What have you tinkered with today?

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by dozi

Look forward to seeing the bearings

They aren't good. Came out in bits.

[admin]

Past their best I think.

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[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by admin

Past their best I think.

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Nah, give 'em a clean and refit them with a bit of fresh grease and they'll be good as new!

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

Yep. If you want to really get into it and make the process easier there is a LOT of gear you can buy. I've just got a cheap second hand mid range mig welder from someone locally. All set up with wire etc. Then got cheap gloves, jacket (old german factory stock on ebay) and a decent enough mask. The mask is important.


I factored in the cost of getting my van fixed before MOT to justify a small spend on it. I have done brazing in the past too. Very different but has some basics that are similar. I managed to build a bicycle frame as part of a four day charity course I did a few years ago. All guided by experts, so not sure I could do it on my own. That sort of thing involves a lot more tooling and jigs etc too. Mig is cheap but a bit of an ugly finish. Brazing is a very nice finish but a very expensive setup. Especially if you need insurance for handling the gases.

Whatever you do wear jeans. I'm quite partial to the tracksuit bottom when working on vehicles (for the flexibility climbing under wheel arches etc ). Nothing more alarming than molten weld run off burning straight through your crotch and taking a tour of your cleftal horizon after a quick yet painful visit to nutsack village. Especially if you're contorted into aforementioned wheelarch and can't run away and scream, you sort of end up wiggling like you're in a straight jacket trying to flip up your mask with one hand and punching yourself in the crotch with the other hand.


...or so I've heard...

[admin]

Today's job replacing the hdd in my laptop. Nice new ssd now installed.



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[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

Most Nissans and quite a few Renaults of that era have that problem. DD get some refurbished by someone else as they're a right sod to do

Took a friend 4 hours to replace a Nissan cube handbrake cable on a ramp

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I can get recon calipers for £84 each so I'll probably go down that route

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by admin

Today's job replacing the hdd in my laptop. Nice new ssd now installed.



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Really cheeses me off that so many laptops over the last few years need the entire back off to get at the hdd or ssd, and often also the RAM. Why have manufacturers stopped giving folks just a small discrete panel to access these components?

[admin]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

Really cheeses me off that so many laptops over the last few years need the entire back off to get at the hdd or ssd, and often also the RAM. Why have manufacturers stopped giving folks just a small discrete panel to access these components?

I agree. It was a right faff. I guess it boils down to cost or maybe to put off people from upgrading so they buy a replacement.

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[shiftin_gear98]

^Nailed it in one.

There's no money in people upgrading things at home. So they make everything as awkward as possible.
Tossers.

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I can get recon calipers for £84 each so I'll probably go down that route

I would as that's a good price

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