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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Duck Tape and HammersMy first IT job was in desktop support. We had a bunch of desktops that came ready to use except one of the drives needed swapping out. My esteemed team leader pushed me out the way to, "show me how the pro'd do things".
He managed to take the case off without breaking it, I'll give him that. Not wanting to waste time undong all those pesky nuts or reading the instructions he proceeded to, "show me the tricks of the trade" involving (no I'm not making this up) levering the hard drive out with the hook end of a hammer.
It came out; he hooked up the new drive and proceeded to hammer the thing back in the drive cage and duct tape the thing to stop it rattling.
"There fitted and working in 3 minutes! Let's get this fucker running!".
He turned it on and the motherboard cracked, smoked and melted.
The magnumanious prick put it back in it's box, wrote, "received damaged" on the top and told me to "carry on, I'll check on your work later".
RTFM!
(, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 18:40, 2 replies)
WowJust wow.
*clicks*
(, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 19:55, closed)
Oh,the magnumanity.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 22:13,
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