Tell us your best engineering bodges

[pete23]

a few yrs back me and my mate were on sight on a Friday afternoon, rushing to get done for the pub!! got in the transit to come home and the bat was flat, ground was to rough to bump it.

 

there was a old digger parked up with a flat, so I took the bat of that and used two of those steel bands that go round packs of bricks as jump leads.

 

were,nt late for the boozer!!!

[2stroke-ady]

This was one of mine that worked better than I could have hoped.

 

My Schiesling chipper has a nylon ring between the each feed roller and the hydraulic motors, there is a gear on both the motor and roller, this nylon ring has teeth on he inside that fit onto the two gears making a flexible link.

 

A couple of years ago one of the nylon rings broke in half, I rang my dealer and they said it would be a while before they could get me one, so I ordered two and then thought I had better try and bodge a temporary repair to keep me going until he new part arrived.

 

So I went to an engineering firm and got a piece of steel rolled to near the same diameter as he ring, I the took this home and squeezed it until it was a nice fit over the ring, I the cut off the overlap and wielded the ends together.

 

I then put the two hales of the ring together and put the ring inside the steel band I had made, I then got some old cheep alan keys that come with kids bikes and the like. I wielded the alan keys on the band hooked over the edge so that the nylon ring was held in place.

 

This repair lasted more than 18 months and was still working perfectly when I removed it and fitted the new part, I only did this as I was carrying out some other maintenance work on the chipper.

 

The first pic is a new ring and the other two are the bodge

 

I thought you were about to say you put some jubilee clips around it to hold it together!

[Woodworks]

Saw this and thought it was loosely on topic.