Any idiot can take things to bits, putting them back together again is what counts.

[raleighnut]

The trick is having the knowledge to be able to correctly diagnose the problem.

There's your problem luv, your engine has fallen out

Good job there's a spare one in the boot.

 

[Dan Morinary]

The trick is knowing where springs are housed. Once they fly over your neighbours fence, from the makeshift workshop on your patio, no amount of digital photos gonna save yer. Not speaking from experience of course.

 

[tyred]

The trick is knowing where springs are housed. Once they fly over your neighbours fence, from the makeshift workshop on your patio, no amount of digital photos gonna save yer. Not speaking from experience of course.

Do you fancy re-fitting the pawl springs in my Maillard freewheel block?

 

[Dan Morinary]

Do you fancy re-fitting the pawl springs in my Maillard freewheel block?

Leave them on my patio. Will sort them once the lighter nights come in. Have put measures in place to prevent previous problems;

 

[Hill Wimp]

Problems start when you have a bit left over!

Why does that always happen when I construct something from Ikea?

 

[MichaelW2]

I disassembled some Altus gear shifters once. You need some kind of jig to hold everything in place to reassemble.

 

[subaqua]

Spoken like a true electrician. Thats an 85 tonne shaft spinning at 3000rpm. its made by stacking discs along a shaft of 180mm diameter and holding them together with a nut that stretches the shaft 26mm. each disc is held in place by interlocking facial serrations. it has multiple drillings for cooling and has clearances of hundredths of a millimeter, Oh and its worth about 10 million quid.

and ?

its just engineering on a big scale. size never scared me , nor cost.

i bet there is a better O&M than for Genie switchgear

 

[GuyBoden]

I enjoyed James May's reassembly of "the Hornby Flying Scotsman with realistic chuffing sounds".............
He's patience, methodical, knowledgeable and has the right tools for the job. (Also, I presume he's getting paid well)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfVZ1IqscQ

 

[Smokin Joe]

I enjoyed James May's reassembly of "the Hornby Flying Scotsman with realistic chuffing sounds".............
He's patience, methodical, knowledgeable and has the right tools for the job. (Also, I presume he's getting paid well)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfVZ1IqscQ

I'd have more respect for the man if he managed to fit a new duvet cover.

 

[MiK1138]

Spoken like a true electrician. Thats an 85 tonne shaft spinning at 3000rpm. its made by stacking discs along a shaft of 180mm diameter and holding them together with a nut that stretches the shaft 26mm. each disc is held in place by interlocking facial serrations. it has multiple drillings for cooling and has clearances of hundredths of a millimeter, Oh and its worth about 10 million quid.

well that's all well and good, but I reckon the weight gain will cancel out any advantage of fitting it to your bike

 

[GuyBoden]

I'd have more respect for the man if he managed to fit a new duvet cover.

That's easy, but it only takes a few mins, so I doubt even James May could stretch it into a 30min programme.....................

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ZFg3WbQAw

 

[Profpointy]

Problems start when you have a bit left over!

Actually I've fixed quite a number of things by binning surplus parts. Examples: a mate's record player would jam solid after half a spin. Mmm - why's this cog split and anyway why's this cog there at all? Chucked said cog in the bin and record deck worked perfectly other than having to lif the arm off at the end - just like you have to do with any high quality deck anyway. My mate was delighted with fix but dismayed he'd done without the thing for a year for the sake of a 30 second job. Have dumped surplus bits on cars too as well as top bodges like missing out the heater to by pass a leak or blown hose.

 

[keithmac]

Putting mechanical things back together is easier than taking them apart. You've cleaned, de-rusted or replaced all the bits that had seized, had their heads rounded or been previously over tightened and you are familiar with how the thing is assembled. I'm confident most people who have worked on motorbikes or cars will agree with me.

You would think that but I've had a fair few engines presented in carboard boxes complety stripped and the owner hasn't a clue how it goes back together!.

Plus not taking it to bits yourself makes the job twice as difficult.

They always have a mate who "knows what he's doing", would put it back together himself but "doesn't have the time"; and to top it off he says it's a "5 minute job"..

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The 500 twin triumph engine I stripped when I was a teenager, then carefully laid out under a tarpaulin in the back garden so I knew where it all was and how it went back together. Then the landlord thought he'd do me a favour and chucked it in a couple of boxes and moved it into a spare outbuilding.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The 500 twin triumph engine I stripped when I was a teenager, then carefully laid out under a tarpaulin in the back garden so I knew where it all was and how it went back together. Then the landlord thought he'd do me a favour and chucked it in a couple of boxes and moved it into a spare outbuilding.

My teenage typewriter project took up the whole of our newly built utility room for quite a while. Bits of typewriter laid out in rows on newspaper all over the place. I don't know what my parents thought. I imagine it was something like "there are worse things he could be doing" or maybe "there's something wrong with that boy". It's a Smith Premier 60 from the 1920s.