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[ukminch]

If it can't be fixed with gaffa tap, cable ties and a hammer it can't be fixed!!!

[Kev Stephenson]

If it can't be fixed with gaffa tap, cable ties and a hammer it's an electrical problem!!!

 

Corrected your quote

[ukminch]

Corrected your quote

 

My bad:001_tt2:

[mpb]

We had a mini digger & the lift pump packed up on a saturday afternoon. The job needed to be finished. With a 2 ltr pop bottle strapped to the roll cage & a length of hose, I fed the fuel straight into the injection pump. Worked a treat, just had to watch the fuel level in the bottle.

 

Martin

[likeitorlumpit]

Our youngest was born just as disposable nappies first came out in the 70s.I was left on my own 1 evening and had to change a smelly one with only 1 fresh 1 remaining in the bag.Got in a right old muddle with those sticky tab things and ended up going down to my workshop and fetching some insulation tape to fasten it all together.Mrs oldwoodcutter still brings it up in mixed company when feeling particularly beligerant.

 

I had exactly the same problem and solution in the eighties- my darling wife still brings this up regularly. - as in arn't men just useless

[Pat Ferrett]

Had a Silky saw turn on Me whilst topping a small Maple tree, so rather than get down for a plaster I just RIPPED MY BLOUSE! and made good like a real Man

[hazzygawa]

If I get a problem I just call the A-Team or McGuiver

[difflock]

Hmmm,

Most successful, back in about 1993, driving the wee petrol Polo on a filthy februrary night far from home, & the car conked out.

Heavily pregent wife plus 10 month old wean on board.

gulp! (as I did the car maint)

I lifted the bonnet and immediately espied the distributor cap was askew.

On removing it the rotor arm was mangled with the brass bit completely chewed & useless.

Hmmmm,

A lump of Blutack and a paperclip fabricated a new electrical contact for the distributor arm, which worked perfectly the first attempt.

After I bought a replacment I ran the car for 6 or 9 months on the impromptu repair.

I belive I may NOT have told the wife that I was the guilty party with respect to the incorrectly fastened distributor cap.

People have asked me bytimes why I always carry a lump of Blutack stuck to the dash, even in a new car.

One never knows.

Edited October 4, 2011 by difflock

[Owainlogs]

thats really funny

[josharb87]

voltage regulator died on my old mk3 hilux returning from southern london to cambridge at night-truck ran fine as diesel but no lights made the m25 interesting, so pulled the red wire from the alternator off the regulator, stripped some insulation off and wrapped the bare end round the positive on the battery terminal bypassing the regulator completely, worked perfectly well nice bright lights!