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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Baler twineComing back from a family holiday in France we noticed that the car's exhaust was making a funny noise. At the next service station and after a quick examination we found it was loose. Dad decided to tie it to the rest of the car using some baler twine (orange baler twine, for any baler twine enthusiasts out there).
Somehwere in Kent, however, the heat of the exhaust fumes burnt through the twine just in time for us three pods sat in the back to see it fall off and bounce away behind us on the motorway.
"Er, is the exhaust supposed to have come off like that?"
Good old baler twine.
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Peapod Has returned to the fold on, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 21:11,
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get some mains cablestrip out the live, neutral and earth wires. Use those. They won't burn through. Personal experience ;)
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 21:25,
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