Though I did still run out on the way back from testing
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Though I did still run out on the way back from testing
View attachment 529072View attachment 529073Changed the oil and filter (it was tight and my hands cold so improvised) then rebuilt the carb and it runs nicely, now idles almost at the starter rpm which will help with the fact it's VERY fuel hungry like 1gph.
Though I did still run out on the way back from testing
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Will a 10 litre jerry can rack be your next project ?Its probably why they come with a dedicated spare tank
View attachment 529072View attachment 529073Changed the oil and filter (it was tight and my hands cold so improvised) then rebuilt the carb and it runs nicely, now idles almost at the starter rpm which will help with the fact it's VERY fuel hungry like 1gph.
Though I did still run out on the way back from testing
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Loving the oil filter wrench!
Not hard to know you are a farmer!
I am from farming stock and a stilson wrench was a familiar sight.
Not a farmer though though it's technically an old farm and I do things in a farmer way so close enough I guessLoving the oil filter wrench!
Not hard to know you are a farmer!
I am from farming stock and a stilson wrench was a familiar sight.
Well I finished fixing/checking the electrics on the mower then realised it wasn't charging so after some head scratching thinking had I shorted something and trying to figure out what wiring diagram to use (seems I've got bits of 2 different mower circuit designs shoved together?!?) I figured out what happened...
The magnets clearly need new epoxy as not a hint of the original on the flywheel so no wonder they came off! Thankfully only one has broken in half and couple chipped but should still be fine, they all seemed to stay in order when they detached and stuck to the stator so hopefully no trying to figure out polarity
The magnets clearly need new epoxy as not a hint of the original on the flywheel so no wonder they came off! Thankfully only one has broken in half and couple chipped but should still be fine, they all seemed to stay in order when they detached and stuck to the stator so hopefully no trying to figure out polarity
Well I finished fixing/checking the electrics on the mower then realised it wasn't charging so after some head scratching thinking had I shorted something and trying to figure out what wiring diagram to use (seems I've got bits of 2 different mower circuit designs shoved together?!?) I figured out what happened...
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The magnets clearly need new epoxy as not a hint of the original on the flywheel so no wonder they came off! Thankfully only one has broken in half and couple chipped but should still be fine, they all seemed to stay in order when they detached and stuck to the stator so hopefully no trying to figure out polarity
I hate epoxy glued on magnets in motors . A yr old and two months old caravan motor mover used once after installation by the Truma specialist fitter who came here and fitted it .
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It was used at home to move the caravan round to be put on the tow hook .
A hundred yards or less from the caravan site at a sunken rail crossing on the Nene valley railway by Ferry meadows the car and caravan were juddered on a steep road traffic slowing ramp at 10 mph .
In the caravan site the mover failed to work , had to get people to push the caravan in to the pitch .
On getting back home everything checked out electrically . So I took one of the mover motors off and apart , finding the epoxied magnets had fallen off and were stuck in a clump to the steel body . the other mover was the same .
The warrantee was refused as it was two months out of date .( BASt'ds )
Last year my 8 yr old little used Hyundai 2.2KVA pure sine wave stand-by genny suffered the same fate after running 15 hrs during a 5 day power cut ., eventually causing the windings to burn out due to the friction of the jammed up magnets
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Today I finally, finally , FINALLY managed to get my bandsaw cutting straight!
I’ve had this thing for a few years but I’ve never been happy with it. Cutting flat bar horizontally was ok, but if I put it vertically in the vice, it was all over the place.
I’ve had several half arsed attempts at fixing it over the years, and our very own @Seadog had a look once, and we ended up shimming one side of the vice to add some tilt to compensate for the angled cut. Still NFG though!
Well the other day I stumbled across a YouTube video of a guy describing a very similar problem and it gave me some good ideas. If I tried to cut a bit of 2” box section for example, the blade would wander off the cut line, and ended up about 4 or 5mm towards the vice. This was caused by the blade not sitting vertically the vice. Due to poor quality casting of the blade guide roller brackets, there was insufficient movement available to adjust the alignment of the blade.
To compound this, the washer under the fixing bolt had bowed and was slightly cone shaped, so this had a self centering effect and pulled it even more out of square.
I stripped it all down, and milled a few mm off the sides of the guide rolller brackets to give more rotation thereby allowing the blade to sit vertically to the vice. (The redish bit in the pics below)
I also turned up a fat chunky washer that wouldn’t deform under load and wouldn’t try to interfere with the blade adjustment. Spanner access was awkward so I swapped the hex head screw for a cap head, and relieved the waist slightly to allow a even more adjustment!
