Stuff you have fixed today

[Dapph2]

I think it was a post of disappointment, horror, sadness of work to come and a cry for help!
Oh and can we change the windows now

Does that need planning consent ?

 

[Blobber]

Does that need planning consent ?

Does what need planning? an emotional outburst?

 

[dobbslc]

Does what need planning? an emotional outburst?

It does in my household

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

B it of fun yesterday, my friend and I had fun in the playpen.
This is their work.

This lumbers wrench was in average condition, some rust and in places the paint was flakinging into sharp splinters.

Attacked with a wire brush to remove the rust, flaking paint and key the surface.

You can see an issue with normal rattle can primer, it reacted with the original paint. Within 15 minutes the whole coat and rippled.
So we removed all the original paint and used a etch primmer.

Then a good metal paint.

A rusty, but well packed trenching spade was in need of TLC. The old handle was rusted in place.

By opening the back seam up a small amount allowed us to drive in a 3"/75mm wood screw and pull it out.

The start of tghe clean up. My friend was shocked on the power of the angle grinder and how fast the rust and cruds "Goes away!"

My friend has never used a rattle can, you can see.

But we got it right in the end.

A new shaft was fitted, now it lives with my friend.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Take a unloved Gentleman back saw, with tar/pitch on the handle.

Cleaned, french polished, and the teeth reset.

Take this saw, take some coffee and take some fun.

as it was early hours, no power tools.

Cabinet scraper, wire wool and elbow grease.

First of the 10 coats of french polish. The over coat was removed later. The teeth have been set as well.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I was pleased when this arrived in a recent donnation. No use for MIS etc.
But usefull for at work.


But it did not work!!!!!

I think I know why.

So.......

Out with the old and in with the new.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This really wa sin need of a lot of love and attention. My friend thought it was dead.

Note.
The flaking polish.
Holes the the rear handle.
Rust.


Disassembled. The saw dust has been mixed with resin and has set hard.

The whole lot was dumped into my Meths Vapour tank and left in a warm place. This speeds up the process.

Holes filled with hard wax, any worm was killed with 4 minutes in a mirco wave.

Start of the clean up.
Most of the rust was removed with 0000 wire wool.
Then a sheet of plate glass and 1000 grit grinding pate cleaned the rest.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I have had a fair few of theses piller drills come my way. Never had any real issues.
The weakest part I have found is the belt, nearly all have been over tightened, or not fitted right.

This one was in good condition, but the rust had got a hold.

I always replace any bolts and screws when I fix these up. They are always 4.8 grade and are not well formed.

 

[Cobbler]

Looks like my Nu-Tool one but a different colour, bought off someone for a tenner years ago. I’ve found the bit where the workpiece goes on is very slightly dipping to the front, square enough for most things, but annoying.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Looks like my Nu-Tool one but a different colour, bought off someone for a tenner years ago. I’ve found the bit where the workpiece goes on is very slightly dipping to the front, square enough for most things, but annoying.

The Nu tools ones did just that. At one point you could contact them, they would send you a shim kit.

 

[Cobbler]

The Nu tools ones did just that. At one point you could contact them, they would send you a shim kit.

I think Nu-Tool went bust many moons ago. I had one of their SDS hammer drills that I bought years ago, it sat unused in the shed for yonks, then about the first time it was used in anger the gearbox stripped its teeth.

 

[harveyp6]

I've still got a Nu-Tool bench grinder I bought from B&Q years ago.
Just wait, the next time I use it that will fail as well.....

 

[OJCar]

I think Nu-Tool went bust many moons ago

Went 2012.

Some spares from https://solenttools.co.uk/product-category/spare-parts/nutool/

 

[Craig-SM]

I’ve spent the afternoon installing the new range cooker. Started off with thinking this will be simple, it’s just need to install the 6mm flex. Well I was knackered and frustrated after just getting it out of its packaging. Next test was fitting the new flex as it needed 6mm lug rings. No problem I’ve got loads in the garage but I gave up trying to find them after 30mins. Sod it, I’ll buy some more bit apparently there has been a huge demand as the local electrical suppliers, Toolstation, Screwfix and even CEF didn’t have any unless I wanted a 100 so had to go into Leeds to Screwfix and get some getting stuck in school kicking out time just to make sure my blood pressure wasn’t too low. Back home and flex fitted in the most awkward place meaning I had to lay down on the floor in a position making it near impossible to use tools. Power back on without tripping the breaker or catching fire was a bonus so whack all the ovens and grill on full blast, the needle on the smart meter tries to do a full 360 but again nothing catches fire or trips the breaker so job done. Just need the gas to arrive to change the outlet position but he texts to cancel and won’t be hear until tomorrow now, then I’ll be cooking with gas …. and electric too.

 

[addjunkie]

Fixed my greenhouse today, 1 new sheet of glass in the roof, spent a while loosening other sheets of glass and sliding them back up, after sliding down gradually. Fitted some strips of metal to stop them sliding down again. And refitted the gutter with new brackets. Feel far more motivated when the suns out. Chopped and unwanted tree down next to the green house too.

And I still dont like gardening. Next job rip out the raised beds, digger gardening!

 

[Dapph2]

Looks like my Nu-Tool one but a different colour, bought off someone for a tenner years ago. I’ve found the bit where the workpiece goes on is very slightly dipping to the front, square enough for most things, but annoying.

