What Did you do Today 2022

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

We've got epdm on our clubhouse roof. One side which was properly stuck down has lasted well, the other side wasn't stuck down and has shrunk, causing rips where the nails are. Moral – make sure it's stuck down properly

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Nails? I'd have a word (or three) with whoever installed it!

Rob

[jimmy bParticipant @jimmyb]

Derek,

I just used corrugated zinc sheeting. Bought the exact length required.

Never had to worry about the roof since!

Jim

[derek hall 1Participant @derekhall1]

Morning everyone,

Thanks for the advice on what to do re my leaking workshop flat roof.

I think I will replace the area where the felt has perished, then when the weather improves I will strip all the existing felt off and check the OSB boarding it is laid on. I should have done it last Summer!

Meanwhile I can at least look at the costs of alternative solutions to roofing felt. I have to say that the felt I laid down when I built my workshop (about the same size and shape as a single garage), around 2008 (or was it 2004?) has lasted well to be honest….

All the best

Derek

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Joy oh joy! Changing motorbike tyres. My changing kit: Windex for tyre lube. Very slim Japanese 240mm tyre levers with nice thin pointy ends. "Bead Buddies" to hold the bead down in the well opposite where I am levering at. Talcum powder to lubricate the inner tube so it does not bind in use. And copious amounts of colorful language. Ooops, forgot the secret weapon: a Large rubber mallet so when you get to the last six inches of tyre that has to be stretched over the edge of the rim, instead of stretching it with tyre levers and cursing and swearing and carrying on, three good belts on the side of the tyre, one at each end of the bit to go on, then one in the middle, will usually pop it on without any of the usualy last bit stressing and dramas.

The final joy came when I went to put the back wheel back in the Norton frame. The new tyre would not fit between the swingarm legs. Bridgestone's BT45 tyre rated as 4.00" wide by 18" measures up at 4.560" wide. And no the seller will not take it back because it has been on a rim and has tyre lever marks on it, naturally. So I am out $200 for a garden ornament.

Happy. New. Year.

ON a brighter note, the other end of the bike is looking spiffy with shiny new tyre (which does fit!) and matching gaiters, new fork tubes and bushes and a proper twin leading shoe racing brake. Vrooom vrooom!

(IN the real world, the floor of my shed goes at the bottom. But not in ME Forum world for some reason. Sorry. It looks more like an artist's impression of the kind of wheelstands this Harley-powered Norton will be pulling when I get it on the road.   )

 

Edited By Hopper on 29/12/2022 08:05:51

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 29/12/2022 17:46:20

[IanTParticipant @iant]

Moment of Hope:

I discovered this evening that SolidEdge has a directly orthographic ( "2D" ) mode – perhaps possible for me.

I've lost count of how many times I've stated that Solid Edge is both a 2D and 3D hybrid CAD system Nigel – but I think it may be worth one last try – although frankly I have no idea what you have tried (and seemingly failed) to do this time around.

Using Solid Edge CE – just open a new "Draft" document and then select the "Sketching" tab on the top line.

You can then 2D draft to your hearts content.

These '2D' sketching tools work exactly the same as when used in '3D' sketching mode, including constraints, dimensioning, keystoke short cuts etc. If the drawing 'page' is too small for you just select a larger page size or a different drawing scale. When finished drawing, you can either just save your work as a native 'Draft' (.dft) file or export it (translate) it to a PDF, DXL or DWG file.

If you need guidance on using SE sketching tools – then just watch any YouTube on 3D sketching – it's the same.

SE Sketching Basics

Regards,

IanT

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Ian –

Thankyou.

I was trying to follow a Siemen's web-site tutorial, carefully, by the step-by-step instructions. These are like painting-by-numbers: obey the numbers and voila: brilliant art without understanding art. I can't learn methods from videos.

So…. follow the steps and I'll be right…….

Step 1: Select "Ordered" in some special menu – no definitions or explanations. I did that, uncomprehendingly.

Step 2: Open the specified exercise drawing. Oh dear – I can't find it!

Complete stop. The normal Windows file-searching tool failed to find it, too.

It was not using the example that caused me grief, but finding it. It did not exist!.

