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There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 6:10:20 AM

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Warning: Not to be tried at home.

The website ThereIFixedIt dot com contains details of epic kludges and unusual or unconventional ways of fixing things.

This reminds me of a friend who, instead of an alarm clock, plugged his stereo system into a timeswitch at the mains socket so that he would be woken up by loud jazz music on a morning. He explained that when he did have an alarm clock most often he would set it on snooze and drift off back to sleep, but having the timeswitch on his stereo system meant that he had to get out of bed to turn the music down.

When I had a mountain bike I used to cut off the walls of old tyres and fit the old treads inside the new tyres to act as a buffer for the inner tubes which prevented punctures.

What about you? Have you tried to fix something using unconventional means? Did it work, or did it fail?

Please feel free to share.

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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 6:14:13 AM

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duct tape.

works for most anything ;)

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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 6:43:14 AM

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duct tape.

works for most anything ;)

When I was in school there was a Nun who liked to say that there were very few problems in the world that couldn't be solved with just a little faith and some duct tape.

My grandfather was a firm believer in duct tape and WD-40 and believed that no car or house should be without them: "If it moves and it ain't s'posed to move, use the duct tape. If it don' move and it's s'posed to move, use the WD-40."

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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 6:49:35 AM

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your grandfather was a very wise man :)

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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 6:56:48 AM

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I include in that short list of must haves some p-cord as well.

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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 7:19:50 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: stella41b
Have you tried to fix something using unconventional means? Did it work, or did it fail?

I used velcro the other day to reattach the screen of my bicycle chain. It works great. I must have been the first person in the world to use velcro for that purpose.

(Before that, I used velcro to attach a light to my bicycle. Worked also great.)

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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 8:59:22 AM

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This is definitely in the spirit of this thread.
Did any one see this TV series? Great stuff.

http://www.bushmechanics.com/home.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-tsKPlDn7U

Edited to add a youtube link to their stuff.

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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 12:34:10 PM

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quote:

your grandfather was a very wise man :)

Thanks. He was indeed the wisest person I ever had the good fortune to know.

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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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RE: There, I fixed it... - 8/20/2009 2:18:51 PM

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We converted an old boxspring this week into a gravel drag. Works well if the kid driving the truck pulling the drag drives SLOWLY, which doesn't mean 20 mph.

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