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Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 10:04 am
by zildjian
Don't imagine its just me & We know Finade like to break out the the toolkit and investigate!

my own meddling has mixed results if I'm honest, and there's a sliding scale of success usually the smaller the item the less likely its going to survive.

The tractor in example fared pretty well, big and robust passed through a couple of owners before me and made it onto a low-loader off to Norfolk still running on all cylinders despite my best efforts,

Electrical hand tools though not so good survival rate around here, both strimmer's expired, one survived the other for a short time but now I have a scythe instead.

I blame both built-in obsolescence, and patience deficit in equal parts :(

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 10:52 am
by Sheriff
I do fiddle with this from time to time, but with little success.

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Also, since I've got 4 cack-handed kids, I've got quite good at replacing broken screens on phones, tablets and laptops.

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 11:18 am
by zildjian
I'm going with 'light at the end of the tunnel' on that project as it's door cards are in place :mrgreen:

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 12:25 pm
by lamp-it
this was me in a promo picture from a spell in shopfitting\

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mechanicalls though i am not very proficient at

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 6:00 pm
by rubberrat
I always seem to have stuff in bits here. The thought of paying someone to come out and fix something really makes me sweat.


Anyway, the dishwasher has been playing up so...

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poor starting generator

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 6:19 pm
by zildjian
Generator didn't *make it* today BTW I dissembled it and laid out all the part of the carb, cleaned everything up put it all back together again (carefully)
added some fresh fuel, primed the fuel system throughout but that dfghjklvbnm would just NOT run







there aren't many things that make me lose my cool but I have a special hatred of things-that-don't-work :geek:

Not buying another one, thats it

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 6:38 pm
by rubberrat
Damn, neighbour gave me one of those horrid little sip gennys, still boxed - I sold it for beer money - could have sent it your way.

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 7:12 pm
by zildjian
I know that knife is 'you' if I'd been shown it cold I would've recognised your work anywhere, but is it, you know

safe! :o

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 20th, 2015, 7:27 pm
by rubberrat
Yeah.. i licked the blade...still here to tell the tale. Funny hairstyle now though.

Re: Who here likes tinkering with things?

Posted: June 21st, 2015, 12:47 am
by keeflester
I've been tinkering all my days, now I make a living at it. Lol