tomlad
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- Location
- nr. preston
quick fixes, bodges and creations
- Thread starter jimmer
- Start date
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Wouldn't worry too much, washing machine supply pipes were incorrectly marked so the hot was connected to the cold fill, back boiler on the living room fire usually held the water temperature ready to make tea....
Clothes came out very hot after the final rinse and spin, dried quickly!
Hot washes, I let my wife keep charge of the washing machine, was working near home putting a drain in using an old What a Mess digger and blew a hydraulic pipe and got well covered, walked indoors, changed and the wife was just putting the clothes into the machine as left to get another length of hydraulic hose about an hour later was fitting the hose back and looked across the field and saw my wife then hanging my clothes out to dry, a few days later another pipe blew so same thing again but my wife was out at work, so dumped the clothes in the machine and left it to it, now for some reason this took two hours after getting the pipe back on and putting the tools back into the workshop just heard water running so walked over to the house, machine was spinning out, well quite pleased but wondered a bit, and hung things out, I would have had to have been a giant to fill out my pullover as it nearly came down to my knees, My wife said what wash did I use, That one heavy soil and hot.
I suppose a quick and easy fix, fly trap, I got bit of flack from posting this on local Next door by the save the creepy crawly brigade, however it does catch 99.9 percent flies and wasps only but this year we hardly had any, it so easy to make, better to use the bigger plastic bottles, cut neck off near the top, fill with water and any thing sweet smelling, I smeared just a bit of jam inside neck top of bottle then drop the neck in, once it starts to catch the wasps and flies it will take off catching thousands, smells awful but caches more, they do sell those things but this one free and works just as well. Don't cut the bottle in half like I saw done just use the neck.
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- Location
- South wales
I got two of those red top fly catchers for the garden I was horrified by the amount of flies they caught I’ll get some pics if I remember
That’s nearly all dead ones
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When we were kids mum just used to get a recently finished jam jar(probably a recycled coffee jar as jam was homemade back then) half fill it with water and give it a good stir maybe adding a bit extra jam if the jar had been scraped well. Used to catch wasps easily. Can't remember if the jar got used again with the next batch of jam
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Found the bits around the yard and online, to make a pair of rims and centres for old Ford.
Blast and paint next, then fit a pair of 600 65 38 that a friend took off.
Is it engineering if I use a mag drill?
Blast and paint next, then fit a pair of 600 65 38 that a friend took off.
Is it engineering if I use a mag drill?
A friend had a ? name compact that was same as MF used in piggery, its front rims just dissolved in short time, the centres were thick and ok, the replacements ether silly money or not easy to get, as it happened I had some Morris 1,000 wheels and rims, gassed the centres out of both and welded the Morris rims onto the compacts centres, must be thirty years ago and still not rotted so must be not as susceptible to manure water.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Holes in the fibre cement roof under the roof light sheets. Not a good photo I know. Some had 5 holes, one in each valley.
slid some plastic curtain down from above and then put a bit of off cut fence wire through to stop them sliding right out.
slid some plastic curtain down from above and then put a bit of off cut fence wire through to stop them sliding right out.
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
That's neat and clever, obviously all done from inside without walking on a dodgy sheet, would it be better with cuttings of a grp sheet? You could probably get 2 cuttings per corrugation as you wouldn't need the up bit.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Good plan, but I didn't have any grp sheet, I did have an old roll of plastic curtain.
There is a j bolt in the middle of each sheet too that was a problem as I was definitely not going on the top of the roof to bolt another one on.
- Location
- British Isles
ritchiekirkland
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Rod Dumbreck
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That is an exemplary bodge (if that int too posh a word for this occasion)
ritchiekirkland
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Enough to get home without bursting tyre ??? 
Rod Dumbreck
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though from distant memories, the reason for trussing the spring with twine, was to keep it short enough to get it back in positionEnough to get home without bursting tyre ???
- Location
- North Norfolk
An adjustable spanner was always known round here as a screwhammer.
Boydvalley
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- Location
- Bath
As we all should know you shouldn’t leave your fencer battery directly on cold wet ground. Got various ways but the broken stake that happened to be in my hand at the time I now think is the best way and there’s always one handy.
