quick fixes, bodges and creations
- Thread starter jimmer
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simmy_bull
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Dissimilar rods should do the trick!!
The cap acts as a stop on the plunger,eventually the arm will drop too low as it wears the brass away cows then break the arm off.
Cow foot block glue.
- Location
- Worcestershire
Glue. Or Sugru. Comes in a range of colours, bit like plasticine but it sets like rubber. Store it in the fridge to keep for longer. The packs are very similar in size and appearance to condoms so don't get them confused.....
tomlad
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- Location
- nr. preston
Utube keeps showing me add vids of a uv cured liquid glue , no doubt a Chinese special. Id thought looked idea for plastic ??
Don't know its name sorry, uv cured like dental fillings ..
Don't know its name sorry, uv cured like dental fillings ..
Lazy Sod
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- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
It's called Bondic.
e5c0rt.mk1
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Needed a 12mm 6 point spanner, to get a bolt out of a turbo on a car. Didnt have one, so i made one out of a cap head and abit of bar.
Worked great !!
Worked great !!
Monty
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- Location
- Nantwich, Cheshire
Replacement rubber strip for the hedgecutter courtesy of vredestein and a stanley knife
Bloody tyre fitting for the airline is sitting down at the farm, tractor is at home at the yard with a soft tyre...
worked ok
- Location
- Suffolk
Forklift steering ram sprung a leak on a seal, stuff to unload and didn't want to leave a trail of oil around the yard so on with an ice cream tub 'nappy'
New cable ties were used, for which I seek forgiveness.
New cable ties were used, for which I seek forgiveness.
I hope you put the oil back in !
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
And then bought some better Ice Cream
- Location
- Suffolk
Not guilty on that front. It came from fathers pile of 'useful containers' which consists of various biscuit tins, sweet tins, empty vanish stain remover tubs, ice cream tubs, coffee jars and the like.And then bought some better Ice Cream
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
And re-used the cable ties.....even tho you have cut the ends offAnd then bought some better Ice Cream
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Tie them in a knot?And re-used the cable ties.....even tho you have cut the ends off
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
- Location
- northumberland
RushesToo
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- Location
- Fingringhoe
@Bobthebuilder I like the @bodge,@ the amount of rust suggests it took a while to get round to it - I notice the unusual shininess of the bolt....
Own up to this! is not a bodge but a fully planned almost proper engineering fix
I think it was well thought out and planned repair but...@Bobthebuilder I like the @bodge,@ the amount of rust suggests it took a while to get round to it - I notice the unusual shininess of the bolt....
Own up to this! is not a bodge but a fully planned almost proper engineering fix
he had to wait 3 years for a tractor to puncture so he could get a bit of rubber tubing to seal the leak