For the desk chair.
The original castors don’t roll smoothly any more, not helped by being clogged up with dog hair which is to hard to remove. Just get a new set. Continue reading “Today I got some new wheels”
Category: Repairs
Desk chair – new castors
Road test.
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New mail box
From the Mansion series of the Sandleford range of letter box’s that Bunnings stock 
Vacuum cleaner repairs
Bought a Wertheim 3030T Vacuum cleaner about 5 years ago from Godfreys – worst purchase ever!!!
Up on the roof
Back around Christmas I did some roof maintenance, the ridge cap tiles (in particular) were letting water in and badly needed re-pointing. So off to Bunnings to purchase a bucket of Selleys Point Works Gen II.
and then up on the roof on a cooler day with the bucket of pointing mix, small trowel and knee pads etc.
Above: No need to be to fussy up here it’s a two story house, so I put on plenty. This stuff is good, great bonding and very strong – like granite. I still need to do the corners but before this the Dutch gables need my attention.
Above: this is the south end Dutch gable.
Above: Close-up of the previous picture.
Above: This is the north end, nowhere near as bad but still needs to be replaced.
The weather boards need to be cleaned up and painted as well.
I am tempted to pressure wash the tiles but something tells me to just leave them alone. As I said it’s a two story house and you can’t really see much of the roof from ground level.
Can’t open the gate
Twisting the ring does nothing, the latch bar won’t move up!
The latch is 35 years old and well worn, the corners of square bar connecting the inside and outside rings have rounded off – round peg in a square hole.
No chance of a warranty claim here so off to Bunnings to purchase a new one.
After 30 or 40 years we were able to purchase a exact replacement! this time in brass for $60 bucks – ouch.
Need photo of new gate lock here…
TV antenna
The magpies destroyed our TV antenna!
So we bought a new one from Dick Smith (DSE).
Matchmaster Digimatch VHF⁄UHF Combination TV Antenna suitable for both analogue and digital television reception. It is designed for wideband reception making it ideal for metropolitan and most country areas around Australia. Below is a catalogue picture of the product.
Below: New antenna installed – job done!
It’s a two story house so I had to zoom in on my Kodak Z730 to take this photo.
Vacuum cleaner turbo brush
When they get like this (see below) you really need to pull it apart!
I should have taken more photos but my hands were to grubby.
Bottom up remove all the screws and split the unit.
Pull out the roller brush and remove the plastic end bearings.
Clean the brush itself and also clean the end of each spindle.
It’s likely you will need a sharp knife of scalpel to cut off the crap.
With a pair of tweezers clean out the inside of the plastic bearings.
If the poor thing has been really abused the heat generated from friction may have damaged the bearings.
Check the toothed belt for damage and stretching, if needed get a new one.
Remove the clamp screws that secure the long impeller bush.
Remove the circlip and slid the bush off the impeller spindle.
Clean everything and lightly oil, slide the bush on replace circlip and put aside.
Clean all the crap out of both shells, use tweezers to pick out the stuff.
Position the impeller assembly and secure with clamps and screws.
Slide the bushes onto the brush, pre-align and hold with left hand.
Right hand picks up the belt, first over impeller and then the brush drive wheel.
Tension a bit the align and slide brush into end mountings.
Put on top cover and wiggle fiddle to sit it down, work around edges to bed down.
Holding everything together turn the thing over, drop in and screws and tighten – done.
Electrolux turbo brush.
