What did you LAST repair?

~~Cuthbert~~ · 03-20-2018, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT]

Has anyone ever attempted self-surgery?

My sister had surgery for an ingrown toenail. I had the same issue and dealt with it myself. Sterilized it with rubbing alcohol. rubbed it down with benzocaine. Dug it out with tweezers and pliers. Bandaged it up. After a week or so, it was good as new!

I have a high pain tolerance.

Yeah but not like that ffs.

That just sounds painful.

OccultHawk · 03-20-2018, 07:35 PM

I fixed a door that wasn’t closing right. It needed longer screws in the side plates of the hinge to fasten tight enough.

Trollheart · 03-21-2018, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

knob on a kitchen cupboard
two light bulbs yesterday too

How do you fix a bulb? Don't you mean you replaced it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

Has anyone ever attempted self-surgery?

My sister had surgery for an ingrown toenail. I had the same issue and dealt with it myself. Sterilized it with rubbing alcohol. rubbed it down with benzocaine. Dug it out with tweezers and pliers. Bandaged it up. After a week or so, it was good as new!

I have a high pain tolerance.

I bet that was because you don't trust the Jew doctors, huh?

Psy-Fi · 03-21-2018, 09:48 AM

A section of a copper water pipe with a pinhole leak. Luckily, it was outside of any drywall and I caught it shortly after it started leaking.

Norman Foster · 03-22-2018, 07:25 AM

A door handle. Thought I did a decent job and then when I got back from my time abroad my subtenant had broken it again.

I also recently "repaired" a bike which ended up in the dump about two weeks later.

~~Dude111~~ · 03-29-2018, 10:09 AM

This morning I fixed a cassette I got......

It wouldnt play well,sounded like it got wet or was somehow being wedged in and couldnt freely move.... IT WAS HARD GETTING THIS!! -- I was tired and my eyes were hurting from overtired and I almost gave up..... The tape kept coming off the lead spool (The one on the left if looking @ side 1)

I put it into a different shell and finally got it closed w/o the tape being scrunched in the front!! (This shell has screws also thankfully (The one I took apart easily came apart with a knife wedged in the front))

I didnt wanna lose it....... Whitesnakes first album - TROUBLE (1978)

~~Dude111~~ · 04-07-2018, 03:08 AM

Last night I fixed one of my 8 track tapes

I just got BARRY MANILOWS first concert (1977) and there was basically NO PAD and when track 4 played,the right channel wasnt there. (I LISTEN IN MONO BUT IT STILL MAKES IT SOUND WIERD MISSING A CHANNEL)

I popped the cartridge open and put a good pad in

(Thankfully it wasnt damaged)

grindy · 04-07-2018, 03:14 AM

*weird

Lisnaholic · 04-07-2018, 07:11 AM

^ Yeah, full marks to Dude111 for your thread idea of celebrating that special satisfaction that comes from effecting a good repair, but it's strange to have such a detailed inventory of repaired tapes isn't it?
Back when DVDs were the common way to store and replay audio/visual content, I worked for a school which used them in the classrooms. They were so often rewound and paused that they started breaking, twisting somehow and jamming. After one successful repair, I became the school's go-to guy for fixing their DVDs.

Psy-Fi · 04-07-2018, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Yeah, full marks to Dude111 for your thread idea of celebrating that special satisfaction that comes from effecting a good repair, but it's strange to have such a detailed inventory of repaired tapes isn't it?
Back when DVDs were the common way to store and replay audio/visual content, I worked for a school which used them in the classrooms. They were so often rewound and paused that they started breaking, twisting somehow and jamming. After one successful repair, I became the school's go-to guy for fixing their DVDs.

That's even weirder.

03-20-2018, 07:35 PM	#12 (permalink)
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03-29-2018, 10:09 AM	#16 (permalink)
~~Dude111~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 758	This morning I fixed a cassette I got...... It wouldnt play well,sounded like it got wet or was somehow being wedged in and couldnt freely move.... IT WAS HARD GETTING THIS!! -- I was tired and my eyes were hurting from overtired and I almost gave up..... The tape kept coming off the lead spool (The one on the left if looking @ side 1) I put it into a different shell and finally got it closed w/o the tape being scrunched in the front!! (This shell has screws also thankfully (The one I took apart easily came apart with a knife wedged in the front)) I didnt wanna lose it....... Whitesnakes first album - TROUBLE (1978) Last edited by Dude111; 03-29-2018 at 03:17 PM.

04-07-2018, 03:14 AM	#18 (permalink)
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04-07-2018, 07:11 AM	#19 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ Yeah, full marks to Dude111 for your thread idea of celebrating that special satisfaction that comes from effecting a good repair, but it's strange to have such a detailed inventory of repaired tapes isn't it? Back when DVDs were the common way to store and replay audio/visual content, I worked for a school which used them in the classrooms. They were so often rewound and paused that they started breaking, twisting somehow and jamming. After one successful repair, I became the school's go-to guy for fixing their DVDs. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

03-22-2018, 07:25 AM	#15 (permalink)
Norman Foster Groupie Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 25	A door handle. Thought I did a decent job and then when I got back from my time abroad my subtenant had broken it again. I also recently "repaired" a bike which ended up in the dump about two weeks later.

04-07-2018, 03:08 AM	#17 (permalink)
~~Dude111~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 758	Last night I fixed one of my 8 track tapes I just got BARRY MANILOWS first concert (1977) and there was basically NO PAD and when track 4 played,the right channel wasnt there. (I LISTEN IN MONO BUT IT STILL MAKES IT SOUND WIERD MISSING A CHANNEL) I popped the cartridge open and put a good pad in (Thankfully it wasnt damaged)