Ingenuous Backyard Mechanics

[SlipperKing]

I got an email from my Mother thinking I could some of these ideas to good use! I love the A/C unit!

 

[SlipperKing]

I can make this!

 

[Rick]

HaHa:clap:

I've seen this one before. Unfortunately I could claim several of these as something I did with my vehicles over the years

I really freaked out the kids one time when the regular key ignition in my sons old Chevy truck wore out, so I wired around it with an old extension chord. To turn the truck on you plugged the extension chord into itself.

 

[SlipperKing]

Too bad you didn't get a picture of that Rick! You could of added here.

 

[Clark]

Unfortunately I could claim several of these as something I did with my vehicles over the years

Same here.
W/O hesitation.

 

[Candace]

Yup, who cares of some of these fixes are completely life threatening to those in the vehicle and on the road. They're cheap and do the trick....at least for a few seconds! I'm kind of shocked there aren't more men(yes, I'm thinking most of these contraptions are 'man'-made) making car parts out of duct tape. ??? I'll run and hide now. Carry on.

 

[John M]

Yup. 'Been there. Done that......at least some of these! What teenager hasn't fixed a muffler with a pop can? In fact, my greenhouse generator has a "pop can special" on it's muffler right now. I had a Hyundai Pony in my early 20's and towards the end of it's life, I worked the wipers by pulling on a string back and forth. My mother's white Ford Taurus has been sporting a "bum bum" for many years now. She backed up and smashed the bumber cover and bits fell off and the whole left 1/3 had serious cracks. So, I used a couple rolls of white duct tape to put it all back together. Then, to stop the duct tape from aging in the sun and crumbling/falling off, I sealed the whole area with Ford's "Clear Coat" spray, which has UV inhibitors in it. The duct tape works just fine.

 

[Shiva]

My father had a 1961 Dodge for many, many years. It was black. As the body rusted from the bottom up, he would put rows of black electric tape to hide the rust so that in the end, it began to look like a hovercraft.

 

[Clark]

My wife is spatially incapacitated.

 

[SlipperFan]

My favorite is the windshield wiper! :rollhappy:

 

[Rick]

Yup, who cares of some of these fixes are completely life threatening to those in the vehicle and on the road. They're cheap and do the trick....at least for a few seconds! I'm kind of shocked there aren't more men(yes, I'm thinking most of these contraptions are 'man'-made) making car parts out of duct tape. ??? I'll run and hide now. Carry on.

You must have watched the Red Green show with all the guys from the Possum Lodge:wink::wink:

At the Possum lodge, duct tape is known as the Universal Adapter!!!!

Actually I think John M lives not too far from Possum Lake. He might be one of the lodge brothers.

 

[Stone]

:rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy:
Thats the funniest thing Ive seen in ages!! I love the body work on the white car #7 very stylish! :rollhappy::rollhappy:

 

[cnycharles]

in the 70's, my father and I helped one of my sister's cars pass inspection by creating a new fender assembly around the driver's side headlight, with stiff wire, cool-whip containers and duct tape. the headlight was wired into the cool-whip container which was aimed by some forgotten method and the fender was completely duct tape painted light blue. my sister sort of bragged that she never spent more than $25 on a vehicle (prices at that time), but probably time lost due to malfunction and repair cost much more than that. one instance comes to mind where crossed battery wiring caused total permanent temperate restructuring of the vehicle

 

[Rick]

one instance comes to mind where crossed battery wiring caused total permanent temperate restructuring of the vehicle

That sounds totally High Tech Charles:clap::clap:

 

[John M]

You must have watched the Red Green show with all the guys from the Possum Lodge:wink::wink:

At the Possum lodge, duct tape is known as the Universal Adapter!!!!

Actually I think John M lives not too far from Possum Lake. He might be one of the lodge brothers.

Uh oh! I'm busted. My secret is out!:rollhappy: :wink: Actually, that's not so far fetched. Red Green (aka Steve Smith) lives in Hamilton and Harold Green (aka Patrick McKenna), lives in Waterdown, my closest town...I'm in rural Hamilton. ....And I do use Duct tape just as creatively and as often as the boys at Possum lodge! Where do you think I learned that? BTW: We don't just call duct tape the "Universal Adapter", it IS the UNIVERSAL ADAPTER!!! It did a fine job holding the rear bumper on my Austin mini all through highschool.

 

[SlipperKing]

I'm guilty as well. In high school my brother and I made a whole car out of half a VW and electrical conduit we stole off a job site at the high school (we couldn't afford to buy anything then). It was for off-the-road use only. We never did bother with putting brakes on it!

 

[John M]

We never did bother with putting brakes on it!

LOL! How the heck did we survive our childhoods!?:rollhappy: