46 year old machine going back onto the water once again
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Oddwarg
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Finished the cleat repair. I put a stainless steel plate (not visible) under the cleat inside the anchor well for extra support. The repair is pretty visible in person but I've done worse.
Replaced an exploded "noise suppression" capacitor from this kneading machine from 1983. It's connected to both motor brushes and the chassis. I don't know enough about electric motors to tell you what it does exactly.
This headboard is too small (mistakes were made) so I built some little shelves to fill the gaps. Finished them today.
A cleat on my boat was torn off by the winter weather. There is a layer of wood smushed inside the deck between the laminates, into which water had penetrated around the bolts, causing rot.
I dug out as much as I could of the rotted wood and filled in the gap with fibreglass and polyester. Will add gelcoat later
Got confirmation that the apartment floor is a concrete concrete floor, but it is not entirely clear if the fault is something that has developed over time or if it was always like this. Regardless, it is likely stable and we just evened it out with floor underlayment (my father wanted to help me with this job).
To compensate for the broken lateral seams we used a funny tool which makes slots at the end of the boards where "joining biscuits" can be glued in between the boards.
We also moved the differently coloured boards under where the furniture will be. Now I just have to put the kitchen back together.
Fixed a bike (replaced crankset bearing and front tyre, serviced gear shifter). Might try to sell it
Turned out the crawlspace ends before this part of the floor. This part of the floor is built on rocks, so I don't know what's up with it. The magnitude of the fault does not call for tearing up the whole thing so I'll just add some extra floor underlayment where it dips