Pilgrimmick
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- Location
- Argyll
When talking about throttles, what is the standard connector? Red or blue bailer twine?
quick fixes, bodges and creations
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clbarclay
Member
- Location
- Worcestershire
On the old Michigan loaders we had the throttle linkage was some fairly robust ironmongery, likewise their Clarke transmissions. The same could not be said for the brakes on them though.
Wanted a trolly for my kayak......
......didn't want to spend money
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Axle and wheels came off a off road skate board I found in a ditch some number of years ago= full suspension trolly
The black bits slot in to holes in the kayak......they are surplus angle grinder side handles
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Sit in or sit on ?
I've just put a 12V outboard on dingy, its surprisingly good to use, would be great on a kayak
exmoor dave
Member
- Location
- exmoor, uk
Sit on, nothing special but gets me to the places I can't cast a lure to from the shore
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Blue twine for throttle
Red twine for stopper
Massey6190
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Pilgrimmick
Member
- Location
- Argyll
Suppose that counts as a bodge, it is not the regulation blue bailer twine, if it was it would have had to go in the engineering thread.Throttle cable broke on 6190 dealer won't have one till Wednesday no problem
marcusthehat
Member
Unfortunately before the days of digital cameras, so no photos, but I once successfully "bodged" a roadside repair to a busted distributor cap, which due to not being properly clipped on(by self-servicing me!) broke off the rotating contact, alongwith the supporting bakelite.
Which rapidly brought the car to a standstill.
A filthy Feb night, with a heavily pregnant wife, and baby on board,
Hmmm?
A lump of Blutack retrieved from the dash, and a "repurposed" paperclip later, 100% successful repair, which lasted for days & days, while I revved the nuts off the engine, testing my engineering masterpiece (having bought a distributor cap the next day, which, of course I kept in the glovebox), until Senior Managment threw a minor strop and insisted I fitted the bloody thing.
Proud of that bodge I was!
mth
Which rapidly brought the car to a standstill.
A filthy Feb night, with a heavily pregnant wife, and baby on board,
Hmmm?
A lump of Blutack retrieved from the dash, and a "repurposed" paperclip later, 100% successful repair, which lasted for days & days, while I revved the nuts off the engine, testing my engineering masterpiece (having bought a distributor cap the next day, which, of course I kept in the glovebox), until Senior Managment threw a minor strop and insisted I fitted the bloody thing.
Proud of that bodge I was!
mth
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
More welding scrap together.
This shouldn't fall over now.
This shouldn't fall over now.
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
Today we brought Fort Chicken into use. Half a dozen laying hens in (non) retirement.
Could just be a big fox trap?
Could just be a big fox trap?
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
I trapped a fox in our hen house, but the fudger dug his way out, through a wooden floor too, if I had got out of bed 2 minutes quicker I would have got him
TripleSix
Member
- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Advice please , we have a herbst 8t dropside trailer which i would like to add a 4ft extension to. it has two 100mm by 55mm slots in the back ready for it .trailer is7' 2" wide, 50mm from slot to trailer bed.
What steel should i order to make a strong job?
thanks
What steel should i order to make a strong job?
thanks
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
2 of 100x50 mm box 7ft long
4 of 7 ft long 50mm box
Some steel plate
Angle or channel to go on sides
Boohoo
Member
- Location
- Newtownabbey
The 100×50 box will need to be at least 6mm wall or need strengthened. Made ours with 5mm wall and it isn't strong enough, it bent where the trailer ends and the extension starts.
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
100x50 parallel flange channel will be stronger than 100x50x6.3 box
Boohoo
Member
- Location
- Newtownabbey
True, but if you need the extension to slide into channel as I did you have to use box
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
My Collins trailer has channel for the extension, that's factory made
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
I agree it needs to be thick walled, but I don't know what is thick enough and what is overkill