Haven't done much lately, just a few bushes, and converted a normal nut to a castle nut.
But this week I was handed a partially disassembled voltmeter, with a cracked glass.
Can you do something with that? she said.
So after grumbling about how the clamping ring was badly bent, I used the body of the gauge to draw a circle on a scrap of perspex, and gnawed it off with a hacksaw. Some careful belt sanding brought it close to size, and then draw-filed it to a nice
where's my little tappy hammer fit into the body.
At this point it became clear that the rubber sealing ring on the front had a bit missing. Although my O-ring set had one the right diameter it was much too thick. So we had a scratch around in the stores, and found one much too big, but half the the thickness, all in a nice paper envelope with an official AN part number on it. I cut the necessary amount out of it, and superglued it together to make a much smaller ring.
It
only took another 20minutes to straighten the clamping ring and fit all the new pieces together like this:
There's just enough clearance for the needle to move!