woodhutt
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I do like restoring things if that counts. Particularly old mantle clocks which often involves repairing the movements as well as refurbishing the cases.
Pete
Pete
Ha! This literally happened to me last month with a erbauer cordless mitre saw.MikeG.":31tiva4e said:How many repairs, though, amount to taking something apart to look for the fault, finding nothing wrong, cleaning it up, lubricating and putting it back together again.....and bingo, the damn thing works? The most frustrating thing about that is that you haven't learnt anything.
Westwood":ix36bvvx said:......... mending a cricket stump. Anybody know what wood they're usually made from ? .......
This is why we fix things. that satisfaction and appreciation.NickM":39erw50z said:My son saved up to buy a racing quad copter. He ordered it before lockdown and it never arrived. We got a refund, he reordered another and eventually we got it. After patiently waiting nearly 2 months, on his second go with it it burst into flames! I felt really upset for him so as well as pursuing the seller, we set about trying to repair it.
They have very small electronic components call ESCs (electronic speed controllers) - in this case one for each of the four motors. They're about 3/4" x 1/2" circuit boards with three wires in and three out. It was one of these which had gone up in smoke.
The replacement (which we managed to source in the UK) cost around £8. An evening's soldering yesterday and (amazingly in my view because electronics are "magic" in my mind and black magic at that) it's back in the air.
A happy son, and it was a lot of fun fixing it together.
It was a very different exercise to getting my Wrigley truck back running again - that involved bigger spanners rather than a magnifying glass!
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