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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Who needs proper tools?Erm, me it would appear.
I had to get the exhaust system off my VFR400 to get it welded, but the studs were proving a bit of a mare. Especially the last one. (Why is it always the last one? Do we subconsciously not attempt the awkward one first even though we can't know, or does the law of sod tighten the last one only as we approach it?)
I'd tried heating it, every variation of mole grip, those 'special' vice spanners I got off QVC, cutting a line into it to get a screwdriver in. Nothing worked.
Before I gave up, I remembered an old broken electric drill I had. I took off the chuck arrangement, hand tight around the stud, then my 'special' spanner to turn it. Bugger me (or blow me) it worked. I now know the perfect tool for extracting studs! Shame I can't get the stud out of my makeshift extractor now!
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Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 9:37,
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