Thread: Show us your bodgy DIY

This weekends DIY project involved wondering why the cistern is leaking into the bowl and the watertank pump keeps popping on every 30 minutes

So watch a youtube that explains that the valve seal probably needs replaced

Pull cistern apart to find valve seal that is probably as old as the house and completely crumbling so try to pull the old crumbly seal off and watch it crumble more and leave half of itself embedded inside the assembly so then dig the straggles out with a screwdriver and a stanley knife

Remember that the downstairs toilet is almost new and probably has a good seal (if the sizes match) and since the downstairs toilet never gets used its seal can be cannibalised until a replacement is sourced

Spanky salvage seal in a fetching orange hue

Different model cistern but looks like the diameters match

Slip it on to find it doesn't look quite right but give it try anyway and find it is still leaking.

Then pull the seal off again and apply slippery squeezy liquid to aid with the seal slipping into its seat

All's quiet on the waterfront pump again, jobs a good'un and my late great plumber grandad is smiling down from his pearly pew at this chip off the old block

Took the ol' 650 out for a burn yesterday, and unfortunately one of the spotlight brackets gave up the Lulu at 200kph.



Unfortunately the wires were obviously installed and sealed before the rest of the front end.



The spotlights ain't fitting through there.


The quick n easy bodge.




Don't like spotlights anyway.



Though if someone happens to have a bracket, I give great oil massages.

Bring the broken one to a local fab shop, looks pretty basic. They'll have the apprentice right on it.

Was thinking that, until testing it out after, and it seems to have been a bodgy fix of a slightly annoying buzzy rattle.


The apprentice can stick to doing Lao Khao runs for the time being.

Originally Posted by Looper

This weekends DIY project involved wondering why the cistern is leaking into the bowl and the watertank pump keeps popping on every 30 minutes

So watch a youtube that explains that the valve seal probably needs replaced

Pull cistern apart to find valve seal that is probably as old as the house and completely crumbling so try to pull the old crumbly seal off and watch it crumble more and leave half of itself embedded inside the assembly so then dig the straggles out with a screwdriver and a stanley knife

Remember that the downstairs toilet is almost new and probably has a good seal (if the sizes match) and since the downstairs toilet never gets used its seal can be cannibalised until a replacement is sourced

Spanky salvage seal in a fetching orange hue

Different model cistern but looks like the diameters match

Slip it on to find it doesn't look quite right but give it try anyway and find it is still leaking.

Then pull the seal off again and apply slippery squeezy liquid to aid with the seal slipping into its seat

All's quiet on the waterfront pump again, jobs a good'un and my late great plumber grandad is smiling down from his pearly pew at this chip off the old block

Nasty business, good luck

Originally Posted by Edmond

one of the spotlight brackets gave up the Lulu at 200kph

Lulu's bodges sound a tad more sexy and exciting than my soggy cistern seals

Originally Posted by BLD

Nasty business, good luck

It's all good Lao and I am backing out nasty boys with gay abandon this week.

I feel the 5 bar pressure is on to show some competence in this particular school of bodgery given that I carry master-plumber genes in my germline

My mum recently had to call out a plumber to fix her sink. The (very wrinkly old) plumber rocked up and recognised my mum's unusual surname and said he did his apprenticeship under a plumber by that name. It turned out he did his apprenticeship as a teenager under my Grandad about 50 years ago. Small world.

Reamer Backsiphonage is pretty unusual

Originally Posted by Looper

Lulu's bodges sound a tad more sexy and exciting than my soggy cistern seals



It's all good Lao and I am backing out nasty boys with gay abandon this week.

I feel the 5 bar pressure is on to show some competence in this particular school of bodgery given that I carry master-plumber genes in my germline

My mum recently had to call out a plumber to fix her sink. The (very wrinkly old) plumber rocked up and recognised my mum's unusual surname and said he did his apprenticeship under a plumber by that name. It turned out he did his apprenticeship as a teenager under my Grandad about 50 years ago. Small world.

