Stuff you have fixed today

[Prajna]

I fixed this:

Needed the trailer brakes (what's left of them) adjusting and some cracked welds on the hitch needed grinding out and redoing. 2.5mm 7018 at 90A:

 

[DAPPH]

I like your post ,
When we were considering buying another 20 acres adjacent to our small mammal farm , we looked into the cost of getting a similar machine @ £ 3.6 K complete with half a dozen attachments including a trailer like that for working our proposed vinyard planting & a five acre market garden .
At the time EU killed it off by putting down severe restriction on what vine plantings & wine production the UK could plant .

 

[qwakers]

sorted out a puncture in the work vans tyre. i need the practice and i DONT need the hassle from the company to get it fixed, so its quicker and easier to fix it myself.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

sorted out a puncture in the work vans tyre. i need the practice and i DONT need the hassle from the company to get it fixed, so its quicker and easier to fix it myself.

Is that the rope glue and knot method that comes in the little kits ?

Done one like that on the car and it's done a fair few miles fine on it quite impressed with it for how easy and cheap it was also handy as could easily do on the roadside without a jack even

 

[qwakers]

nope the proper plug kit that requires you to take the tyre off to do.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

ah i see , handy to have your own tire machine

 

[qwakers]

indeed

 

[Alan Reynolds]

Came down this morning to no power and rcd tripped.Traced the culprit to the TV dead. Took off the back and removed the power supply board and found a fry up. OH is lost without her programmes so I might take a punt and bodge fit in the only bridge rectifier I could find in the junk box. Why don’t they fit a bit of insulation ender these things?

 

[Prajna]

I like your post ,
When we were considering buying another 20 acres adjacent to our small mammal farm , we looked into the cost of getting a similar machine @ £ 3.6 K complete with half a dozen attachments including a trailer like that for working our proposed vinyard planting & a five acre market garden .
At the time EU killed it off by putting down severe restriction on what vine plantings & wine production the UK could plant .

This one cost €1,400 or thereabouts. Not sure what tooling it came with but certainly a rotovator and mower and, apparently, a sodium floodlight. Lots of it are a bit ropey, there's hardly any shoes left on the trailer brakes, a lot of bodging all round, but plenty of bodging still left for me to do. The trailer handbrake consists of a toilet chain welded to the foot break pull-rod, which has bent it. Gonna bodge that better. Anyway, it's very nice to have people bring me their machines to weld up and hammer on.

 

[brewdexta]

My laptop died a while ago. I didn't really miss it until o had to start commuting to London on the train again.

So I bought an identical second hand model, but with a dodgy screen. The idea was to add a second SSD and dual boot into Linux and swap out the screen.

I bought the second laptop a while ago, a new 256Gb 1.7" SSD arrived, I installed it but couldn't get into the BIOS, password protected.

The usual removal of the CMOS battery to clear the password doesn't work as its flash BIOS, no power needed.

So, the BIOS in my old laptop had no password, all I needed to do was swap it with the second laptop.

This was an excuse to get a hot air soldering station.

Put a bit of foil around the BIOS chip, or at least what I thought was the BIOS chip

It unsoldered nice and easily, a spot of flux and I dropped the new BIOS chip that I had taken out of the old laptop onto the slider pads, a bit more heat, and nothing, wouldn't boot.

Turns out I was being too careful, being right handed the right side of the chip was fine, the left looked a little dry. A spot more heat and it now boots nicely. I'm into the BIOS and the new disk now appears.

I shall be installing Zorin onto the new disk tonight.

Next job is new USB socket and battery in my Samsung Note 8. I'll use the heated bed on the 3D printer to soften the adhesive, needs to be around 110c I believe.

Cheers
Andy

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This belt sander ambled to me a few weeks ago.
Lovely bit of kit.



But.




But a quick rummage.



Plugged in, after a PAT.
The motor worked, but no belt drive.



Again, my spares bin came to my help.



So up and running.

Double sided drive band, tooth or ribbed.

 

[arther dailey]

a 1/2 hp single phase electric mtr , of a myford, when I got it wouldnt start with out a helping spin , sure sign of no start winding, checked it out ,re oiled bearings as they were drier than..well you know, sat for 25 years, windings checked out so had a good look at o/c switch, and it had been bent so the start winding wasnt getting connected, a gentle tweek, re assemble , and it purrs like a good un. happy days

 

[Ton-up]

Walking the dogs earlier in the year and saw this mixer had been put outside a house with a load of other scrap. It looked too good to scrap so I popped back with the van and took it home.
put it together and it was seized-



Drum looked ok, hardly used-



I took the belt off and the drum spun round so motor is siezed then , stripped it down-



motor bearings were siezed, they were held on the shaft nicely, I ‘spose it saves manufacturing the shaft properly


cleaned it all up, painted the motor, covers etc and all back together. I had some yellow Rustoleum paint at work which was almost a exact match!!


