I last repaired a cassette I got yesterday.... It wouldnt play well,it sounded sluggish like it had gotton wet....Well first look @ the window in the cassette showed that stupid plastic sheet on both sides so I figured this was the reason......

I opened the cassette which was popped together (I easily opened it with a knife wedged in the front)

THERE WERE NO ROLLERS IN IT!!!!! -- What kind of moron put this together?? -- NO WONDER IT DIDNT PLAY WELL!!!!!!!!! (It is a 1981 album)

I just happend to have a new cassette (BLANK) that has screws so I opened it and put the tape into the new cassette and she plays fine... (DEF LEPPARD - HIGH N DRY)

Well.... The first time I played it when it got to the last song on side 1 (Bringing on the hardbreak) it was a bit sluggish and IM NOT SURE WHY.... When it played side 2 though it was fine....... (I hope maybe something was stuck in the tape from the original shell and hadnt fallen out yet)


Boy.... NO ROLLERS!!!!!!! -- How stupid and unresponsible to make something like this AND LET IT OUT!!!!!! (Like they didnt care that it wouldnt work well)

Changed keyboard on a Chromebook. Need to do it on another one today if I find the time and an otherwise busted chromebook to take the keyboard from. It's really easy though.

My computer. I reran some of the wiring and installed a new SSD to replace my crappy old HDD.

The door knob to my bathroom. It's a good thing someone was there to slide a knife under the door otherwise I would have had to break the door down, since the latch snapped in half.

Exactly. Good thing I was wearing a dress at the time.

Im glad ya got out ok!!!

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.

Thanks dude.

Yeah but not like that ffs.

That just sounds painful.

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

How do you fix a bulb? Don't you mean you replaced it?
I bet that was because you don't trust the Jew doctors, huh?

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.

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.

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 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)

*weird

^ 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. ;)

Hehe I wonder if he was poking fun? (Ahhh we all do it from time to time :))

How do you manufacture a cheap broom? In Mexico, part of the answer is that you thread the low-quality wooden handle and screw it into the cheap plastic broom head. This arrangement is quite likely to shake apart while you're still in the supermarket car park, let alone when you push the thing around the floor. So when it fell apart I effected the following repair:-

i) drill a hole transversely through the head/handle junction
ii) slather the joint with glue
iii) screw the handle back into the head
iv) run a bolt through the transverse hole and tighten it up with a nut

All I have to do now is decide which is more satisfying: a) having a broom a thousand times stronger than the one I bought, or b) bragging about it on MB

I last repaired one of my 8 tracks :) (Oldies but goodies Vol 3)

The pad was bad so I opened the cartridge and replaced it with a good one....

Whats that frown a big drum??

There might be a more regionally appropriate name for it, but I'm calling it a djembe. Got it at an antique store for 10 bucks then dropped it when I was taking it home, breaking it into four pieces. It was acrylic, so I glued it back together with superglue and used wood glue to seal the cracks. Sounds good, especially after leaving it in the sun for a while.

Wow Im sorry ya dropped it but im very happy you fixed it :)

Im glad it sounds good!!

I last repaired a members account on a site im a co-admin on....

Another staff member (A new one) saw her handle "FREE" and thought it was spammer and blocked her (She hasnt posted yet on the new site) ......... I unblocked her and told the staff member she is ok..... (She has been on the site for years (Before this staff member was there))

I fixed one of my VHS tapes this morning :)

It fell on the floor months ago and when I played this morning it showed signs of studdering (Spools not turning properly) When the movie was over I FFed it and I could really see it!!!!!

I Rewinded it and took it apart and the thing behind the spools that control thier forward/reverse motion was broken.... Thankfully I have several blank tapes.....I just put the spools into the other shell and she plays well :)


I DIDNT WANNA LOSE THE MOVIE ON THAT TAPE!! (Cant be replaced... Recorded from analogue cable in the 90s and I love the movie!!)

Printer if that counts

Single-handedly got the CERN Nuclear Collider up and running again.

^ Only counts if you can back it up with some detail, OH !

My grey water drainage system.

Happy camper!

I just fixed 1 of my 8 track tapes :)

Just got another tonight and the pad was basically flat and the music sounded bad.....

I thankfully was able to open the cartridge w/o compromise and put a new pad in :)


I didnt wanna lose it! - Barry Manilow - This ones for you

The other day I fixed one of my cassettes I ordered.....

The pad was not where it should be so i glued it in place........ (W/o the pad cassettes/8 tracks usually sound not good)

Aside from my fragile ego?

My car. Though I didn't do this repair on my own, I addressed a mechanic.

My daughter's necklace, which she got this months for her birthday.
She was really upset when she broke it, so i am very grateful quick jewelry repairs customer service that they managed to take it so quick.
Little cutie is now happy again and promised to take a better care of her belongings.

The flooring