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"Repaired" our boiler this morning. Inverted commas because although I'm winning on aggregate, I think there may be a return leg to play.
Noticed when we went to bed last night that the pump was still running, despite the heating having been off for a good hour. Wouldn't stop unless the boiler was switched off completely.
So this morning I was poking around with a multimeter trying to work out which relay is responsible, and picking up a screwdriver to push the pressure differential switch, I caught it on the panel the PCB sits on and gave it a little knock. The pump immediately switched off. I can't replicate the problem, so it's currently "fixed". I think a wire that's been pinched in the housing is probably responsible, but I'll leave it alone while it's still working.
Noticed the diverter valve needs rebuilding AGAIN (leaking slightly), so that's a job for the summer.
Repaired the electric cool box's electrical input 'flap'. One of the tabs had snapped off last year, on the flap where the mains and 12v power leads are stored. It just falls off. Drilled a 2mm hole in the side of the flap and popped a small screw in there to act as a new 'tab'. The flap no longer falls off.
I'm now doing some fibre-glass repairs to the rear wing of my Lotus-Seven-Inspired-Sportscar.
The resin is very smelly and messy! It sticks to everything and raw fibre-glass is nasty, itchy stuff 🙄
But the weather is getting better and I want to take the car for an MOT soon so it's gotta be done!
Shed roof. Wouldn't have noticed unless I was trimming the hedge near the rear of the shed. Corner of the felt had ripped off. Fortunately I had spare so it's been patched up and tacked down. also noticed a slight tear on the apex, so that's been patched too.
Replaced the sink waste in the downstairs bathroom after the plumber ballsed it up. Bought a better waste and fitted it with no leaks now
Rear footwell in the Blue car had turned into a swamp! Removed the door card (looks like thin guage OSB not card) to find someone had been there before with black mastic and it hadn't held. A bit of cleaning of door and foam insulation piece, £14 of butyl rubber cord and the seal was remade. Then had to fibre-glass the bottom of the door card as it was a bit soft even after drying out. The car now small faintly of resin and the carpet is slowly drying out. A wet vac has been used to remove water as it rise to the top from the footwell.
That sounds way more professional than the last repair I made on my old Mk.2 Golf (back in the day) to try and fix the puddles I had in the rear footwells whenever there was a lot of rain.
Could _NOT_ find leaks in the doorseals or the sun roof seals, but they would fill up every time. I ended up drilling some relief holes in the floor.
Damn I miss that car.
I've also had a play in MKII Golf doors, they had a very expensive piece of cut to shape plastic sheet!
I am currently making a new roof for the tortoise's outdoor residence. He's due to come out of hibernation soon and in a month or two it will be warm enough for him to reside outside. His previous roof had galoping wood rot.
Repaired a hedge trimmer with a broken connector (white bit).
Measured up and printed new bits (blue parts). Couldn’t find any of the spade connectors in the right size so made some out of a spare bit of brass and even managed to not follow my usual approach of making a massive mess of the soldering (for me, anyway, I’m sure it’s terrible).
Happily when I put it all back together it works so if it works after a road test I’ll maybe reprint in a tougher material and/or glue and heat shrink it properly.
Went to do the timing belt on my wife's Citroen and found part of the keyway on the shite french locking wheel nut had snapped meaning it wouldn't undo.
2.5 hrs to drill and die grind out the wheel nut without damaging the wheel took longer than changing the belt!
I repaired our large Thermos by tightening the base a quarter turn. No more worrying glass sounding wobble.
No pics. But it's blue.
3 x delkim optonics
Soldered new fly leads for the batteries.
Cut new star wheels . Made new shafts for the rotating parts . Used 3mm x 25mm pulleys glued onto rubber sleeves on the shafts as new ones n.a.
Just gotta source some tiny magnets for the hall sensor and they will be good to go after a 30 year lay up.
The toilet pan connector pipe. Not being a plumber, when I did the bathroom years ago, I used a flexi pipe. This had deteriorated along the top (thankfully) and was cracking. If I hadn't spent as much time dry heaving, it would have been fixed in half the time.
The Wife's wheelchair.
The fork for the castor seized last night - so had to carry out repairs this morning:
Removed the bearings:
Definately seized....
Gave it a clean:
Filled with waterproof grease:
All back together and working - I've ordered new bearings so will replace when they arrive, but the refilled one should do the trick for a few days.
Forks are made my Magura from their Carbotecture material.
Last thing I repaired (replaced) was the starter cord on a Honda lawn mower.
Last thing I broke was the locating tab on a Honda lawn mower engine cover ☹️.
Domestic water supply pipe. The water board has been saying we had a massive leak on our supply line but there was no evidence where the leak was and no one knows where the pipe goes down to the house so it was kinda ignored . They said in winter they weren't too fussed as it's raining lots but come summer it would need to be fixed. Three weeks ago they started muttering about a water meter and me paying for my water. With that catalyst, dug out around the supply valve by the roadside, got to use my new mini-digger, severed old pipe and connected 250 metres of new pipe and then connected that by the house. Haven't got round to burying the new pipe yet, that can wait a few months.
Next plumbing job is the rain water run off which needs routing to a drainage ditch rather than a saturated lawn, another job for the mini-digger (I tell Mrs kilo this to justify purchasing it!!)
I would post some exciting pictures but apparently I don't have permission, etc
With the nicer weather apparently on the way I got my toy car out and did some prep' for an MOT.
Repaired the fibreglass wing
Changed the engine oil and oil filter
Cleaned, greased and adjusted the front wheel bearings
The car sitting in the sunshine afterwards 😎
Gotta book an MOT next 👍
Kinda makes me miss my kit car, I had a Tiger Avon for a few years, problem was Oldham weather, barely got any use out of it.
Good luck for the MOT
I would post some exciting pictures but apparently I don't have permission, etc
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