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Show your ghettofixes!

Pic related: it's a cracked plastic drawer of my refrigerator.

>> No.1257629
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1257629

>>1257627

>> No.1257641

>>1257629
You can " weld" it with a hot soldering iron...

>> No.1257648

>>1257627
you shouldn't keep tomatoes in the fridge, it ruins the flavor

>> No.1257649
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>>1257627
It ended up sounding better than the day I bought it 15-20 years ago or so.

>> No.1257651
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>>1257641
Wouldn't look as cool though.

>>1257627
>>1257629
I actually like it.

>> No.1257654
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1257654

Ugly as hell but holding up for the third year.
Since my windows are sunk it it's impossible to use that stick on clear draft stopper stuff. So I made some simple 1x2 frames and wrapped them.
Didn't intend it to last more than the winter, but they did. And did they ever make a difference.

>> No.1257656

>>1257627
I like it anon. Frankenfridge

>> No.1257712

>>1257649
Cut off the tape ends beyond the grill and it'll also look better I suppose.

>> No.1257719

>>1257641

I actually did use a soldering iron to melt the knots on the ends of the acrylic threat into the drillholes.

>> No.1257727
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1257727

>>1257656
>>1257651

Thanks. I was inspired by the way people of poor countries tend to fix/mod their plastic furniture.

>> No.1257750

>>1257649

There is no way that fix lasted for more than a week

>> No.1257754
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1257754

Hole in exhaust, I consider it more of a lifehack.

>> No.1257758

>>1257750
dude duct tape is a composite material. it has at least 6 months until the adhesive gets all fucky.

>> No.1257768

>>1257754
hose clamps are very handy

>> No.1257799

>>1257641
You can use nylon zip ties as filling rods when you're welding plastic.

>> No.1257811

>>1257754
get a job

>> No.1257812

>>1257799
yeah show us that technique sparky

>> No.1257825

>>1257754
That trick dates back to the Great Depression. My grandpa had all sorts of ways to fix something with nothing. He had all kinds of broke ass farm equipment that looked like hell, but worked just fine

>> No.1257834

>>1257648
>>1257648
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT POST

>> No.1257836

>>1257811
>work more so you can spend more on shit you dont need
B R A I N W A S H E D

>> No.1257847

>>1257754
Spent money on hose clamps, shoulda used a wire clothes hanger. Tsk tsk. I thought your mother and I taught you better.

>> No.1257850

>>1257825
I love ingenuity like that.

>> No.1257860

>>1257812
https://youtu.be/gRCMIDILfEI

>> No.1257873
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1257873

My summer fan

>> No.1257876

>>1257860
that was really awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm going to try this tomorrow.

>> No.1257961

>>1257648
>eating room temp tomatoes.

Not unless i got a salt shaker in my hand and ina garden.

>> No.1257962

>>1257799
Good to know anon!

>> No.1257963

>>1257825
>YUP!

grow up poor(ish.)

Dad i want a gocart.
>dad finds a junk mower, unlocks it, runs like new, finds a smaller pulley for the ass end, cobles a foot throttle. Have fun kids.

want a jungle gym

>past time i teach you how to weld faggot.

Dad i am 3.

>quit bitching. When you are 5 you can build your own shit on the rig.

Sure as hell me and another bro hung out for years burning rods all day next to a drilling rig.

I still have a yard full of mowers and would rather build a mower than buy one for less.

>> No.1257966
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>>1257836
>work hard save money.

Wind up suffering multiple heat strokes, broken and old at 31. Crippled.

>work smart.
>this is the answer.

>> No.1257968

>>1257847
Kek. 2 hose clamps.

$2.

Even a useless neet can find that.

>> No.1257972

>>1257873
How is it standing up? Are you in Australia?

>> No.1258007

>>1257972
Magnets attach it to my lamp

>> No.1258018

>>1257750
>>1257758
I did that 2 years ago this December. It is still fine.

>> No.1258095
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1258095

Didnt have a dremel or hacksaw and I needed to cut off a stuck on washer hose. Used a thick dril bit and a power drill as a substitute dremal and it worked with minimal damage to the spigot.

>> No.1258113
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1258113

Hockey puck door stop.

>> No.1258114

>>1258095
Large adjustable pliers.

>> No.1258133

My life

>> No.1258146

>>1257799
That's awesome. I learned something today.

>> No.1258157

>>1257860
This is mind blowing. It opens up a ton of new possibilities. Thank you so much anon

>> No.1258165

>>1258095
>>1258114
Fuck these things. I moved into a new house and had to change one that was a nightmare. So much rust from the well water had pretty much fused them together. I ended up just hacking out the entire hot and cold pipes and re-doing it with pex, new valves, new box, new drywall behind, access panel, etc. It had obviously leaked in the past. The inside of the wall was all moldy. 5 minute hose change became a weekend project, but at least it is done right now.

>> No.1258191

>>1258114
Tried pliers, vicegrip, and pulmber wrench to turn it, and needlenose to try and bend it out to loosen it.

The pipe was going to snap before the hose end budged.

