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AMINAL
Dec 6, 2014
We've all done it, the ghetto fix: fixing something complicated with nothing more than a penny and some poo poo found near a dumpster.

I'm currently using an app to stream my PC audio over wifi to my phone because the hard-wired 3,5mm cable keeps shorting out all the time. I don't have an extension cord and I'm too lazy to go to the store. Technically I could put my PC on my desk and use the front jack, but gently caress that, manual labor sucks. It's been a few days since it broke and it will remain broken for a while if I know myself. Also, since the app is a lite-app it says "app name, free version" very loudly every hour or so which always scares the poo poo out of me :q:

Also I once fixed a small boat engine by fastening the prop hole clip thing with a small piece of wood instead of the metal one, ran fine all the way back to shore!

I once fixed a busted PCI plastic clamp in an old dell by screwing in a screw through it and the metal clamp catch, looked really gnarly but worked for years.

Fixed my old XBOX 360 with towels wrapped around it for a while so the solder would re set from the heat.

Tell me goons, what ingenious, cheap, savant esque fixes have you figured out and used?

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CAMP FARTING ROCKS
Jan 14, 2005

I got myself a job and sorted my life out so that I could afford to have things fixed or replaced when they broke.

Bowlcutbarricade
Dec 27, 2014

:secondpost:

Cyberball 2072
Feb 17, 2014

by Lowtax
When I was a teen who had acted badly my parents took my tv and radio. I then used to a guitar amp and a 3d0 and some hacked together cabling to make a new cd player.

I once did an inadvertent ghetto fix, I was attempting to do no experience ever plumbing in a home I was living in that got it's water from a 2000 gallon tank. The pipes had gone badly leaky and I was losing the limited supply of water I had for home use. I managed to replace all the pipes but could never figure out how to keep the pressure from escaping back into the tank because I knew nothing about plumbing. I ended up putting a valve on it so every time you wanted to wash a dish or flush a toilet or whatever you would have to go physically turn the water on. I later learned from a professional that a check valve was the thing i needed but didnt know existed. http://tinyurl.com/qfnre32

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
i did minor unskilled home improvement projects on my mom's house while she was trying to sell it, and now years later that realtor keeps referring people me to people as a plumber. i have no idea why.

Jimbo Jaggins
Jul 19, 2013
i made a gassing bottle out of a baby food jar, some aquarium tubing and epoxy resin

Nefarious
Sep 26, 2000

by XyloJW
i had a hole in my body but i plugged it up nicely with a gentleman's cock

wilfredmerriweathr
Jul 11, 2005

Cyberball 2072 posted:

When I was a teen who had acted badly my parents took my tv and radio. I then used to a guitar amp and a 3d0 and some hacked together cabling to make a new cd player.

your parents took your tv but left your 3do and guitar amp?

that's a pretty huge parent fail

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AMINAL
Dec 6, 2014

wilfredmerriweathr posted:

your parents took your tv but left your 3do and guitar amp?

that's a pretty huge parent fail

at least they tried :shobon:

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