Stuff you have fixed today

[Dcal]

A week ago today I "fixed" my mates Mk7 transit.
He had taken it to an injection specialist who told him he needed a 4 new injectors.
Only problem was they were on back order.

Don't really do fords but as the injectors were scrap I said I would have a look.
He has had it from new and its now got 1/4 million miles on it.
The engine sounded like a bag of spanners and knocking like a mad thing.

I was a bit surprised “all” the injectors went bad at the same time.
I got no fault codes on the reader I have.
All the injectors measured the same resistance with a funny pulse in the reading.
I took them out and thought it would be worth seeing if the nozzles were clear.
Scribed a line to put the nozzle back to the same place and stripped them down.

Clamped the injectors in the vice with a couple of steel offcuts.

Then screwed the nozzles off , injected a squirt of brake cleaner down the nozzles and everything looked clear.
Checked everything else I could think of and found one needle had rubbed the coating off. All the rest were perfect.

He was able to get one new injector from somewhere else.
So I checked the resistance of the new injector and it read the same as the rest so put them together and installed them with new washers and seals in the order they came out.
The new injector was on cylinder 3..
Started it up and knock is gone and it drives just fine.
If it keeps going is anyone’s guess but here’s hoping and one week in it been running great.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Bit of fun, a bit of bling, lots of coffee.

Turning rubbish into usable items.

Plus having fun as we did.

A sad storm lantern.
The life and deaths of a few spiders have happoned in there.

In bits.

The wick gear was seized. But it was all there.

New Old stock wicks adapted to fit. Wick gears re-cut to grip the new wick.

In flame, in who knows how many years.

Of to a warmer place.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Well, if we are 66.6% done, we might as well go to the end.

This one drew blood.
But not to worry. It wasn't mine.

Took a bit of oil to free it up.
A mix of Old oil, paraffin and fuel oil had it it in bits.

Boiling the wick holders in Citric acid, purley for the speed.

Cleaned with wire wool, a custom made wick.






BLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well why not.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

We were on a role.

So we carried on(screaming) I blame the coffee. Dave blamed the spiders.

Old oil lamp.
The style says new, it had little wear and tear. But the glass and wicj holder said old.

If you look at the flame it is in 2 parts, upper and lower.
The lower is correct. The upper is the Pop of a flame gassing off. It makes a pop pop noise as it does. This means it is running hot and the fuel is bering heated into a gas state.
It will blow the glass.

You can see how hot it was getting, by the dark mark on the burner mouth.

A new wick, dumping the modern lamp oil and running it of paraffin cured the hot running.

New friction tape on the glass, acts as a seal as well.

 

[Blobber]

One of the daily runners is a nasty old Astra G 1.6, bought it 7 years ago for £500 with 40K on the clock, the aim always has been to spend as little as possible on the hateful car, its mot time time very soon and the rubbish pattern part exhaust has just about given up the ghost so a rummage in my stores and weve got a nice genuine GM mid section but for a 2.0D and its a bigger bore which means horsepoweeeer, with a reducer at the front to go from 50mm OD to 54mm ID were sorted and a back box for a Astra F 1.8 which has all the hangers in the right place but needs a flange to join it, quick bit of 5mm plate grindy action and a bit of tube and we should be tickety boo!

If the weldering comes out ok I might put a picture up, if it doesnt I wont!!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The thing about oil lamps and storm lanterns, they need time to cool down and the paint to cure.

Se we did more jobs.


This Ex MOD Test tune came my way a few weeks ago.

But I lost it in the workshop.

New battery, new fuse, a set up and a polish and it was good to go.

Shame I don't know who Smuge was and why he was a self abuser. But those words were soon lost to history.
Daft REME life forms.

All done and working, tested it as well. Daves car still has points. Mk1 Astra.

Dave was given a free hand on the following items.

Here is the results.

The head was loose on te shaft, head was rusting and the shaft was too rough to be used.

Sanded, cool flame to stain the wood and a lot of work with wire brushes to clean the head.

This was a fun restore, no power tools, but a raid of the scrap bin

Worm had eaten the handle wedge. But nowt else.

Hush, I know.

New brass blade, 24 coats of french polish and 4 coats of Lavender fed Bee's wax.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

«Field repair» of gas air oven «Intertnerm» series G7XA (made USA)

Suddenly, the gas air oven stopped working. Days of hard work trying to diagnose the problem. The main electronic boards and the built-in diagnostics with LEDs showed that the engine does not start after the gas is ignited, the flame goes out (automatic triggers).
As a result, the chain of events looked like this:
1. Insects clogged the condensate drain pipe when the oven is used for air conditioning in summer using an outdoor refrigerant evaporation unit.
2. The condensate drain tray of the internal evaporator has overflowed with water and water has entered under the main fan electronics cover (discharge 3,000 m/h air into distribution ducts).
3. The water has evaporated, but the 3-wire terminal block (motor winding control) has corroded on one of the 3 wires. For two years of work, oxides have done their job. 1 contact and part of the circuit board burned out completely.
4. I made a shunt by bypassing the burnt connector by soldering the wire to the leg of the power chip.
Voila! A miracle has happened, contact has been restored and the oven is working.

