Stuff you have fixed today

[Dozzer]

Mrs Dozzer has been complaining that the ride on mower is not very nice to use, the consol doesn't hold the steering wheel and wobbles. its loud and doesn't cut the grass properly. we inherited mower with house and its seen better days.
1. all 4 consol brackets at bottom that hold it to mower have broken. make thicker new repair tabs, weld and dill

2. Stupid Brigs & Stratton silencer has been lose for some time and M8 holes are no more, drill to 8.5mm tap M10 and put studding in with nuts.

3. Mower deck has lots of holes, front edge/lip is MIA and grass shoot to back has been bodged with roofing lead as half of it had long gone, but this made the grass stick in the shoot and clog.

After quite a few hours of prep work, the welding & fabrication session began.

Re made the shoot with sides of friend's dead plasma cutter

New deck edge was made by taking 3mm barr and laraping the crap out of it in a vice until i got the right rounded edge, turned out a lot better than expected.

Shoot was repaired with 4mm. its not rusting away in a hurry.

And wanted to say thanks to @My Old Landy for selling his plasma cutter to me, its made shaping all the repair panels so much easier.
it even has new mower blades to go on it.

 

[Blue Chips]

Well, I guess you could call this 'fixing' something. We have a 10' x 12' shed for our garden tools and a few other odds and ends. It was in the way of our planned driveway extension, so yesterday we moved the shed back about six feet. Before moving it, we had to empty it to reduce its weight. Despite the contents of the shed being rather disorganized, it still contained quite a lot of 'stuff,' which you can see piled in the driveway and front lawn in the following two photos (and there's more not shown here):

After emptying the shed, we wrapped a long strap around it and pulled it back the requisite six feet with Mr. Case, our loader/backhoe. We then leveled the shed on 12 sets of blocks on compacted earth. When we build the new driveway, we'll backfill around the shed with gravel to cover the block supports and make it look much neater. I also need to install some PVC trim under the edge of the shingles and give the shed a paint job.

 

[dobbslc]

For a minute there I thought you had a Yamaha branded BBQ!

 

[selectedgrub]

Mrs Dozzer has been complaining that the ride on mower is not very nice to use,

Doesn't she own any scissors?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A nice Victorian set of Seat frames.
Cast iron to boot as well.

Here you see them after blasting and painting.


So I gut some wood.

Only when you assemble it, nowt is square and the same.


Oh well.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Another Beam scale set.


But an odd one.

Yes the weights are in Grams, well one is a 2oz weight.

But, the thread on the scales is imperial.
Not a big issue.

I found a replacement weight.

I even found some tweezers to fit as well.

 

[DennisCA]

Last year I brought this ancient pressure washer back to life by machining new pistons for it, it's an incredibly old but incredibly cool (IMO) pressure washer. The original hard chromed pistons had rusted through and would murder any new seals I put in, I machined new pistons from hard chromed rod (with a stainless cap for a piston face) that was quite cheap to buy. And the seals, incredibly enough, I was able to acquire online, for parts standardization.

Unfortunately all my work came to naught as it broke after a month of usage because of these plastic check valves. Several of them had failed so it wasn't able to build pressure anymore. And let me tell you finding a check valve that looks like that is not possible. 24 x 17 mm in size. I searched over 6 months and asked all kinds of stores.

I made four new adapters on the high pressure side using plastic and these cheap seals I bought a dozen of from aliexpress. I selected out the best looking of the old ones and installed on the low pressure side. Here's hoping it lasts.

Ideally I want to rebuild more of this and replace some of the hard piping with hydraulic hose and I think some kind of threaded inline check valve on the hose would be a good idea instead of having the check valves in the cylinders. If one could find a good candidate for water exposure.

Also bought 15m of hose for it, 5m is not nearly enough.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

Last year I brought this ancient pressure washer back to life by machining new pistons for it, it's an incredibly old but incredibly cool (IMO) pressure washer. The original hard chromed pistons had rusted through and would murder any new seals I put in, I machined new pistons from hard chromed rod (with a stainless cap for a piston face) that was quite cheap to buy. And the seals, incredibly enough, I was able to acquire online, for parts standardization.

Unfortunately all my work came to naught as it broke after a month of usage because of these plastic check valves. Several of them had failed so it wasn't able to build pressure anymore. And let me tell you finding a check valve that looks like that is not possible. 24 x 17 mm in size. I searched over 6 months and asked all kinds of stores.

I made four new adapters on the high pressure side using plastic and these cheap seals I bought a dozen of from aliexpress. I selected out the best looking of the old ones and installed on the low pressure side. Here's hoping it lasts.

