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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My Mother's downstairs khaziIt was a proper old 1980s thing, with a chrome handle which sprouted from the side of the cistern. All was fine until one day, after about 25 years loyal service, the handle snapped clean off.
So I do what any man would, and scour the house looking for a suitable bodged replacement. Eventually I find an old wooden spoon which had been used to stir wallpaper paste. I used an insane quantity of LX tape (PVC or Insulating Tape for the non-roadies amongst us) to fix it to what remained of the handle... and bingo!
It was like that for months and months before it broke. So my Mother bought a new one.
Not a new wooden spoon, but a new bog. And a new hand basin to go with it. She mumbled something about friends coming to stay.
More money than sense, some people...
(, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 3:19, Reply)
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