Come on, you know what I’m saying.
Using Shoe Goo to hold a patch in jeans. It’s orders of magnitude better than those crappy iron-in patches that usually fall off after a couple times through the wash. It lasts longer than needle and thread because it gets into the weave, stabilizes and reinforces the weakened denim around the hole/tear.
Shoe Goo is great for fixing lots of stuff. It’s basically liquid duct tape. Of all the things I’ve attempted to fix with Shoe Goo, the only ones that failed were, ironically, shoes.
For shoes I use amazing goop aquarium sealant. My dad once glued some quarters to the ground by a vending machine outside of his job. It took 8 years for the kids in the apartment complex to finally pry it up and they ended up taking part of the concrete with it.
I made a padlock cover with a cheap bin and a hinge from a dollar store.The lock used to freeze all the time in the winter.
Most anything, using the handyman’s secret weapon…
Yeah, was gonna say, “duct tape. We’re done here.”
Remember that small era in 2008 when everyone was making stuff out of duck tape? Had a guy go to prom in a bright pink tux made of duck tape in my school.
So remember, if the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy
Keep your stick on the ice.
A butter knife is a decent screwdriver, but there’s no way I’d ever user a screwdriver to spread butter.
Don’t know if this fits with what you want to get at, but the main part of the rear mudguard for my mountainbike has now been the cut-up bottom of a 1.5l plastic bottle, fixed with zip-ties to the end of the bike, for many years.
Not only is it superior in function to all the expensive commercial variants I used up to now (actually has a suitable shape and size to catch all the mud…), but it surprisingly also seems to be more durable. And also lighter.
Optics are… special… though.
But I really see that as a positive point: The more ugly a bike appears, the less likely it will get stolen.
Besides, it is a nice talking point when meeting new people :-)Spoon rests are just another thing that needs cleaning. If you are using a pot with a hole in the handle for hanging, a clothes pin can grip a mixing spoon while the other side of the pin gets wedged in the hole. Spoon drips back into the pot, and no additional cleaning is needed.
TIL spoon rests exist. Not sure why, though.
You’ve never wanted to put a utensil down for later use and not mess up the counter?
I don’t see how it would mess up the counter. It’s literally the surface meant to put things down on.
Also you just put the spoon in or on the pot. Not like extra time in soup is going to damage it.
I have couple “redneck engineering” solutions I can think of. But most of the time it is out of necessity because it needs to be done on the spot, or a real thing does not exist. Ohh and I don’t have a 3d printer to solve it elegantly.
Examples that I can think of: an LED controller right now is being cooled by a repurposed coller affixed with a metal clamp. It is better bc it works.
I’m using a plastic lid under a mason jar ring lid, with an x cut in it for a watering tube. Better than not having any lid on.deleted by creator
