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My mini pump fell off my road bike recently (I think, it wasn't there after a ride...) and I remembered the fantastic Zefal HPx that doesn't fit the modern large-tubed bikes I ride.
Drill, hacksaw and rivets later and it now fits again and I've not spaffed £25 on a replacement.
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(IT peeps feel free to imbed pics!)
What is everyone else repairing and/or reusing?
Just replaced the timer on our Dualit toaster.
And bought new pipes for the Henry hoover.
Does that count!? 🙂
Broken Clip on Vax (with sanded faces ready for repair) a couple of months ago.
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Parts 3-D Printed to make easily removable clamp
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Parts fitted (and surviving so far).
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Repaired some other bits with 3-D prints, but not got any Flickr uploads....
Back door on my daughters student house, (stuck locked shut) and the pedal bin that one of their mates spent an hour with pliers trying to fix. Unrepairable apparently, I clicked it on in seconds.
Also, replaced leaky kitchen sinks waste at home.
Mobile phone screen protectors
Dyson battery
Van pollen filter
Box tree planters at front door
Bathroom door catch
Bits for grandfather in-laws wonky fence
Press-fit bottom bracket
All in the last couple of weeks! I spend my life repairing shit. 😁
as above, 3d printers are ace for fixing things! done loads of bits for myself & friends/family
The fan blade was a result (saved me £150!) as was the hinge for the fuel filler flap after some scrote broke it whilst ripping off the flap (not cheap for a new one from Ford!)
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A small ding on the nose has had me repairing this...
Its done now, and I’ve added a bit of custom artwork to it too...
Where do people get the designs for the 3d printed stuff from?
No pics yet, but recently cleaned the throttle body on my car, and changed the front O2 sensor. Turns out that a bolt that had been air gunned on to the manifold, then left for 10 years, is a challenge to remove. Damn satisfying when complete though.
Where do people get the designs for the 3d printed stuff from?
(very) common stuff you might be able to find online (Thingiverse is the main site). The stuff I've done I have drawn the designs myself, with a set of calipers and some 3d design software! I am currently attempting to justify getting a 3d scanner though, it would make stuff like this take minutes (some things are very easy to draw in CAD but the filler hinge for example took me a few hours!)
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Where do people get the designs for the 3d printed stuff from?
I mainly use Fusion360 to create my own stuff. It's currently free for hobbyists/small businesses, although a recent e-mail suggested that this might be changing in the not too distant future.
It's much easier to do this designing from scratch, than trying to replace already designed parts, or add onto existing things, where it can be hard to get the dimensions spot on (or even measure curved surfaces correctly).
For the vax repair I did above, it was fairly straight forward. I just had to match up the diameter of the lid/filter section & the main dust holder. I created a small test piece to check the fit before actually printing the final parts, so I wasn't wasting time & filament printing something that didn't quite fit. That's one of the great things about the 3-D printer - validating & iterating a design is really easy to do.
As zilog6128 says, Thingiverse has loads of stuff that's already been done by other people - Garmin mounts, brackets, headphone stands......you name it, you'll potentially find it.
A 3D scanner would be handy, but decent ones are still expensive. I keep hearing that some of the new mobile phones will soon have 3-D scanning capability built-in via the face recognition scanner that many already come with.
Sony are already marketing it as a feature of the XZ1 - although this version uses the camera (photogrammetry) rather than a VCSEL.
Does an 11kV cable feeder count?
Repaired... headlight bulb in the Mondeo...About an hour ago.
I didn't take pics though.
no pics but I've just fixed the windscreen washers for my car. Had to get underneath and remove the tank that was very slimey and clean it up. Then cleaned the nozzels and they now work perfectly as opposed to not at all. Very pleased with myself.
Back door on my daughters student house
There's a joke there, but I'm not going to make it.
Fixed this morning. About every six months it starts leaking because lime scale builds up in the seal. Strip, clean, reassemble and it's fine again - for another six months.
Removed a snapped bolt from a Jones Truss fork last night. Careful drilling and a reverse thread tool and it eventually gave in. Had a beer to celebrate.
Got a pic of the new powder coat and decal set but not of the removed bolt.....
And I thought I’d give an update to my post above, because frankly I’m very proud of myself.
In days gone by I wouldn’t have attempted anything like this, or if I did I would have rushed and made a right hash of it...
It’s now curing nicely.
Very proud ATM.
That decking has gone a bit green round the edge...
I made one rear mudguard out of a front one and part of a broken rear one (both Zefal)
Works very well - more stable than the Mudhugger on the other bike.
2002 polo
C.v boot tyres and a new mot. Total cost Inc buying the car 47.69
I just changed this light bulb 😁
I mended this forum by turning it off and back on again, at least my end. Pics not needed methinks.
Currently sitting in the airing cupboard holding open a valve on the megaflo to repressure it. Would add photo but wife turned off light and shut door. I can't reach the switch.
At home, a leaky conservatory roof thanks to a tub of Chromapol.
At work, a broken glazing panel on a shop front. (this wasn’t that recent to be fair, mostly been cleaning or painting stuff recently!)
