DIY Shed

[VCheng]

Please post up your DIY projects, big or small, but done yourself.

 

[Kingfisher]

put this PC together some time ago, good fun building these.

for everything else, there's always cheap labour in India, we're not huge on DIY culture

 

[RescueRanger]

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put this PC together some time ago, good fun building these.

for everything else, there's always cheap labour in India, we're not huge on DIY culture

Shiny.

 

[VCheng]

Rebuilding the front calipers on the FJ Cruiser:



Messy job, but important nonetheless to get right. That's why I do it myself.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Rebuilding the front calipers on the FJ Cruiser:

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Messy job, but important nonetheless to get right. That's why I do it myself.

A dissambled engine block, right next to computer hard drives ! Yep - perfect setup! Very complimentary

 

[VCheng]

A dissambled engine block, right next to computer hard drives ! Yep - perfect setup! Very complimentary

Engine Block? The joke is on you by you.

 

[RescueRanger]

Rebuilding the front calipers on the FJ Cruiser:

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Messy job, but important nonetheless to get right. That's why I do it myself.

That's a lot of hard drives.

 

[VCheng]

That's a lot of hard drives.

Decommissioned 1TB units waiting for recycling.

 

[VCheng]

Winter means either working in cramped conditions:



Or delaying projects until spring:

 

[Oscar]

I cant post photos but I mean my kid was DIY. Took effort.

Ill see if I can put my pc up and then once my workbench arrives some RC aircraft

 

[Sharma Ji]

Ill see if I can put my pc up and then once my workbench arrives some RC aircraft

Nice1. I've had a few ( 2 - 3) RC helos, basic lipo batteries ones, crashed em all.. rotary wing are very difficult to fly. Difficult both in a sim and with a remote, though the newer ones have gyro stability control and beginner easy fly modes apparently.

Which ones do you fly ? I keep seeing these on my youtube feed, some are absolutely insane, proper turbines ones, sound sooo good but cost a pretty penny.

 

[Oscar]

Nice1. I've had a few ( 2 - 3) RC helos, basic lipo batteries ones, crashed em all.. rotary wing are very difficult to fly. Difficult both in a sim and with a remote, though the newer ones have gyro stability control and beginner easy fly modes apparently.

Which ones do you fly ? I keep seeing these on my youtube feed, some are absolutely insane, proper turbines ones, sound sooo good but cost a pretty penny.

Ive switched to UMXs to allow for constrained areas. Have some original eflite classics like the umx F-16edf , turbo timber, b-17 and then my bigger stuff is gliders. Have one Chinese 6ch micro heli but plan on getting a blade or maybe another Chinese heli.

 

[Sharma Ji]

n1, some of those make for great indoor scale flying, an often underlooked aspect of the hobby.

Its just amazing how they look all slow and nice, and all the better if you can do it in your living room or wherever.

 

[VCheng]

A dissambled engine block, right next to computer hard drives ! Yep - perfect setup! Very complimentary

So I guess you know what a brake caliper looks like:

(Here is one done earlier)

 

[VCheng]

Out with the old and in with the new:



The 20 year old tires on the snowblower were leaking and slipping their beads. It turns out the design had soft beads with a plastic ring held in a groove to hold them in place. The new tires have a stiff bead with an internal fully encased metal ring, like most tires, that should lock better in place.