…by hand is hard work, and leaves me with achy fingers. Continue reading “Metal bending…”
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All of the clamps!
Sometime one does a make, and it doesn’t quite work out. It is then remade with some changes, and then glued the wrong way Continue reading “All of the clamps!”
Solar PV at the allotment
This morning’s little job has been to have a look at getting the solar PV working at the allotment.
For some unknown reason the rectifier burnt out, maybe due to a mechanically cause loosed connection, maybe something else. The fuse blew so hopefully nothing else damaged. The charge controller has been reconnected to the solar panels for now and seems to be showing charging at 12.2v. It is sunny today so I expected a bit more voltage then that. The panels are outputting 45v open circuit. I will leave it running to see what happens.
Repair Cafes
I haven’t blogged for a while.
This has partly been because I have been too busy with other work stuff but mainly because website upkeep doesn’t come naturally to me. However, I will try to blog more now that my Wife, Sue, has taken over the running of the site and has put up a new page of Projects to show what we have been working on.
But today we have been at a repair cafe, one of three that we regularly attend now. This time I repaired a power supply wire for a phone music dock, and a 45 year old transistor radio. I wasn’t able to repair the fancy steam iron as the heating element in the steam pressure tank had failed but the client will contact the manufacturer regarding spares or repair service as a last resort.
Also today I am attempting to write this blog while sitting in a cafe in Chorlton having lunch. I am writing it on a Planet Computers Gemini PDA, the modern replacement for my long dead, and much loved Psion 5 Organiser.
This will explain the lack of photos, formatting, and hyperlinks. I will work all that out another day.
Now, another cuppa tea is needed….
2018 – Books I’ve read – 001, 002
A History Of Electric Cars by Nigel Burton
Trouble at’ mill…
…When this job came along.
Can you build a miniature mill?
Yup, lets have a meeting.
Can you make that ten miniature mills?
A Hatchet job…
came into the workshop this week.
A fellow fixer at the Manchester Repair Cafe, hosted by Stitched Up, asked if I could repair or replace a broken handle shaft on her hand axe. A straight forward job I am happy to do for a friend.
Western Approaches Week 1
June 2017 was the start of an interesting and complex project for Maker of Things.
It began with a query from Big Heritage simply asking: “Alfred. Are you up for recreating an entire 1940s street scene?”
Of course I replied: “OK. Where, when and what budget?”
2018 is going to be…
The year I focus more on my home. That will include all the admin for this website.
I am just experimenting and defying my inner Luddite by doing this on my phone. Hopefully it will mean I post more spontaneously instead of waiting until I am at my laptop and then forgetting or being distracted.
Anyway, I hope anyone who finds and reads this has a good year.
Now how do I add images….?
Time and Tide…
…Waits for no man, so the saying goes. As it was going to be a relatively short visit to the Time and Tide museum in Great Yarmouth I decided to record some video to help jog my memory later on. Continue reading “Time and Tide…”