I replaced the front suspension arms to fix worn bushes last week
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On this
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Can’t think of anything else since then
Wing for an old land rover. Probably not the last thing I fixed, but the last thing I fixed that I have pictures of, so...
Bypassed the exploded bit:
Last thing was my wifes Ford Galaxy. 2 borked injectors and a bunged up inlet manifold.
Last thing I have pics of was replacing a cracked chainstay on my bike.
Loving it guys, great stuff. Esp Bikebuoy.
I repaired Barry about an hour ago. Youngest daughter had been playing in the back yard with him, but I asked her to get some stuff from the dryer in the garage. Whilst hanging some new lounge curtains in a VERY masculine way, she pops her head in and tells me Barry is dying!! Quick nip to the garage and seems in Barry's quest to eat everything the world has to offer, he has decided to take on a piece of old garden cane. It's not gone too well as he's lying on his side, eyes bulging and giving it pretty impressive choking/ gagging display. Youngest advises she told him not to eat it, but that didn't seem to stop him. So up rolls a sleeve, pop the front bike light off and in we go. Barry's giving no resistance as I plunge pretty deep into his throat, he can't even be arsed to bite me. Wedged cane found, no significant blood or damage apparent to his gullet, cane gently pryed away....and he's up and bounding back around the back yard again tail wagging. I'm assuming he is repaired as he has resumed his mission to eat every rich tea biscuit ever produced.
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Edit - scrolls up and thinks I would not stand a chance of sorting some of the sizzle you lot can do!! Hats off to you.
That’s a great story theboatman
I rebuilt my Land Rover onto a galvanised chassis. Lots of fun, head scratching and tea drinking
I recently rebuilt a chainsaw from the crankshaft up. Amazing pint sized engines that rev to 14000rpm, sadly no pics
I repaired Barry about an hour ago.
Holy crap. I think you win the thread.
Thanks @bikebouy it was a fraught 5 minutes in an otherwise pretty calm day. I've sometimes wondered what 19 year's of a&e nursing might produce of worth outside of work. But seems a calm head, and a rudimentary knowledge of how much worry should that much blood loss cause has finally paid some dividends. Youngest daughter actually told me 'that was pretty cool, dad', obviously it only lasted till I told her it was bedtime. But that's 19 years well spent in my book.
Edit - And thanks @cougar but I have to admit I am somewhat at awe of some of the other posts, it's a proper thread this, with impressive stuff.
Ooh, fixing stuff I can do....
Fettling old machines back in to service is my coke & hookers!
Some properly skilled people on this forum.
Bravo!
Fettlin, that's a hell of a user name you've got there.
Glad to see the big old chain guard replaced once it was working properly.
No one can beat fixing a dog.
Good work fella.
@theboatman, we have never met, probably never will, but if we ever do, I'm buying the drinks big man! Chapeu Sir! Chapeu!
We have one of the first generation Actifrys and tonight, three minutes in to cooking wedges, the lid split and opened in two in the middle. The tea was salvaged with three strips of duct tape which held fast even when bubbling due to the heat.
I was particularly satisfied to fix a TV with a heat gun last week. YouTube really teach you anything.
Just repaired our Marketing Team's trolly (I'm not Marketing, but the trolly was looking very unwell). All the wheels had fallen off. Found 7 bolts (out of 16) so have managed to get the wheels on with the aid on an adjustable spanner I have in my draw - one wheel has one bolt holding it on.
Despite missing over half the bolts, it's apparently working better than ever. I've no idea where the 9 bolts are, probably scattered over a rather large building.
Not really "repaired" as such, but.
I have a Samsung S5 given to me as a work phone. After owning an original Galaxy many moons ago I vowed never again to have a Samsung Android device, and this hateful piece of goushi foisted upon me hasn't changed my mind one iota. After almost defenestrating it multiple times daily in frustration I threw it in a drawer in a fit of pique and went back to an old Nokia. But I digress.
One of its (many, many, hateful) failings is that it's running something like Android 6 and hasn't had a system update in like three years. So I thought I'd have a crack at sticking a custom ROM on it. This proved to be simultaneously both straight-forward and horrendously frustrating.
On the upside, it doesn't need rooting and you can download a (Windows) app that, with the application of a bit of driver jiggery-pokery and judicial swearing, blats it in a one-click sort of deal.
Did that, rebooted into Android 9, all good but... no Play store. Arse. Google doesn't let you bundle Gapps with homebrew ROMs, I knew that, you have to install them separately. And this, dear readers, is where the wheels came off.
Downloaded the Gapps, stuck it on the SD, rebooted into Recovery, flashed the .zip file and restarted to have it hang at the loading screen for ever. It was getting late, so I switched it off in disgust and came back to it a couple of days later.
*timey wimey FX*
A quick google suggests that you have to install Gapps alongside the ROM without booting it up first. Reflashed the ROM, ripped the battery to stop it restarting, copied the Gapps, and now it's stuck in a Recovery boot loop.
More googling, everything saying the same thing, so OK. Downloaded a standalone copy of the ROM, flashed it from recovery, then flashed Gapps. Flashing Gapps crashed the phone, boot loop again.
