Repairing Someone's Previous Repair: What's Your Story?

[ray1970]

15 liter Cummins diesel under warranty Seized won?t bar over even with a cheater pipe.

It?s cute when small engines like that seize up. Our 423 liter units never seize. The inertia of all of the rotating mass usually just breaks something major.

[FoxtArt]

Many over the years. One that comes to mind:

Fought and fought and fought trailer wiring on my truck, trying to sort out wtf was going on, trace down a short and several intermittent connections. Then I discovered that tucked up in the bottom of the dash was the FACTORY ORIGINAL wiring harness. Dumbass had wired his own entire harness into the cab and then spliced it back into the factory wiring - using those crappy clamping things - halfway down the under-body. (And nothing was wrong with the original). It had a factory receiver and connection on it.... are you really that dumb not to fully look for the harness before wiring a whole one in, much less a crap job of it? LOL.

[ray1970]

Scotchlocks are the devils invention.

[FoxtArt]

Scotchlocks are the devils invention.

Thank you! I always forget what they are called. Every time I see them it's like

[Irving]

Commercial Christmas lights use giant scotch locks. Makes sense in that application.

[ray1970]

Hmm. I didn?t know the devil cared anything about Christmas.

[ChickNorris]

I found a three foot irrigation line repair that was duct tape & garden hose in between two pieces of poly pipe. No couplers or anything. I was pretty amazed it even ever functioned once.

[Gman]

Commercial Christmas lights use giant scotch locks. Makes sense in that application.

Shocking.

[BPTactical]

LOL, wait until you Gunsmith for a living.
I used to think the most terrifying words out of a customer was: "Oh, I just cleaned it up with my Dremel."
Nope- Now it is: "Well, I saw this video on YouTube........"

But one that really sticks in my mind- A guy brought an AK by for me to look at, he had just bought it from a co-worker and wanted me to give it the once over. His co-worker had built it.
With aluminum pop rivets.

[Gman]

But one that really sticks in my mind- A guy brought an AK by for me to look at, he had just bought it from a co-worker and wanted me to give it the once over. His co-worker had built it.
With aluminum pop rivets.

Yeah, but did it work? I hear AKs always work.