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I still have TurboCAD 2021 installed. I can manage its 2D mode, and use approximate copy-and-paste printing to fit the page without scale; rough work, simple level far below what is possible with TC.

TurboCAD uses its own file-type by default, but offers interchangeable formats too. Of them, I need only the occasional .jpg copy, e.g. for here.

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Hi Nigel

As I mentioned back in September, you have to download the example files and extract them to a convenient place where you know where they are. Assuming you are looking for Sketch_A, you'll find it here.

Rob

Links to https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/data_services/resources/se/2020/se_help/common/nonLocalized/courseware_datasets/spse01510/sketch_A.zip

[IanTParticipant @iant]

Nigel – I don't know what exercise you are doing?

As far as I'm aware, there is no "Ordered" (or "Synchronous" ) mode in Draft

Just try opening a 'Draft' document (as I've suggested) and use the 'Sketching' tab and start drawing with a few lines and circles to begin with.

If I can do it, then I'm sure you can too – your TurboCAD drawings are better than I ever managed.

Regards,

IanT

Edited By IanT on 29/12/2022 13:37:03

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Ian –

I was just following the web-site's own instructions, and that gave the actions I described, starting with finding that Ordered setting. No mention of "Draft' .

I can't use SE now though.

It overwhelmed me with a 3D "tuition" exercise some while ago. I abandoned it until yesterday, then that new failure confirmed SolidEdge is too hard. So I removed the lot completely: both the exercises so far, and the programme itself.

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Thank you for your compliment about my TurboCAD work!

I have no idea why the pump appeared in wire-frame, not its original rendered form. The wagon drawing took many hours of trial-and-error, right on my limit; so is incomplete and has no detailing. I doubt I could repeat either of those drawings now, especially as TurboCAD's 3D mode is even harder than SolidEdge.

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I still have TC if I need a 2D CAD drawing; and might still see if I can partially rebuild my dismantled drawing-board. Though its original form is beyond reconstruction, I still have all the parts, and all intact.

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Oddly, I received and deleted an e-post from Alibre's sellers only a week or so ago.

I had tried Alibre via the MEW offer, as potentially easier than the TurboCAD I had already bought up-front a few years previously.

The magazine subscription I bought, ignored my requested starting issue-number, creating a 2 editions gap. Unable to catch up, then fearing costly purchase or open-ended subscriptions to Alibre in the next year, I deleted the programme.

I told the Alibre publishers this soon after, when they started sending advertising rhubarb. That must have been at least two years ago!

[Ex contributorParticipant @mgnbuk]

Joy oh joy! Changing motorbike tyres.

Not one of my favorite occupations either, Hopper.

Seems to get harder with every set – maybe me getting old, but modern tyres seem to have very stiff sidewalls. Breaking the bead & getting the old tyre off the rim can be a real fight. The time may well be approaching when I pay someone else to do the job on a "ride in – ride out" basis.

Do you change the tyre on your bench as pictured ? I always do mine on the floor, so that I can kneel on the edge of the tyre to keep the side opposite the tyre levers pressed fully into the well in the middle of the rim. I use the standard BMW "R" series toolkit tyre levers – only about 6" long, but comfortable to use & more than enough leverage – don't usually have to resort to a mallet to get the last bit to pop over the rim, as a firm push with the heel of my hand on a well lubed tyre is usually enough.. Can't say that I get "tyre lever marks" using these. I used to use hand soap applied with a paint brush as a lubricant but splashed out on a tub of proper tyre soap when I had two pairs of tryes to fit last year & I think this worked better than my previous method.

I'm not overly suprised a nominally 4" wide tyre is too wide for your Norton SA – the original would have been a 3.50 / 3.60 x 19 " ? IIRC 4" tyres didn't come in until the arrival of the '70s "superbikes" like the CB750 & Z1 & were probably not available at the time the Norton was designed / built.

Nigel B.

[Clive FarrarParticipant @clivefarrar90441]

Months ago you may have seen my thread about trying to source ready made cross drilled clamp bolts for the mini lathe fixed steady. I was trying to avoid making.

As expected rocking horse dropping are easier to find so today i found some 19 mm bar and turned the shank down. Threaded the tip M8 and then gave up due to cold .

Still to cross drilling tapping and machine the flats. That can be tomorrows task.

I had been doing other tasks with glow engines and lighting before hand. So i was not being a 5 minute wimp.

Happy New year to you all.

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Derek

only just seen your post about your leaking roof, commiserations I also have a leaky workshop roof, mine is where I joined two adjacent sheds together and created a box gutter between the two to carry away the rain from one of the sheds. Was felted with torch on felt about 12 years ago and has finally given up and the OSB board used for the base of the box is now thoroughly soaked and dripping, running the dehumidifier 24/7 to try and reduce the moisture content but appear to be losing that battle. Repair scheme is to cut away the felt lining the box gutter, remove and replace with new the OSB board and I am contemplating fibreglassing the complete box in one go, not fibreglassed a roof before but there are plenty of vids on how to do it on YouTube, only problem is I need at least one if not two very dry days which are find to find in the depths of winter. These problems always happen when it’s inconvenient to effect repairs. Had contemplated the EDPM rubber method but reservations about its integrity with the local feline population using the workdhop roof for recreation purposes. Dave W

[Stuart Smith 5Participant @stuartsmith5]

Derek

Just seen your post about your workshop roof.

I can recommend EPDM rubber for the roof.

I made a garden room this summer and did the roof with Classic Bond EPDM on OSB 3 Sterling board. It is easy to install. The adhesive is applied to half the roof at a time with a paint roller and the rubber sheet rolled on top and pressed down with a brush. I have never used it before but found it straightforward.

Stuart

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Motorcycle work ground to a halt to day after I stepped into the bathroom and found the floor covered in water, which was ignoring the floor drain and spilling out onto the bedroom carpet. Source was the isolation valve for the toilet cistern leaking out around the spindle where the rubber o-ring had gone hard.

But the house — and plumbing — is 25 years old so "obsolete". No o-rings from the local hardware store's tap repair kits etc fitted, I found out when I got home and tried them. So had to go 10 miles into town to the big hardware store to buy one 9mm x 2.5mm o-ring. Good thing I bought a few of the next sizes smaller and larger while I was there, because when I got home, their alleged 9mm o-ring was a 10mm. But the next size smaller did the job and equanimity was restored.

Nothing is ever simple!

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by mgnbuk on 29/12/2022 15:01:18:

Joy oh joy! Changing motorbike tyres.

Not one of my favorite occupations either, Hopper.

Seems to get harder with every set – maybe me getting old, but modern tyres seem to have very stiff sidewalls. Breaking the bead & getting the old tyre off the rim can be a real fight. The time may well be approaching when I pay someone else to do the job on a "ride in – ride out" basis.

Do you change the tyre on your bench as pictured ? I always do mine on the floor, so that I can kneel on the edge of the tyre to keep the side opposite the tyre levers pressed fully into the well in the middle of the rim. I use the standard BMW "R" series toolkit tyre levers – only about 6" long, but comfortable to use & more than enough leverage – don't usually have to resort to a mallet to get the last bit to pop over the rim, as a firm push with the heel of my hand on a well lubed tyre is usually enough.. Can't say that I get "tyre lever marks" using these. I used to use hand soap applied with a paint brush as a lubricant but splashed out on a tub of proper tyre soap when I had two pairs of tryes to fit last year & I think this worked better than my previous method.

I'm not overly suprised a nominally 4" wide tyre is too wide for your Norton SA – the original would have been a 3.50 / 3.60 x 19 " ? IIRC 4" tyres didn't come in until the arrival of the '70s "superbikes" like the CB750 & Z1 & were probably not available at the time the Norton was designed / built.

Nigel B.

Hi Nigel, The Atlas 750 was unusual in taking a 4.00 x 18 standard. Been running them on my Atlas and my two Atlas-framed Harleys for over 30 years with no previous dramas. They all measure at 4.00 to 4.10" wide fitted to the rim. This Bridgestone measured 4.560 fitted to the rim. Way out of the ballpark.

Yes I got smart at last and fitted the tyre on the bench, by using two of those "Bead Buddies" clips to hold the bead down in the well on the opposite side to where I am levering. My days of working on the floor, standing doubled over and kneeling down etc are over I am afraid. Got to do things the easy way these days.

