Unconventional way of fixing things

[Crzwaco]

Fixing an ironing board rather than cutting a new board I had to put a brace on it to support it where the board broke.

So what did you fix rather than buying nee?

[Solitude]

Hmmm. I'll have to think a bit about this one.

[PsychoFish]

I do a crap load of DIY and fixing.

Most recently was the humidifier that broke. Replaced the broken on/off switch with a slightly more robust on/off push button switch. The humidity sensor was borked, so I had to find another similar one. Noticed that some of the cables were a little too short for my liking so I replaced the cables between the mainboard and everything else. Mainly just so I can remove the front panel in the future without having to disassemble the whole thing. Popped a couple of springs behind the buttons to give them a little bit more feedback.

[Flex]

DIY Fixing 101

[Blazzok]

I once had to take apart our whole washing machine, because it wasn't pumping water out of the drum at all.

Turns out that the guy that was looking after our cats while we were away, had put our bathroom mat in the washing machine because one of the cats threw up on it (they do that from time to time). If you know your bathroom mats though, you'll know they sometimes have this sticky rubber stuff underneath. Turns out that came off and clogged up the pump and all the piping.

It was a huge mission to get everything disconnected and working with limited space, but by golly it feels good once you re-assemble it all and it works great.

Edit: I just realised this is probably not an "unconventional" way of fixing something, but I'm gonna leave it here nonetheless.

[HavocXphere]

Generally no.

Don't have access to tools anymore so tend to just rebuy whatever I need.

[DarthMol]

I remember my dad and I cutting off pieces of an old credit card to fix my (knock-off) Sega Megadrive II controllers. The plastic bits on the D-pad had broken from wear and tear so we opened up the controller, glued in a small piece of credit card and it worked (mostly) as good as new.

We also fixed the broken left click on the PC mouse this way.

[czc]

Somebody screwed up the bracket for holding the light fitting against the ceiling. I used the aluminium pieces you tear out of the front of the PC case when you add a CD drive. Its still holding the light fitting up.

[MetalSoup]

If it's stupid but it works, it's... well it's still pretty stupid, but at least I can use them:

[Solitude]

If it's stupid but it works, it's... well it's still pretty stupid, but at least I can use them

Bloody hell that's brilliant! I had Roccats that I threw away in the end because it broke in a similar way.