Mend it and make do

[stephec]

As we've now started doing ovens. The handle on our grill broke. Managed to get a replacement on eBay. This didn't quite work. However, I drilled some new holes and pop rivetted the handle on. Works a treat. View attachment 564249

I've not used pop rivets for years now, top work!

 

[Drago]

I suspect that will be the case in a lot of areas: the CE standard is widely recognised as Gold Standard worldwide so...

It is, but there's a problem. So many cokpanies have abused it, slapped it on devices that don't conform, and even go as far as producing counterfeit confirmity certificates, the CE is now cheelily known as "Chinese Export".

 

[rockyroller]

do patched tubes count?

 

[rockyroller]

Of course, the flip side of all this is that the internet is such a wonderful resource for quickly finding out how to go about repairing practically anything.

that's how I learned how to cut a queen sized box spring in half, fold it, tie it w/ a rope & sneak it up to our 3rd floor, then reassemble it & fasten it all back together, voilà!

 

[ColinJ]

It is, but there's a problem. So many cokpanies have abused it, slapped it on devices that don't conform, and even go as far as producing counterfeit confirmity certificates, the CE is now cheelily known as "Chinese Export".

A friend of mine was responsible for signing off several products. He took his job seriously and went through all of the required steps but there was sometimes pressure to rush the self certification through. He always refused, saying that he wasn't going to put his name on a document saying that a product had been tested and found to be legally compliant, unless (a) It had been tested, and (b) He was sure that it was compliant!

 

[Andy in Germany]

It is, but there's a problem. So many cokpanies have abused it, slapped it on devices that don't conform, and even go as far as producing counterfeit confirmity certificates, the CE is now cheelily known as "Chinese Export".

That makes sense: you don't counterfeit something that's worthless.

 

[Drago]

do patched tubes count?

View attachment 564407

Very much so. If you've repaired something, anything, then it is worthy of mention here.

 

[tyred]

I've just re-sharpened my pencil.

 

[Drago]

Finally dug out my old hifi bits from various cubby holes. The cheap and nasty stand was looking tired, so I masked it up and repainted it with cream eggshell. Looks pretty good.

Next will be to rub down and repaint the speaker stands.

Before anyone asks the amp is a hoofing great Kenwood, Trio tuner, Technics tape deck and Kenwood turntable. Cannae find the CD player anywhere, so replaced it for now with a redundant blu ray player.

 

[oldwheels]

They should have done like those canny Scots..

Apparently the train line over the bogs of Rannoch Moor is just supported by a few* floating logs or suchlike.

* there may be slightly moor to it than this..

I think sheep fleeces were also used. [Or should that be sheep's fleece]

 

[oldwheels]

I tracked it down!

It was sufficiently close to its original location that I might have been responsible for moving it...

It was hidden behind the back of the Shimano shoe box full of bank statements that are lying around as a reminder to fill in my tax return!

It looks fixable. I tried simply wedging a piece of plastic in before but it only lasted a few uses before it got twisted out of position and fell out. I'll fix it more permanently this time.

I find gorilla glue has a multitude of uses.

 

[tyred]

I think sheep fleeces were also used. [Or should that be sheep's fleece]

Yes indeed. There is a now disused railway viaduct across a bog near here and the pillars have sheep's wool in their foundations.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I wasn't too impressed by a new German Autobahn which was featured on Massive Engineering Mistakes this week! It was built to cross a peat bog and they sank 30 metre foundation piles into 50 metre deep peat... The road quickly broke up and started collapsing!

One side effect of Germany's admittedly good engineering heritage, is that people tend to put a bit too much faith in it, as if technology will solve everything.

 

[irw]

The cheap and nasty stand ...

Are you going to post the 'after' picture?

Last time I had a stand like that (is it the one with the plastic poles that unscrew to separate/flat pack all the bits?), I was living in student accommodation...

 

[Drago]

is it the one with the plastic poles that unscrew to separate/flat pack all the bits?

Yep, thats the sort. It's origins are lost in the mists of time, but it probably came from somewhere like Argos, or maybe even Woolworths.