>> No.1258192 [DELETED] 

>>1257627
This guy did it himself OMG
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3IUTUKDB80o

>> No.1258392

>>1257629
You can stop that partial crack from progressing further by drilling a hole at the point where it currently stops.

>> No.1258398

>>1257873
Nigga are you running a off a fuckin microwave cap?

If so that's badass.

>> No.1258414

>>1257654
if the hot glue is meant to stop water from leaking in, congratulations.. your wall is now full of mold.

>> No.1258415

>>1257968
>Kek. 2 hose clamps.
>$2.
according to the pos shop over here hose clamps are $50 a piece

>> No.1258417

>>1258191
Get strong then.

>> No.1258419
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1258419

>>1258417
>the pipe was going to break before the hose budged
What do you think he meant by this? There was probably no room for a wrench to hold the spigot and remove the hose.

>> No.1258457

>>1257754
Is that a soup can?
>>1257825
That's awesome. I love clever repairs.

>> No.1258458

>>1258398
Those motors take AC only, I can only assume the cap is there to turn a square wave output into a sinusoidal one by resonating it with the inductance of the motor.

>> No.1258463

>>1258419
Who thinks of this shit? Why is there a sheep in a dude's crotch area looking for games?

>> No.1258478

>>1258415
Where the hell do you live, on the moon?

>> No.1258484

>>1257727
Do the drivers just rest their feet in the poopsack?

Doesn't surprise me desu.

>> No.1258485

>>1258113
I don't know what I'm looking at, but I know it looks dangerous.

>> No.1258488

>>1257799
It depends on the plastic.

>> No.1258538

>>1258488
Well, yeah.

Works best for nylon based plastics for obvious reasons.

>> No.1258545

>>1258398
>>1258458
The capacitor was in series to reduce the power of the fan, otherwise it overheated a bit.

>> No.1258600

>>1258415
>$50 hose clamps
Straight up scam

>> No.1258610
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1258610

Clevis on a set of disc harrows. Pin hole was stretched out so I put a bearing ring into it. Fits nice and tight now. New clevis from Case IH is over $1000 so this 1 fix damn near paid for the welder

>> No.1258611
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1258611

>>1258610

>> No.1258612
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1258612

>>1258611

>> No.1258733

>>1258478
around idiots and heroin addicts.
the same shop will blow your fuses and steal your floor mats.
I tell everyone to stop going there but noone listens.

found out my car was taken there years before I got it. I just spent a day digging pieces out of my coolant system they graciously left inside.

>> No.1258778

>>1258545
Oh, so those alligator clips are at mains voltage? Neat!

>> No.1258952

>>1258612
>>1258610
Nice mate

>> No.1258963

>>1258952
have a bigger tip for the torch now so can cut bigger steel like that without it being so ugly. still did the trick tho and it's held up just fine for a year now

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1258974

>>1257627

>> No.1258988

>>1258974
I don't see it, unless you mean the baking tray, which is a fucking good idea.

>> No.1259105

>>1258113
Hockey pucks are a great material for bumpers, stoppers and bushings because they have regulated properties.

>> No.1259118

>>1258463
it's been shopped, that's not what it originally said...

>> No.1259127

>>1259118
>knowing this

>> No.1259170

>>1259127
>spending more than 5 minutes on 4chan

you pretty much see everything if you're on here long enough anon

>> No.1259189

>>1257649
Speaker in upper left can be re-foamed easily. The others might be fucked by application of duct tape to cone.

>> No.1259196
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1259196

started as headset with removable mic and fixed 3.5m cable
resoldered mic jack into drivers so I could have removable cable and made that I could wire in leads from broken cables straight to headphones, because I was studentfag and no 3.5mm cables locally that could last at least 3 month and not cost 20€+

>> No.1259204

>>1259196
You madman, I wanted to do that with my pair except they were a shit-tier gaming headset. Because of how dysfunctional that pair ended up for its price I've decided to stick to earbuds until I can buy or make a gf30-pa6/fibreglass cased pair of headphones, and I thought heck why not add a fucking multi band SSB radio and bluetooth and whatever else I can possibly think of to the mix, so now my standards for headphones are stupidly high. But it should prove a good project eventually.

>> No.1259222

>>1257649
I literally did this twice and its holding up great

ok yeah it held up for a year then I had to do it again

works great though seriously especially how loud im pumping it

>> No.1259223
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1259223

>>1257750
i did this twice and it worked great (on 2 speakers)

i also used some very strong second glue

>> No.1259325

>>1258414
Huh? The windows are water tight m8, all that does is change single pane divided glass (metal framed) into a more thermally efficient window. No condensation because the warm house air can't get to the window.

>> No.1259326

>>1258612
Actually a fairly good weld there. Nice job.

