What every day tool device or object do you use in an unconventional manner?

[WHNJ701 4,165]

1 hour ago, pfrederi said:

Clothes pins resolve the problem of throttle cables that no longer twist lock .. for a lot less than new cables...

 

 

 

I use a small clamp to hold mine in at full throttle, the twist lock never worked on my "new" replacement cable 

[WHNJ701 4,165]

when the case tractor was at the inlaws, with the broken off steering wheel, I took an old vice grip clamped to the steering nut, the handle at six o'clock and drove it around like that. it's home now with a new steering wheel but it was kinda easy drive with the vice grip

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

Apparently all I need to buy from here on out is vice grips 😂

[ebinmaine 67,271]

Just now, KyleLengerich said:

Apparently all I need to buy from here on out is vice grips 😂

I don't think that is an unreasonable thought

 

[ohiofarmer 3,265]

The one people like the best is using a coffee stirrer straw from Lowes taped to my aerosol cans. You put the little red straw that pinpoints the spray inside the coffee stirrer and no more losing it.

  I cut up motorcycle tubes or bicycle tubes for HD rubber bands I used those rubber bands to hold septic drain tuces at height on metal stakes and backfilled 1800 feet of leach lines without leaving the bobcat seat Then I used one on a 520 to tension the transmission belt when the spring broke]. Took a piece of vinyl tube and allen set screw to make an expansion plug that held a carb diaphragm in a motorcycle carb [saved me $100.00]   I use sockets of the perfect size to drive seals and bearings or remove bearings  Old style gas tanks --put a vinyl tube over the vent and a shop vac over the fill spout and suck the heebie jeebies dirty scum from that wheelhorse transmission.  that otherwise will not drain out.

 

 The other week, I used a blind adjusting tube [became a tube after cutting the ends off] from a vinyl blind as a wire guide to guide wiring around obstacles in a kitchen soffet. Saved a trip to the attic  Inner tube between wheel and tire to keep tire spoons from chipping paint.  got a million of 'em.

Edited January 29, 2019 by ohiofarmer

[SylvanLakeWH 25,490]

1 hour ago, KyleLengerich said:

Apparently all I need to buy from here on out is vice grips 😂

 

And 1 roll of duct tape and a very big hammer...all you need...😀

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

8 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

 

And 1 roll of duct tape and a very big hammer...all you need...😀

Dad used to say “If you can’t fix it with duct tape, drywall screws, or silicone, you can’t fix it at all.” 😂😂

[JoeM 7,871]

And I thought MacGyver was talented! You guys are kicking his butt!

Hey after 37 odd years supervising mine maintenance I think I seen most of it. That condom ting is interesting.  But anyway, if there is an award, I would have to vote for the good old screw driver. It's a Chisel, Pry Bar, Scraper, Volt Checker (when you thought the power was off), stethoscope, will hold your wiener while roasting, back scratcher, tire tool, ice pick and it goes on!

Pretty good thread EB!

[ebinmaine 67,271]

4 minutes ago, OILUJ52 said:

Pretty good thread EB

Thanks Joe

 

funny how things just kind of pop into your head after you realize how silly something is that you've been doing for quite some time

 

 

Got to tell you folks. I love these answers.

[KC9KAS 4,741]

11 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

This question popped into my head this morning as I was stirring my coffee ... With a butter knife.

No need to stir coffee! Wife drinks it black and if it gets really cold and I drink coffee, I put the Sweet & Low in 1st, still no need to stir!

[ebinmaine 67,271]

1 minute ago, KC9KAS said:

No need to stir coffee! Wife drinks it black and if it gets really cold and I drink coffee, I put the Sweet & Low in 1st, still no need to stir!

Actually I have kind of a similar habit there

 

I only use half and half. No sugar.

 

For my first cup I put the half and half in first. Then the coffee. No stirring.

 

When I top it off just before I go out the door, I pour the rest of the coffee in and then add half & half as needed. That's when I stir it.....

[Kenneth R Cluley 515]

Every time i use or misuse some tool i recall how My grandpa always used to comment that if the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.

[wallfish 16,984]

How about the butter knife as a flat head screwdriver? Sure just about everyone has done that at one time or another. You can fix the coffee maker so you have something to stir! Plus it works great as a prybar for getting the burnt toast out of the toaster!

[953 nut 55,071]

3 hours ago, KyleLengerich said:

Dad used to say “If you can’t fix it with duct tape, drywall screws, or silicone, you can’t fix it at all.” 😂😂

You left out baling wire, got home many times thanks to having it around!

I found a good substitute for a large blind gear/bearing puller. A 6" pry bar and light hammer work for removing the 1533 bearing.

[Ed Kennell 38,022]

      Mrs. K is a custom drapery manufacturer and enjoys sewing.        But I think she enjoys using a needle to extract splinters from my hands most of all. 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,490]

38 minutes ago, wallfish said:

...Plus it works great as a prybar for getting the burnt toast out of the toaster!

 

 

 

 

Edited January 30, 2019 by SylvanLakeWH

[aghead 72]

 

An old frige holds all my welding rods, mig wire rolls, brazing, torch tips, gloves, ban saw blades, grinder/wire wheels, hood, goggles....

 

I sometime use my ink pen to scratch inside my ear.

5 gallon buckets carry all, sit on them, stand on them. 

 

[ohiofarmer 3,265]

7 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

 

And 1 roll of duct tape and a very big hammer...all you need...😀

 

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

Trina isn’t the only one apparently @ebinmaine haha. I happened to notice and told her to stop for a second 😂😂