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Last night the pedal bin gave up the ghost, so naturaly I had it in the shed for a tinker.... unfortunatly it was a write-off, and I don't think you can get spares for them.... ;D
But it got me thinking, does anyone else always try to mend things before resigning themself to buying a new one? or is it just me being tight? ;D
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down  and that's not really the car's fault. |
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Bit OT: Mending things....BenzBoy
@benzboy
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Absolutely! I take great joy in taking broken things to bits, even if I don't fix it, it satisfies my curiosity!! Recently I got hold of a load of DVD players which didn't work. I took them to bits and fixed half of them  . Christ knows what I'm gonna do with them all but it was satisfying to get them working ;D. Anyone want a cheap DVD player?  |
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are any for sale with a remote ?
ours has no remote cos the wife's ex
took it with him when he got the boot,
the thing only gets used occassionally
but with no remote the features we can
use are limitted. and we're tight bastids ;D
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RetroMat
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Column Shifting!
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I alway try and fix broken things if you do fix it you've saved money!, although some times i will take apart things that arn't broken just to see what is inside |
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fixed the girlfriends brothers ps2.he brought himself a slimline one coz hes imaptient so now got a ps2 at mine and her house!
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if it aint mini then it aint a mini.
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I'm always taking things apart just to see what to do but chances are i can't remember where all the little bits go and i chuck them in my mess draw never to see the light again. the on-off button went on my tv a while back so i took it all apart, not realising it has a thingy in it and i got a bloody great belt off it  |
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Assumption is the mother of all f**k ups
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oh ive got a mess draw. if any one says something is broken it is the first place i go to and see if there is any bits in there that can be used to fix it. or bodge it!!but then the broken item usually ends up in the draw as well! and if i had the money that i had wasted on buying replacements that i had opened up to have a look in then i think it would be enough to fix the mini!!  |
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if it aint mini then it aint a mini.
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Bit OT: Mending things....BenzBoy
@benzboy
Club Retro Rides Member 7
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are any for sale with a remote ? Unfortunately not, as when the players fell off of the back of the lorry, the remotes must have stayed put. I got one of those universal remotes off eBay for a couple of quid but it still only operates a few functions. I see them as "healthy DVD players" as you have to get up to press the buttons! ;D They aren't really up to much, and you can get new ones for about £25 these days. I do have one earmarked to go in the Merc, Pimp My Ride stylee Probably something I'll never get around to doing but hey.... |
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Bit OT: Mending things....DarrenW
@darrenw
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I'd love to be the sort of person that takes everything apart, fixes it/makes it better and has a load of really interesting mechanical projects out in the garage. But I'm a total moron when it comes to anything mechanical. I was taking the battery out the Golf the other day and couldn't work out why it wouldn't lift out when I'd disconnected the terminals. Took me a good ten seconds or so to realise that there's a bracket bolted in at the bottom to stop it falling out  I wish I was more mechanically minded, I really admire people who put V8s into improbable cars or restore old wrecks but I'm old enough now (31!) to realise that my skills lie elsewhere... just haven't found them yet |
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Last Edit: Feb 2, 2005 16:42:17 GMT by DarrenW
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i got a bloody great belt off it i imagine thats not much use if you're a skinny man though! ;D i always take broken things apart. I'm safe in the knowledge i can't break them! ;D I'm seem to be building up my own scrapyard at home though ;D |
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I try and mend most things .... except toasters .... I learnt my lesson with toasters too many sprung loaded "bits" that fly apart when you take them apart. S |
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Cheers S
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DarrenW - It's good to know I'm not alone in the universe! I too am a hopeless halfwit when trying to fix stuff... I start with something which is functioning, albeit not quite as it should. So out come the tools. Within minutes I have something that no longer works in any way apart or rattles or emits smoke. I have therefore learnt my lesson, and for most stuff these days admit defeat before I even begin and summon "expert" assistance. Bodywork I can cope with. Been unbending motors for years so that's OK. It's the greasy stuff I fear. I mean what ARE all those little bits left over FOR exactly... An example of my "fixing" - a few years ago my Skoda Estelle would routinely pack up in the electrics department. Lights, wipers, heater etc. would all give up when it was cold dark and rainy. So I took it all to bits and "re-wired" alot of stuff. Worked fine to begin. So went for a drive. After a mile there was smoke pouring from the dashboard, and flames in the instruments....Oh Dear!  |
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Bodywork I can cope with. Been unbending motors for years so that's OK. It's the greasy stuff I fear. I mean what ARE all those little bits left over FOR exactly... Some would reckon that you are lucky at being able to repair bodywork - it's normally much more expensive to pay someone else to do that, than fixing the mechanical / electrical bits. I can do basic mechanical stuff ok, but I don't have a garage / workshop / garden shed, so it all had to be done out in the street when I was a student. Now I just don't have time, so I have to pay someone else to maintain the Amazon (but they do a better job than I ever could, have the parts in stock, and normally get it back to me in a day). |
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Bodywork is fine as long as you resign yourself to the fact that it WILL look worse before it gets better.
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Fix it! I love taking things apart, but AmazonSprite is right. It's a pain when you have no space or time. I've just built a workshop to tinker in as I love doing DIY as well (!).
I once took my Dad's Apple Macintosh to bits whilst he was on holiday and swapped the hard drive for a bigger one I happened to have. He never noticed!
If it's broken, bring it on.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Rob
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Bodywork is fine as long as you resign yourself to the fact that it WILL look worse before it gets better. yeah, the worse thing you can do is pussyfoot around trying to 'touch up' bits, get the paint off it, the rust out and start again !! |
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i'm curse word with cars (i tried to fill the hoel in my wing and failed, tried to suss my own exhaust gasket and got too nervy before i even started, only thing i can do is regular servicing) but i work as a laptop repairperson so i'm cool wth electronics.... i can have you a new mainboard in your laptop in twenty minutes flat fixed my daughter's tamagochi when she said it was broken instead of shelling out fifteen quid for a new one... even though it's never been out of her sight it's got water damage to the buttons, hmmmm |
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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she must have dropped it down the frank zappa.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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and that's not really the car's fault.
. Christ knows what I'm gonna do with them all but it was satisfying to get them working ;D.
