quick fixes, bodges and creations

[Mur Huwcun]

Did you stop and cut it off?!!

I got two extension reels here that I saved from a builders skip with brocken plugs! We went to pick up a kitchen sink and units for tye sheep shed from a house renovation job down the road. They just looked on in astonishment when I asked if I could have a few things from the skip!!! Managed to get half a length of 40mm waste pipe, some compression fittings etc, screws and the extension cables!!

 

[itsalwaysme]

Oooohhhh they're clever.
They'd stop the spool cables on my old 856 popping off.
I feel some fabrication coming on.

You can get similar ones for wiper linkages as well now, seem to work well

 

[sawdust]

Not a bodge, repair or creation,

Just a observation that I feel will be uniquely shared by this threads contributers

What sort of pleb.....

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...... doesn't cut the flex off to add to the big jumble of cables for important future use

Be very carful...

I did exactly that once, feeling very chuffed rewired my pals grinder with the cable, thinking we'd be able to use the grinder anywhere in the workshop

Nothing, nahdah, nowt, not even a click turns out I dumped a perfectly good hoover and it was the flex that was faulty

 

[davieh3350]

Heated parts washer and paint stripping tank

fire box for underneath it.

and an old pig hut for trapping some heat and protection from the wind

 

[Servac]

@davieh3350 oIs the old pig hut already recycled from an old diesel tank. Bonus points must be due if so?

 

[Shovelhands]

Is this a mobile service you will be offering, Davie?

 

[davieh3350]

@davieh3350 oIs the old pig hut already recycled from an old diesel tank. Bonus points must be due if so?

Yup, top one is 3rd use and the tank is second use.

 

[davieh3350]

Is this a mobile service you will be offering, Davie?

Indeed, distance no object.
I can rent it out for a hot tub too, but I'd need to pump out the caustic stuff first...

 

[davieh3350]

Bolted it loosely back together and dropped it in

drilled a few holes in a old lick tub (find them blowing about, don't buy them) and punched a hole in the bottom of the cans so they fill and drain and then lowered them in too. Had to grab one as it floated away as the two wee bolts weren't heavy enough to make it sink fast enough. All the bigger bits were tied to a rope and lowered in too.

 

[Nearly]

High capacity soil screen at a sale today.

 

[davieh3350]

Two hours it's been in for

 

[Lofty1984]

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Just don’t drop a vital bolt in there loose no fun fishing around in there for it after

Also I’m putting you forward for first bodger of the month award you don’t win feck all just the glory of knowing your a bodgeneer

 

[Oldstyle]

Does this qualify for here?
Lost the diesel cap over 10 years ago. Old drink bottle off the floor of the cab been like it ever since.

 

[Larel]

Does this qualify for here?
Lost the diesel cap over 10 years ago. Old drink bottle off the floor of the cab been like it ever since. View attachment 787054

You’d qualify twice if you fitted a bit of used ply in place of the broken window!

 

[davieh3350]

Just don’t drop a vital bolt in there loose no fun fishing around in there for it after

Also I’m putting you forward for first bodger of the month award you don’t win feck all just the glory of knowing your a bodgeneer

Ive spent hours with a magnet on a bit of fence wire "fishing" for bits. Sometimes you find them on the bench already washed down

Don't try cleaning aluminium tig rods in a length of stainless pipe filled with caustic soda.

 

[Oldstyle]

You’d qualify twice if you fitted a bit of used ply in place of the broken window!

Can't put stuff in through a bit of ply and wouldn't make much difference as the are no windows in the bottoms of the doors either. Can't replace those as you need to reach in to open the door as the buttons have dropped off.

 

[tinman]

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These two bolts keep coming loose, no amount of ptfe tape or loctite would keep them in. Not going anywhere now are they

theres a washer for that, it wont loosen, called a nord lock washer, looks like this,

 

[Hesstondriver]

theres a washer for that, it wont loosen, called a nord lock washer, looks like this,

I’ve not seen or heard of them, I’ll get some on the shopping list. Thanks for the tip

 

[br jones]

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High capacity soil screen at a sale today.View attachment 786906

May i ask ? How much ?

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

theres a washer for that, it wont loosen, called a nord lock washer, looks like this,

Expensive but VERY good.