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As the title suggests. What's the most absurd "quick-fix" job you have done that has amounted to something dog ugly, but in perfect working order?

Mine was an ancient walkman I had that eventually, after many surgeries, was more duct tape than anything else and all that worked near its demise was the play button. Oddly enough the best, arguably longest working (6 years) electronic device (barring an 40Gb Maxtor drive that will not die(7 years)) I have ever owned.

Pics would be cool!
 
took my 20 year old sound system apart to jury-rig the record player to play direct sound output. The radio and the tape deck were long busted, so I bypassed them. took the entire top off the multi-deck system and just had the record player sitting by itself on top of a bare mess of wires and junk. soldered the audio outputs from the record player direct to some RCA jacks. had to turn the thing off and on by throwing an internal switch next to the bare transformer. I still have it in my garage until I can afford a new record player! :p
 
In my broker years I once had a pc with no case. Soo, I basically bolted it to the side of my desk. heheheehe
 
had a pc a while back that i had to start using a paper clip :D didn't look pretty but still worked and those maxtor 40gb are legends, I have also got one about 7 yrs old and its still going strong
 
Had an old tower running some server or another... thing kept overheating, assuming a fan had busted I removed the case and sellotaped a full size desk fan to the open side (opposite the MB) this worked so well that a year later when I went back to visit some folk at my old place of work there she was churning away :)
 
my pc... I've had it for 3 going on to 4 years now... it just won't die, i've backed up most of my files in anticipation that it would do something stupid... I've over clocked it, i've disabled the fun's (gpu and cpu, and i overclocked both till their limits), the ram is ddr400 running at ddr500... this pc just won't die ffs!
 
scotty777 said:
my pc... I've had it for 3 going on to 4 years now... it just won't die, i've backed up most of my files in anticipation that it would do something stupid... I've over clocked it, i've disabled the fun's (gpu and cpu, and i overclocked both till their limits), the ram is ddr400 running at ddr500... this pc just won't die ffs!
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just put 220v on it , claim from insurance , it was lightning .
 
CBR600 exhaust had a hole on it about the size of a cricket ball...cut open an empty dust buster tin, layered the inside with silicone and used rusted wires to wrap the tin around the hole...

Still like that :D Just needs a tightening twist once a month...like its got braces~

ps...anyone know where I can get a 2nd hand 4 head exhaust pipe for a CBR600F2 (not the silencer/muffler)? :p
 
i had a test laptop which i ran with different parts from different manufacturers.the hinges are broken so it was layed out in 2 stages on the table.Also the hdd has an adaptor to the inside,i mygyver the lappie to function :d
 
It wasn't me (famous last words) but I had a good laugh while watching someone try fix a laptop charger in a hurry because the battery was practically useless, most entertaining watching sparks literally fly out through the tape each time the thing was moved and gave whoever what using it a heart attack.
 
I just installed my new graphics card on my PC. It has one of those tiny micro mobos. My GPU was almost the same size as the mobo (seriously).

Anyway since the mobo was co cramped the power cables and other cables kept touching the cpu fan, gpu fan, case fan and some were actually touching the GPU itself.

I had nothing useful around so I pull the draw string outta my shorts and tied each cable to a secure part of the case.
My pc ended up looking like a spiders web, but worked fine till I got hold of some cable ties.
 
dappled said:
9 year old Seagate 16gb drive still working :)
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still have a 17yr old 260mb, yep i said megabyte.Dropped it threw it around and nothin it refuses to die.Goes to show things aren't what they use to be.Now days if u so much as bump a hdd it dies.Lol
 
Tejen said:
still have a 17yr old 260mb, yep i said megabyte.Dropped it threw it around and nothin it refuses to die.Goes to show things aren't what they use to be.Now days if u so much as bump a hdd it dies.Lol
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you must remember that the current harddrives spin faster and the plates used are tighter packed. the Needle used also has to be more precis nowadays to achieve the high amounts data storage... so it's nothing to do this the manufacturing, it's go to do with the fact that as things get more complex, more things can go wrong
 
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