What "man jobs" have you done today?

Uhtred said:
My wickes order turned up today with a huge sheet of MDF which will be our Christmas table for Christmas day and then eventually will be made into a workbench.

The delivery also included some aluminium extrusions which completes my shoe rack. The end pieces are 3d printed.

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I also printed some holders for my roybi tools which I keep in the same cupboard. The wife hasn't seen them yet, I'm not sure she's going to approve :D

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Sweepstake on them staying ? :D
 
Uhtred said:
My wickes order turned up today with a huge sheet of MDF which will be our Christmas table for Christmas day and then eventually will be made into a workbench.

The delivery also included some aluminium extrusions which completes my shoe rack. The end pieces are 3d printed.

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I also printed some holders for my roybi tools which I keep in the same cupboard. The wife hasn't seen them yet, I'm not sure she's going to approve :D

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I do love a good 3d print, although I find that I'm looking for excuses to print stuff, the kids need better name tags on their school bags, I could have used fabric, but I 3d printed something instead :p .

^is 100mm enough in a bathroom, I'd have thought there might be some splashing onto the walls (thinking I'd when my Mrs flicks her hair back and water goes everywhere).
 
Bought a new mixer shower cartridge as our shower had started dripping slightly, getting worse each time we used the shower.

Snapped some plastic bits trying to get the old one out, turned out the manufacturer's website told me to order the wrong part, and now the old cartridge is stuck on full hot flow, and I have no visible isolation valves for the shower pipes, so the mains water to the house is now isolated except for short bursts to fill the toilet cisterns, kettle, a couple of bottles etc :D correct cartridge on pre-1pm delivery for tomorrow.
 
My barrow is now showing a few signs of wear, so thought I will give it a clean up - it's only about 40yrs old and cost me £40 - that was a lot of money then for a barrow but it's been money well spent -It's carried tons of concrete/mortar/bricks /compost/soil /logs - You name it it carried it.
This is a farm barrow not a builders barrow which are just awful to use after this one -handles are wide so more stable -wheel is further back so weight is more even.

My first job is undo the bolts holding bin to the base. As you probably guessed no chance so have spent a day drilling out the bolts -I think they are high tensile but thanks to that box of Milwaukee HSS drill bits I purchased a few months ago I managed to drill them out.
So now got 4 temp bolts in so can still use it for a while but at least I can split it.

One bolt out with temp one in it's place -bottom left.

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DXP55 said:
My barrow is now showing a few signs of wear, so thought I will give it a clean up - it's only about 40yrs old and cost me £40 - that was a lot of money then for a barrow but it's been money well spent -It's carried tons of concrete/mortar/bricks /compost/soil /logs - You name it it carried it.
This is a farm barrow not a builders barrow which are just awful to use after this one -handles are wide so more stable -wheel is further back so weight is more even.

My first job is undo the bolts holding bin to the base. As you probably guessed no chance so have spent a day drilling out the bolts -I think they are high tensile but thanks to that box of Milwaukee HSS drill bits I purchased a few months ago I managed to drill them out.
So now got 4 temp bolts in so can still use it for a while but at least I can split it.

One bolt out with temp one in it's place -bottom left.

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I'd be tempted to reassemble with some SS bolts, I assume the ones in there are mushhead/cheesehead?
 
Started yesterday with installing a double waste (washer and dryer) on a standpipe. Had to abandon the dryer part as I'd lost the additional hose (i thought you re-routed the current hose)
Searched around yesterday, couldn't find it. Couldn't even think where it may be and the dryer is probably a year old at this point.
Had an idea last night and found the hose :D which also contained the brush for cleaning the heat exchanger I thought had never arrived with the machine.
2 appliances now using that standpipe, no leaks....so far..
 
Alright guys. Help please. :)

Continuing from my earlier posts abut how my kitchen programmer is rubbish because it's not a thermostat and purely a digital timer, I bought a new Drayton programmable timer all in one unit. I got the mains powered one as that's how the old one was wired in with 3 core and earth cable going to it. I've wired the new one in and having a quick fiddle and making the gas/fire sign light up (meaning to call for boiler), it is not turning the boiler on.

