Show us what you're doing at work today

[biggs682]

Spent about an hour trying to match an oil cooler to an unidentified engine , eventually i got it and informed my customer of part no & price with availability

only to be told about 10 mins later his customer has bought one elsewhere , so that was an hour of my life wasted

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Spent about an hour trying to match an oil cooler to an unidentified engine , eventually i got it and informed my customer of part no & price with availability

View attachment 362972


only to be told about 10 mins later his customer has bought one elsewhere , so that was an hour of my life wasted

Sounds like one of our customers. "Can you give me all the dimensions of xxx part so that I can get one off e-bay?".

 

[Oldfentiger]

Some years ago, while working at a bearing supplier, a bloke came in for replacement bearings for his Indesit washing machine.
After a bit of research I found that a SKF wheel bearing kit for a Hillman Imp had all the bits he needed, including seals and circlip

 

[keithmac]

Ducati 749 service including belts/ sparkplugs/ airfilters followed by a Vespa GT200 rear brake line (every bloody panel off!).

 

[hobo]

Been wiring this up the past week

 

[smokeysmoo]

Wondering why builders/workmen think it's ok to pour cement/concrete/render etc down highway gullys

I bet they don't chuck it in the gullys outside their own houses

 

[woodbutcher]

Ducati 749 service including belts/ sparkplugs/ airfilters followed by a Vespa GT200 rear brake line (every bloody panel off!).

View attachment 364623 View attachment 364624

Bloody hell l wish your workshop was in SW France, l can't find any local guys who will even consider working on my 748 never mind the beetle!

 

[screenman]

No pictures but helping out at a national cycling championship.

 

[midlife]

View attachment 364650 Been wiring this up the past week

Just out of curiosity what is it? Some sort of computer network..?

 

[keithmac]

Bloody hell l wish your workshop was in SW France, l can't find any local guys who will even consider working on my 748 never mind the beetle!

Shame you weren't a bit closer!, for some reason most people are frightened of Ducatis and italian bikes in general.

Done quite a few MV F3/ F4's as well.

Closing shims on the Ducati's are the most technical job, if you get them wron you can snap the valves!.

 

[gbb]

Just before the holiday we had a breakdown on a flow wrapper...no drive to the heater jaws. En route you're always thinking about probable causes...chain or timing belt broken ?
Got there, covers off...oh. all looked ok.

It turned out to be the CV joint, under the rubber boot was a shear pin....it had...errr. ..sheared unsurprisingly.

 

[gbb]

It's my old Henry...I have two I've rescued over the years and use them for workshop use. ..this one was loaned to a family member who TBH abused it. Not really bothered but thought I'd strip it and see if anything obvious is making it noisy and slow to slow down if that makes sense.
It's well abused, looks like it's had a rough life even before I rescued it.
It works...shrug shoulders...re assemble it and carry on.

 

[Cuchilo]

View attachment 372114
It's my old Henry...I have two I've rescued over the years and use them for workshop use. ..this one was loaned to a family member who TBH abused it. Not really bothered but thought I'd strip it and see if anything obvious is making it noisy and slow to slow down if that makes sense.
It's well abused, looks like it's had a rough life even before I rescued it.
It works...shrug shoulders...re assemble it and carry on.

Given the copper in that motor i'm guessing that not a Henry hoover

 

[Cycleops]

Just before the holiday we had a breakdown on a flow wrapper...no drive to the heater jaws. En route you're always thinking about probable causes...chain or timing belt broken ?
Got there, covers off...oh. all looked ok. View attachment 368443 It turned out to be the CV joint, under the rubber boot was a shear pin....it had...errr. ..sheared unsurprisingly.

All fixed by that tool in the lower RH corner.

 

[slowmotion]

I tried a sample pour of Weber Five Star precision grout. Odd stuff, but it's supposed to be good for 45N/mm2 after 7 days and it doesn't shrink.