Stuff you have made today

[GRW]

Italy is nearby, I have traveled around the North many times and further to Normandy and Lucerne. And I search a lot in different languages. If you need to find information in Italy, or a link from an Italian site, then.... The sites remember this and such a screenshot is possible.

I did a motorcycle trip down to Malta, Austria back in I think 2011.
Lake Bled was close enough for a day's ride into Slovenia over the Vrsic Pass.
Beautiful part of the world from what I saw of it

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

I did a motorcycle trip down to Malta, Austria back in I think 2011.
Lake Bled was close enough for a day's ride into Slovenia over the Vrsic Pass.
Beautiful part of the world from what I saw of it

Flat earth and endless plains have a bad effect on me. The eye cannot latch on. Mountains and volcanoes are childhood imprinting. And there should be a warm sea nearby.

 

[Memmeddu]

Put a charged battery in my Punto.
Turn on, pump started pumping but at the second click nothing.
Starter motor didn't work.
Turned off everything.
Disconnected the main connector checked continuity between the starter motor and ground my fluke says short circuit.
I'm starting to getting bored.
Tomorrow after work I'll go under the car I'll disconnect the starter motor and run a jumper wire to see what it does.
If it doesn't work I'll ask for a starter motor otherwise I'll keep starting the car with the jumper wire .
I'm tired.
I'm considering to buy a 1992 mini cooper 1.3 IE which I'll convert to bike carbs as soon as possible cause I'm getting sick of electronics on cars

 

[Melvyn Best]

Spark temperature? Maybe to high for the amount of fuel, compression ecc?

Possibly but plugs were always the ones recommended by Champion

 

[Olderisbetter]

Downloaded from thingyverse and printed in PETG for my cordless dewalt router, it holds the katsu bush guides which were £25 from Amazon not tested yet but seems good.

 

[nickk]

From Fridays job,spliced the stanchion piece in,shed’s only 32 years old . The hole was big enough for a toddler’s hand to fit into!

 

[oldbikedavey]

Today, I made a rocker arm refacing device for my Black and Decker FE valve refacer.
Only really likely to be used on pre unit BSA B series rockers, but it's there, and it will work once I get the tromboning action sussed out....
Archimedes, you are very sadly missed....

 

[Memmeddu]

Disassemble my car again.
Starter motor relay.
The starter motor itself might be fine too but I'm going to buy an used unit at the scrapyard and if the car runs I'll replace it later from under the car without disassemble the intake again and messing with the wire harness further more.
I've done with the car till Saturday.
I can now start part two video of the Husqvarna restoration for YouTube since I've not uploaded anything in two weeks

 

[northwest]

My pal came over and between us we managed to run four or five of my new bushing spanners off, bloody FINALLY, one of the most difficult jobs I have done on the machine so far (for lots of reasons other than it's CNC):



The original G code turned out wrenches that were just a little too small for the job, we really invested some time into trying to find out why and came up with a series of wrong conclusions until we got to the bit in Mach 3 that said : Tool Offsets. There were values in there that neither of us had entered and after a wrestling match it appears we won. Harmony (and precision) has been restored.

 

[Bullet2012]

Firstly a loaf of bread, 1/3 dark rye 2/3 strong white.

 

[Bullet2012]

Next a space down the side of the garage, previously occupied by the central heating oil tank and brambles.
SWMBO for scale.

 

[Pete.]

Made a simple railing to separate my house from the HMO mongrels next door:

Finished off with some 3d-printed caps

 

[minimutly]

Made a simple railing to separate my house from the HMO mongrels next door:


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Finished off with some 3d-printed caps

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Thought you were moving?

 

[jsf55]

Can't see the electrical connections

 

[Pete.]

Thought you were moving?

Yeah we are this is part of the preparations to sell.

 

[Farside]

Made a simple railing to separate my house from the HMO mongrels next door:


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Finished off with some 3d-printed caps

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Looks strong enough to support a drunk or two.

 

[minimutly]

Looks strong enough to support a drunk or two.

The origins of the phrase "hung over" , where you payed a halfpenny for the priveledge of "hanging over" someones rope for the rest of the night. Better than lying in the s**t I suppose...

 

[Memmeddu]

Today has been a pretty tiring day at work.
I'd like to meet the JCB engineer who designed the 8018 CTS ...
I've had to dismantle practically the entire excavator to extract the engine oil filter, because I've been able to get it loose(a big pointed chisel and an hammer)and unscrew it completely from underneath the machine after removing the sump protective plate, but once free there wasn't enough space to remove it , because there are hydraulic hoses in the way .
So I've struggled to remove all the control levers to lift the cab , and I didn't got there yet .
Once home I spent an hour or two in the home shop and cleaned up few parts of the K770
I've not filmed and honestly I'm not even sure about completing the restoration...
It's a lot of work just even reassemble it, worthless job , and I've lost interest in it since in two weeks it got 200 view my audience doesn't like the content so I'm not sure about what to do .
I'm sad about that because the 200 viewers who watched part 1 are expecting a restoration video and I'm afraid about deluding them, but I'm an human being and it wouldn't be good for myself.
I'm stuck in a situation where I'm not sure about the following.
Thinking about changing title, description and thumbnail.

 

[DAPPH]

" If at first you don't succeed , try try & try again " .
Once you start to learn how to film , present and commentate , it'll be like riding bicycle ?
Don't be put off and become despondent by other peoples posts either , most won't be willing or able to do what you are doing .
Good Luck .

 

[Memmeddu]

I'd like to meet the JCB engineer who designed the 8018 CTS ...
I've had to dismantle practically the entire excavator to extract the engine oil filter, because I've been able to get it loose(a big pointed chisel and an hammer)and unscrew it completely from underneath the machine after removing the sump protective plate, but once free there wasn't enough space to remove it , because there are hydraulic hoses in the way .
So I've struggled to remove all the control levers to lift the cab , and I didn't got there yet

After dismantling and lifting the cab, it still wasn't possible to remove it.
It has been a two people job ,one underneath lifting the filter through the engine compartment and one with the arm through the engine,the fuel tank and the injection pump to catch it .
We made it halfway cause we have to put the new one .
Then I've had to straighten a car rim in a hurry because customer was there.
Then shortly later a compactor cat and fap to work on ,had to remove the lambdas fitting,turn the welds off in the lathe,make holes on the new one and Tig weld them in place.
An easy job well if there wasn't the customer there teaching how to do the job, upset because of the time needed, two wheel hub bearings to replace mainwhile doing the job.
Drill bits dull like cheese,drill chucks not holding the bits ,die grinders not working, carbide mills damaged so they wouldn't cut.
Argon bottle empty on the welder and left there , Tungstens to sharpen etc etc.
Edit forgot about closing the heat shield to make it look OEM , and hand tap the fittings to restore the threads deformed by the heat