I Fix Things

When I was a kid, we were very poor. So any electronic we had was like a luxury, and if it broke, well that was it. Maybe next year at tax time we could buy another lol.
So I remember the only TV was in the living room...

Here is a job I just finished up. The K-60 was locked up I determined that the problem was one of the bearings was frozen tight. Took it apart removed the bearings (I replace both of them). Pressed in some new water resistant bearings...

i love making things and fixing things. there is just something with working with your hands that feels so dam good...be it putting up shelves of laying down laminate flooring i just love it.

If its broke and i might beable to fix it then get out the tools, I usually suceed with no knowledge at what im doing or how im going to do it before i do it but its alot of fun.
 
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You know what a "joke" is?? The weighted bases they sell to hold up 7 to 9 ft patio umbrellas.. If a slight wind blows by and the umbrella tips over your glass top table shatters..

I have made up ground spikes to hold up the...

A Bobcat 463 came in for servicing today. Did a LOF., AF. service and TP check... I noticed the tine tips were bent over on the grappler rake. So I took the port-a-power to pull them back in-line.. I will tell the owner what needs to...

i was given a monitor that didn't work. so i tore it down to the power board it didn't take long to find the problem. one of the Electrolytic capacitors had went bad. so i found a replacement and installed it and now i have a new...

I can fix most mechanical things. I can open an engine and replace pistons, fix suspension, change wheel bearings.... stuff like that.

Don't ask me to touch electrical stuff though. That's higher grade.

I wouldn't wrench my own...

If something is broken I always think I can fix it. My dad was that way too.It seemed to me when I was a kid that he could fix anything. I grew up being taught that it was a waste to discard something that could be mended.

I have...

One of my angle grinders went bonkers. The trigger switch would work sporadically and it would not develop full power. This happen to one of my other ones a few years back. I installed a toggle switch in the hole that was originally...

I dedicate the following story to all the dad's and granddads, biological or assumed roles, that "fix things" for their children and grandchildren. You may not see the pay off for the time you have freely given within your lifetime but...

Since springtime has arrived so did lawnmower servicing. I don't like tipping the mower on the side because one way gas pours out. The other way oil drains into the muffler. So I like tipping them backwards. The only problem is...

I certainly try to fix things myself.  I detest paying good money for repairs only to find out a fuse was blown or that some yard machine was only out of gas.  A good friend with a talent for repairs once described...

I had a customer bring his old B&D drill for repair. It was quite old all aluminum housing with a grounding plug on it.

The problem was it would work intermittently and eventually stopped working.

Problem was this...

I help people with their problems when they need advice. For me, that's fixing things. But I use to be able to fix things when I was younger if it got broken. I'd just stare at it until the problem made sense then fixed it. Things aren...

I had to replace nylon motor mount bushings in this K-375 drain machine. Bushings was so worn out the belt would fly off the drum..
I installed new bushings and that solved the problem.
Bushings are totally shot, some are missing...
New...

A customer brought me his Bosch jackhammer in for servicing. He thought it was not as powerful as it once was. I told him if it's not the motor running full RPMs then it could be only one other thing. The piston (striker) and cylinder...

Why does everyone always ask me to fix thier stuff? I guess I'm not smart enough to say I don't know how. If it worked before it should work agian. Does anyone else have a problem walking past new things without taking them apart...

A knife we had for 25 plus years finally gave up the ghost. As I was using it  the blade broke where it goes into the handle. Then I broke the handle getting the rivets out. I welded the blade then I made a aluminum handle out of 1/4...

I fix cars, broken hearts, careers, household appliances, fractured family relationships, the list goes on.
All my adult life, people, both friends and strangers, bring their broken things to me.  I don't know why, but as I've...