Your top bodge

[Globalti]

The horn button on the handlebar cluster of my motorbike went limp because the spring had broken. A new or even second-hand cluster was expensive and it seemed ridiculous to pay pounds for such a tiny part so I disassembled everything, took out the broken spring, which was a tiny conical copper coil not unlike the spring on a bicycle QR but smaller and flatter. Making a crude replacement out of coiled up copper wire wasn't hard but it was too malleable so I heated it in a gas flame then quenched it in water, making it stiff and springy. Refitted everything and it worked impeccably until I sold the bike.

 

[gbb]

Currently seeking a bodging solution for my kitchen tap...the plastic aerator nozzles threads have worn and it keeps falling out. I tried PTFE tape, that held for a while but I need something more permanent...and something that's not going to taint the water. It's got to resist high temperature as well.
Araldite ..not sure if it's going to be healthy or resist the temperature.
Still thinking....

 

[John the Monkey]

[QUOTE 4534986, member: 259"]<fact>Brussels Pate is practically unknown in Brussels</fact>[/QUOTE]
Yeah, they just call it paté, innit.

 

[Globalti]

Currently seeking a bodging solution for my kitchen tap...the plastic aerator nozzles threads have worn and it keeps falling out. I tried PTFE tape, that held for a while but I need something more permanent...and something that's not going to taint the water. It's got to resist high temperature as well.
Araldite ..not sure if it's going to be healthy or resist the temperature.
Still thinking....

Go and buy a new tap yer tight wad!

(But I would use Araldite and not worry)

 

[stephec]

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.

It's close the thread time.

You can't top that, unless someone's done it with a arm, or another more important body part.

 

[Salad Dodger]

We bought one of this type of folding trolley, to cart songbooks and music stands around in. (Mrs Salad and I play in a uke band).

Either the contents weigh considerably more than 25kg, or the trolley isn't really rated to cope with 25kg, because it is now held together with about a dozen cable ties, straining to keep the prolapsed panels held together....




Not strictly a bodge this, but close. My wife and I saw a car driving out of B&Q. There were 4 fellas in the car and on the roof was an 8x6 foot plywood panel. When I say on the roof, I mean literally on the paintwork. Each bloke had one hand out of the window, holding the plywood in place. No roof rack, not even rope through the open windows of the car. I hope they weren't driving far. Or fast!

 

[John the Monkey]

nothing to compare with any of these, but this has worked nicely for my Longflap and Super-C Audax;
https://johnthemonkey.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/a-carradice-bodge/

 

[ufkacbln]

I read an article about camera batteries shorting and causing fires when stored in camera bags.


Use an old inner tube cut into 1" sections

Fits tightly around battery protecting the contacts and preventing shorting

 

[raleighnut]

nothing to compare with any of these, but this has worked nicely for my Longflap and Super-C Audax;
https://johnthemonkey.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/a-carradice-bodge/

That is neat, I stuck a rack on to support the bottom of my Carradice.

 

[Salty seadog]

I have another that just popped to mind, a cheap bedroom draw unit had one of the casters break off, the wobble was sorted by the use of a golf ball which was secured by gravity holding it between the hole left by the missing caster and the floor.

 

[tyred]

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.

Peugeot were intelligent enough to fit drainage bungs on the rear floorpan of the 205 but clearly not intelligent enough to seal the bloody bootlid in the first place.

 

[Spinney]

Ingenious, The A-Team would be proud of that.

Na - doesn't involve armour - not nearly macho enough for the A team.
Looks like a good McGyver though...


A tool-type bodge - OH could not undo bottom bracket until I brought over the bottom part of the pole for the garden parasol - fitted nicely over the tool and provided a nice long lever. The aluminium pole of a rotary dryer also works, although is a bit more unwieldy to handle.

 

[Drago]

My bestest bodge...

Few years back one of my ridge tiles blew off in the wind, broke into several pieces as it hit the ground.

Next day I 'glued' the bits back together with clear silicone sealant, and then stuck the whole mess back in position with another big gob of the same sealant.

A few weeks later I got a new tile, but I climbed up on the roof to find the old one had set solid and wouldn't budge. It's still there.

 

[Salty seadog]

I've got another, I thought about putting it in this thread a few days ago as it's a bodge I use several times a day.Now @User9609 has bumped it up i give it to you to marvel at.

The little hang down light pull for my bathroom cabinet went for a burton a few years back and stopped returning so the second pull didn't turn the lights off again. So opened the top removed the old dangley bit of string and put two of my own bits in, one for on, one for off. was good for about 5 years until they got twisted, so opened up the top again sorted out the routing, still going strong about another year on.

 

[wifflebat]

The endcap on my mum's treadmill broke (really poor plastic design to tension the belt). She wanted to bin it
1, 2, 3 bodge...
Now it's in my garage for me to lean stuff against.