt is rotated, the thick central bushing made of brass pushes the 10 mm stainless steel rod 50 mm back and forth. The bushing has thrust roller bearings (!) and an internal thread M12*1.75. I'll try to make an analogue of micrometric feed. By tilting the angle grinder up to 45 degrees, I change the distance from the abrasive disc to the part. One turn of the screw gives 0.5 mm of extension of the rod. Work for TIG. PS - I made a little mistake with the posting thread.

 

[qwakers]

the wire on my makita charger got ran over (i would assume) and had stopped working unless the wire was held at just the right angle. i had some flat 2 core knocking around from a old laptop charger, so i used that...

shame its white but ho hum, works again.

 

[octo0072000]

My tipping trailer wouldn't tip.
Turns out the solenoid had broken through the housing. Called the Norwegian dealer for a new one,£550!

Ordered one from ebay and bodged the housing with to courses of epoxy,some plastic and a mig wire hoop.

Will hopefully last until the new one arrives.

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£550 for a solenoid i hope thats a mistake

 

[Norsk]

£550 for a solenoid i hope thats a mistake

No its not I am afraid.

I used to pay £200 for solenoids on woodchipper valve blocks untill I learned that they were a £20 item of Ebay.

Some companies have the monopoly here and they really extract the Urine

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I was given a load of those small hand tools.
So I cleaned them up.

Fitted them to a care home to fill up some old spaces.

 

[lchris21]

...on a scale of 1 to 10. My IT skills languish around the 2-3 mark, with my IT patience level even lower
So I'm pretty chuffed to have rescued a dead desktop PC I use in the garage. It was in a death spiral of blue and black screens...Even asked my IT support neighbour who advised to bin it....( civil servants eh!).
The wonders of YouTube and a £3.50 cable, a jump start off a working pc and several hours of it doing it's thing and hey presto it lives a bit longer

 

[lchris21]

Continued.
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And here's how it arrived to me...
Not all done yet. Few things left to go back together
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do you do all your won plating? looks really good

 

[onthames]

do you do all your won plating? looks really good

Nope, I use a local plater

 

[Barking Mat]

Well not fixed, but started on another engine change today.

4.5 hours later it was out, no rushing, will take longer to clean and repaint the bilge.

Seperated the gearbox once the propshaft was seperated from flexible coupling, easier to get the engine out.

That'll get kept as a spare good engine, in case one dies. There's a brand new one waiting to go in.

 

[Blobber]

Well not fixed, but started on another engine change today.

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4.5 hours later it was out, no rushing, will take longer to clean and repaint the bilge.

Seperated the gearbox once the propshaft was seperated from flexible coupling, easier to get the engine out.

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That'll get kept as a spare good engine, in case one dies. There's a brand new one waiting to go in.

Doesnt look that old, nice and clean for a diseasel

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Nice little job tonight.

This odd Oil Lamp came my way.
It was just missing a wick. It also needed a service and a clean.

The lamp was striped and cleaned. The metal was given a polish with my my mix of oil and wax.

The wick gears was cleaned of the old oil and fuel. With just hot water and washing powder.

The new wick was cut a bit longer than needed. Then a slight angle is cut the make running the wick in easier.

Clear lamp oil, food dye and menthol mix.

First light. Turns out the original wick was rotten, so I fitted another new wick.

The chimney was cleaned and the fingers "tweaked" to hold it correctly.

 

[Barking Mat]

Doesnt look that old, nice and clean for a diseasel

That was a retired engine, like this one now is again, that I slung in, in 2019, after the original engine died. We'd been meaning to change it, but between covid and Kubota having issues in the supply chain, its taken a while.

It did 4 years, completely hassle free, it's a good spare engine in case of emergencies, enjoying its second retirement. Apart from 400 hour oil changes, generally, they don't go wrong, we change all the rubber coolant pipes every few years, there as good as small marine engine get frankly.

Yeah, over 20 years we've had some issues, but to be expected.

 

[GG1]

The lamp was striped and cleaned. The metal was given a polish with my my mix of oil and wax.

Did you find all the genies annoying?

 

[Barking Mat]

Did you find all the genies annoying?

No, he wishes for more lamps, and mammod steam toys.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

No, he wishes for more lamps, and mammod steam toys.

And less Norberts

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

No, he wishes for more lamps, and mammod steam toys.

Not got a Mamod for days now.