- Location
- East Sussex
You’re a hero on here just for getting the lid off the can!!
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quick fixes, bodges and creations
- Thread starter jimmer
- Start date
You’re a hero on here just for getting the lid off the can!!
- Location
- Northumberland
Good bodge but most of my caps have been lost already. What's the point of them anyway?
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Gas bottle pig
Plough parts eagle
Both by my Dad
Plough parts eagle
Both by my Dad
Rod Dumbreck
Member
Probably so you can put the stone in to shut the thing off, up to now I have never seen a purpose, good bodge
Those push fit fittings, how do you get them apart again so that you can re use them?
Larel
Member
You get a couple of thin release inserts to push into the fitting between the pipe and the o ring and gripper ring. It allows you to slide out the pipe. You get cheap plastic ones that can only be used a few times or more expensive metal ones that last longer.
- Location
- Northumberland
I'm sure there have been variants of this before. Ram from kidd clipper mower, internal return spring.
Mr Mackay
Member
- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
Knowing me ,I'd pull the wrong spool and have some of the contents all over the road !!!
Mr Mackay
Member
- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
Its good for getting into the front hubs on tractors and knackering up the seal too !!!Have you ever used net wrap to tie anything? It's bloody strong! I've used it to tie gates before when it's all I had and it's good because it doesn't open very easily by itself like string can. But it doesn't open very easily when you want to open the gate either
@Kiwi Pete told me a story about changing a tyre on a 4 rotor rake and they didn't have a jack. So he just wrapped some, or a lot of, bale net around it into a sling and lifted it with a digger then rested it on a gate post to take the wheel off.
Mr Mackay
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- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
Excellent !!!
- Location
- northumberland
Hummmm if it stays wet might have a rummage in the scrap bin and see what I can create
davedb
Member
- Location
- Staffordshire
Normally there T’d into the tipping pipe so there’s no other spools to worry about
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Love the Eagle, I just hope the weld quality is better than what usually passes as acceptable on this thread, else I wouldn't stand under it!
clbarclay
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- Location
- Worcestershire
Do hydraulic tail gates normally have some method of locking the tailgate shut or disabling the opening rams to prevent accidents?
- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
Valve block chassis only lets gate open when body is lifted a few inches
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Proper hydraulic tailgates are powered both ways. Some have a valve so you have to tip the body slightly before they’ll open.
- Location
- Northumberland
The door is sticky enough that it doesn't open until maybe a quarter of the way up, but i haven't (yet) tested it at 50k. It has its own spool; I could put a valve (in 2nd life of course) to isolate it when the body is down but that'll only happen after a mishap.
Had a go at taking apart a siezed one way ram off the old farmhand loader on my ford 4600 today. The seal that stops water getting in (i assume thats what it was for ive never taken a ram apart before) had perished and the inside bit was starting to rust causing the ram to stick. I had to unscrew part of the ram off and it was really really bloody stuck. I dont have a good workshop with fancy tools so i just stuck it in the vice and tightened it up as tight as i could with a length of pipe over the handle. Put an old chain wrench over the other side (i dont know what its called but its like a thing to take oil filters off but with a heavy duty chain on it. Works kind of like a stilson) and started pulling on it. It kept slipping in the vice no matter how hard i tried to close the vice. So a bodge was needed...
Clamped the ram as tight as i could in the vice again and because it was turning in the vice like a wheel i had the bright idea of wedging 2 screws i found on the bench so that they would sort of clamp themselves inbetween the ram and the vice jaws. And bloody hell did it work well! It held so tight the screws dug themselves into the steel of the ram and got stuck in it. I should have taken pictures of my setup but didnt think it would work well enough and id have to admit defeat. Did take some of the screws stuck in the ram and the scoring on it though.
First picture is the stuck screw u had to use a hammer and screwdriver to knock it out. Second is the marks left behind you could light a match on it. I was pretty damned impressed that it worked even if it was a dirty nasty bodge way of doing it.
Got the ram working again too well impressed with myself
Clamped the ram as tight as i could in the vice again and because it was turning in the vice like a wheel i had the bright idea of wedging 2 screws i found on the bench so that they would sort of clamp themselves inbetween the ram and the vice jaws. And bloody hell did it work well! It held so tight the screws dug themselves into the steel of the ram and got stuck in it. I should have taken pictures of my setup but didnt think it would work well enough and id have to admit defeat. Did take some of the screws stuck in the ram and the scoring on it though.
First picture is the stuck screw u had to use a hammer and screwdriver to knock it out. Second is the marks left behind you could light a match on it. I was pretty damned impressed that it worked even if it was a dirty nasty bodge way of doing it.
Got the ram working again too well impressed with myself
A tip we use for hydraulic tail doors is alway use the spool in reverse to the way you use the tip spool.
For example if you pull the spool to tip the trailer, set the door spool so you have to push it to open the door. If you accidentally use grab the wrong spool you wont open the door just pressure it closed.
For example if you pull the spool to tip the trailer, set the door spool so you have to push it to open the door. If you accidentally use grab the wrong spool you wont open the door just pressure it closed.