Recent content by frankthezapper

My 80yr old mum got busted for wearing a brooch shaped like a pair of scissors, (she was a quilter) about an inch long, no moving parts or sharp edges,....no scissors allowed, madam!

Don't tap them....HIT them!

And of course there are those cheapy furniture pieces with different sized bolt and nut heads, so it's good to have a size for each, say a 16 for the bolt and a 17 for the nut

I pull the magnets from old hard drives, they are super strong, and they have attachment plates attached

I found some track at the side of the line....had to lift the fence a little to slide it out, very early on a Sunday morning, not many people about.

Used 2 extra long drill bits that I bought in '79/81 ?? in Fort Worth to drill out a couple of inaccessible pop rivets. Have used them occasionally, but they made this job so quick and easy.

When I was a mechanic on the motorcycle grand prix circus (1970's) we had a little compressor made with a refrigerator sealed unit and a camping gas bottle, pressure switch etc, it was as silent as a domestic refrigerator. We only used it to inflate motorcycle tyres, sometimes blow parts dry...

M5 lh for that screw that holds the chuck on an electric drill

The old compressor that has lived under the bench for 30 years drops pressure over a not very long time, gets disturbing with the compressor kicking in. I have bubble tested all the connections and found nothing, could it be pressure leaking back past the valves? I imagine they are those flat...

Removed the dash and instruments on my 2002 Holden Commodore, found 3 bulbs (globes) not working, and some with 23 ohm and some with hundreds of ohms, jiggled the high ohm ones till they read 23 or so, replaced the 3 blown ones, reassembled, glueing the broken bits as I went. Later went for a...

My first impression, and a quick search, shows that a 'shafted fastener' is another name for a 'Shoulder Bolt'

Got to love Larry and Mary on the internet.....how many years into their future?

But the virus has you stuck at home, so something as unproductive as fixing this won't be wasted! And you have learned how to use a multimeter!!

Did you build a couple of spare caps while you were set up?

Sure you don't mean 75mm imperial??