16-04-2013, 03:23 PM
Hi,
Hopefully once the board is repaired I'll be able to resist overloading the lathe; yes the board already has the heat-sink Refugee so it should be just a case of exchanging components.
I went to bed last night with today planned ahead. First job was to replace the wheelbarrow wheel with a wheel of twice size then I would concentrate on the Clarke circuit board?
Bron visited the bathroom early this morning and returning to bed informed me there was no hot water. Just before getting up I switched on the central heating and there was no central heating. As I was digging out the central heating phone number there was a knock on our rear door; the door chimes had packed in.
Yesterday I dragged lots of branches from the rear garden and loading them into the car disposed of them at our local tip; this finally cleared the garden. As I looked up the garden this morning another branch had appeared?
The knock on the door was UPS delivering a box from Farnell's; this was top class service because it was only 8:30 and I had ordered online on Sunday. When I opened the box it contained only the heat conducting compound but where were the Mosfet's?
The post man was early this morning visiting us at 10:45; the Mosfet's had arrived together with the 50 electrolytics I had bought through eBay; what brilliant service from both suppliers.
British Gas arrived just after dinner and yet another circuit board had bit the dust; I'm pestered with faulty circuit boards and I just knew the boiler circuit board had failed because everything comes in threes? The Clarke board had failed; our friend Harold has posted the original failed board to us making this two failed boards so the boiler board is number three; I can now relax having my share of failed boards.
The Glen fan heater in the bathroom is also winding me up; it runs for a while then knocks off and remains off until manually re-set which I assume is the thermal link failing; I wish the world would stop just to let me catch up a bit.
After a good moan I got off my backside and wearing my battle gear went into the garage to do some metal bashing. Last year I installed a very small wheel into our wheelbarrow just so that I could use the barrow; the original tubed wheel had split in two. This small wheel although helping just was too small but later I found a wheel twice the size and as the usual prolonged winter got in the way I finally got around to changing the wheel today.
A simple enough job but a fair bit of metal work involved. I could use one of the 2" box section but had to remove the other by angle grinding then cleaning up. This box section was then converted into a bracket using two lengths of 2" angle iron; these in turn were bored at 3/4" diameter on the big drill press then welded into position. The new automatic welding helmet I bought at Rufforth for around £35 made welding a pleasure freeing both hands.
The small wheel still attached to it's box section and boring the axle holes.
Next I searched for a bit of 3/4" diameter steel bar stock but the only bit I could find was stainless so a length was cut then drilled and tapped 8mm each end; this would be the axle retained in place by washers and a couple of set screws. Ideally I would have painted the new metal but it would look like it had been pebble dashed given the gale now blowing. I doubt the new bracket will rust away quickly?
With the bracket completed it was an easy job fitting it and now the barrow is ready for when I tackle the flood defenses weather permitting. As I put the barrow away into the shed I had a fight because the wind was trying to remove the shed door.
Welding the new bracket and job done.
It's now very windy but warm to the front of the bungalow so the central heating is switched off but it remains cold in the workshop. For a change heavy rain is forecast for tomorrow so the heating will be on allowing me to settle down in the workshop to repair the circuit board?
Just another day in paradise and I wonder what tomorrow has in store for me?
Kind regards, Col.
Hopefully once the board is repaired I'll be able to resist overloading the lathe; yes the board already has the heat-sink Refugee so it should be just a case of exchanging components.
I went to bed last night with today planned ahead. First job was to replace the wheelbarrow wheel with a wheel of twice size then I would concentrate on the Clarke circuit board?
Bron visited the bathroom early this morning and returning to bed informed me there was no hot water. Just before getting up I switched on the central heating and there was no central heating. As I was digging out the central heating phone number there was a knock on our rear door; the door chimes had packed in.
Yesterday I dragged lots of branches from the rear garden and loading them into the car disposed of them at our local tip; this finally cleared the garden. As I looked up the garden this morning another branch had appeared?
The knock on the door was UPS delivering a box from Farnell's; this was top class service because it was only 8:30 and I had ordered online on Sunday. When I opened the box it contained only the heat conducting compound but where were the Mosfet's?
The post man was early this morning visiting us at 10:45; the Mosfet's had arrived together with the 50 electrolytics I had bought through eBay; what brilliant service from both suppliers.
British Gas arrived just after dinner and yet another circuit board had bit the dust; I'm pestered with faulty circuit boards and I just knew the boiler circuit board had failed because everything comes in threes? The Clarke board had failed; our friend Harold has posted the original failed board to us making this two failed boards so the boiler board is number three; I can now relax having my share of failed boards.
The Glen fan heater in the bathroom is also winding me up; it runs for a while then knocks off and remains off until manually re-set which I assume is the thermal link failing; I wish the world would stop just to let me catch up a bit.
After a good moan I got off my backside and wearing my battle gear went into the garage to do some metal bashing. Last year I installed a very small wheel into our wheelbarrow just so that I could use the barrow; the original tubed wheel had split in two. This small wheel although helping just was too small but later I found a wheel twice the size and as the usual prolonged winter got in the way I finally got around to changing the wheel today.
A simple enough job but a fair bit of metal work involved. I could use one of the 2" box section but had to remove the other by angle grinding then cleaning up. This box section was then converted into a bracket using two lengths of 2" angle iron; these in turn were bored at 3/4" diameter on the big drill press then welded into position. The new automatic welding helmet I bought at Rufforth for around £35 made welding a pleasure freeing both hands.
The small wheel still attached to it's box section and boring the axle holes.
Next I searched for a bit of 3/4" diameter steel bar stock but the only bit I could find was stainless so a length was cut then drilled and tapped 8mm each end; this would be the axle retained in place by washers and a couple of set screws. Ideally I would have painted the new metal but it would look like it had been pebble dashed given the gale now blowing. I doubt the new bracket will rust away quickly?
With the bracket completed it was an easy job fitting it and now the barrow is ready for when I tackle the flood defenses weather permitting. As I put the barrow away into the shed I had a fight because the wind was trying to remove the shed door.
Welding the new bracket and job done.
It's now very windy but warm to the front of the bungalow so the central heating is switched off but it remains cold in the workshop. For a change heavy rain is forecast for tomorrow so the heating will be on allowing me to settle down in the workshop to repair the circuit board?
Just another day in paradise and I wonder what tomorrow has in store for me?
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
