What Did You Come Up With.

[teacake44]

Was you ever in a mess and needed to make some sort of emergency repair, inside or out, in the home or away from home. What sort of bodge up, make do, brain wave did you come up with to get by.
I'll start you off with one that I did a long time ago. I tried to repair a leak on a water pipe one Sunday morning and it didn't go to well due to lack of experience at the time, no chance of a plumber on a Sunday. The pipe was 10mm so I got a plastic top off a bog standard Bic pen warmed it very slightly and capped it off. :0))) worked brill. whats you're claim to fame.?

[MartinMillar]

Not mine but my dad who used to use bean cans to fix areas of rust etc by welding then into place

[lady-janine]

Found sole and upper of a pair of shoes I wanted to wear had parted so stuck them together with super glue. Lasted ages.
Also hem coming adrift on skirt used double sided tape. Worked but not when washed.

[ferlew]

Fixing my son's broken wing mirror, it had broken into 5 pieces, and I glued it back together with one of my craft glues (Pinflair silicone) as a measure to get him back home, it stayed together for almost 2 years.

[Vagus]

Stapled the hem of the trousers of one of my children, as a temporary fix...which lasted till he outgrew them.

[New Judge]

Mrs NJ and I were in a holiday cottage with her sister and his husband. Something went wrong with the water tank in the loft (something to do with the valve IIRC). I went up into the loft and fixed it. My b-i-l poked his he trap door and made to come into the loft. "Don't come up" I said "the floors a bit dodgy!"

Up he came and promptly put his foot through the ceiling. I had to go out, buy a small piece of plywood, covered the hole from the inside and glued the wood in place. Next day, with a packet of "Alabastine" (remember that?) mixed up enough to make good the ceiling. Fortunately the filler was the same colour as the ceiling (in poor light). Job done.

[New Judge]

^^^with her sister and HER husband!!!!

[alavahalf]

I won't be asking you to do any plumbing for me TC.
Only last night the wife said the soles of her slippers are wet. I did suggest what it might be.. the side of my face is still sore.
After some investigation I have decided we have a leak inside a a stud wall. The floor was now soaking with the pool of water getting bigger by the minute.
Out with the board saw and I cut two sections of plasterboard neatly out. I found and repaired the leak early this morning. A crisis became a drama.. Now just a bit of drying out to be done and two holes to be patched.
Just in time for the rugby and a beer!

[fourteen85]

ran out of matches years ago whilst on a France touring holiday and couldn't light my fags, took of the camera lens and shone it to the sun, the cigarette ignited

[bhg481]

Touring Austria we got a crack in the exhaust pipe; the AA flew us a replacement exhaust but we had a 100+ mile round trip to collect it from the airport, so a bodge was necessary involving the use of an empty pea can:
https://i.postimg.cc/Y0gSPJLB/Repairing-exhaust-with-a-tin-of-peas.jpg

[shoota]

I repaired a broken spring in the carburetor of a Rover 2.0l SD1 with the spring from a retractable biro.
Never needed to replace it, it just went on working.

[teacake44]

14.32 Ray Mears in action :0)

[woofgang]

That pinflair gel glue is magic stuff

[teacake44]

^ First time I've ever head of it.

[teacake44]

heard^

[The Builder]

Nice plumbing TC. I knew you could do it ;o)

One time, I was driving an artic in the middle lane of the M25. Loads of traffic as always, but moving pretty fast.
Accelerator pedal went flat to the floor. Nothing I could do. Throttle wide open.
Standing on the brake pedal, I finally wangled my way over to the hard shoulder and stopped the engine.

All that drama, then just a couple of thick rubber bands to do as a return spring on the throttle, and I was on my way again ;o)

[Prudie]

While staying in a hotel near Stirling I let my electric hair curling iron burn a sausage size brown singe into the deep pile dusky pink carpet. I spent an hour with a safety razor shaving all the burnt bits off so it didn't show. Works really well although I did feel guilty.

[Dagman]

One of our gutters came loose in a bad storm and was banging side of house at 2am, I climbed onto garage roof, lassoed gutter, took a few throws!, and tied it down onto water container. It stayed like that for a month.

[gulliver1]

17.23 Thats the way to do it. lol.

[ummmm]

Every job my OH does is a botch job! He just can't admit he's rubbish at DIY.