My washing machine... Sort of...
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Not quote up to the level of some of the repairs on here but I have just replaced Ear Cups on 3 pairs of headphones that were slowly disintegrating and leaving black bits of "leather" round the house/in my hair.
Replacement cups were between 6 and 11 quid depending on model and now they're all pretty much as good as new.
Chair leg - snapped where the thread was for the bolts. Been glued now ! I'm the repair man for my wife's sewing machines - I won't touch the computerised ones (touch screens), but I've replaced a motor on a freehand quilting machine, and the bobbin holders on a manual machine - that involved 2 million screws to come out before I could pop in two new bobbin holders.
I just did my first bit of darning to repair a bit on my jumper where I ahve gone through the elbow. I had to borrow the darning needle, the wool I had does not match (and was from the cat's yarn ball), but it means I no longer have a slightly cold elbow on one side.
A GX AXS rear mech using el_boufador's excellent Haynes manual style post from back in January GX AXS T Type pogo pins replacement process / terror – Bike Forum – Singletrack World Magazine Forum
Re-commisioned rather than repaired.
My Dad's Radio Controlled Motor Boat which he built when I was 7 years old (1974).
I've had to find batteries and check wiring connections etc... Nothing too difficult.
A quick test in the bath shows it all working and ready for a trial run at the weekend. Although it's quite long and there was only about 200mm between the bow of the boat and the end of the tub 🤣 😎
It did create rather a tidal wave when at full throttle 😜 😬
Well, it turned out that, for some unfathomable reason, once I started shooting a series of arrows, something kept knocking the arrow rest on my bow, and loosening it, which was a pita, so I had to cut short my session, get some different vanes and strip the others off, which was an even bigger pita, because I had to pull the nocks out and soak the end of the shafts in acetone to dissolve the adhesive, which took some time and was rather messy!
Got new vanes and fitted them and put the nocks back in, and they look great…
Went along to the range Wednesday afternoon, it was very pleasant there, no wind, quite bright and mild, shooting in shorts and a tee shirt, which isn’t usual February weather, and thankfully everything is working as it should!
That’s at 30 yds, with the sight adjusted by pure guesswork, well, an educated guess, so now I can start working on increasing my distances up to 40 and 50 yds, which I haven’t been comfortable doing previously. Roll on warm summer evenings! 😁
@countZero, Nice!! What bow are you shooting? Specs on the arrows, good for outdoors?
I have my first WA competition tomorrow (18m indoor - Elite Compound) and am a bit nervous. All of my stuff is ready and I tried really hard to get all of the bad scores out of my system on Tuesday and Wednesday. I know I am going to get monstered by the others because, on a good day, I can stretch to a 275x300, but they have bad days and still get 290+x300.
Whatever, it'll be fun.
@willard - Kinetic Sovreign 25” riser, WNS long limbs, so 70”, Shibuya sight, my arrows are Easton Avance Carbon, 6mm. My draw length is 31.5” draw weight 34lb.
Oh, and they’re perfectly fine for indoor and outdoor shooting.
I’ll be honest, I’m not really interested in competition, it’s more a mental health thing, I needed something to focus on after I retired, and I did archery at school, but never really had much time to really follow up on it. I rather wish I had, but it suits me going along to the club range a couple of evenings a week and a Saturday morning, plus I have access during the if I want to go along and shoot some sticks.
During the winter we shoot indoors, 20yds Portsmouth on Saturday mornings, we rent a space on a 5-a-side football pitch inside a former aircraft hangar at what used to be RAF Colerne, now 21st Signals Regiment gym. Usually a mix of compound and recurve, but once the warmer weather comes in we have recurve, compound, bare bow and longbow.
Me…
Got new vanes and fitted them and put the nocks back in, and they look great…
Pro tip, use a different colour for the cock feather, it makes it much easier to nock by sight.
Also, whilst black is cool, hot pink is a lot easier to find when you miss completely.
... is it just the angle of the photo or are your nocks pissed? The top one at least. That'd explain the strikes when loosing.
That must be a very quick camera shutter^^, the arrow hasn't moved 😉
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Mrs oldnick is into horsing, and has had to borrow a horse trailer to get to events and coaching sessions.
So when an Ifor Williams horse trailer that had been unused for a couple of years came up for about half the usual price it was time to dig the spanner’s out.
Seized coupling (brake tube) and brakes full of rust and separated brake linings and half the lights didn’t work.
Took the coupling off to work on it at home, and replaced the bushings, tube and bellows, new lock, general strip clean and grease - 2 gentle evenings.
Brakes hubs and electrics took a lazy day at the yard last weekend.
It still needs a good clean but now works perfectly for about £1000 less than buying a used one in good condition.
Pro tip, use a different colour for the cock feather, it makes it much easier to nock by sight.
Also, whilst black is cool, hot pink is a lot easier to find when you miss completely.
I don’t need a different colour cock feather, I have dayglo orange labels along that side of the shaft with my name and club printed on, in case any go into the grass and someone else finds it, and my SpinVanes were dayglo orange, and they were no easier to find in the grass than black ones would be, three years experience has proved that, having had someone point to the arrow I was actually standing on, and couldn’t see the vanes!
It’s not unusual to have to resort to using the club metal detector to find missing arrows with bright vanes on. The long white makers labels show up just as much. Three years of wandering around with several other people and none of us could find someone’s missing arrows, one of my carbon arrows turned up after the grass had been mowed, and the mower blades left tiny nicks along the shaft, which split into several pieces when it was flexed slightly. 😖
That must be a very quick camera shutter^^, the arrow hasn't moved
The arrow was already in the target, if you look closely, you can see the bowstring is still vibrating at the top.
I was hoping Jules, who took the photos from the other side of the range, might have caught it in flight, but because I’m left-handed with a bow, which means I hold the bow in my right hand, and draw with my left, she can’t see when I release; an arrow’s traveling at roughly 200’/second, she’ll need to know when I release, so ideally I’ll need to tell her just as I’m about to release so she can take a burst, and hopefully get the arrow somewhere between the bow and the target, if she can catch it flexing in flight, so much the better.
I had no idea she was even taking photos, so I couldn’t anticipate and let her know. Next time, we’ll set up so she’s closer behind me with a shallower angle of view.
It’s surprising just how much an arrow can flex in flight, I’ve got a spring-loaded pressure button on my bow to damp that down a bit, but it can’t be completely removed.
"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.