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Old hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.

Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?

Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.

(, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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DVDA
(it means antics!)
I'm in New Zealand, so it's just become today and yesterday I said I'd spin more ripping yarns from the day after 3 days ago.

I've fixed a few DVD players in my time, the most common problem is the 2 axles that hold up the lens carriage dry out and stick. I opened up the one of a chap down the road, lubed up the rods with cooking oil and fired it up. Not fixed. I gave the disc holder thingy a shove and it wiggled in a most improper manner.
I had to take it home and perform a main drive motor transplant with that of a CD player which happened to be same brand and voltage (different model number but, meh), and a damping cog from a CDROM drive, which had been defective on the one that flogged out. It worked, and I was rewarded with pints and pints of glorious beer down the Tav'.

There's a punchline too: the VERY next day, yesterday, MY DVD player began to have the same trouble, intermittently. Rather than go through all that again for no extra beer, I've detached the case so I can give the motor a kick-start with my finger.

Events depicted in this story are real events that took place recently with me in them and I'm not making any of this up at all. It's not that great is it? Why make this up?
(, Sat 22 Aug 2009, 13:20, 3 replies)
So
not Double Vaginal Double Anal (see South Park for details)?
(, Sun 23 Aug 2009, 21:21, closed)
I thought that's what he meant
Antics involving four men and a woman.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 9:22, closed)
Yes, this is a story about fixing the
Double Vaginal Double players, they have meetings every month and get up to crazy antics involving pairs of things.
(, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 1:50, closed)

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