Reassembled:
This process was repeated with both roller guides and now it cuts way better than it has ever done while I’ve owned it, probably since it was new! Typical of a Far Eastern machine - like so many others it had the potential to be a very good machine after some fettling.
On a bit of 70x6 ish flat bar mounted vertically, it was only off by about half a mm, and that’s plenty accurate enough for what I do!
All in all, I’m feeling pretty chuffed with today’s efforts and as soon as I get a finer blade I’m sure it’ll end up getting used a whole lot more. I have a couple of projects planned for some 40x40x2mm box section and it will be absolute luxury to make a cut without needing to faff about squaring it up afterwards!
I’ve had this thing for a few years but I’ve never been happy with it. Cutting flat bar horizontally was ok, but if I put it vertically in the vice, it was all over the place.
I’ve had several half arsed attempts at fixing it over the years, and our very own @Seadog had a look once, and we ended up shimming one side of the vice to add some tilt to compensate for the angled cut. Still NFG though!
Well the other day I stumbled across a YouTube video of a guy describing a very similar problem and it gave me some good ideas. If I tried to cut a bit of 2” box section for example, the blade would wander off the cut line, and ended up about 4 or 5mm towards the vice. This was caused by the blade not sitting vertically the vice. Due to poor quality casting of the blade guide roller brackets, there was insufficient movement available to adjust the alignment of the blade.
To compound this, the washer under the fixing bolt had bowed and was slightly cone shaped, so this had a self centering effect and pulled it even more out of square.
I stripped it all down, and milled a few mm off the sides of the guide rolller brackets to give more rotation thereby allowing the blade to sit vertically to the vice. (The redish bit in the pics below)
I also turned up a fat chunky washer that wouldn’t deform under load and wouldn’t try to interfere with the blade adjustment. Spanner access was awkward so I swapped the hex head screw for a cap head, and relieved the waist slightly to allow a even more adjustment!
Reassembled:
This process was repeated with both roller guides and now it cuts way better than it has ever done while I’ve owned it, probably since it was new! Typical of a Far Eastern machine - like so many others it had the potential to be a very good machine after some fettling.
On a bit of 70x6 ish flat bar mounted vertically, it was only off by about half a mm, and that’s plenty accurate enough for what I do!
All in all, I’m feeling pretty chuffed with today’s efforts and as soon as I get a finer blade I’m sure it’ll end up getting used a whole lot more. I have a couple of projects planned for some 40x40x2mm box section and it will be absolute luxury to make a cut without needing to faff about squaring it up afterwards!
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I'd love to know what easy digging soil is like. Clay and flint here
I'm feeling bit smug though as I replaced the 24m run of overhead 4mm² SWA to the garage with 16mm² I had "lying around". All underground now in duct.
Once I get the lights and gate on the new cu I can ditch the old cu and overhead cable.
Dug a bit of a drainage trench along the path and filled with washed flints out of the cable trench.
If you spend some time you can get them cutting really accurate. I can get my similar saw to within 0.1mm on a 50mm cut.
One of the things that really helped on mine was fitting a motorcycle steering damper to control the drop speed.
If there is too much weight on the blade it tends to flex and twist it so it cuts off square.
You have a damper fitted, make sure it is working and use it!
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I had the same issue and it's definitely worth the effort.
Good idea, may give that a go.
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it rode away today with no issues, with pumped up tyres, adjusted brakes, all working electrics and a brand new genuine honda uk spec carburettor, rather than the very messed with brazil spec carb with a seized power valve and half the linkage missing so rebuilding it was impossible.
total cost to her was £60 for the nos carb, bought from ebay from a honda specialist retiring.
she's ecstatic, i have beer. all is good with the world
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My Samsung Galaxy A71. I dropped it months or maybe a year ago and the speaker stopped working.
I delved into back then and the speaker connection was loose and away we went for a couple of days then it stopped working again so l lived with the problem. Finally tried £7 worth of replacement speaker a couple of weeks back and all good, the ribbon cable had broken.
Yesterday l was sat waiting for the next Mot looking on Ebay and I managed to drop the phone face down and smash the screen after 6 years.
Trawl Tinternet and Ebay, £16 to £80 for screens not up to the original spec. Glass replacement possible but not 100% guaranteed l would get away with doing it first time.
Upgrade or buy the latest?
Old stock A71 not cheap either and l really did not fancy a data transfer, reset etc. This led me down the used phone route for parts from the chancers on Ebay.
