Random stuff you have repaired.

[okierider]

I enjoy fixing broken things, as it really is not covered under stuff you have made ,I thought it would be another good interest thread.
I will start off with the Craftsman Barlow knife my Mom sent me a couple months ago.

The knife is back together after I found a donor knife with broken blades. Had to drill out the front pin because as near as I can tell the original front pin was a rivet??? Could not find how the do the blind rivet and making that seemed a long way to go on a knife that will never be worth anything to anyone but me.
Figured out the leaf spring was broken when I was soaking it to remove the rust which the knife was covered in as you can see from the blades.

 

[okierider]

Here is the pack of knives Mom sent me. You can see the rust was pretty bad so I am happy to have been able to save it from the parts pile.

 

[swampratt]

I have a lot of people ask me what I do and I tell them I fix things that are broke.

My rear struts and rear springs on my Toyota Corolla were shot and only 358,000 miles.
I replaced the struts and installed front springs on the rear struts
OH yea I have double the load carrying capacity before I bottom out.

 

[Snattlerake]

Shoot, I grew up on a farm. We carried a pair of pliers and a roll of baling wire. I have been fixing stuffies all my life.
Troubleshooting this stuff is easy for me.

Believe me this one was fun. It is a burg panel in western Arkansas in a BANK!

The one below is an electrician's house.

It just floors me the lack of pride in workmanship there is out there.

 

[Snattlerake]

I'm currently working on a Schwinn Pixie for a woman here in town.

 

[John6185]

I like repaired Leatherman tools/knives. Once in a while I'll buy a broken Leatherman off of Ebay and send it to the factory and they'll send me a new one.

 

[2busy]

I stay too busy fixing regular stuff to have a hobby of fixing stuff.

 

[2busy]

Shoot, I grew up on a farm. We carried a pair of pliers and a roll of baling wire. I have been fixing stuffies all my life.
Troubleshooting this stuff is easy for me.

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Believe me this one was fun. It is a burg panel in western Arkansas in a BANK!

The one below is an electrician's house.

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It just floors me the lack of pride in workmanship there is out there.

Crimp sleeves, Sweeett.

 

[O4L]

I like repaired Leatherman tools/knives. Once in a while I'll buy a broken Leatherman off of Ebay and send it to the factory and they'll send me a new one.

For true?

 

[swampratt]

I will know soon if I repaired my S&W 357 Magnum TALO 7 shot.
Or I mean the Wife's TALO.

I had a restriction or pinch point where the barrel attached to the frame. Typical stuff.

I sent a lot of lead down the barrel today with various grits of lube on the bullets.
If feels so much better now when pushing a soft lead slug down the barrel.

It would go down the barrel smooth then hang up at the frame barrel intersection point.
All my might would not allow that wooden dowel rod in my hand to push it past that point.
Had to use a hammer.

Now many hours later it does not hang up or put the brakes on while I am pushing the slug down the barrel.

I could have sent it to S&W but with all the lost guns in the mail and destroyed packages and the fact
that they told me if they find a problem they will fix it and if no problems then it would cost me.

They may think that is normal since I bet 100% of their revolvers leave their hands with a pinched barrel.
My Ruger Blackhawk was the same way.