It's Not Pretty, But It Does The Job

I like to tinker with and fix stuff. If something breaks, I will try to fix it rather than throw it away. I'm also guilty of taking in broken/unwanted items and trying to fix and find new homes for them. On this blog I'll describe various things I've made/fixed/hacked over the years. Hopefully it'll give some of you ideas of things you can make or re-use.

2010-01-24

2004 Mazda 6 Throttle Body

I had to swap cars with my wife recently for some reason, and I noticed that the accelerator pedal in her 2004 Mazda 6 was a bit sticky at t...

2009-12-31

IKEA Billy Bookcase

We bought William a Billy bookcase from IKEA. We put all his books on it. After a few weeks, the shelves started to bow downwards and the si...

2009-12-14

Silicon Grease Tube Cap

I was working outside when I dropped the cap for my silicon grease down a drain. I happened to have a bag of Polymorph granules (a brand-na...

2009-11-14

USB key

And here's another one that didn't work out. I had this nifty little USB key, which got broken when I bumped into my laptop while w...

2009-10-26

Table Saw

This one didn't work out quite so well. I rescued a table saw from a skip outside someone's house (don't worry, I asked). Whe...

2009-10-20

Trolley Wheel

My employer threw this aluminium trolley out because one of the swivel castors had lost its ball bearings, making it wobbly and difficult to...

2009-10-05

Shed Me Crazy 3: The Basingstoke Connection

The final part of the shed project: replacing the windows. The original plastic panes were in a sorry state. Years of UV exposure had clo...

2009-09-30

Fixing A Shed Where The Rain Gets In

I rebuilt the door on my shed. As with the side of the shed , the boards on the door were curling and starting to let the elements in; not c...

2009-09-26

Fly Me To The Shed

I re-clad the side of my shed. The old boards were starting to curl - due to lack of maintenance on our part - and risked letting in water. ...

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