MacGyver-ism's

[spudmab]

Well i always like making or coming up with what i call MacGyver-ism's.

I thought i would start this post to see if anyone else makes things work that shouldn't, like a bodge but useful lol.

Today i done a MacGyver-ism, i needed to bore some holes down the driveway to allow for some fence post to be put in. Problem came when i started to dig the holes. The ground was extremely hard and full of stones. I had contemplated buying or renting a petrol hole borer.

Well a trip to a local car bootsale and £1.00 later i had a potential tool to solve my hard stone filled ground.

I picked up what i guess was a ground stake for a dog lead. Well i cut the eyelet off the end and ground a point on the end. Well when i put it into my battery drill it dug in and dragged the drill straight to the floor.

Within a few minutes i had bored 3 holes to depth. Very happy as its done the job and its saved me a large amount of money.

[mrbounce]

That's pretty useful for that specific job.

I had two jobs to do on my old Mini back in the 90s. I needed to replace the rear oil seal on the gearbox rod change selector. You need to use a punch to remove the roll pin to get the selector rod out in order to replace the seal. Did I have a punch at the time? Nope. Went to the £1 shop and bought a set of metal bodied watchmaker's screwdrivers. Found one the right diameter, put the screwdriver blade through the middle of the roll pin and gave it a clout with Clyde the Club Hammer. Came out first try!

The other was changing the clutch and I needed to lock the flywheel. The last time I'd done this I had used an oversized screwdriver. My mate had borrowed this and he was thirty-five miles away. So I had a rummage in the house and "borrowed" one of Mum's table knives. The handle was the perfect size for the gap between the flywheel teeth. It's still in my toolbox 20-odd years later...