I know its a diy only mixer, but its perfect for me to do small jobs around the house, etc. It all comes apart and stores in the drum so doesnt take up any room either.
Well pleased with it.

 

[EM1L4]

Walking the dogs earlier in the year and saw this mixer had been put outside a house with a load of other scrap. It looked too good to scrap so I popped back with the van and took it home.
put it together and it was seized-

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Drum looked ok, hardly used-

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I took the belt off and the drum spun round so motor is siezed then , stripped it down-

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motor bearings were siezed, they were held on the shaft nicely, I ‘spose it saves manufacturing the shaft properly
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cleaned it all up, painted the motor, covers etc and all back together. I had some yellow Rustoleum paint at work which was almost a exact match!!

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I know its a diy only mixer, but its perfect for me to do small jobs around the house, etc. It all comes apart and stores in the drum so doesnt take up any room either.
Well pleased with it.

That’s really impressive, I’d have thought it was due for a trip down the scrapyard. Goes to show what a bit of time and skill can do…

 

[arther dailey]

Walking the dogs earlier in the year and saw this mixer had been put outside a house with a load of other scrap. It looked too good to scrap so I popped back with the van and took it home.
put it together and it was seized-

View attachment 311115

Drum looked ok, hardly used-

View attachment 311116

I took the belt off and the drum spun round so motor is siezed then , stripped it down-

View attachment 311117View attachment 311118

motor bearings were siezed, they were held on the shaft nicely, I ‘spose it saves manufacturing the shaft properly
View attachment 311119

cleaned it all up, painted the motor, covers etc and all back together. I had some yellow Rustoleum paint at work which was almost a exact match!!

View attachment 311120
I know its a diy only mixer, but its perfect for me to do small jobs around the house, etc. It all comes apart and stores in the drum so doesnt take up any room either.
Well pleased with it.

fabulous job done there ,and cant beat rustoleum eh .

 

[DAPPH]

Walking the dogs earlier in the year and saw this mixer had been put outside a house with a load of other scrap. It looked too good to scrap so I popped back with the van and took it home.
put it together and it was seized-

View attachment 311115

Drum looked ok, hardly used-

View attachment 311116

I took the belt off and the drum spun round so motor is siezed then , stripped it down-

View attachment 311117View attachment 311118

motor bearings were siezed, they were held on the shaft nicely, I ‘spose it saves manufacturing the shaft properly
View attachment 311119

cleaned it all up, painted the motor, covers etc and all back together. I had some yellow Rustoleum paint at work which was almost a exact match!!

View attachment 311120
I know its a diy only mixer, but its perfect for me to do small jobs around the house, etc. It all comes apart and stores in the drum so doesnt take up any room either.
Well pleased with it.

If you always spray clean it down after emptying the barrel into the barrow and use three or four shovels of mixed ballast & a couple of buckets of water for the final 10 min barrel clean it will last you years .

My mixer is outside all year round , had a plastic dust bin lid that fits the barrel nicely , I drilled a hole for a centre bolt . ..use a looped nylon cord to hold the lid on after putting a clove hitch on the protruding bolt to stop any ingress or rain etc.

 

[nickk]

Where's the thread for stuff you've tried to fix today?

Clio II, 1.6 petrol, power steering and air con. Eventually fought the starter motor out, bloody nightmare.

New starter motor, well, it's half way in, but no further. Just won't go.

Spoke to local garagist, he had the same issue, ended up pulling the transmission shaft.

Really, don't want to do that...

Want to cry....

So inaccessible...

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In the 80’s I swapped a lancia beta coupe gearbox,bit tight,so I warmed the inner wing and pulled it out a few inches.

 

[Migmac]

I’m in the process of fixing the light bar off my sons old van. A few of the LEDs have stopped working. Pretty straight forward. The ones that aren’t working are at the ends of the light bar. Easiest option for me was to remove the boards with the broken LEDs and cut the light bar down in length.

I have a question though. The boards are held in position with a flexible thermal glue/paste. Do I need to use thermal paste or thermal glue? Or I have read to much and got confused and there’s no difference

 

[qwakers]

thermal paste isnt a glue, its a transfer medium, so if you need it to create a mechanical bond you need the glue,

 

[Migmac]

thermal paste isnt a glue, its a transfer medium, so if you need it to create a mechanical bond you need the glue,

Thanks, Amazon here I come!