Ingenious...

[Rustyt1953]

Dad had an old Ford and the tension screw in the driver's side window crank handle stripped out. He locked a pair of Vise-Grips on the shaft and went about his business.

They were still on the door when he sold it.

 

[SMSgt]

He's from the "Get done with what you've got" corp.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Being a Ironworker with a 8 lb sledge hammer, you do NOT want to see some of my improvements.

However I do manage a #22 dry fly, quite well.

We all have our good and Bad spots.

 

[steelslaver]

Next time I break a wheel barrow handle I will replace it with some of 1-1/4" aluminum pipe I have a bunch of

 

[Truckman]

Necessity may be the mother of invention, however poverty is the father.

Apparently you've seen my truck......Ben

 

[tops]

Dad had an old Ford and the tension screw in the driver's side window crank handle stripped out. He locked a pair of Vise-Grips on the shaft and went about his business.

They were still on the door when he sold it.

I knew a mechanic that had a pair of vice grips clamped on the shaft for the steering wheel. I don't know if that was the pair he used and just clamped them on when he wanted to ride or if it was a designated pair. Larry

 

[BC38]

FWIW, the grain on that branch runs continuously end-to-end.
Unlike a sawed piece of lumber that runs across the grain of the wood.
Plus it has the protective benefits of being covered in natural bark.
Unless it has a big knot in the wrong place, that branch will probably outlast the sawed and shaped handle on the other side of the wheelbarow!

 

[Rustyt1953]

I knew a mechanic that had a pair of vice grips clamped on the shaft for the steering wheel. I don't know if that was the pair he used and just clamped them on when he wanted to ride or if it was a designated pair. Larry

I remember an old guy that used one for a column shifter.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

If that old wheelbarrow handle breaks, problem will be finding a new matching oak one.

 

[llowry61]

Dad had an old Ford and the tension screw in the driver's side window crank handle stripped out. He locked a pair of Vise-Grips on the shaft and went about his business.

They were still on the door when he sold it.

My dad would have taken the vice grips off when he sold it......

 

[Rustyt1953]

My dad would have taken the vice grips off when he sold it......

Dad was in the AF at the time. He just requisitioned more.

 

[Golddollar]

He's from the "Get done with what you've got" corp.

I had to join that club one day. It was a rare day that I was driving to work instead of taking public transit. I'm not the most mechanically minded person, but this day what I did know got me out of a scrape. I was most of the way to my office when my car, a 1971 Chrysler Newport , just quit cold. Luckily I was on a downhill grade and drifted down and pulled off the road. I popped the hood and saw that the wire from the coil to the distributor cap had rotted clean off. Luckily I had a roll of electrical tape in my toolbox in the trunk. I stuck the broken end of wire from the distributor into the tower on the distributor cap, taped it down, and cranked the car up, all without getting my coat dirty. I probably wouldn't be able to do that now.

But there is a little more to the story. When my car stalled, I pulled off the road behind a green car that had its emergency lights flashing. After I got my car started, I walked up to the passenger side window of the green car and saw a man sitting up at the wheel with his eyes closed and keys in the ignition. In the back seat was a German shepherd chained up and barking up a storm. So without sticking my head in the passenger department I asked the man if he was alright but he never moved or spoke. When I got to the office I called the township police to go check on him but I never heard anything further. It kind of makes you think, why did it happen that my car stalled out on that road on that particular day and I ended up behind that green car?

 

[Marshwheeling]

Was riding with a couple buddies back from Sturgis when I had a bolt fall off the bike. It was one of the 2 bolts that held my chrome radiator cover on. We noticed it right as we pulled up to a bank so my buddies could use the ATM. When I pulled out the bailing wire they couldn't believe I had brought it. But I was ready to go again before they had their cash.

Duct tape, safety wire, zip ties and hose clamps.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[SMSgt]

Probably whistles Somewhere Over The Rainbow when he drives.

 

[lihpster]

Probably whistles Somewhere Over The Rainbow when he drives.

Only until the first downshift, I'd bet.

 

[llowry61]

We used aviation grade duct tape and bailing wire to keep the B Model Ag Cat flying till the end of the season.

Now that is ballin right there. Dirt bike yes, airplane gonna think long and hard.

I did have the engine cover pop open on takeoff one time. Somehow the latches didn't get locked down after pre flight oil check. Hmmm wonder who the pilot was.......

 

[Rustyt1953]

True multi-taskers.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

In the old motorcycle world, that brand of homespun rigging or engineering would be called a "bodge". A guy can take pride in some of them. Others, not so much.

In the Navy, there were three or four different expressions used to describe such a solution. Strangely, the one used most often (jury-rigged), is perhaps the only one usable here.

 

[JohnRippert]

True multi-taskers.

I've seen this in our front yard when we were getting foundation work done.