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A lady in my old shop told me she kept her 1987 washer running with a bent paperclip
Honestly, this was back in 2010 when I was just starting out in a small repair shop in Akron. She brought in a Kenmore direct drive for a new lid switch, but the old one was completely gone. While I was getting the part, she told me she'd kept it going for 3 months by jamming a paperclip into the actuator to trick it. Ngl, it was a janky fix but it showed real grit. Makes you think about how people used to just make things work with whatever they had. Anyone else run into a wild customer fix that actually kind of worked?
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richardk2623d ago
My uncle kept his 96 Ford Ranger's AC blowing cold for two summers by wrapping the compressor clutch wire with aluminum foil. It was a total hack job, but it bridged the gap until he could find a junkyard part. That generation of truck was full of weird little fixes like that.
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