Maybe it'll help just downloading the bare minimum ("pico") to get the Store working rather than all the Google apps. Tried that, still crashes.
Perhaps it's the Recovery at fault? Cracked out ADB, used that to push the files. Same thing, transferring Gapps gets to 21% and then the phone crashes. Again.
More googling. Seems there was a broken copy of Gapps a few days ago. Supposedly fixed now but I'll try an older version. Same. At this point I swear it's *ing laughing at me, the prick.
Yet more googling. Someone suggests that the Gapps file needs to be renamed as update.zip. They're a moron, that makes no difference either from Recovery or ADB.
Hey, brainwave, maybe it's actually the ROM that's broken? Wipe for the hundredth time, flash just the ROM and... that works. So after an entire afternoon's work I'm back to where I was three days ago. Joy. Still, at least I know the ROM is fine.
So I think, well, what does booting up do? Aside from building the caches it probably creates application-specific stuff in /data. Back to recovery, wipe the data partition, install Gapps from Recovery and... it doesn't crash? Wut?
Rebooted and up it comes in all its Android Pie glory complete with the Google components. And running an OS written in the last four years and bereft of all Samsung's shovelware shite it now has the absolute audacity to turn out to be a half-decent handset. Probably just to *ing spite me.
So, yeah. This is probably an abridged version of events, and all that because every piece of advice on the goddamn Internet is wrong. I hope their balls turn square and fester at the corners.
@Cougar you've got far more patience than me these days, I used to spend ages playing about with ROMS etc. I'm one of those annoying iPhone converts now, I use a phone that was released just over 4 years and last month it received the latest OS update. My Androids rarely made it much past 2 years before they were dropped.
To be honest, I didn't have a lot of choice in the matter. Once I'd gone down that road it was kinda one-way.
Not very recent but the throttle cable snapped on the mower, I pushed it round the garden then dumped it in the shed, thinking to order a new cable.
Then promptly forgot. Pulled the mower out again and realised of have to manu6 push the bloody thing around the garden. So looked in the shed- how can I fix this....
Hmm, bit of left over chain and a chic block ..
And it's still like that to this day 😆
Following the 3D scanning comments, you can do pretty good work with open source photogrammetry software- I think Colmap has a pretty good reputation for being on the easier side to use. Make sure the surface you want to work with is matt and get some ‘texture’ on there for the feature detection to work with should be able to get a reasonable surface representation to model around. Plenty of tutorials around, mostly for game model workflows but anyone with an engineering bent should be able to adapt it.
(Disclaimer- I have 3D scanning kit and photogrammetry software to play with at work. The open source stuff I’ve played with a little bit but not a lot).
Hmm, bit of left over chain and a chic block ..
Oh that's glorious.
How does the chain attach to the choc block?
Breadcrumb, that is exactly what I did! Great minds think alike and all that.
I threaded the cable though the choc block, around the chain and then back to the choc block.
So far this week l have replaced the pump and gearbox assembly of a power washer, repaired the shed wiring and today I will try to fix the leak from the shed roof.
Did a bit of fettling on our 14 year old Volvo V70 today, changed an outer CV joint boot, swopped out the crap Padgid brake pads and replaced back with genuine Volvo, drained and flushed the cooling system and sprayed 4 tins of Dinitrol wax underneath ready for another winter.
Oh that’s glorious.
Why, thank you ☺️
As Ambrose described! What's the chance of that bodge/fix being repeated!
Changed the motor in our Dyson Animal brush-bar, quite fiddly with some very hard to read Torx screws for which I ended up filing down a flat head screwdriver to fit so I could reach them.
Replacement motor came with wrong fittings, but luckily the body was identical, so had to swap over the fittings from the old one.
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Not my actual one, but I did one of these yesterday and it was quite satisfying. Feels like a new van now...
Also been trying to repair another person a little bit, after they told me they were struggling with things. Think it's going OK. Can't post pics obvs.
Chuffed to see this thread still going.
Good work guys!
Finished during lockdown, done a fair bit of work with it now and she's running sweet.
A part of my kettle broke, just repaired it with a steel and epoxy. Would have used carbon fibre and a spoon but I have a lot to do today 🙂
Venetian blind. YouTube tip, the string that hasn’t broken (but that is also worn), melt the new cord to the end with a lighter and pull it through, the whole string threaded through slats and mech in about 2 mins). Satisfied.
This -
Not running and when I opened it up found this -
Replaced these parts -
And it now looks like this-
Always happy to join in a big hitter thread. Here's my attempt at fixing that stupid problem with Garmin Edge 1000s where the rubber switch dies and new ones are 40eur. It's ugly but it works and it was free
What I did was
open case
remove remnants of old rubber button
fill the hole with clear bathroom sealant
trip the sealant flush with the case
drill a small hole in line with where the microswitch is on the board (that's why I needed clear sealant)
insert a small piece of plastic in the hole and trim it at either side (I had a thin piece of pink plastic rod)
stick some more silicon sealant on the outside
The important bit is the piece of plastic as the silicon by itself isn't strong enough to push the switch. It works just fine now