Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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The last oneThat's pretty clever, I like that method.
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SteamedCleaner, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 14:25,
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it's quick, certainlyBut it requires there to be less than 63 amps of fault current, and the user to remember to take the fuse back out, or else you'll come back the next day and if the fault hasn't cleared all the insulation will have melted and be hanging off the cable like grubby orange icicles
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parttimedogfish is a Born-Again Reincarnationist, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 14:35,
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I like orange iciclesbut they always came in a multipack with the horrible lime ones.
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brown-wings Made with three kinds of butter, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:13,
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I was going to say I didn't think there was too much wrong with that last onein a controlled environment with someone keeping an eye on things.
That wasuntil you mentioned how long it takes to burn it out!
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thistle, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 22:09,
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