I used to have a pair of those nifty small BMW tyre levers in my R65 toolkit and always used them for changes. But forgot to hold them back when I sold the bike. My current R100RS has short but much wider tyre levers that are not so good. The ones I use now are the closest to the old BM ones, but sort of one size bigger.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Another +1 for EP{DM roofong.

Rubber for Roofs have a caculator. You insert the dimensions, and it calculates the size required, quite a sizeable overlap. (which is cut off when the job is finished ) then you specify which "trim" you require .

Ordered post midday, arrived at 08:00 next morning (East Anglia, UK ) came with plenty of ring shank nails

(DON'T get them in the wrong place; Almost impossible to remove. )

Fastened down withe the supplied adhesive, and has survived without showing any sign of distress.for over 8 years, as expected.

The garage roof was guaranteed for 20 years, but has a llfe expectancy close to 50, so the workshop won't be reroofed in my lifetime.

Howard

[Les RileyParticipant @lesriley75593]

Finished my Lathe crane and faceplate "extenders" so I fiddled about loading and centralising the flywheel for my 6" traction engine ready to start machining.

Les

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Yesterday was a bit of a disaster, sitting there in the lounge and all of a sudden power goes off, checked the distribution board and the earth leakage circuit breaker has tripped and won’t reset, check the circuit mcb’s and kitchen and conservatory has tripped. Went round isolating the appliances and eventually found the problem was the washing machine had stopped mid cycle. The appliance is covered with insurance so went online and got authority for repair and then had to arrange with Bosch for repair. Bosch always want the Fdr number and the Enr number from the appliance to arrange for correct spares to effect any repairs, I thought they will be lucky as the numbers are on a plate inside the machine door and machine has failed mid cycle so door firmly locked and unable to open. However fortunately the appliance has had a previous repair which meant the necessary numbers are stored in the Bosch computer files so no problem. I asked the call handler if there was any way to open the machine door in order to retrieve the full load of wet washing that it contained, he gave me instructions to find the emergency release and did warn me to have plenty of towels ready to mop up the deluge of water that would exit the machine, he wasn’t wrong a considerable amount of water exited most of which I managed to miss with the towels, still according to the wife it was all my fault, it always is strange that. Anyway repair is scheduled for Friday all I have to do now is figure out a way of removing the remaining water from the drum, siphoning seems favourite but may be the filter drain would be less messy. Why do domestic disasters always happen during holiday periods. Dave W

[JellyParticipant @jelly]

I bottled 22lt of Bramley Apple Cider, after the secondary fermentation completed (maleic acid into lactic acid, giving a softer mouth feel and buttery aftertaste)… Not tried it yet, but based on the SG, it should be rocket fuel at about 9.8%; we have friends round for NYE so I guess we will find out!

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Somewhere in the middle of that process I took delivery of an inexpensive chinese diesel heater which arrived about 3 weeks sooner that expected based on normal AliExpress shipping.

I am still waiting on the MQTT controlled "RF Blaster" to allow my smarthome system to emulate the heater's remote and link it to the environmental control system in the workshop, so not in a great hurry to set it up.

But as I'm planning to put the fuel supply outside and run a hard line in copper microbore, and duct the heating to specific locations based on a CFD model of the workshop, getting it positioned so I can start measuring up for the various connections etc should probably be a task for tomorrow, Cider–permitting of course!

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Really, continued what I started yesterday.

I took some measurements of my steam-wagon chassis and some of the other parts to be able to start drawing a GA.

Also started designing the cladding for the boiler; the drawing to illustrate an enquiry here about materials.

These two drawings in TurboCAD, and threw up some strange behaviour and queries; so the boiler one is now racing though a glass string across the Atlantic floor to be a query on the TC users' forum. (It might even be there by now, about 15 minutes after posting it!)

Right – 23:55 GMT.

Time to pour a Wee Dram!

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The Edited on bit…

Out at front of the house, plenty of people still up judging by house lights but no-one out other than whoever was letting off fireworks somewhere beyond. Watched them for a while (where they rose above intervening houses) then came back into the warm.

Realised my boiler query doesn't need a drawing anyway! Useful exercise I suppose.

Ah well, that was the year that was. It's now quarter of an hour into the next.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Edited By Nigel Graham 2 on 01/01/2023 00:17:23

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Please use the 2023 thread from now until next year

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