Your top bodge

[Paulus]

One of the springs has gone on the oven door, so to keep the door shut tight I have used some sticky sided velcro tape to keep it in place. Similar attempts with child cupboard locks failed.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

currently got a rear rack attached to a road bike with not so much as mudguard eyes by anchoring it through the qr squewer at the bottom and using a very short bungee cord to anchor it to the seat stays at the top…

 

[Levo-Lon]

Too many too list...ill fix anything and get it going..

 

[Deleted member 1258]

And one my Dad told me about. He was out and one of the group punctured and for whatever reason, they could not repair it. So they stuffed the tyre full of grass and made it home. Don't know if it was true, but it would have been a good bodge if it worked.

I've seen this one done, it's not very good but could get you home if you're close, I wouldn't want to try any decent distance with it.

 

[tincaman]

Here is another of my bike bodges ...

As most of you probably know, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire have some big, steep hills. I bought a cyclocross bike last year and found it very overgeared for said hills so I resolved to lower the bottom gear as much as I could with as little expense as possible. I put a huge 12-36 road cassette on but the rear mech would not cope with it. Here comes the bodge ... I discovered that 9-speed Shimano mountain bike rear mechs work very well with 10-speed Shimano road shifters and cassettes (as fitted to the CX bike)!

So here we are - a 9-speed rear mech for a 10-speed bike; it works perfectly!

Wrong thread, thats a Hack not a Bodge

 

[User482]

I've seen this one done, it's not very good but could get you home if you're close, I wouldn't want to try any decent distance with it.

I tried it once. A friend punctured because the braking surface of the rim had worn out and split, forcing the tube through the crack. Better than walking, but not by much.

 

[Rezillo]

My mini van (reg numbers MBT 235F) had bits of dangling string to open the doors

Shaun

My rustheap Mini Traveller van that I had in the 70s had water coming into the front floor pan, which pooled to an inch deep or more by the rear seat passengers' feet. The answer was to knock two holes in the rear floor pan to let the water drain out.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I can foresee a trip to A&E at some point in the near future .

We got a bleeder!

As @Fnaar's Dorothy would say - it'll only be a small prick.

 

[gbb]

Not mine but my late dad's...
He was an artist, he also mounted and framed his own work. Part of that process was to cut the mount with an extremely extremely sharp knife along a steel straight edge, held firmly by pressing it down with his fingers.
On this occasion, he didn't realise one of his fingers was overhanging the edge....cut...slice off tip of finger .

Dad was a chicken, he wouldn't mind me saying so ...so he quickly put the fingertip back on and bound it tightly with some bandage.

It worked, the graft took and barely showed a scar.

Who needs doctors when you can bodge it yourself.

 

[Brains]

String and wire Bodgery is my profession

I think the longest last one that I'm aware of was a fix to a ceiling.
We were in our late teens and in a rented house we found a wasp nest in the void of the ceiling.
Our efforts to eradicate the wasps resulted in a large bit of the ceiling collapsing.
Having a budget of approximately zero, and not wanting to loose our deposit we filled the hole with carpet tiles and then a layer of polyfilla over the top and painted it with tester pots to match.
The landlord never spotted the repair

A decade later I bought the house, I still own it, the bodge repair done over 35 years ago still holds .......

 

[slowmotion]

Oh, I wish I had done this one.......
http://www.industrytap.com/man-flie...bear-attack-anything-duct-tape-cant-fix/17965

 

[Svendo]

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When I used to drive this old Ford 'D' series, many moons ago, the windscreen wiper linkages fell apart quite regularly. The 'get me home' bodge was to tie some twine around each wiper arm, through the open windows and tie it together in the inside of the cab.
When it was raining, a few yanks to the left and right pulled the blades across the screen.
Damp shoulder though, as the windows had to be open for the bodge to work properly!

I suspect Ford used he same linkage in our mk1 focus. On the way back from Manchester Airport in rain which worsened to torrential, the linkage broke, on the M-way link out of the airport. Got off onto ordinary roads. For a while we got away with driving until screen too obscured or stopped anyway at lights, passenger jump out and manually shove the wipers across. Eventually had to reroute satnav to a supermarket, hope it was 24 hours and we got some string to do the big loop of string bodge. Normally an hour, took over 3.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4576236, member: 9609"]I was taking my lawn mower to pieces today, annual clean out and paint up. And I come across this bodge that I must have done a few years back that is hold up well. It is the plastic tray thing that directs the clippings that had broke, I fashioned a new piece of plastic out of a wheelie bin and held it in place with some pop rivets and 2p washers and hot melt glue. (lwheelie bins are worth cutting up, it is an excellent easy to work on plastic that is pretty robust).

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It's bin night round here tonight. I may go out for a brief stroll.

 

[swee'pea99]

[QUOTE 4576236, member: 9609"]I was taking my lawn mower to pieces today, annual clean out and paint up. And I come across this bodge that I must have done a few years back that is hold up well. It is the plastic tray thing that directs the clippings that had broke, I fashioned a new piece of plastic out of a wheelie bin and held it in place with some pop rivets and 2p washers and hot melt glue. (lwheelie bins are worth cutting up, it is an excellent easy to work on plastic that is pretty robust).

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Top bodging! An inspiration to us all.

 

[Chris S]

Another top bodge. Replaced the washing m/c today but the hose was different to the old one and didn't fit the completely non standard Ikea trap waste outlet. I could have replaced the section with the waste outlet but they were all longer and I foresaw headaches in keeping the rest of the cunningly routed pipework in the right place. So instead I bought a standard waste pipe fitting (see tapered bit in pic) and sawed it down at the bit of taper which fitted my waste outlet, wrapped it in PTFE, screwed it on and shoved the waste hose on. Just tested, bodge is a good 'un.

I cut the top part of a plastic drinks bottle to make a connector for my washing machine's outlet hose (the tapered bit in the picture). It was supposed to be a temporary fix but I forgot about it. It was still in place when I went to replace the machine several years later.