pishta
I know I'm right....
Here's a post to brag about your best repairs on anything, how ever unlikely they are!
Mr. Fixit.....
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pishta
I know I'm right....
Here's mine: 65 OLED TV found in dumpster, removed 1 shorted "grain of wheat" SMD capacitor on the logic board and it came back to life! (Only to show a permanent burn in of FOX News ticker on bottom of screen)
pishta
I know I'm right....
most recent: I have a company issued $1200 Samsun S21 ULTRA phone. Its in an otter box so it can take a fall. I dropped it once it 3 months but it was a deusy. 10 foot onto a wooden plank floor of a foot bridge. It landed flat on its back, face up but with no physical damage evident but since then it's cellular service sucked. No reception unless your under a tower. And even when it showed bars, there was no internet. So I put in a request for a replacement phone and it's on its way. For kicks I looked up the construction of this phone and found that the cellular antenna is on a daughterboard that is socketed to the motherboard from (you guessed it) the backside of the motherboard. So like pulling a dent, I applied some force opposite what caused the damage, ie I smacked it face DOWN onto the concrete floor a few times and voila, it's working like a champ again! That shock action must have seated the daughterboard back onto the motherboard. I put the phone face down on top of a piece of 2x4 and slammed the 2x4s bottom onto the ground so I would apply the force to the phone equally and not on the corner or anything that would break the glass. Fn A. It worked! Now I may have an extra phone laying around......
seabee
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I found a medical grade ultrasonic cleaner for "Parts Only" on Ebay for $100. It was just missing the knob. One $5 standard D-shaft knob replacement later and I have a like-new cleaner that goes for around $800 used, or $1200 new. Have run many a parts through it since.
65TerrorCuda
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2001 Buell Cyclone would pop out of 2nd gear on hard accel. Swapped 2nd and 3rd gear pairs out to use the unworn decel sides of the dogs(2nd and 3rd use same gears but opposite order). Total cost: 1 circlip and 1 quart of gear oil.
Northern Grit
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When I was a kid I saw my dad throwing a VCR in the trash (they were actually valuable back then), he said it was "totally done".
I pulled it out of the trash and took it apart, found one of the belts had dried up and cracked apart. I found a rubber band that worked as a replacement, then I hooked it up to an old TV in the basement and started watching movies on it.
My dad came down and found me mid way through a tape and said "oh you fixed it", then he handed me $10, said "thanks", unhooked it and took it back upstairs.
I pulled it out of the trash and took it apart, found one of the belts had dried up and cracked apart. I found a rubber band that worked as a replacement, then I hooked it up to an old TV in the basement and started watching movies on it.
My dad came down and found me mid way through a tape and said "oh you fixed it", then he handed me $10, said "thanks", unhooked it and took it back upstairs.
Here's a "good one" I guess. This was probably about 1978. Our church youth group was on its way to Disney World in the church van. It was about a 75 I guess Dodge B300. It was a small block.....I would assume a 360. "Somehow" one of the alternator belts broke and the broken one took out the 2nd one. So here we are on the side of I-75 south in north Florida. The youth minister is havin a fit trying to figure out what we're gonna do. Of all things......I found a couple of metal coat hangers and wrapped them around the pulleys and twisted them tight with the ONLY tool in the van, a pair of pliers. Don't laugh too hard. It worked and got us to the next exit where a full service gas station made the proper repairs. lol
bcschief
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In the late 70s had a Honda MT125 enduro style 2 stroke bike as my only transportation, and the head gasket blew just as I got to work. On my lunch break I pulled the head on it and made one from a pizza box that was in the trash. That head gasket almost made it home before it blew, about 20 miles. I wish I had made a 2nd one cause I had to push it the rest of the way home.
Simple, some friends and I were going to the Daytona 500. The car overheated, we pulled off the road. No buildings, no Cell phone (1976). Greg, the driver, had "checked" the fluid before the trip. He had gotten the rad cap on wrong, thus coolant looked out. There was a very small ditch. It had about an 1/2 inch of water in it.
