DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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I once repaired a transistor radioAged 7. (Me, not the radio)
By a process of trial and error, I discovered that one of the components (a capacitor, I later learned) was slack and that if I tied it to the battery with an elastic band the radio started working again.
Not a disaster at all, although it did eventually die, probably because the dry joint failed completely.
However, buoyed by my newly discovered skill with electronics, I subsequently went on to 'fix' a couple of other radios in the house. Only they weren't needing fixed, and my twiddlings with the little variable inductors etc meant that the IF was buggered up and they didn't receive any more, or at best had odd whistles and squeaks.
I wasn't too popular with my parents for this.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 9 Apr 2008, 11:06,
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