I had that too . so I bolted the table upside down to the carriage of my lather , put a straight cutting tool at an angle in the 4 jaw chuck and fly planed at very low rpm the join which was about 12 thou off square .. it's made a massive difference .

 

[droopsnoot]

Fixed my greenhouse today, 1 new sheet of glass in the roof, spent a while loosening other sheets of glass and sliding them back up, after sliding down gradually. Fitted some strips of metal to stop them sliding down again. And refitted the gutter with new brackets. Feel far more motivated when the suns out.

I have a lean-to greenhouse on the back of the house that needs some attention. The roof was replaced with some sort of plastic sheeting a few years back, it's OK except that every day looks cloudy because I can't see through it, and the sealant in the ends has gone so there's green stuff spreading inside it. But the main problem with the roof is that as it's two large pieces, it prevents access to the tape that covers where it joins to the house, and that's leaking, so now if it's windy and rainy it's almost as wet inside (in particular near the back door, when I'm trying to unlock it to go inside) as it is outside. It's also been built slightly off square, or sagged over time, so the sliding door doesn't close properly and it's a challenge to replace a piece of glass in some areas. The job to do any time soon (before it's full of tomato plants) is to strip all the glass out, undo all the bolts, sort out what it's standing on to make it level, and go back to a glass roof with an opening window in it.

 

[Seadog]

In repairing my neighbour's Gaggia Classic for the umpteenth time, some idiot ( ) managed to shear the thermal switch.
Cue lots of shouting and cursing.
After several attempts at removing the broken piece, I ended up with a mess.
Answer, get a slot drill (5/16") and bore a hole to remove the stud. Turn a piece of scrap ally to an interference fit, then drive it in and face off. Once again my trusty Progress 2G served as a milling machine.
The result was satisfactory

 

[addjunkie]

I have a lean-to greenhouse on the back of the house that needs some attention. The roof was replaced with some sort of plastic sheeting a few years back, it's OK except that every day looks cloudy because I can't see through it, and the sealant in the ends has gone so there's green stuff spreading inside it. But the main problem with the roof is that as it's two large pieces, it prevents access to the tape that covers where it joins to the house, and that's leaking, so now if it's windy and rainy it's almost as wet inside (in particular near the back door, when I'm trying to unlock it to go inside) as it is outside. It's also been built slightly off square, or sagged over time, so the sliding door doesn't close properly and it's a challenge to replace a piece of glass in some areas. The job to do any time soon (before it's full of tomato plants) is to strip all the glass out, undo all the bolts, sort out what it's standing on to make it level, and go back to a glass roof with an opening window in it.

The sheets of glass on mine are 4mm Safety glass that are 580x1920, so interesting trying to slide them in by ones self. Access to the higher fixings screws is by removing the skylight openers and squeezing up through the sky lights. Hopefully it will outlast me, soI wont need to do it again.

My grandmothers old house had a huge orangerie on the side of her house, wood. It was about 15 foot wide, but quite well built, the painters she used hated it. After she died the house was sold and it was all replaced by ali, looked awful, not at all in keeping. The folk with the house now have replaced it again in UPVC looks far better.

 

[Craig-SM]

I’ve spent the afternoon installing the new range cooker. Started off with thinking this will be simple, it’s just need to install the 6mm flex. Well I was knackered and frustrated after just getting it out of its packaging. Next test was fitting the new flex as it needed 6mm lug rings. No problem I’ve got loads in the garage but I gave up trying to find them after 30mins. Sod it, I’ll buy some more bit apparently there has been a huge demand as the local electrical suppliers, Toolstation, Screwfix and even CEF didn’t have any unless I wanted a 100 so had to go into Leeds to Screwfix and get some getting stuck in school kicking out time just to make sure my blood pressure wasn’t too low. Back home and flex fitted in the most awkward place meaning I had to lay down on the floor in a position making it near impossible to use tools. Power back on without tripping the breaker or catching fire was a bonus so whack all the ovens and grill on full blast, the needle on the smart meter tries to do a full 360 but again nothing catches fire or trips the breaker so job done. Just need the gas to arrive to change the outlet position but he texts to cancel and won’t be hear until tomorrow now, then I’ll be cooking with gas …. and electric too.

This is turning into a nightmare. Gas fitter turns up and adjusts pipe, connects the hose up then disappears into his van for 30mins. Comes back and disconnects it saying he can’t go any further because the cooker isolation switch is above the cooker. It has been there for 25 years from when the last gas fitter commissioned the cooker but apparently not allowed now even though they’ve never melted etc.

I call my electrician who can’t come for a week and I’m sick and tired of takeaways so do the job my self. I buy a Bosch cable detector to be on the safe side, map out the area that will need chiselling out and scan it. It finds the cooker feed were I expected it but shows it just as metal instead of a live cable, the rest is clean of pipes and wires so start chiselling out with the SDS drill.

Bang! The detector didn’t find the 10mm cable for the shower but I sodding did. It was only 30mm under the plaster. I was up until 10 last night fixing the shower cable and moving the electrics. I now have a lot of filling to do but managed to remove the tiles intact from the isolation switch new home so I can reuse them on its old position.

The cable detector is going back though. After testing it later on the kettle flex whilst switched on it barely detected it and still not as electric. Checking light switch cable that I know the placement of under plaster it missed them again but showed metal under the switch where there is none. Very disappointing