>> No.1259327
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1259327

>>1259223
Try harder m8

>> No.1259328

>>1257968

2 Dollars? I pay a dollar at the pull a part and walk out with 20 hose clamps

>> No.1259332

>>1258113

I used hockey pucks to as jack pads and to give my truck a lift

>> No.1259371

>>1259223

>reverse image search...
>several posts from other websites show up

Yeah nice try fagatron

>> No.1260551

>>1259325
oh, I think I was drunk and when I looked at your image it seemed like you made a new window frame out of scrap wood and sealed it with hog glue as some form of caulking.
the thing that popped into my head was how a poorly installed window on my house on a wall that as never finished recently sprung a leak and where insulation would have been now has water shooting down whenever it pisses the rain down.

>> No.1260568

>>1259196

Why didn't you just solder a 3.5mm female jack to it?

>> No.1260575

>>1259328
buying something for 1$ and stealing the hose clamps doesnt count nigger

>> No.1260613

>>1260575
He gets them for $1 at the scrapyard dingus. You don't have to pay $1 to steal shit.

>> No.1260657

>>1260568
used female jack that was for removable mic, because used separate mic.

>> No.1260683

>>1259170
you mean when you're here all day long, every day, right ?

>> No.1260687

>>1259326
Was still pretty new to welding when I did that. Have improved quite a bit since then. Also got a new helmet(Lincoln 3350) which allows me to see far better and really helped me make nicer welds

>> No.1260698

>>1259196
Looks like shit

>> No.1261710

>>1257649
Just did something similar to a small speaker in something I put a wire brush through. Elmer's glue and a piece of trash bag fixed it right up as it was a small speaker.

>> No.1261751

>>1259189
At that time, 2 years ago, I googled and googled and could not find the right size for the foam. Plus, the prices for shipping was absurd for something like this at that time.

>> No.1261752

>>1259189
That's different photos of 1 speaker, fyi.

>> No.1261772
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1261772

>Plastic spool of wire cracked in half
>Cheap headphones clicked too much

>> No.1261805
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1261805

$1400 pot filler re-purposed to fill dog bowls

>> No.1262868

>>1257963

why do poor people accumulate mowers in their yard?

>> No.1262942
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1262942

>>1262868

Its frugal to save something you can fix or use for parts later, your neighbors throw away a mower because its easier to go buy a new one than replace a spark plug. You would be surprised how many numale home owners have no idea how anything works. My neighbor tossed out a pressure washer because the wand broke.

>> No.1262946

>>1262942
>Its frugal to save something you can fix or use for parts later,
It isn't frugal when you actually fix them - and keep them - so that you now have 5 working mowers just sitting there.

>> No.1263252

>>1257860
I am mindblown right now. That's ingenious

>> No.1263394

>>1261805
Can't you just sell that and buy some pvc pipe for the same shit for 1/100th of the price?

>> No.1263528

>>1263394
Sure, I could have made something for like 50 bucks. But I was remodeling a kitchen and the owner gave me all the old cabinetry and fixtures that were in it so it's not like it cost me anything.

>> No.1263529

>>1261805
Why is a faucet $1400? Is it made of pure silver?

>> No.1263530
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Besides, it's way cooler than some shitty PVC pipe sticking out of the wall.

>> No.1263533

>>1263529
It's because it's made by some high-end German fixture company. Like Grohe or Rohl or something, I can't really remember.

>> No.1264190

>>1257627
explore any flipped house in California. Most of done by some quack wanna be investor. You will see all sorts of crap. I found crayons used as floor spacers, duct tape holding cabinets, and silicon in concrete cracks.

>> No.1264392

>>1264190
Ugh this is my nightmare

>> No.1264404

>>1264190
house flipping should be illegal

>> No.1264428

>>1263530
Neat but I just use a pitcher. I'd have sold that thing and pocketed the money. It's not like you paid for it.

>> No.1264432

>>1258457
No, spaghetti. And I stole it from my neighbours foodbank bag.

>> No.1264436

>>1262946
Theyre parts mowers for when something goes wrong on your main mower. With a small ammount of effort you have atleast 400 years of mowering.

>> No.1264449

>>1264432
Did you eat the spaghetti?

>> No.1264450

>>1264190
>>1264392
>>1264404

I told my realtor that i didn't want a flip, i wanted something dated where everything works.

Still got a homeowner's special. At least the appliances are tanks.

>> No.1264456

>>1264449
Yes, with a plastic spoon heated over a candle. I pull in 60k a year, I just enjoy living in poverty.

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1264599

I nigger fixed my brazilian havaianas.
It worked nice tbf.

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1264601

>>1264599

>> No.1264633

>>1259196
nice choice of the yurop color codes for 240V house power
did you died

>> No.1264634

>>1260551
>hog glue

>> No.1264650

>>1257972
I've been giggling at this for like 5 minutes

>> No.1264731

>>1264633
What? that's ethernet cable

>> No.1264965

>>1258392
Not OP but thanks for this. I knew this once, but totally forgot about it.

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Broken wheels. Got new ones.

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1265500

>>1265498

>> No.1265680

>>1258113
Have found over the years that rink engineers are some seriously crafty m'fers.

t.chiller guy

>> No.1265695

>>1257758
I hate to be a jew and peddle for people but the gorilla glue brand duct tape is some good shit that lasts way longer than that. Only tape I buy now.