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The time I tried to fix a lawnmower with a kitchen knife
My mower's pull cord snapped last spring, and instead of buying the $15 replacement kit, I thought I could carve a new notch in the recoil starter with a paring knife. I spent two hours and broke the knife blade before I gave up and bought the kit anyway. The whole thing cost me a good knife and a Saturday morning. Has anyone else tried a truly terrible tool substitution that actually worked?
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david_fisher371h ago
Man, does trying to fix a car with a coat hanger count? My buddy's old truck had the throttle cable snap in a parking lot. He swore he could bend a wire hanger into a new cable link. I mean, he got it to sort of work for about ten feet before it popped off and the engine just started screaming. We had to kill it real quick. It was honestly kind of scary, and he definitely didn't make it home on that fix.
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hugowells1h ago
Your buddy's plan had more holes in it than the coat hanger. That's the kind of roadside engineering that turns a simple tow into a full-blown panic attack. You don't just MacGyver a throttle cable, that's how you accidentally film a low budget car chase scene. The mental image of you two scrambling to shut off a screaming engine is pretty funny now, but man, that must have been a terrible ten feet.
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