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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In the lab where I used to workWe had a tool for widening tubes to fit over the fitting, as you describe. Sort of a three-pronged needle-nose plier device.
It's official name, used by all engineers and managers of whatever age and seniority, was the "Fanny Stretcher".
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