DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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Last year I accompaniedmy mate to Harrogate to purchase yet another madcap Citroen project. This one was a long wheelbase Citroen CX Prestige. It had a paintjob that had been carried out by a blind arthiritic chimp, handled like a waterbed and the engine noise was syncopation that Scott joplin would've been proud of.
Anyway, we set off back to Hull and got to the York ringroad, whereupon his car stalled. He got it going again and we finally limped into the McDonalds carpark at Clifton moor.
We listened to the engine which was clearly not firing on all cylinders. The guy he bought it off had mentioned a repair on a HT lead. So we had a look and it had clearly been repaired by thoroughly ignoring it completely. The business end of the lead was almost non-existant. However, we managed to rebuild it using two paperclips and a McDonalds straw.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 23:02,
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