Bodging: Share your thoughts

[Neeja]

So, here's a scenario for you.

Your bike's in bits, and you've only got one bolt to get off before you can go back inside and have a curry and a beer until the parts arrive tomorrow.

The bolt is in a recessed area so it's easily reachable to file a slot into it, and hammering a star bit into it hasn't worked. You've got a crappy 12v Tesco cordless drill, and the battery on it has completely died at some point and won't hold a charge for longer than 20 seconds of drilling.

You've got a garage full of hand-tools - what do you do to get the bolt out?

8)

[Bluepete]

you leave it and go have beer and curry.

Be a man!

Put off today what could be done tomorrow...

Pete ;)

[Tomor]

impact driver setting on your drill

[maviczap]

Dynamite

Then go for beer & curry.

I've just been down the path you're walking down

[Wideboy]

charge up the drill whilst you enjoy nourishment and then drill the fecker out, i never fanny around with rounded bolts.

[DarrenSV650S]

impact driver setting on your drill

lol yea on his 12v tesco drill

[andrewsmith]

Beer and curry

[Fruity-ya-ya]

Have a beer while you mull over the options.

Decide there are 2 options, one involving going to friends/Dads tool shed and borrowing their corded drill right away and the other is to grab it in the morning.

Have a second beer while mulling the options further then phone the lender to confirm they haven't lent it out to your brother/another party.

Order a curry while opening a third beer and check how many beers you have remaining.
If <5 remain, walk to off license while curry is in transit remembering beer in hand for journey there.
If =5 or > then grab a second from fridge to save you getting out of your seat before the delivery arrives.

Consume curry and more beer until you decide you've had too many beers and probably best to leave it until the morning.

Phone friend/Dad drunk saying how much you love them and they are 'the beatest Dad/friend a man could have'.

If room spins before bed grab a bucket for the bedside safe in the knowledge that you have made the right decision to put off the job until tomorrow :)

[Neeja]

Should point out a few things:

1) I'm having a beer and curry at the moment; bolt came out about an hour ago. I'm just interested to see what other ideas than the one I used people could McGuyver up
2) The bolt is a dome head hex bolt
3) The drill only holds a charge for 20 seconds when fully charged up (though thanks for playing along at least a bit, Wideboy :))

Also, Fruity's suggestion has made me laugh the most so far ;)

[Tomor]

lol yea on his 12v tesco drill

:D

[Spank86]

Soak with lubricant and cover with rag soaked lubricant while you go have a curry, come back and attach a socket set handle to whatever screwdriver bit will gain purchase and extend leverage as necessary.

[punyXpress]

That's the trouble with home mechanics!
Neck enough beer and the right curry.
This produces acetylene gas.
Box of Swans & burn the fecker out!
Job jobbed. - you might now need some Vaseline ;)

[ClunkintheUK]

Use a hammer.

[Jayneflakes]

I would get a large flat headed punch and give the bolt a good smack, this will deform the head slightly and maybe give the right tool a little more grip, it may also crack off anything that is holding the bolt and thus making it hard to undo.

Once that fails, I would unleash a stream of extremely strong obscenities, maybe even calling said bolt an utter £$%* and doubting its parentage.

The next step would be to turn to dark magic and start cursing the very existence of the factory worker/mechanic/former owner who fitted said bolt badly enough to cause such damage. Then with the entrails of a chicken or even local cat, I would summon up Astaroth and send him forth to exact my revenge upon the person who did it.

Once my Demonology session was resolved, I would then have a cuppa and then head back to my bolt. A few more taps with the hammer and punch to see if there had been any change before taking the big step of calling out the wife.

The wife is my secret weapon, there is no bolt she cannot shift, no bearing that can remain stuck fast under her hands and no machine that deny her tools. As a former mechanic and engineer, she has dark magic skills and can do things that I did not know could be done. I recently saw her fix a problem that our local enthusiast bike mechanic could not do. The damage he had done meant that he was looking at taking said bit of bike to our favorite garage, until Carol got to it and gently repaired what had been done. :D

[ClunkintheUK]

no machine that deny her tools

So Wideboy isn't reading this thread. Pretty sure he would have found that erotic. I did.

[Neeja]

Well, it's nice to see that this thread went on longer than expected! :)

For the record, my bodge was much easier than all the above - I just got two old lengths of cable and wired the drill to the bike battery. Perfectly safe, though, honest ;)