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Following the mention of using a wire coat hanger as a car aerial in another I would like to hear your experiences of using inappropriate items as a practical solution.
I will kick off with someone from my youth saying that they had used a crisp packet as a condom (unverified)
I will kick off with someone from my youth saying that they had used a crisp packet as a condom (unverified)
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Tights as a fan belt is a shcking omission even at this early stage.
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shocking even!
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use evaporated milk when making tea .it keeps it hot and makes the tea more tasty
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Jack Duckworth + sticking plaster = legend
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Using a blow up doll to give the impression that you've got a passenger in your car so you can use the high occupancy vehicle traffic lane.
Not for anything else mind. |
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Plastic bottles make a half decent funnel in an emergency.
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hair clip i find on the floor to act as a rotor arm switch when my car broke down in the middle of no where
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Currently using a paper clip on an overcoat zipper where the original zipper grip broke off, works a treat.
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That's a top tip, Sticky.
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If any buys those Robinson Squash'd bottles(portable concentrated juice that you squirt into water and costs usually £2) when its empty fill it with the double concentrated stuff that costs about £2 for a 1 1/2 litres (its always on offer in Tescos). Its not quite as concentrated but costs about 1/100 th of the original stuff to make.
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keep a spare set of sparkensuring they areclean and dry plugs and plug spanner if the car won,t start,
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if the kitchen sink is blocked then anny sort of material will make a plunger .giv it ten plunges
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learner ...
works not only for a kitchen sink. It's o.k., if you're careful, for a bathroom sink as well. I've heard that it's sometimes o.k. for a utility room sink. Not sure about bath, though. |
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Jack Hacksaw
29 Jan 17 13:12 Joined: 08 Jan 02 | Topic/replies: 3,164 | Blogger: Jack Hacksaw's blog Jack Duckworth + sticking plaster = legend Agreed, Jack is the spiritual father of every tradesman that uses gaffer tape in prefererence to the correct solution |
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Tradesmen started disappearing when tubes of calk and expanding foam were launched. Nearest 5mm and fill these days
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Re Stickyvicky's zipper tip, I remember my grandad telling me how in the WW1 trenches everyone ended up buttoning up their coats and tunics with bulldog clips.
Gaffer tape or duct tape is almost the only tool the bodger needs (apart from a screwdriver to open the lids of paint tins of course). I remember the first time I swept the chimney and the brush unscrewed and lodged in the pot. Bent a metal spoon into a downward-facing hook, attached it to the rod with duct tape and, hey presto, fished out the brush. Anyone with sense would have used the tape to secure the brush to the rod in the first place of course, but that's bodging for you. The great thing was that it wasn't even a waste of good cutlery, because I'd been using the spoon for years as a tyre lever on the bike. |
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Tradesmen started disappearing when tubes of calk and expanding foam were launched. Nearest 5mm and fill these days
Indeed. I spent many happy days working with 'Mastic Trev' - as we called him. |
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Put Orange peel inside smelly trainers/football boots.
Put milk in ice cube tray and put in freezer, one cube per coffee and never worry about milk going off. |
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I put any wine dregs in ice cube trays BRIGGSY, drop em in gravy, or pasta sauces.
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saddo, you cud add a tooth pick to each cube and have mini wine lollies
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An empty Pringles tube makes an excellent potty when you're stuck in traffic on the M1.
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My Dad broke the quarter light window on his car and used a flattened out catering size baked bean tin (cut to size) as a temporary fix .
It was still in place 2 years later. |
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For the last couple of years I have used the nozzle from a silicon applicator in lieu of a padlock on the hasp and staple on my shed. it has gone missing and I am quite upset about my security going down from 0% to erm .... 0%
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Bad luck, mate. I've got an applicator nozzle wedged between a gutter support and the fascia board. It lifts up the gutter to an angle where the water runs away. It was either that or mending the fascia board where it's rotted away from the wall.
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WHEN PEELING A TOMATO PLACNN FRYING NE IN HOT WATER FOR 10 SECS ,WHEN FRYING CHIPS MAKE THE CHIPS THICKER THAN USUAL AN AVERAGE SIZE POTATO SLIC IN HALF ON THE LENGTH TWICE AND THE WIDTH ONCE TO MAKE EIGHT CHIPS FRY IN HOT OIL FOR 10 TO 15 MINUTES
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if your car wontstart because the batteryis flat then jack up a rear wheel , put the car into second gear and turn the wheel you have jacked up and the car should start
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if your machine belt breaks then use a never sag also if it keeps slipping
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welshmen have no shame, pitiful inbreds
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Reminds me of an old fella called Gordon Hill who used to live in Wincanton about 20 years ago. He was giving me a lift one morning to Stratford races in some ancient saloon whose passenger door was a different colour to the other three. We were driving north along that jam-packed dual carriageway that runs north from Newbury, when he suddenly steered the car to a violent halt up the grass verge, jumped out and scuttled back down the road about 50 yards.
He came trotting back clutching a metal bumper, took some lengths of baler twine out of his jacket pocket and tied the bumper to the back of the motor in the space where the old one must have fallen off some time in the past. Then he just jumped back in the car with a delighted chuckle and accelerated off in a cloud of smoke. |
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bodger the badger
i've written on my fan extractors in my house (for future tenants)... deactivated noise-draught module. my council put in these fan extractors, they cut a circular hole in the building? then fit a fan unit inside a box and they whirl round when you are cooking or showering? then they lay there and do nothing but let a draught come into the house? on top of this the fan moves slightly with high winds. this makes a noise that drives you insane when you try to sleep at night? here is what i did to fix my life - making it better... I unscrewed the housing. Unscrewed the fans. Stuck them in a box for the new tenants if they want to be tortured. I got round plastic tubs and plugged the holes. Then sealed it and made it draught proof. closed the housing and it looks like the fans might still work? but there's nothing there but empty boxes on the walls. So now I can sleep without freezing and getting wailing noises. Thank you for the extractors people. |