Bodging: Share your thoughts

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?

[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]

Originally Posted by Tomor

impact driver setting on your drill

lol yea on his 12v tesco drill

[andrewsmith]

Beer and curry

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

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]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

lol yea on his 12v tesco drill