Author Topic: What have you fettled today?  (Read 2129596 times)

Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12450 on: 20 September, 2017, 04:57:57 pm »
Nice; MIG, TIG, something else?

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12451 on: 20 September, 2017, 05:09:27 pm »
looks like stick.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12452 on: 20 September, 2017, 05:13:06 pm »
Started with MIG, going to do some arc, I think trying to do TIG as well would be a diversion (although they have TIG gear). We do get to play with a Plasma Cutter, too. All this at the most excellent community workshop, Blackhorse Workshop with an excellent tutor, at a guess she'll be the one running the women's weekend introduction to welding weekend. Interesting  to see there is the demand.

(ETA - the blobby one was me playing around with settings)

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12453 on: 20 September, 2017, 09:05:26 pm »
Started with MIG, going to do some arc, I think trying to do TIG as well would be a diversion (although they have TIG gear). We do get to play with a Plasma Cutter, too. All this at the most excellent community workshop, Blackhorse Workshop with an excellent tutor, at a guess she'll be the one running the women's weekend introduction to welding weekend. Interesting  to see there is the demand.

(ETA - the blobby one was me playing around with settings)

No gas or brazing?

Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12454 on: 20 September, 2017, 09:10:59 pm »
they've got gas but it isn't in scope for the four sessions I have. I suspect our tutor is good at brazing, and I intend to have a word.....

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12455 on: 20 September, 2017, 11:12:20 pm »
they've got gas but it isn't in scope for the four sessions I have. I suspect our tutor is good at brazing, and I intend to have a word.....

If you want to get some brazing kit to play with https://www.bricoman.fr/poste-bi-gaz.html can get the rods too.

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12456 on: 22 September, 2017, 04:41:34 pm »
I have managed the first successful cast of the dice
Done! by David Martin, on Flickr

PU elastomeric foam. 2.9 litre volume. I should have warmed it up a bit first to get a good working temperature. I need to add a bit more to fill a large internal air bubble but can do that with some of the excess material I have.

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12457 on: 23 September, 2017, 01:18:57 pm »
Fettled? My nose.



As to why that curve is curiously similar to the curve of a seat tube? All I will say, no seat tubes were hurt in the making of this post.

<shambles off, wondering if it would be sufficient to win the feckin' div thread for the day>

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12458 on: 23 September, 2017, 07:12:16 pm »
Adjusted the geometry of the centre-pulls on the Bob Griffin.  Less pad extension and a sharper straddle angle.  No squeal now and only normal toe-in of the Kool-Stop pads.  They are very good brakes (Gran Compe 700) and way, way stiffer than Mafac Racers.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12459 on: 23 September, 2017, 11:19:13 pm »
Filled up the air bubble. In fact, overfilled so it is a slightly obese icosahedron on one side. I do now know what to do with the next attempt.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12460 on: 24 September, 2017, 12:38:21 am »
Replaced the rear wheel on my pub bike with one that's actually 135mm OLN, not about 133mm, and brought the butterfly bars 10mm closer by switching to a shorter stem. Hopefully that should sort the strange creak from the back end and also make it a little more comfortable to ride.

Before switching wheels I regreased the hub on the old Dawes tourerwheel I was fitting. It's not in very good nick as one of the cups has a rust patch!
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12461 on: 24 September, 2017, 08:00:17 am »
Finally fitted the thin shim behind the casette on the roadbike. Seems to have eliminated the very slight wobble that I think was causing ocaissionaly imprecise shifting.

Funny that the other casette fits on the same hub perfectly
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12462 on: 24 September, 2017, 08:40:33 pm »

Next stage done, now with added bike for scale:-

Now complete except for some electrical fettling.





The control box isn't screwed to the wall and it won't start with load on it, as it needs more starting capacitors.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12463 on: 24 September, 2017, 09:42:25 pm »
Not so much fettled, as taken out and humanely shot...



Every spoke with tape has cracked rim at the nipple - GOK how it made it round a 400 on Friday.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12464 on: 24 September, 2017, 10:48:56 pm »

The control box isn't screwed to the wall and it won't start with load on it, as it needs more starting capacitors.

Does that mean the car's stuck in the air until you can install some?   :D

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12465 on: 24 September, 2017, 10:55:49 pm »

The control box isn't screwed to the wall and it won't start with load on it, as it needs more starting capacitors.

Does that mean the car's stuck in the air until you can install some?   :D
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12466 on: 24 September, 2017, 10:58:16 pm »
Does it play music like this when you operate it?

I keep wanting to add that feature to barakta's electric uppy-downy desk.

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12467 on: 24 September, 2017, 11:34:19 pm »
Does it play music like this when you operate it?

I keep wanting to add that feature to barakta's electric uppy-downy desk.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12468 on: 25 September, 2017, 06:11:27 am »

The control box isn't screwed to the wall and it won't start with load on it, as it needs more starting capacitors.

Does that mean the car's stuck in the air until you can install some?   :D
Luckily, no. I would have been more careful if that was the case. It uses gravity and a couple of solenoid valves for going down. I had to change the fuse as that blew when it stalled trying to go up, but that was all.

In fact, the photos of it empty but with the spreader plates installed were taken afterwards.

Anyone know of a Thunderbirds sound generator? What do I get it to play on the way down?
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12469 on: 25 September, 2017, 07:36:04 am »
...Anyone know of a Thunderbirds sound generator? What do I get it to play on the way down?

You could use a small Arduino clone, but there's going to be a certain amount of hassle involved with that.  I think I'd use something like this card, which you could easily trigger from a switch, and which you could easily use to play distinct tunes for up and down.  Unfortunately, you'll still need some form of audio amplifier, although I'd just find a pair of cheap powered speakers.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12470 on: 26 September, 2017, 08:26:04 pm »
:D
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12471 on: 26 September, 2017, 08:53:48 pm »
I wonder if I can rig something up to the hooter of dads' mobility scooter.... That would be FAB.

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12472 on: 27 September, 2017, 12:24:40 am »
Last-minute re-stitching and replacement drawstring on a long-serving Alpkit stuffsack.  Off touring tomorrow and it's better if the contents don't keep escaping.

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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12473 on: 27 September, 2017, 03:52:09 am »
Changed a wheel on the Ford ASBO at 3,550m ASL after a visit from She Who Must Not Be Named.  75 miles of I-70 at 50 mph is now high on my Big List Of Things Never To Do Again.
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Re: What have you fettled today?
« Reply #12474 on: 28 September, 2017, 03:32:02 pm »
Yesterday: decided it was time to change my cleats:



...but changed shoes instead.  Setting new cleats to correct angles was the fettling.
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