I looked around for someyhing to put it in. There was an old coke can I pulled the top off of. It took me half hr to fill the radiator.
Just when we arrived at the race, the Star Spangled Banner started playing !
Another time, a different friend , who had a /6 Duster, was waxing his car for a hot date that he was sure that he was going to get some ***. We went towards the car wash to use the vacuum.On the way back to Is place, he got on it hard ! It started knocking like a son of a *****. He was upset and asked if he could borrow my car, I said no way, a i had just painted it. We pulled that motor (smoked rod journal )removed the back piston, cut and whittled a fence post piece, and pounded it in the cylinder. It sounded and ran like ****. Yes, he got some.
I looked around for someyhing to put it in. There was an old coke can I pulled the top off of. It took me half hr to fill the radiator.
Just when we arrived at the race, the Star Spangled Banner started playing !
Another time, a different friend , who had a /6 Duster, was waxing his car for a hot date that he was sure that he was going to get some ***. We went towards the car wash to use the vacuum.On the way back to Is place, he got on it hard ! It started knocking like a son of a *****. He was upset and asked if he could borrow my car, I said no way, a i had just painted it. We pulled that motor (smoked rod journal )removed the back piston, cut and whittled a fence post piece, and pounded it in the cylinder. It sounded and ran like ****. Yes, he got some.
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3hp compressor dropped off at the dump. Brought it home, adjusted the motor start switch, still running strong after 10 years.
dano
Evil Handy Man
Readers would die of old age if I listed them all.
Off the cuff, I fixed my sons friend's Ninja Turtle toy by tapping the plastic with a 10-32 and putting a button head bolt in as an elbow pivot. Worked sweet. This was when he was 4 and offered to this kid at his daycare "my dad can fix that". I told him to discontinue offering my services.
Same son had a favorite toy he call "Big Jeep" and he played with that thing all day every day when he was 3. My parents got it at the Dollar Store, made of the thinnest, cheapest, most brittle plastic the world had ever seen. I glued, screwed, installed wood blocks, built gussets from aluminum to keep Big Jeep alive. Sadly a wheel finally broke off and I called it. We had a going away party for it as it went into the trash can. Long live Big Jeep, wherever it is.
Off the cuff, I fixed my sons friend's Ninja Turtle toy by tapping the plastic with a 10-32 and putting a button head bolt in as an elbow pivot. Worked sweet. This was when he was 4 and offered to this kid at his daycare "my dad can fix that". I told him to discontinue offering my services.
Same son had a favorite toy he call "Big Jeep" and he played with that thing all day every day when he was 3. My parents got it at the Dollar Store, made of the thinnest, cheapest, most brittle plastic the world had ever seen. I glued, screwed, installed wood blocks, built gussets from aluminum to keep Big Jeep alive. Sadly a wheel finally broke off and I called it. We had a going away party for it as it went into the trash can. Long live Big Jeep, wherever it is.
The list is endless and boring but one emergency fix sticks with me. On a production line with little supervision, a hydraulic scissor lift lost one of its pins. I had the operator lower the lift while I wedged a piece of wood strategically to re-align the holes and reinsert the pin.
67Dart273
Well-Known Member
I was not involved but was told the story by the victims and perpetrators.
When I was stationed in San Diego, had a few friends who were, like me, amateur radio operators. We had ridden up to My Otay to do some work on the "ham" "2 meter" repeater, and THAT was a REALLY poor and bumpy road back then, a trail, really.
I "spose" (don't remember) I had been bitchin' about the lack of comfort, so the guys told me the story of an EARLIER trip up to the hill
They had gone up there in "Ben BOX's" Renault Dauphine. (Ben was K6BOX, so the nickname) Anyhow, at some point coming back down, something really bad had gone wrong with the fuel system of the Dauphine, and realize they are rear engine. They got 'er home by ripping off a piece of hose from the windshield washer, siphoned some fuel into a coke can, (several times) and them ran it down the hill with one guy hanging out a rear window, siphoning/ pinching the hose dangling down into the carburetor!!!