Stumbled on one looking suitable but Ebay now do not let you ask questions beforehand, had to buy it and hope. Collection only but l asked the question before go and thankfully the screen was original. Trip to Reading.
Sat tonight and swapped the guts over, perfect screen under the screen saver that only lasted a few minutes as the touch response is slower. Happy bunny.
I delved into back then and the speaker connection was loose and away we went for a couple of days then it stopped working again so l lived with the problem. Finally tried £7 worth of replacement speaker a couple of weeks back and all good, the ribbon cable had broken.
Yesterday l was sat waiting for the next Mot looking on Ebay and I managed to drop the phone face down and smash the screen after 6 years.
Trawl Tinternet and Ebay, £16 to £80 for screens not up to the original spec. Glass replacement possible but not 100% guaranteed l would get away with doing it first time.
Upgrade or buy the latest?
Old stock A71 not cheap either and l really did not fancy a data transfer, reset etc. This led me down the used phone route for parts from the chancers on Ebay.
Stumbled on one looking suitable but Ebay now do not let you ask questions beforehand, had to buy it and hope. Collection only but l asked the question before go and thankfully the screen was original. Trip to Reading.
Sat tonight and swapped the guts over, perfect screen under the screen saver that only lasted a few minutes as the touch response is slower. Happy bunny.
The great feeling of knowing you've truly helped someone is good enough for payment in those kind of situations!it rode away today with no issues, with pumped up tyres, adjusted brakes, all working electrics and a brand new genuine honda uk spec carburettor, rather than the very messed with brazil spec carb with a seized power valve and half the linkage missing so rebuilding it was impossible.
total cost to her was £60 for the nos carb, bought from ebay from a honda specialist retiring.
she's ecstatic, i have beer. all is good with the world
I started fixing the carnage of the previous "repair" on the westwood powered grass collector, last person to work on it just welded it up and called it a day so unfortunately had to cut out the brush stock and that'll need replacing which is normally £40-60 it seems however it's just a 1" box section with some holes which I can get and drill for ~£10.
The shaft unfortunately is a bit ******** from the seized bearing even though I managed to remove the brush stock without heavily damaging it so I'll remake the end and turn down the existing to weld it in place.
What it should look like.
I used to work servicing lawnmowers, etc and hated seeing one of those come in because it was guaranteed that the bearings in the grass collector would be seized.
The corrosion you see is typical so bearing replacement always involved cutting and welding.
The design is unique but appalling, they are the only maker to use this style of collector. But all the owners love them because they give the lawn a brushed look with no wheel marks.
I bought a Sealey (yes) badged version locally for 60 quid, turned out it used to be owned by the guy who lived here, so it's come home. It had done very little work, and as yours needed some light fettling to make it good. Added to my vertical bandsaw they make a really useful pair.
I too shared your worry over transfer - but my old Huawi phone was pretty done after 8 yrs, so bought a Sansng something for just over 100 quid from Dixons/Currys, whichever one still exists. Downloaded an app from Samsung, parked the phones next to each other and it basically did it all for me.My Samsung Galaxy A71. I dropped it months or maybe a year ago and the speaker stopped working.
I delved into back then and the speaker connection was loose and away we went for a couple of days then it stopped working again so l lived with the problem. Finally tried £7 worth of replacement speaker a couple of weeks back and all good, the ribbon cable had broken.
Yesterday l was sat waiting for the next Mot looking on Ebay and I managed to drop the phone face down and smash the screen after 6 years.
Trawl Tinternet and Ebay, £16 to £80 for screens not up to the original spec. Glass replacement possible but not 100% guaranteed l would get away with doing it first time.
Upgrade or buy the latest?
Old stock A71 not cheap either and l really did not fancy a data transfer, reset etc. This led me down the used phone route for parts from the chancers on Ebay.
Stumbled on one looking suitable but Ebay now do not let you ask questions beforehand, had to buy it and hope. Collection only but l asked the question before go and thankfully the screen was original. Trip to Reading.
Sat tonight and swapped the guts over, perfect screen under the screen saver that only lasted a few minutes as the touch response is slower. Happy bunny.
Very impressed. Probably means there's someone in China now sorting through photos of cats and Lancias, but who cares . .
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I don't know what the apple offering is but as you've found, samsung smart switch is really good. The only bits it missed were odd settings like configuring the home screen buttons to look like a huawei (I has a P20 before) and a couple of apps like microsoft swift key, but small beans for the amount of work it did do.
Transferring banking apps is still a pain in the posterior, but all our family are on used S20s now. ~£125 a go, the last S line phone with SD card storage and there are still plenty of unmolested ones kicking about.
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