"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
05/07/2020 at 20:45 • Filed to: Questions
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"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
05/07/2020 at 20:45 • Filed to: Questions | 1
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I’ve had this dime in the thermostat since 2013 in order to push the fan switch over enough to complete the connection. It will stay this way until I need to break into my emergency fund.
Do you all have any jury rigging going on?
wafflesnfalafel
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 20:49 |
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I might have an old garbage can and some rope holding up a big chunk of fence the fell over a “few” years ago....
AestheticsInMotion
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 20:59 |
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I finally fixed it, but my broken battery ring terminal thingy was held on the battery post with a pair of locking pliers.
For like three years....
facw
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 21:05 |
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Nothing too long term that I can think of right now. Best I can do off the top of my head is for two months I’ve had the wrong size battery in my thermometer (got to check on COVID you know). The battery cover doesn’t fit, but they are the right voltage (or close enough) and they do make contact in the right places. If I keep the cover on backwards it holds them in, so good enough I guess.
Spaceball-Two
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 21:06 |
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My sump pump is a mangled mess of chords half hazardly drilled and pushed through concrete, drywall and brick. There may be some zip ties. It’s been that way for ten years. You think I fixed it and cleaned it up when I cleared it this last Spring? Nope.
thatsmr
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 21:12 |
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I posted on a BAT thread about using rubber bands as a throttle return on my Opel GT for the last year or so I owned it. This year the circuit for my water pump on the "swamp" cooler didnt seem to work, so I have an extension cord on the roof to run it. Probably the last year of the rusty old cooler, so Im sure I will let this patch go through the summer..
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facw
> thatsmr
05/07/2020 at 21:26 |
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Rubber bands on the throttle return are way more impressive than the rubber bands my mom used to keep the rear view mirror from melting off her MGB. Adhesive holding on the glass was fine most of the time, but on warm days the mirror would slowly slide out of its frame while driving without the rubber bands (which she begged a Royal Mail letter carrier for, since it was getting bad while we were out) .
Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 21:28 |
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Downstairs seldom used sink in Our laundry room - with a rubber gasket cut from a bike inner tube that had flatted. Works well so far.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 21:28 |
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In the Fiesta, the rubber gauge cover started squeaking at 2500 miles. I shoved a piece of paper in there, and it fixed it. I traded it in with paper still wedged there at 39k miles.
Captain of the Enterprise
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 21:52 |
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I present my shitty portable air conditioner.
The blades in the front don’t stay up on their own anymore and many have fallen out so a piece of duct tape holds that part up.
It didn’t come with any of the tubing so I went to hone depot and got some ductwork and metal tubing and duct taped it together and to the back of the unit.
It also didn’t come with the piece that goes in the window so I made one out of used styrofoam.
Finally it has a tiny water tank in it so I use the side drain with a Home Depot bucket under it and a Wendy’s straw with some duct tape around the top to get a tight fit extends the side drain to go into the bucket.
I’ve been running it mostly like this for 2-3 years. I live with my dad and stepmom while in college and I complained about the temperature as we stopped using air even when it’s 80+ out so my dad found this 1999 unit for $20 somewhere and I had to rig it to make it work. I thought about buying a new one this year but I’m hoping to move out after I graduate in December and may not need a portable unit anymore after that so I’m tempted to just save my money.
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thatsmr
> facw
05/07/2020 at 21:55 |
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Rubber bands are right up there with duct tape, right? Whenever the throttle felt too loose I knew it was time to twist a few new rubber bands around. Made perfect sense to 17 yr old me even though a new spring couldnt have cost more than a few bucks
Old-Busted-Hotness
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 22:06 |
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Years ago I built a Fiat 1500 up for autocross. One of my mods was to block the coolant passages to the intake manifold, to keep the charge air cooler. (Why? The engine was cool at the start of the run, and the runs lasted 45-60 seconds. Dumb) To accomplish this, I counterbored the manifold and siliconed two pennies in the hole. Worked, and it was cheaper than using nickels.
SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
05/07/2020 at 22:09 |
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I did that in one of my miatas. I don't remember which one, maybe both of them
shop-teacher
> Wobbles the Mind
05/07/2020 at 22:20 |
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I have an old sock wedged into my attic door, to hold it shut. It's been seven or eight years now.
A Boy and His Longtail
> Old-Busted-Hotness
05/07/2020 at 22:49 |
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Take your stupid star for the nickel comment
Mercedes Streeter
> Wobbles the Mind
05/08/2020 at 01:32 |
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Way back in 2016 I took the 2012 smart storm chasing and ripped off a side skirt. I put it back on using zip ties. Those zip ties have survived three Gambler 500s and still do the job today.
DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
> Wobbles the Mind
05/08/2020 at 08:50 |
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My first ever car I had to make a jumper from one fuse to the next in order for the ignition to work after after we screwed it up disassembling the dashboard. I wonder if it ever burned down...