Stuff you have fixed today

[bricol]

no point to prove Bob, I agree with you. In your case, it's the perfect solution, flushing out the contaminants and giving fresh grease is without doubt the best option, as long as the grease and heat has somewhere to go and it's more controllable. The advantage is you know what you're doing and have worked your system to suit your application, unfortunately that's not always the case...
The point I was making is that in some applications, too much can cause problems, in our case it caused over heating as it had nowhere to go.

Exactly - had trouble convincing others of similar thing. If the design allows for excess grease to escape, or knackered seals do, then all good.

Had an interesting run of failures a while ago - bearing design would allow excess grease to escape, but it also needed regular shots to replenish - machine has an automatic system (SKF/Lincoln) and injectors all over themachine put add as required at intervals as determined by run time. Works well unless the plant use the wrong grease. Or wrong air pressure to drive the system. Or don't purge air. So if you "grease" with a shot of air, you blow the grease remaining out . . . bearing fails seizes, wipe out a 2 grand cam, requires 4 hrs of downtime to replace, loses few hundred thousand production . . . repeat a week later . . .

 

[MattF]

Other than the fact I've had to order another belt as I cocked up & ordered the wrong profile first, (works, but obviously doesn't sit on the pulleys as nicely as it ought), the pillar drill is finished. Sacrificed some brass wooscrews to make three new screws for the rear electrical cover.



The new motor, being unpainted, doesn't look to much out of place. Thank chuff they don't paint them blue nowadays.

 

[Arc Tourist]

................................... The new motor, being unpainted, doesn't look to much out of place. Thank chuff they don't paint them blue nowadays.

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Looks Good !

 

[MattF]

As you can tell from that close-up of the screw though, the paint job is rough as sin.

 

[Arc Tourist]

As you can tell from that close-up of the screw though, the paint job is rough as sin.

But its Green !

 

[nickk]

Before fitting the replacement cap plate for the turntable on my bandsaw,I rolled a strengthening collar to go around the weak clamping hole,then attached the degrees indicating plate,i really think this should be made from steel ,not C.I.
IF it breaks again,that’s what I’ll use.haven’t used hammer drive screws for over 30 years!

 

[Anguz]

Replaced a busted reed in my newly aquired compressor

 

[JMS1972]

Bit off topic, as its wood but its stopping me playing with the new TIG.

A simple replace a few metres on the decking soon escalated into replace part of the frame , luckily had my dad helping - he's much more of a wood botherer than me

The well known 4" x 3" timber runs left to right , so wet you could poke a screwdriver straight through it. Culprit was some (untreated?) wood supporting its full length wrapped in weed control fabric which I assume holds water.

Couldn't get a 4x3 so 3 4"x1" were screwed together. Not ideal but wood seems to be in short supply for some reason. A great deal of swearing was heard between these two pictures.

I've started replacing the planks now but rain stopped play.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Chipper bearings gone at 500 hours so going to convert them to greaseable.

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What year is the machine? When i was at Barklands their 3 TW230s had greasable bearings, with the grease points on the side panel. Had to do a set on a machine with ~900 hours because their stuff is so badly maintained.

My mate's ~2005 TW150 has sealed bearings, which seem very undersized, they're about ⅓ the size of the 230's bearings.

 

[8ob]

What year is the machine? When i was at Barklands their 3 TW230s had greasable bearings, with the grease points on the side panel. Had to do a set on a machine with ~900 hours because their stuff is so badly maintained.
My mate's ~2005 TW150 has sealed bearings, which seem very undersized, they're about ⅓ the size of the 230's bearings.

These are tracked and towed 190`s, also had the same grief with the towed 150`s but modified those to greaseable as well. The rest of the bigger chippers are all greaseable.

Bob

 

[cardiffrob]

JMS1972. Before you nail all that boarding down, why not get one of these plastic skulls off of Amazon (£22) to half bury under the boards. In 20 years when the next owners rip up the decking....

 

[DSR]

As you can tell from that close-up of the screw though, the paint job is rough as sin.

I'm more impressed that the table is still pristine - something that old you expect to see gouge marks etc. but it looks really good.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Last week's fun..

My aunt had some issues with her car, garage looked at it and quoted £600 for cam cover (with breather inside) and air induction pipe. (which it didn't need) I went and fitted a cam cover but it also had very bad waterpump noise. She used my cousin's car to go to work the next day and the clutch failed. ()

Recovered that, new clutch, slave and master, loaded up and run back to pick this one up..

When i picked it up the chain rattled when i turned the engine off, so new chain kit too.

I wanted to do the valve stem seals, so cams out.

Valve springs out.

Going back together.

Done!

Just as i was about to load up, got a call from a neighbour that his starter had failed, so went and picked that up.

And the following day, fixed that. He's actually a nightmare, a million questions and "since you changed my starter my cooling fan's noisy.."

 

[Barking Mat]

Last week's fun..

My aunt had some issues with her car, garage looked at it and quoted £600 for cam cover (with breather inside) and air induction pipe. (which it didn't need) I went and fitted a cam cover but it also had very bad waterpump noise. She used my cousin's car to go to work the next day and the clutch failed. ()

Recovered that, new clutch, slave and master, loaded up and run back to pick this one up..

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When i picked it up the chain rattled when i turned the engine off, so new chain kit too.

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I wanted to do the valve stem seals, so cams out.

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Valve springs out.

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Going back together.

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Done!

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Just as i was about to load up, got a call from a neighbour that his starter had failed, so went and picked that up.

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And the following day, fixed that. He's actually a nightmare, a million questions and "since you changed my starter my cooling fan's noisy.."

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What's that a straight diesel six?

Fair play, rather you than me...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

JMS1972. Before you nail all that boarding down, why not get one of these plastic skulls off of Amazon (£22) to half bury under the boards. In 20 years when the next owners rip up the decking....


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You're a baaad man!

 

[Barking Mat]

Broken hydraulic hard lined pipe on my four post fixed, and new hydraulic flexible pipe...

 

[Moose McAlpine]

What's that a straight diesel six?

Fair play, rather you than me...

Yes, 3-litre M57 engine. It's not bad to change that starter; intake manifold out and it's right under it.

 

[Barking Mat]

Yes, 3-litre M57 engine. It's not bad to change that starter; intake manifold out and it's right under it.

Never worked on a BMW, Don't know anyone with one.

Looks well made, but a PITA.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Never worked on a BMW, Don't know anyone with one.

Looks well made, but a PITA.

I work on everything, BMWs are fine. I hate working on Jap cars.

 

[Barking Mat]

I work on everything, BMWs are fine. I hate working on Jap cars.

I like / love Kubotas, only experience, but much.