Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Men like to fix things...
Men like to fix things, but sometimes we don't always take the time to fix them as thoroughly as we should. (Or maybe we just know when to stop when our work is done.)
In that spirit, I consider the site ThereIFixedIt.com to be a testament to men everywhere!
A few highlights from the site:
Jury-Rigged Windshield Defroster
Jury-Rigged Hot Water Heater
Jury Rigged Wing Repair
That last one is slightly terrifying!!! It's supposedly not duct tape, but is something called "airframe tape "that's much stronger. Hmm, not very reassuring. I may never fly again!
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Comments (12)
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lol, this is pretty funny though.
Duct tape fixes everything!!!
i've heard of heavy duty tape.....
but that's ridiculous.
I'd freak out if I were on that plane.
that hot water heater is fucking GENIUS
I left the house this morning headed generally north to one of my stations to meet with a technician from that large “We make everything” company that built my drive for a 9000 horsepower electric motor including its cash loans. The task at hand was to replace some tin-plated copper bus bars with nickel-plated copper bus bars. A bus bar is an electrical component make to carry high amounts of current. They are preferable to cable in many applications. We could talk about it, but suffice to say we needed to swap some out.
wow....
I'm not a man, but I do like to fix things :D
Hahaha...This is so true...and the airplane fix is really quite scary! lol
Hot water heater = WOW. awesomeee haha.
Haha!
You can even rivet airframe tape! But you can't use actual rivets.
I've actually flown in a plane where they had the airframe tape on the wing. Except...it was loose, flopping and unraveling. Quite exciting. We were heading over from Glasgow to O'Hare I think. About half an hour before we touched down, whatever the Airframe tape was supposed to be holding together must have broken, because suddenly there was smoke puttering out of the wing and some kinda of...wet stuff...oil? Gas? I don't know...just sputtering out of the wing. I didn't really say anything, because the girl next to me would have panicked and the flight attendant already knew (she kept stopping by and giving us cookies, and surreptitiously checking the wing).
Never did figure out what happened. We did get bumped to the head of the line, instead of circling around and waiting to land, apparently.