OT: A website of epic kludges

[Lino expert]

I think we can all learn a little something from here

[Steve Walker]

[Lino expert]

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Frankenlaptop is a sight to behold too.

[John Rumm]

in a small cloakroom problem. Bet this solution never came to mind!

[Jules]

I do recall a rental house about ten years ago with a major water leak in a pipe behind one kitchen wall - the brainchild of one of my housemates was a makeshift "funnel" taped to the wall to divert the water into a bucket, a car battery, windscreen washer pump, microswitch and homebrew float valve.

Cue much duct-taping and voila! Soon as the water level in the bucket got too high, the pump would kick in and send the water out the kitchen door via some scavenged pipe.

ISTR it "ran" like that for quite a while until the landlord got someone in to actually fix the problem.

cheers

Jules

[Mike Barnes]

[Ian White]

Only in Granadaland...

[Adrian C]

That could be the prototype design for a real marketable product for emergency use. Something like that would be bought by building maintenance concerns.

How many times have ye come across a leaking roof or pipe and had to employee someone to empty the bucket meanwhile leaving an inbetween puddle to cause a concerable H&S'ard.

[Jules]

Dammit, don't try to rationalise my favourite bodge! ;-)

[Dave]

Dave

[Dave]

Sorry, that should have read the Neutral socket.

Dave

[Mike Barnes]

Another key, I'd say.