Oh man, i wish i was a Plumber. When things go pear shaped those rascals are in the box seat and have literally got us over a barrel and charge what they like. I had one guy say to me that my shit was his bread n butter and if i kept shitting he kept working. Cheeky bugger, but he did fix the problem and the wife was happy . Happy wife happy life apparently

Originally Posted by BLD

When things go pear shaped those rascals are in the box seat

Robbin coonts they are innit (except my diamond geezer late great grandad and his crystal Guinness jug of course) which is why I DIY whatever I can

The replacement washer for downstairs is wingin its way to me from the eBays for a princely $7.49 inc postage

Originally Posted by Looper

the downstairs toilet never gets used its seal can be cannibalised until a replacement is sourced

eBay seal arrived

Stretched it over and popped it in the slot using the squeezy liquid trick

Turds away

And she is not leaking a drip so the pump sleeps quietly

It is good to have the downstairs toilet working again since it is further away from the lounge and bedroom so you can really let rip without fear of being heard

I threw the wife's 'pressure cooker' into the recycling bin, pissed off at yet another waste of money for the crap she buys from Facebook.

I don't like to linger in the gardener's petri dish of a kitchen but paused long enough to notice this. He obviously took a liking to it.

So the can and brick are to hold the lid on when using? Looks like an accident waiting to happen.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Looks like an accident waiting to happen.

Looks like he is the chief engineer for a Titanic touring submersible.

Originally Posted by Barty

Looks like he is the chief engineer for a Titanic touring submersible.

Maybe how the view port was held in. Just missing duct tape.

^I especially like the staggered off-centre stacking of the tin-can+brick. A real touch of Thai safety engineering!


Off with the original factory Jaguar struts, now sagging badly, and on with the cheap eBay replacements

While I was there I thought I would treat her to a new tie-wrap for the boot access. The original bodge had gone brittle and snapped off leaving only an inch to grab hold of

It would have been much easier to do the tie-wrap before the struts as the rejuventaed struts were super-strong and meant holding the boot down at 45 degrees with my chin to thread the tie-wrap was bruising work

Did a real pro-job by even removing the old tie-wrap. She can't say I'm not good to her.

Oven stopped heating so first investigate and remove the carbonated spider that has been adding that individual flavour nuance to my pizzas for the past couple of years

Whip off the back panel

Whip out the element

Whip it off the connectors

Inspect the damage and order a new one for $24 inc postage

While I am here might as well whip off the dodgy door that has been held up by a bit of wood for 4 years

Disassemble the door to access the busted hinges

Remember correctly that it was the right hand side that had had made the deafening bang noise 4 years ago

Decide to check the left too anyway and find it is also bust

I was horrified to find that these are $82 a pair inc postage!

But on the bright side if I had not checked the other side and only ordered 1 then it would have been $55 and then I would have had to order another.

Could have got a whole new oven for $500!

Loops I'm all for rescuing rather than throwing but ffs your are about 9 years too late on that oven.

Good practise would be to tape up those two wires in case any inadvertently turns on the oven breaker

^ indeed Balders. At least until you get the liners reenameled

Could not let HMS TD sink beneath the waves without resolving this cliffhanger...

New ringpiece delivered



Redhot ringpiece test installation before bolting it back in place



Installed



And in place test before plating it in



New hinges installed



Oven doors hangs half open as per design



Et viola



Back in business

How to install a bath:

1. find a bath in the forest

2. cart it up the hill to the house

3. assess condition

4. initial clean

5. Drill holes randomly in the floor with an Edmond-esque $50 chinese 36v drill and $8 masonry bits until you locate the drain pipe that was covered by fibro sheeting during previous owner bathroom renovation

6. Cut hole in fibro cement without wearing mask before reading about silicosis on the internet. Ignore prvious hole cut in the wrong place before the drill search technique was dreamt up

7. put in half the framing

8. Put the bath in

9. sort out the drainage plumbing

10. Insulate the bath using bubble-wrap sheets from model aeroplane deliveries

11. Finish off the framing

12. Test the drainage system

13. do the sealant and grouting and deploy bubble-bath nuclear ice-breaker

14. Complete full commissioning overload stress test with Senorita to check the seals stay intact under duress

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Loops I'm all for rescuing rather than throwing but ffs your are about 9 years too late on that oven.

He has a new element and new hinges. The wearing parts are new. Why spend 500+? Plus you don't get the feeling of accomplishment of fixing something

Absolute stellar job on that bath.

How many times did it fall out of your wheelbarrow on the way home?

The end of Loopers pecker is showing