When I was stationed in San Diego, had a few friends who were, like me, amateur radio operators. We had ridden up to My Otay to do some work on the "ham" "2 meter" repeater, and THAT was a REALLY poor and bumpy road back then, a trail, really.
I "spose" (don't remember) I had been bitchin' about the lack of comfort, so the guys told me the story of an EARLIER trip up to the hill
They had gone up there in "Ben BOX's" Renault Dauphine. (Ben was K6BOX, so the nickname) Anyhow, at some point coming back down, something really bad had gone wrong with the fuel system of the Dauphine, and realize they are rear engine. They got 'er home by ripping off a piece of hose from the windshield washer, siphoned some fuel into a coke can, (several times) and them ran it down the hill with one guy hanging out a rear window, siphoning/ pinching the hose dangling down into the carburetor!!!
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Oogliboogli
Did you say "heyyyyyyy" afterwards like the fonz?
harrisonm
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I had a powder coating customer who bought a rusty 70 (I think) Toyota Land Cruiser. I did floor pans for him, and he asked if I could save his doors and fenders. They were really bad. I said I could but it wouldn't be cheap. The more I dug in, the worse it got. Here are just a few pictures. I was very pleased with how they came out. So was he. BTW, on the pictures showing the welds, I was not done welding yet.
Wow. I need you to come do the doors on my F250.
Ironracer
Gearhead
I've taken a first floor, bearing wall, with a 2nd story floor system, cantilevered 2', that was carrying the truss load, in fully occupied home, that was so ate up by Subterranean Termites, that a bulldozers bucket Could NOT lift up ( due to the Load) the 2nd story and roof up, to replace the 2x12 headers and bearing wall! I did it , alone... no BS At all....
Beams
Well-Known Member
Friend/coworker gave me an echo leaf blower that wouldn’t run. When I got it home, I found the start/stop switch—fired it up first pull.
Ironracer
Gearhead
We had a neighbor w/:a year old push mower, shoved it to the road, w/ a sign " free, needs a spark plug" we took it home, and put gas in it. Mowed the Swamp for Years!
Ironracer
Gearhead
I've had em die on me, and as a Drywall Man, in my early 20s, just came on down the "scissors", after the first 2 or so, my Hands were covered w/ grease! Started moving really quickly then! Left that pos up there and went home. It "Should" have had a release on the bottom......
Ironracer
Gearhead
That's kick *** man! I made a Big block water neck gasket out of a notebook cover once...! Awesome Job Man, sucks Ya had to Push Er in!
Ironracer
Gearhead
Yeah Man, straight up, Beautiful Work!
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Oogliboogli
Free bicycle.... put air in the tires and rode it in a marathon
Free pair of shoes.....put laces in them and ran in the Olympics.
That what a couple stories reminded me of. Lol
Free pair of shoes.....put laces in them and ran in the Olympics.
That what a couple stories reminded me of. Lol
Went on a old house tour and a one of the houses on the tour had a Victrola in the parlor. The home owner said it didn't work. I asked if I could take a look, cranked it up and released the brake. It worked perfect. (she didn't know about the brake) I didn't fix anything but she was impressed and happy.
Super-Cuda
MOPAR .. Move Over, Plymouth Approaching Rapidly!
Here is one I'll brag about but credit has to go to my friend John who helped me restore my car. (He passed away this January , severe diabetic complications). It make a very tedious job very easy and works fantastic! Use a srynge with a semigloss paint and lay down the black lines with it going slowly. Make sure the part you are doing is level. and let the paint dry. I did my grill shells, taillight housings, upper and lower trunk trim , my Hood Inserts and my formula S badges using this method. Worked flawlessly!!
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