Honest john
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- Location
- Fenland
A like dosnt seem enough for this idea.
quick fixes, bodges and creations
- Thread starter jimmer
- Start date
A like dosnt seem enough for this idea.
organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
Sheep rack wheels?
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
One of the ply panels on the sheep race starting disintegrating and falling out the frame......mid job
Quick fix with drench bottle straps
Been like that 4 mths now....... quality bodge
Quick fix with drench bottle straps
Been like that 4 mths now....... quality bodge
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
That should last a lifetime nowOne of the ply panels on the sheep race starting disintegrating and falling out the frame......mid job
Quick fix with drench bottle straps
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Been like that 4 mths now....... quality bodge
Old, and still in use.
Made an electric control deflector plate on the straw blower (knives removed) ram is off an old forager.
Got a 6 spade three position switch of eBay and wired it to reverse polarity. Velcro leg band holds it on spool lever which turns barrel
can blow straw from 2ft to 40ft at the flick of a switch.
Made an electric control deflector plate on the straw blower (knives removed) ram is off an old forager.
Got a 6 spade three position switch of eBay and wired it to reverse polarity. Velcro leg band holds it on spool lever which turns barrel
CrevisbigX
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- Location
- Cheshire
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- Location
- North Notts
Heavy Duty Christmas Tree Stand.
pycoed
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- Location
- Pontarddulais, UK
I route the overflow from our springwater tank (2000l) into another tank (1200l) which serves the polytunnel, garden, kennels etc. Neighbour reported this tank was leaking a couple of weeks back & when I checked found a split about 1ft long had developed. I'm sure it was nothing to do with the trees that Western Power had recently lopped... anyway something had to be done.
Found some brand new (i.e. newly emptied ) IBC's on Ebay not too far away so away I went to collect a couple @£30. Got 6l of castile soap out of one (the wrokshop has never smelt so good) & about 3l of almond oil from the other (don't quite know what to do with that) as a bonus.
Bunged one in straight away to get the yard taps running, & jobs a good 'un. I did find the plastic tank connector for overflow was only just manageable with my arm length though...
Anyway today I thought I'd install the second one, connected to the first by a 2" waste pipe with tank connectors each end (new ones, sorry - but the rest was all second, third or fourth hand). Having drilled the 2 3/8" holes in both, at a level just below the overflow from tank 1, I then found I couldn't reach the bloody backnuts at all The long side of the IBC was just too far to reach. The backnuts are about 2 3/4" AF & I didn't have a spanner, socket or box spanner that would fit, & waterpump pliers would be a real potch with the certainty of dropping them into the IBC at some stage.
On with the bodging hat... found a bit of plastic downpipe roughly the right size, heated the end with the hot air gun & waggled it over the hex of the backnut then plunged in water to set in posish. Instant 2 3/4" box spanner
Quite pleased with the outcome, really - I only dropped one of the backnuts & fished it out first attempt with a hazel stick plastic box spanner worked a treat & no leaks (typical when it doesn't really matter eh?)
anyway something had to be done. Found some brand new (i.e. newly emptied ) IBC's on Ebay not too far away so away I went to collect a couple @£30. Got 6l of castile soap out of one (the wrokshop has never smelt so good) & about 3l of almond oil from the other (don't quite know what to do with that) as a bonus.
Bunged one in straight away to get the yard taps running, & jobs a good 'un. I did find the plastic tank connector for overflow was only just manageable with my arm length though...
Anyway today I thought I'd install the second one, connected to the first by a 2" waste pipe with tank connectors each end (new ones, sorry - but the rest was all second, third or fourth hand). Having drilled the 2 3/8" holes in both, at a level just below the overflow from tank 1, I then found I couldn't reach the bloody backnuts at all
The long side of the IBC was just too far to reach. The backnuts are about 2 3/4" AF & I didn't have a spanner, socket or box spanner that would fit, & waterpump pliers would be a real potch with the certainty of dropping them into the IBC at some stage.On with the bodging hat... found a bit of plastic downpipe roughly the right size, heated the end with the hot air gun & waggled it over the hex of the backnut then plunged in water to set in posish. Instant 2 3/4" box spanner
Quite pleased with the outcome, really - I only dropped one of the backnuts & fished it out first attempt with a hazel stick plastic box spanner worked a treat & no leaks (typical when it doesn't really matter eh?)
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Quality bodgingI route the overflow from our springwater tank (2000l) into another tank (1200l) which serves the polytunnel, garden, kennels etc. Neighbour reported this tank was leaking a couple of weeks back & when I checked found a split about 1ft long had developed. I'm sure it was nothing to do with the trees that Western Power had recently lopped...
Found some brand new (i.e. newly emptied ) IBC's on Ebay not too far away so away I went to collect a couple @£30. Got 6l of castile soap out of one (the wrokshop has never smelt so good) & about 3l of almond oil from the other (don't quite know what to do with that) as a bonus.
Bunged one in straight away to get the yard taps running, & jobs a good 'un. I did find the plastic tank connector for overflow was only just manageable with my arm length though...
Anyway today I thought I'd install the second one, connected to the first by a 2" waste pipe with tank connectors each end (new ones, sorry - but the rest was all second, third or fourth hand). Having drilled the 2 3/8" holes in both, at a level just below the overflow from tank 1, I then found I couldn't reach the bloody backnuts at all
On with the bodging hat... found a bit of plastic downpipe roughly the right size, heated the end with the hot air gun & waggled it over the hex of the backnut then plunged in water to set in posish. Instant 2 3/4" box spanner
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Quite pleased with the outcome, really - I only dropped one of the backnuts & fished it out first attempt with a hazel stick plastic box spanner worked a treat & no leaks (typical when it doesn't really matter eh?)
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Engineering you meanQuality bodging
may be,...... but can't use that word in here ( Engineering )
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Hammering a heated tube onto a nut to makes it into a box socket is quality bodging in my book.
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Will any of the bodgineers actually spot what’s wrong?
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Using the clamp upside down you mean Dave!
Pilgrimmick
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- Location
- Argyll
What’s that thing on the bench? Looks like the thing the doctor uses to peer in to my ears!
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Welding on that beautiful engineers table would be my biggest concern.
Wouldn’t want to be buying another one of those when it’s fooked
Wouldn’t want to be buying another one of those when it’s fooked