Lash-ups and hacks that get you home.

[Fishtigua]

I like a couple of these.



Beer can popper fuse.

 

[Croftie]

Top pic ?
Bottom pic ?
The fuse 20amp? and has protected the wire/component, your replacement would probably pass 100+ amp so the wireing goes up in smoke!!

 

[Dodgy Diver]

if it gets you home then well done

 

[Bouba]

Ok, not a get you home but still a tool for an essential job






anyone care to hazard a guess what it’s for?

 

[Poignard]

Man fined for driving Citroën DS on motorway with only three wheels

 

[Poignard]

Ok, not a get you home but still a tool for an essential job






anyone care to hazard a guess what it’s for?

Toothache?

 

[Croftie]

Ok, not a get you home but still a tool for an essential job
anyone care to hazard a guess what it’s for?

Oil filter removal?

 

[Falling Star]

To fit a skin fitting nut?

 

[Bouba]

Oil filter removal?

Close...ish

 

[Bouba]

To fit a skin fitting nut?

No

 

[Bouba]

 

[Portofino]

Fuel filter grip .

 

[Portofino]

You can buy a heater element tool for €5 , yet you ruined a €25 pair of Stilsons .

Starting to get your “ Passerelle “ logic , took a while .

 

[Bouba]

It’s to change the calorifier heating element. An awkward job but hopefully a rare one. But it turned out to have a secondary use which is used more often

To remove the lid of the black water tank. By chance it’s the perfect fit

 

[Bouba]

You can buy a heater element tool for €5 , yet you ruined a €25 pair of Stilsons .

Starting to get your “ Passerelle “ logic , took a while .

True, but I wanted to do the job that day and not wait for a parts delivery. I have lots of old cheap tools lying around ?

 

[Mistroma]

You can buy a heater element tool for €5 , yet you ruined a €25 pair of Stilsons .

Starting to get your “ Passerelle “ logic , took a while .

I spent a day in Torrevieja trying to get the tool. I had a photograph with dimensions and tried marine, electricians, plumbers and heating/ventilation suppliers. Nobody even recognised it or understood why I'd need one. Everyone just said they didn't use them and used Stilons or similar.

I gave up and discovered that a pair of large Mole grips worked when applied as an angle and a screwdriver used as a lever to turn the Mole grips. The element has a smaller nut than domestic units and sits deep inside a covering of insulation. I've used the same method several times now as it is easy now that I know how to angle the Mole grips.

 

[Portofino]

Rotten out ancient exhaust elbow holed .




Clamp + auto exhaust paste .^^^

You would never know ?^^^ all “lashed up “. Worked ok for a season until replacements fitted below

I did a thread last winter on it .

 

[Hurricane]

What is wrong with one of these?

 

[Poignard]

Hard to think of a better example of a lash-up that worked successfully than Cutty Sark's emergency rudder
Cutty Sark Voyages 1870-1922: Cutty Sark races Thermopylae - On the line

 

[Bouba]

What is wrong with one of these?

That looks perfectly good although a lot harder to make than my one?