This is how the old one was wired below. So live in 1, neutral in 2, and then the black one was in the number 4 which is NO (Normally open). The terminal 3 had nothing in it as you can see and is labelled NC (Normally closed). There is 240v across live and neutral wire, and the live and black wire at all times when power is on.

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And this is how I did the new one. I did live and neutral into live and neutral. Then the black wire into the "LOAD ON" terminal.

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Should I have done the black wire into the load off? Or do I need to bridge the live wire to the common? Or bridge neutral to common? Or will it never work?


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Here is a guy installing the same but he has 4 core and earth cable and runs 2 switch wires to the top section. I can't do that as only have 3 core and earth, unless I cowboy it by using the earth earth and re-sheathing it. Don't really want to do that as then I will have to take apart the other end and re-wire.

 
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jaybee said:
Alright guys. Help please. :)

Continuing from my earlier posts abut how my kitchen programmer is rubbish because it's not a thermostat and purely a digital timer, I bought a new Drayton programmable timer all in one unit. I got the mains powered one as that's how the old one was wired in with 3 core and earth cable going to it. I've wired the new one in and having a quick fiddle and making the gas/fire sign light up (meaning to call for boiler), it is not turning the boiler on.

This is how the old one was wired below. So live in 1, neutral in 2, and then the black one was in the number 4 which is NO (Normally open). The terminal 3 had nothing in it as you can see and is labelled NC (Normally closed). There is 240v across live and neutral wire, and the live and black wire at all times when power is on.

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And this is how I did the new one. I did live and neutral into live and neutral. Then the black wire into the "LOAD ON" terminal.

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Z6GCsGFl.jpg



Should I have done the black wire into the load off? Or do I need to bridge the live wire to the common? Or bridge neutral to common? Or will it never work?


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Here is a guy installing the same but he has 4 core and earth cable and runs 2 switch wires to the top section. I can't do that as only have 3 core and earth, unless I cowboy it by using the earth earth and re-sheathing it. Don't really want to do that as then I will have to take apart the other end and re-wire.

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You need to bridge Live to Common to provide a live feed then, when the thermostat calls for heat, it will connect live to the Load and send the signal to the boiler.
 
Richie said:
You need to bridge Live to Common to provide a live feed then, when the thermostat calls for heat, it will connect live to the Load and send the signal to the boiler.
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I bridged it and it's working a treat now thanks Richie!
The new Drayton seems to over read the temperature by a good half a degree or so. Maybe 0.7. Not sure what that's all about. Perhaps there is an offset setting somewhere in the hidden menus. Not really important, will just set it to level we feel comfortable anyway regardless what it reads.
 
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Blasted my block paved drive yesterday to try and clean some of the crap from between blocks. Did not realise how much work it was and how messy it was. I'm going to try and sand it today. Got a lot of splashback :p.
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theone8181 said:
Blasted my block paved drive yesterday to try and clean some of the crap from between blocks. Did not realise how much work it was and how messy it was. I'm going to try and sand it today. Got a lot of splashback :p.
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The one time I've used a pressure washer I was handed waterproof trousers and big boots - worth it!
 
Put up some Christmas lights bit chilly with finger less gloves on the ladder and no they wont be getting turned on till December I just took advantage of the dry calm weather

I got to admit getting up the ladder at 55yrs old and needing 2 hip replacements and a knee it a lot easier then getting down the ladder :(
 
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theone8181 said:
Blasted my block paved drive yesterday to try and clean some of the crap from between blocks. Did not realise how much work it was and how messy it was. I'm going to try and sand it today. Got a lot of splashback :p.
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That’s where one of these comes into their own:

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pinkpound said:
Put up some Christmas lights bit chilly with finger less gloves on the ladder and no they wont be getting turned on till December I just took advantage of the dry calm weather

I got to admit getting up the ladder at 55yrs old and needing 2 hip replacements and a knee it a lot easier then getting down the ladder :(
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To make it more interesting take a SDS drill up with you. Happy days :D
 
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