Every day jury rigs - post 'em here

maroon92 wrote: my laptop charging cable stopped charging one day, so I found the bad connection, cut it, spliced back together, and used copious ammounts of electrical tape.

That kinda reminds me of a fix of mine. I lost my charger for my camera. I had on older Sony camera, and the charger looked really close, but no dice. It's the type that you take the battery out of the camera and snap it into the charger. Anyway, I took two pieces of wire and wrapped them around the two contact points on the old charger, then put the other ends on the contact points on the battery, and taped the crap out of it. Plugged it into the wall and it worked like a charm.

About 8-years ago the ribbon cable for the LCD on my laptop broke, while I was at an account fixing equipmen that required the laptop to interface with. If I'd quit then, their previously functional equipment would have DOA until I could have tracked down another laptop to use, which would have taken at least a day.

In the back of their machine was a couple unused wiring harnesses(for optional equipment in other countries). I cut it off, opened up my laptop & soldered individual wires across the broken ribbon cable. I also had to cut out part of the plastic case for them to clear.

I still have the laptop, although with a 22mb HDD and Win98, it's mostly useless - but it still works!

As our fleet at work ages and I find myself peeling parts of the ad decals off the sides to secure various parts and pieces.

I slit a piece of fuel line length wise and hose clamped it on a pinhole leak in the cold water pipe for my folks kitchen sink. Still there 10 years later.

Ink pen barrel to repair a leaky fuel line while on the side of I75.

The drain on my bathroom sink rusted out on a bend right after it goes through the floor, causing water to pour into the basement every time you used it. I discovered that one Sunday night, and nothing was open. As a "temporary" fix, I took a radiator hose, cut off about 3" or so, slit it down the side, wrapped that around the drain pipe and wrapped it in hose clamps. That was three years ago, and I totally forgot about it until I read the post above this. It hasn't leaked a drop though!

Wired my cold start injector to a toggle switch on my Jetta GLI. Common yet "jury rigged" all the same.