 

[jerrytug]

A trivial bodge which amazingly worked!
MOT on Tuesday, I have been surviving without a rear window washer because someone cut the pipe and ripped it out of the tailgate (205 Peugeot).
I cut the ends of the little rubber pipe neatly, slid a length of shrink wrap over, and superglued the rubber pipe ends together. Then shrunk the shrink wrap over the joint with a heat gun.
No way was I expecting it to hold the pressure, , but it is fine!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This small rebate plane came my way the other day.
Complete and only really needing a clean.

So all I did was put a cutting angle onto the 3 blades.

This came my way ages ago.
The glass was cracked and the jets were broken.

A clean, a salvaged jet and glass from another Lucas lamp had the in a working condition.

In light and very dim.



The lamp I liberated the parts from and a smaller unit.

 

[qwakers]

Final assembly of the repaint and re floor of my rotten old trailer.

Floor down

front cut from one of the old sides and bolted in.

sides on

a spot of tig welding (i really need more practice... probably only the third time I've welded aluminium with tig)...

Please be nice, I know it’s awful.

last of the sides in

wheels on

mudguards on

the orangeness of the underside is joyous!

done.

 

[nickk]

Finally......concreted around the bottom tread stability bar,it’s been waiting just over 2 years,should take some flex out.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

This small rebate plane came my way the other day.
Complete and only really needing a clean.

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So all I did was put a cutting angle onto the 3 blades.

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This came my way ages ago.
The glass was cracked and the jets were broken.



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A clean, a salvaged jet and glass from another Lucas lamp had the in a working condition.

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In light and very dim.



The lamp I liberated the parts from and a smaller unit.

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Carbide?

 

[Edward Teach]

Only two of the six, cctv cameras were working this morning
the two working cameras, have a different power supply
After numerous testing and head scratching,
It would seem the transformer had packed up,
I found an-other unit, out of an old alarm system, that fitted in the same mounting holes,
And supplied a similar voltage, 15.3v from the original spec'd 16.5v
Not knowing the amps of the replacement unit
Is the ISS. 11A the amps of the old unit, as in the second picture.

Has this got hot, maybe

We have power, and the battery is charging,
We'll see if this one lasts 15 years.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Only two of the six, cctv cameras were working this morning
the two working cameras, have a different power supply
After numerous testing and head scratching,
It would seem the transformer had packed up,
I found an-other unit, out of an old alarm system, that fitted in the same mounting holes,
And supplied a similar voltage, 15.3v from the original spec'd 16.5v
Not knowing the amps of the replacement unit
Is the ISS. 11A the amps of the old unit, as in the second picture.

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Has this got hot, maybe

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We have power, and the battery is charging,
We'll see if this one lasts 15 years.

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Is that a 7.0Ah battery?
It may be too big for the PSU. They burn out the fusable linke in the Transformer.
Drop it down to 3.2ah.

 

[Edward Teach]

Is that a 7.0Ah battery?
It may be too big for the PSU. They burn out the fusable linke in the Transformer.
Drop it down to 3.2ah.

I have a smaller capacity similar 12v battery.
I will check it out.
Thank you.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I have a smaller capacity similar 12v battery.
I will check it out.
Thank you.

We hardly have a stand by battery in PSU for CCTV systems.
Due to the issues it can cause.

It looks like a 2Amp PSU. That is a 2amp maxium, not per output.

 

[nickk]

I had to make a frame to hang a twisted PAINTING? on a wall,the PAINTING? is 32mm out of square,the canvas creaked as I fitted the angle around the edges so I had to get brutal with it and remove the cross brace at the back as it was bowing whilst we tried to untwist it,I screwed the angle to the outside edges,then forged 4 corner brackets from flat and tapped them m6 in position,all hung on secret hooks.
When we hung it to the wall,the bottom right corner stands off 6” so I plan on making a concealed jaw,hooking over the outside edge.
When I measured this job last summer,I was anticipating an awkward job as I also had to make most of it in situ,due to restrictions climbing the staircase and negotiating the doorways,on arrival today to fit the customer informs me it’s worth £10k FFS! .

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Looks like a treasure map [X marks the spot], drawn by a three-year-old.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

informs me it’s worth £10k FFS! .View attachment 339254View attachment 339255

If they paid £10k for that I'm sure I've got some drawings from my primary school days they may be interested in

 

[nickk]

If they paid £10k for that I'm sure I've got some drawings from my primary school days they may be interested in

I’d been thinking similar when I swept the floor of swarf!