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Never dawned on the DM author that the hair brush might just have a mirror on it's back side.
Posted on 11/28/2017 7:36:51 AM PST by mairdie
When something breaks, the temptation is to simply go out and buy a new one. ...
The repairs may not be pretty but, for the most part, they seem to do their job.
From a pair of shoes fashioned out of cling film, to a hand-drawn clock and torches sellotaped to a car bonnet to replace broken lamps, there's ingenuity in spades in the gallery below.
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tail light tape
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Used some on my wife’s Buick.
She backed into something and broke the red lens.
Well, you can’t buy a lens, it’s the whole light. $100+ from GM, about half that on the ‘used’ market.
Pieced it together, used red lens tape and good to go.
Exactly!
My late dad was a Mr. Fix-it and I imagine him rigging up some of these thing - some of it just for the humor alone...
Kind of like West Virginia then, I guess. If you need a part for your truck there you just bush-hog your yard.
I guess, if MacGuyver was a redneck!
Welcome....let me take you on a tour of my home.
In Indiana (where my dad was from) it was known for fixing furniture - fake leather recliners in particular.
One piece at a time...
It appears to be a fairly new VW SUV, not exactly a poor person’s car
Getting parts for a newish VW SUV in a Russian village ain’t easy. Or cheap.
caption; "at least it's the right shape"
Never dawned on the DM author that the hair brush might just have a mirror on it's back side.
Done the tie wrap thing more than once to get a wrecked rig home. Ratchet straps are a necessity in any rig - imho. I have seen trucks with an AC unit tapped into a window with a generator in the bed.
well that’s a wasted piece of paper for the clock when they could have written the numbers right on the wall!
All those fittings on the shower head cost more than a new head!
But imagine taking a shower with a hangover, staring at a beer can peeing on your face. Yum!
We call that the NASCAR fix.
My dad used th say “if a hammer, tourch or duct tape won’t fix it, it’s beyond repair.”
Sorry for the typos...
Not if you found them languishing uselessly in the garage but could not find a shower head there.
True. But it would take more effort to cobble that rube goldberg together than go to the hardware store and buy a new head for $5 that just screws onto the arm.
I've never put any bailing wire or duck tap on Dodges...
But then again, I've never owned one.
Just drained some carbon pellets out of an import-car EVAP tube though.
Now, to run better portion of a can of poor-man's Seafoam (B-12 Chemtool fuel treatment) with a tank FULL of fuel (add treatment, then fuel -- but never ever "top-off" post-1990 or so cars that have vapor canisters) we'll see if that stops the check engine light and EVAP 'code' from coming back.
It might even make it easier to fuel up. Slow-- won't take gasoline at the pump? Something to do with vapor recovery canister and/or associated valve plus hoses is the likely culprit. If it's the canister and not valve and/or hoses (canister is likely to have bad charcoal) and I can pry the thing open without ruining it--- hello PetsMart, or maybe better yet, Amazon.com aquarium charcoal for replacement.
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