these aren't repairs. they're just not.
ex boyfriend of mine was very keen on D.I.Y.
he was also a cheap-arse fucker. some of his penny-pinching "fixes" are as follows:

hanging a torch from the bathroom ceiling instead of getting the strip lighting fixed.

using a sock as a filter for his fish tank.

replacing a broken spatula handle with the leg off a barbie doll.

replacing his C.B aerial with a coathanger.

filling his holey tooth with the silvery part of a kitkat wrapper.

replacing his broken toilet seat with an inflatable rubber ring.

fixing a hole in his boot with a plaster(band aid) that he'd coloured in black with a marker pen.

replacing the leg of his coffee table with a bottle of cooking oil.

"sealing" the hole in his water pipe with play doh.

there are more, but i'll have to see if i can remember them.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 18:35, 15 replies)

Aaaarrrrggghhh
Tooth, hole, silver foil

*shudders*
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 10 Mar 2011, 18:46, closed)

i know!
he was a fucking mental!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 18:49, closed)

It's only a problem
if you already have the hole filled with amalgam. Then you get a potential difference produced between the aluminium and the mercury alloy. If it's a virgin hole, so to speak, it would be fine.

It wouldn't be much use as a filling but it wouldn't hurt.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 20:17, closed)

^this^
Cringing thinking about it....
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 10:03, closed)

wait, replacing a broken spatula handle with the leg off a barbie doll?
yes, replacing a broken spatula handle with the leg off a barbie doll!

I LOVE it
( vladimir, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 19:09, closed)

his sister was very pissed off when she found out

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 20:03, closed)

is she a Barbie doll?

(Draco Rattus ate all the pies on, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 3:27, closed)

no, she's a sindy

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 9:08, closed)

'replacing his broken toilet seat with an inflatable rubber ring'
WIN.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 20:13, closed)

his excuse for this was
"i've seen them like this at my nan's nursing home, i'm sure of it!"
after i stopped laughing, i gently explained to him the concept of a haemorrhoid ring.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 20:46, closed)

given that they do not stay inflated forever, he must have had to blow it back up. Which is a bit grim, really.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 1:22, closed)

Now there's an image I really didn't need...
Thanks :|
( snee held his breath since, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 8:21, closed)

i'm so glad i dumped him

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 11:43, closed)

replacing a broken spatula handle with the leg off a barbie doll.
This wins ..... everything.

I so want a barbie-leg spatula. Reckon my girls will notice?

Cooking oil coffee-table leg also gets an honourable mention.

*click*
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 18:23, closed)

the leg handle was a bit short
and he had to be very careful when he was using it, but it certainly got people talking!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 9:09, closed)