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igor2003 -> RE: There, I fixed it... (8/20/2009 12:57:14 PM)
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I once went deer hunting with a friend. We each had a trail bike to ride. After we drove for about 3 hours to get to our hunting site we started the bikes up for a quick tour around the surounding area. Rather quickly my bike sheared a flat, half-moon shaped shear pin. Not haveing any extras with us I figured the bike riding part of our hunting trip was over.
My friend is a never say die kind of guy though. He found an old 10 penny nail someplace. He started flattening it by pounding it between two rocks. Once it was the right thickness he got a pair of side-cutters from the tool box and shaped it into a very good replica of the original pin. We put it in the bike, put the flywheel back on, and had no more mechanical problems for the rest of the hunting trip.
On another hunting trip we stayed in an old mining cabin that had no electricity, so...no lights. We had not brought any light source ourselves. No flashilghts. No lanterns. Nothing. I did find an old sardine tin filled with old bacon grease. I also found an old shoestring. By covering the shoestring in bacon grease to make a wick and laying the string into the bacon grease with only about 1 inch of string hanging out we were able to light the string and thus had our own oil lamp.
And then there was an old farmer I knew once. He didn't have a wagon for hauling his sprinkler pipes around, so he improvised. He had an old station wagon that he didn't use any more, so he got up on the roof and caved it into a deep V to hold the pipe. Worked great. Only problems was....that station wagon that he didn't need......A 1955 Chevy Nomad
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