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The joy of fixing things

Thpsguy

So I learned to fix a ps2 blue disc issue many years ago by cleaning the lens and I also fixed a jammed Instax camera 

Now I'm fixing a toy cash register from the 80s and it's so fun figuring out how it works. And why it's not working 

So far I've figured out that when I finally manage to get the cash drawer to open using the button it's hard to shut the draw so. I did a. Full strip down to figure out why so now once the plastic cement fuses two parts that snapped I need to figure out how to reassemble yhe tabs and buttons so it all connects then it's figuring rhe actual first issue out 

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  • I’ve taken things apart and put them back together since I was a child, my work is with classic cars and involves a lot of repairing things. I actually enjoy being alone all day and focusing on one thing. I get so annoyed when I recondition parts that large companies have supposedly already restored and changed a lot of money for, I strip them down and little work has been done. 

  • in reply to Roy

    That is one of the reasons I love British engineering. In theory they are well designed but poorly machined.  It is possible to take a British vehicle and make it better than it was when it left the factory. Not so easy with say Japanese or German machines. 

  • in reply to Peter1970

    I’m restoring a customers E type at the moment, I’ve spent the last week putting the rear axle and suspension back together, everything has shims as no two parts would have been machined the same. I’m also restoring a Beetle, the German engineering is spot on, unfortunately most parts are now made in Brazil or Mexico  and don’t fit.  Fettling is a good British word for what usually happens next.

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  • in reply to Peter1970

    I’m restoring a customers E type at the moment, I’ve spent the last week putting the rear axle and suspension back together, everything has shims as no two parts would have been machined the same. I’m also restoring a Beetle, the German engineering is spot on, unfortunately most parts are now made in Brazil or Mexico  and don’t fit.  Fettling is a good British word for what usually happens next.

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