Duc tape and Cable Ties

[timbo]

The plot thickens 

[guest2083]

So I took the Enfield for its MOT the other day, and they failed it on the headlamp beam being way too high. This happens every single year, but I aways bluff it out.

I always had a similar problem at MOT time with the Ural. As you probably know Tim, Urals have taper roller wheel bearings so you need to leave a tiny bit of play in the bearing to stop it overheating. Every year it would fail because there was some movement in the bearing so I had to slacken the wheel, tighten the bearing adjuster up so there was no play and then they were happy. 100 yards down the road you had to put the bike on the stand and adjust it back again before the bearing overheated, I tried to tell them several times but to no avail

How interesting to know, at Draganfly we sell taper roller wheel bearing seats to replace the cup and cone wheel bearings used in older Ariels and BSA's, from memory didn't Harley D use them as well? I think AJS and Matchless as well.  I guess these days on most of those old Brits it doesn't matter so much, as they're mainly pre 1960.  I think you just have to find an mot place, usually a smaller dealer, who understands these things though, worth their weight in gold.

[guest2083]

Definitely DUCT tape,
'ere in norfik, everything is held together wiv baler twine.... your vehicle won't get passed the MOT unless there is evidence of a baler twine fix

None of that works well on exhausts though, here in Suffolk we're a bit more advanced in bodging I think. I've done a lot with thin metal ( cans and mop handles) teamed with quiksteel and jubilee clips. Wire comes in useful as well, and remember a bodge is just an engineering solution employing whatever tools and parts/resources are available, assuming that the correct parts etc are not available of course.

[iansoady]

remember a bodge is just an engineering solution employing whatever tools and parts/resources are available, assuming that the correct parts etc are not available of course.

Yes. There's a world of difference between a bodge and a botch......

[guest2083]

remember a bodge is just an engineering solution employing whatever tools and parts/resources are available, assuming that the correct parts etc are not available of course.

Yes. There's a world of difference between a bodge and a botch......

Oh yes, although a botch can be classed as an unsuccessful bodge.

[Steve Lake]

here in Suffolk we're a bit more advanced in bodging I think. I've done a lot with thin metal ( cans and mop handles) teamed with quiksteel and jubilee clips. Wire comes in useful as well,

In Norfolk that is considered a professional engineering solution

[guest2083]

here in Suffolk we're a bit more advanced in bodging I think. I've done a lot with thin metal ( cans and mop handles) teamed with quiksteel and jubilee clips. Wire comes in useful as well,

In Norfolk that is considered a professional engineering solution

I should have guessed, anything using tools would be.

[Steve Lake]

Tools!!!???..... you actually use TOOLS?.... that's cheating in my book 

[Steve Lake]

Anyway... we seem to have done the Duck/Duct issue to death now.... so maybe we should move on to 'Bodging' / 'Bodger' / 'Bodge'
As I understand it Bodgers were itinerant wood workers, usually working and living in forests and large areas of woodland, using a hand (or foot) driven lathe, making chairs, rakes, in fact anything requiring turned wood.....
and were fairly skilled people....

I may of course be wrong ....

[timbo]

No, you are right mate. Bodgers traditionally made chair legs on pole lathes. Mainly in the sweet chestnut woodlands on the south of england I think 

[guest2083]

Tools!!!???..... you actually use TOOLS?.... that's cheating in my book 

Maybe, us south folk always were a little tricky I believe.

[Andy M]

'Bodger' / 'Bodge' ....

Anything to do with Agricultural trailers or machinery in my experience. For example, the expertly carved lolly stick (with joke) used to jam closed the compressor safety valve on a combine harvester. The blackened lump of steel we thought might have once been a piston exited through the engine cover 

Andy

[BrendanO]

Back to the OP, I last week fixed a friends toilet flush with a piece of coathanger wire. The said piece we found inside the lid, the leftover from the coathanger we cut up TEN YEARS AGO to do an earlier repair on same toilet! Previous repair had finally rusted and failed.

Still, TWO repairs from 1 coathanger, and hopefully it will be good for another decade!


I have florists wire coiled in secret place on the CX, after we used some to hold up a mate's Fiat Punto exhaust. You never know...

[timbo]

Keep them coming fellas, let's see how long we can keep this thread going 
Ten years ago I was riding the Dommie over to England. At Belfast docks, she wouldn't find gears, the splines and previous repairs on the gear change had finally give up the ghost. Got of at Stranraer, pulled into an old style garage, luggage off, battery disconnected, and bike on its side, and the guy tack welded the lever onto the shed. He refused payment, and of course its still the same to this day 

[johnr]

So I took the Enfield for its MOT the other day, and they failed it on the headlamp beam being way too high. This happens every single year, but I aways bluff it out.

I always had a similar problem at MOT time with the Ural. As you probably know Tim, Urals have taper roller wheel bearings so you need to leave a tiny bit of play in the bearing to stop it overheating. Every year it would fail because there was some movement in the bearing so I had to slacken the wheel, tighten the bearing adjuster up so there was no play and then they were happy. 100 yards down the road you had to put the bike on the stand and adjust it back again before the bearing overheated, I tried to tell them several times but to no avail

1970s airhead beemer boxers had taper roller bearings on the wheels too, handy if you planned to hang a chair on them as the taper bearings can cope with lateral forces better than normal rollers, but bmw must have perfected them because they could be adjusted to give zero lateral movement of the whel without risk of overheating the bearings.