Thread: Show us your bodgy DIY

Originally Posted by Salsa dancer

Why do you sound so much like that narcissist / psychpath Ant Robertson ?

Great minds think alike

Originally Posted by Topper

I bought a Samsung fridge with a 20 year warranty on the compressor. I'd recommend it.

Now ya tellz me.


I never bother with warranties and guarantees and shiz like that. Write yer name here, phone number there, address over there, product barcode over th.... fok off.


Though I really should.

Originally Posted by Topper

I bought a Samsung fridge with a 20 year warranty on the compressor. I'd recommend it.

You're apparently one of the few people who would.

1.6 / 5 from over 4,000 reviews.

http://https://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/samsung_refrigerator.html?page=1#sort=recent&filte r=1

You'd of thought only one choice for TD old hands, cool, ant free , an open and shut case!









DONUT ADJUST YOUR SET

Offered it to a Thai friend of a friend as is,and they almost pulled me Lulu off for it.


Life's too short, to be fixin' shiz.




The problem now is the 2nd fridge doesn't have space for me to sit in and it's like 39,000 degrees C.


Anyone gotz a second hand one going cheap?

You have more eggs than Mendy.

That pic will send Joe over the edge

I'm going back now to ensure every soda bottle is facing the same direction.

I need to fabricate some heavy duty hooks but I do not possess a stumpy-esque vice for-shame so my grip to hold the 16mm thick screw was made from some timber sleepers held together by 2 ratchet straps.

Blow torch to shake up the valence electrons. My second year optional elective course in metallurgy from 36 years ago finally paying dividends.

Halfway there with jumping up and down on the sleepers. Can maybe finish it off with standing it on its bolt head against a wall and applying more force that way.

Damn, a lot of effort for something you could just buy?

^It is actually quite difficult to get hold of M16 or even M12 coach-screw hooks

I have searched anon for online supplies and been left potless

They can be had but only from special trade supply outlets that are a pain to drive to

Short dalliance with a linesman or woman on tinder should get you the supplies needed

No need to blow the linesman Baldy. I found after exploring the dark nether regions of the big shed that I do in fact possess a vice so my half bent M16 coach screw got strapped in

Jiggle the metallic bond electrons

Apply a bit of engineering leverage

And hey presto

Bit of stress fracturing so might need more heat and slower bending

If an M16 monster can be prevailed upon then an M12 should preshent no shignificant problemsh

And 2 home-made hooks are at hand

This shed looks like a veritable torture chamber with a rack of rusty implements at the ready

In the big shed no-one can hear you scream...

I've been focusing more and more on my businesses the last 6-8 months or so, and yesterday took me ol' six-fiddy in for an oil change.

She's been a loyal servant for 15 years or so, and is starting to get a bit ruff around the hedges.

Like all vehicles, her purpose is for smashing the absolute shiz out of, and that's it, not washing and polishing like some gaybo.

Anyway, thought about getting into the automobile detailing biz, so might as well start off on this ol' girl.

Enter one can of spray paint. Black. 50 baht.


After market headlight removed. Masked. Sprayed.


















Passo grips






50 baht.


Will get the kid to bang up a website and social media pages with fake pics, charge 900, pay the old lad across the road 40 to do it. Gonna be fokin' rolling in it.

^Champion effort, Sir


I was on the automobile DIY myself this week. 1st job on the new motor. I got in this week and the cabin fan was dead on its arse which is a shitter when the weather is warming up and I need the aircon.

First pull the fuse and check it is good.

Next up pull the panel off under the dash to access the fan and cabin air filter.

I was planning to review the fan extraction situation and also remove the air filter to increase natural flow from forward motion to get some cooling going on.

Then I had the bright idea of pulling the baffle from the intake to further increase natural flow.

Lo and behold when I pull the baffle off I can see the top of the fan without removing it from below. I gives the fan a twiddle and find it is stuck but when I push it with my finger it breaks free and starts spinning.

Jump in the driver seat and power her up and the fan is spinning again. Thank you Baby Jesus. You can get cheap after-market fans but the genuine article from the MB dealer costs almost $1000, so I narrowly escaped a proper spanking there.

Lubed her up with some silicon lube just for good measure.

Tree growing in contact with powerline - what to do? Don't call a professional tree lopper and the power company - just call bodgy-man!

Step 1 kill the tree with glyphosate and wait 1 year for it to dry out so it is not so heavy

Tie ropes to it to stop it falling the wrong way and hang bags of geologically varied rocks from the ropes to give a continual pull on the tree as it falls. This was a bad leaner so one set of ropes directly pulls away from the powerline. The second rope pulls the tree in the desired direction of fall.

(those rock bags are almost as heavy as Mendip's Seaman's bags after a 6 week shift!)

Cut the tree with a chainsaw and watch it fall safely away from the powerline

Next one was trickier as it had grown in between the power and telephone line

Step 1 - pull the phone line down tight with some rope so you can reach over with the chainsaw

Step 2 - rope her up and hang your seaman's bag. Not such a bad lean so we can get away with 1 rope this time.

thar she goes....

My high gas burner on me stove has recently lost a lot of power, the flames don't dance nearly as high.

The low gas burner is still having a veritable disco.


They probably both have the same heating power.

The gas canister was changed a month or so ago, so not that.


Took off the elements, all holes were unobscured, gave them a good lulu'ing with the sharp prick end of a dental stick and good blow anyway. The heat sink they slot into with the two small metal pipes that the gas presumably comes out of was a bit messy and caked with tea leaves and coffee granules etc.

Dental sticked inside them, blew them out using a straw, cleaned up the gunk around them, replaced the elements and fired her up.

Appears to be a little bit better with marginally more gas coming out of her, but still the flames on the low heating element dance around twice as high. :/

Originally Posted by Edmond

My high gas burner on me stove has recently lost a lot of power, the flames don't dance nearly as high.

The low gas burner is still having a veritable disco.


They probably both have the same heating power.

The gas canister was changed a month or so ago, so not that.


Took off the elements, all holes were unobscured, gave them a good lulu'ing with the sharp prick end of a dental stick and good blow anyway. The heat sink they slot into with the two small metal pipes that the gas presumably comes out of was a bit messy and caked with tea leaves and coffee granules etc.

Dental sticked inside them, blew them out using a straw, cleaned up the gunk around them, replaced the elements and fired her up.

Appears to be a little bit better with marginally more gas coming out of her, but still the flames on the low heating element dance around twice as high. :/

Christ, that was hard work.

Could you not just post in English?

Or maybe just reflect beforehand on who gives a fcuk?

Originally Posted by cyrille

who gives a fcuk?

Some might say that's me life's story right there. :/

Perhaps God's masterplan?

Still, don't look back in anger...

Originally Posted by cyrille

Christ, that was hard work.

Could you not just post in English?

Or maybe just reflect beforehand on who gives a fcuk?

Could just put the screaming attention queen on ignore.

^ I'm not getting that you're ignoring me.... perhaps there's a DIY bodge for that?

One of my earliest DIYs ended up like this.

I’ll bet it did.

Putting in a storm-water drainage system behind the big shed.

Lucky I have got this new trailer to ferry the bill of materials around the place. There is 15kg of drainage gravel in there which means I need my brakes in tip top condition

Safety first

^I have figured out how to safely cart 15kg of gravel in the trailer...

Put an old rigid plastic filing box in the trailer so the gravel does not bulge the soft sides of the trailer and rub the wheels