
If 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.
( , Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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I've got one of those 5 ring cookers, the ones with a wok burner in the middle. This burner has 2 caps: a big ring for the outer flame, and a small one less than an inch across for the centre flame.
We lost the small one, and when I found out it would cost SIXTY EARTH POUNDS to replace, I decided to improvise. So I defaced a £2 coin thus: measure for the locator groove on the underside by comparing the studs on the burner, and then clamp the £2 into my mate's lathe and score the groove in with a tungsten bit. Because I'm of a republican bent, and also because the £2 is a handsome coin, I gouged through Her Maj's face.
Sorted, as long as I don't get nicked for treason. And the copper means the flames are pretty.
( , Fri 11 Mar 2011, 8:15, 9 replies)

How dare you! This is against everything we stand for
( , Fri 11 Mar 2011, 9:30, closed)

You should only have posted this story if it involved nailing the £2 coin to the cooker with a shard of chicken wire. And it was a 50p coin that you roughly sanded the corners off.
( , Fri 11 Mar 2011, 9:39, closed)

( , Fri 11 Mar 2011, 10:07, closed)

then we can only assume that he's been overcome by fumes, slumped into his salt and pepper prawns and suffered grotesque facial burns.
( , Fri 11 Mar 2011, 11:30, closed)

...before it reaches the cook.
( , Sat 12 Mar 2011, 13:59, closed)
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