Ideally I want to rebuild more of this and replace some of the hard piping with hydraulic hose and I think some kind of threaded inline check valve on the hose would be a good idea instead of having the check valves in the cylinders. If one could find a good candidate for water exposure.

Also bought 15m of hose for it, 5m is not nearly enough.

turn new valves from nylon and bronze/brass on a lathe?

Take the next closest size of the new valve and change its seat?

 

[My Old Landy]

Mrs Dozzer has been complaining that the ride on mower is not very nice to use, the consol doesn't hold the steering wheel and wobbles. its loud and doesn't cut the grass properly. we inherited mower with house and its seen better days.
1. all 4 consol brackets at bottom that hold it to mower have broken. make thicker new repair tabs, weld and dill
View attachment 450945
2. Stupid Brigs & Stratton silencer has been lose for some time and M8 holes are no more, drill to 8.5mm tap M10 and put studding in with nuts.
View attachment 450947
3. Mower deck has lots of holes, front edge/lip is MIA and grass shoot to back has been bodged with roofing lead as half of it had long gone, but this made the grass stick in the shoot and clog.
View attachment 450948
After quite a few hours of prep work, the welding & fabrication session began.
View attachment 450951
Re made the shoot with sides of friend's dead plasma cutter
View attachment 450952
New deck edge was made by taking 3mm barr and laraping the crap out of it in a vice until i got the right rounded edge, turned out a lot better than expected.
View attachment 450953
Shoot was repaired with 4mm. its not rusting away in a hurry.
View attachment 450954
And wanted to say thanks to @My Old Landy for selling his plasma cutter to me, its made shaping all the repair panels so much easier.
it even has new mower blades to go on it.

That has put a smile on my face, I am so glad you have got some use out of it

 

[wyn]

A bit different..........made a twirly wheel thing for a set of spurs.
The fixing bolts (M4) were broken so had to weld nuts to the remains to remove them. Ones in at the mo are temporary.

 

[Seadog]

This arrived today. A replacement handle/tank assembly for my hedge trimmer.

£5 spent on a new fuel hose, some assembly, and it was running - NOT!
The secondhand piece had come with all the bits barring a pickup filter, and who forgot that there should be one?
After retrieving the filter from the damaged tank, and spending some time trying to fiddle the pipe through far enough, it was eventually back together.

Now it runs

 

[Arc Tourist]

A bit different..........made a twirly wheel thing for a set of spurs.
The fixing bolts (M4) were broken so had to weld nuts to the remains to remove them. Ones in at the mo are temporary.

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Yippy-ki-yay !

 

[OJCar]

twirly wheel thing for a set of spurs.

Spur Rowel

 

[qwakers]

evri you really need to stop dunking packages in the river......

anywho. the p/s window regulator stopped pulling the glass up square so it jammed unless 'assisted' having taken it apart i found one of the worm drive cables broken away from the motor housing so it just extends itself there rather than driving the glass.

so i bought a cheap one from autodoc. all i had to do was swap the motor over and fit it. but i was astonished to find, the cheapest aftermarket regulator i could find is a BETTER design than the factory one. broken factory one on the left, the new one has reinforcement to stop the worm drive cable flexing and breaking the outer.

a much better design.

will fit it tomorrow before i go pick up a car i just bought. again......

 

[pedrobedro]

Fitted new hinges to the bathroom upvc window and cured the howling banshee noise. I was struggling till my wife suggested taking the glass out, made it much easier to manoeuvrer and better access to the screws.

 

[Keithmac]

Managed to get back onto the Norton Dominator today.

It's had a fair bit of work done to the engine apparently, 750cc.

I broke my heel years ago and normally only gives me a bit of jip in winter but this bike is a bloomin beast to kickstart and feeling it tonight!.

If anyone got any leads for a longer kickstart I'd be interested to know as the owner's had similar issues trying to kick it off (to be fair it never ran for more than a few seconds).

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Stripped down my favourite sander...it was trying to rotate the pad off the bottom every time I used it.

Yup you've guessed...bearings stuffed full of crud. I think it's been used to sand wet 2 part filler grrrr (lent out!).

Ordered a full bearing which was £50...quicker than faffing about ( thinking I'd later repair this one). Then decided to clean this one in alcohol....yup you've guessed it...runs perfectly!

I'll regrease it before fitting...keep the new one as a spare!

 

[MattF]

lent out!

You ought have learned by now.

 

[dobbslc]

Looks knackered to me

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Looks knackered to me

You're not wrong...it was spinning fine until the cleaner evaporated!

On closer inspection the crud was forced into the seal and has damaged it so new grease won't stay new for long...the new part is going in and this one will get a new bearing .

Lesson learned!