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My previous property in Norfolk had the back door held in place with expanding foam! Not a screw anywhere. It always seemed to be awkward, I found out why when I came to change it,!!! Proper bodge.

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There was a story circulated at the ROF during and after the last war about a welder being hanged for bodging the fillet welds on AA gun armour. The armour failed in action and gunners killed. Traced back to the individual and he 'vanished'.

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Peverils post was interesting...wonder if he was a sabotouer?

Sometimes on a job i mix sawdust with woodglue to conceal screws..mostly exterior and high.

Crushed brick dust and gobbo - gives a tidy finish- bit of white spirit in gloss..called 'speed'- gloss and undercoat mix...a friday house they were known as.

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Had a Honda S800 a long time ago that developed a peculiar noise, took it to the Honda dealer on Ilkeston rd at the end of triumph rd. The mechanic said " its the big ends mate" I told him that big ends don't sound like that. He then told me that they were needle roller bearings! And because the crank was pressed with the conrods it would be expensive!. Got home, dropped the oil, filled it with ep90 gear oil put it up for sale,sold it two day's later. Ker bloody ching. (Proper bodging)

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Sorry Waddo but i think that's a really nasty trick to pull on someone. The poor sod not only spent all his money on the bike but then faced a big bill for the cost of a new engine.

Not impressed...

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Moral's go out of the window when your 17 and skint, and I would think that the chap should have brought someone who was a bit savvy to check out the motor, the same as I should have done! All part of life's learning curve!.

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On 11/03/2018 at 11:18 PM, Rob.L said:

matchsticks in the screw holes

 

I used matchsticks in a screwhole one day last week - worked a treat, too :)

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Now then................. Could you bodgers have a look through your collections of bolts please.

I need 2x  1/2"  BSF   bolts  4 1/2" long  ..................

1914 Sunbeam 16-20 

I have had to strengthen engine bearers by adding additional aluminium and the original 4" bolts are not long enough to go through chassis and bearer. 

I do not want to use any other screw thread and it must be a bolt not a set screw.

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Don't tell anyone, but I am a bit of a bodger annawl. When I was a bit fitter than I am now, I used to come to Nottm, stay at Mams (after pop had gone to the Great Grey Goose in the sky) and do her decorating. Nice low ceilings not like our 9ft ones. Anyway, where the pipe went up through the ceiling there was a gaping space all the way around it sooooooo, to fill the gap I shoved a bit of screwed up newspaper in gently and stuck a park drive packet over the lot. After a few splodges of paint it looked very good. No one knew, but I often wonder what the people who bought the house at a later time must have thought of the decorater. :rolleyes:

If anyone needs a cheap decorator, my rates are low.:rotfl:

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Will have a look when I get back from vacation, end of March, sounds like a couple of head bolt's that I might have. Let me know if you get a result earlier.

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4 hours ago, siddha said:

I need 2x  1/2"  BSF   bolts  4 1/2" long 

 

Have you tried a local engineering works?  I could try asking up here is you are stuck.  Most of my old bolts are short ones.

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All the works round here use metric.

I need a real old fashioned outfit to find BSF stuff.

May have to make them if I cannot find them.

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One old trick with a matchstick or how to plug a leak in lead pipe.

 

So you go to repair an outside loo but the stop cock wont turn fully off so you are unable to solder. Take your gimlet and bore a hole just above said stop cock, now you can solder the repair. Take half a match stick and tap into gimlet hole the wood swells and stops the leak, finally take hammer and flat screwdriver and gently dress the lead pipe to cover the match to hide it.

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Yes it is still taught and practiced including lead burning. Roofers do a bit if it is not to difficult and there are specialist firms that do the likes of historic buildings, they make some very good money, Bingham's out at would you believe Bingham used to do a lot back in the 80s & 90s but I don't know whether they are still going.

 

I replaced the weathering on St Pauls Daybrook back in the late 70s, plenty of scrap lead for NADVAS lads, I was very popular at that time as I could get beeswax from the TA REME at the same timesmile2

 

Don't know whether you know John (Ned) Stilman but he was REME sergeant as well as a NADVAS member so he organised that.

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First house I rented had a lead gas pipe running through the house, at one point it got damaged & someone repaired the gas leak with a patch made from a cycle inner tube, clamped on the pipe with a jubilee hose clip !

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18 hours ago, NewBasfordlad said:

Yes it is still taught and practiced including lead burning. Roofers do a bit if it is not to difficult and there are specialist firms that do the likes of historic buildings, they make some very good money, Bingham's out at would you believe Bingham used to do a lot back in the 80s & 90s but I don't know whether they are still going.

 

I replaced the weathering on St Pauls Daybrook back in the late 70s, plenty of scrap lead for NADVAS lads, I was very popular at that time as I could get beeswax from the TA REME at the same timesmile2

 

Don't know whether you know John (Ned) Stilman but he was REME sergeant as well as a NADVAS member so he organised that.

I knew both John Stilman and his brother Chris. I also knew their father Jim. They owned the Madonna Press just by the railway/tram bridge on the ring road in Basford.

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^^^^^^^^That's the one Phil big shooting mate back then also a 'mess mate'.

 

Crafty bugger our Ned, changed the order code for beeswax by one letter got a hundred weight instead of a pound, a beeswax and tallow mix was used to lubricate lead bullets for black powder shooting. He got the beeswax I got the lead and tallow.

 

Great pity everything when pear shaped for him......

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