Posted: Tue May 16, 23 2:29 pm Post subject: so called simple jobs
replace a blum hinge as the"new" kitchen unit had a bit of a metal fatigue moment after 20 plus years
Disregarding the physical stuff of doing the tools, remedial hinges are challenging even if you have done it a little more recently than that cabinet was made
if i priced this on gray book+33% and had only got this far, it might be the legend of "on the beech"
second try at hinges has promise, but it ain't hanging yet
in the old times i would have done this as see it, chose a pair of hinges from the 3 boxes, do it and go in about half an hour
these ones were rather door specific for blum style and first try was only a bit funny
a month and a few mins into a 1/2 hr job it has potential to work as a door
wonky wood in a wonky building, no prob but it will cost for the time
when the metal parts that fit the metal lined hole have not been made for decades it gets a bit challenging
good if unusual blum hinges, but plugging the holes and routing new ones would have been quicker than an almost restoration with a near fit
I do sometimes wonder about designers. My bete noir is cleaning things. I really do think that designers should have to clean things they design on a regular basis after use so they can find all the odd corners that refuse to be cleaned easily.
We also had an 'interesting' DIY job yesterday evening. Husband is replumbing the sewage system as the upstairs bathroom he installed a few years ago has always had a rather Heath Robinson waste system that goes at a rather shallow angle some distance across before going downwards (the bathroom and several other rooms are in the roof). As it is inclined to block every so often, he is now replumbing the whole lot. We got to the stage of putting a new pipe from outside, across the downstairs bathroom (the ceiling is to be lowered as far too high at present) and up into the roof space. This involve a set of steps and me holding the pipe up with a broom from below. Shades of putting plaster board on the ceilings of our first house 50 years ago. After a bit of fiddling and cursing the pipe did go in all right, so just the top connection to make now I think.
I do sometimes wonder about designers. My bete noir is cleaning things. I really do think that designers should have to clean things they design on a regular basis after use so they can find all the odd corners that refuse to be cleaned easily.
kitchen gadgets,
chainsaws, ok, one spanner and a file is quite good, the nooks and crannies inside the body are a total ming magnet and most could probably be designed out of the internal shapes
even if done at the end of a day getting the bits out is far harder than it needs to be
if the woodcrete has the right mix of resins oil and sawdust doing after it sets is difficult to do without damage and takes ages even if you soften it with fuel
i dont know if stihl have complex crannies as i dont like em and the ones i have field stripped had all been recently field stripped
huskies have a few crannies that even a good dental hygienist would find challenging but they suited me far better in use
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