I used velcro to fix tears in my bed room slippers. Works pretty good. Husband laughted, but I tired, and so far they are holding up.

My velcro is still holding up. Husband is going to buy some duct tape. Very very soon. I use paper tape and plastic tape in the freezer to seal frozen items it works well, and you can write on them with marker.

I tired to upload a picture of my velcored slipper but it wouldn't come up. It really does an amazing job of picking up dust and dirt. But at least my feet are warm.

OK this maybe be a little silly but everybody will have a chance
to practice.

I had a bad / clogged shower Drain Today and I did try the Plunger first.
Didn't work.

I also used a Metal snake ( was to short ) to pick what ever was in there....
so , What would MacGyver do ????

I went to the store and I got some Acid ( Sulfuric to be especific )
after some time , whent to check but NOTHING !!!

Plunger again.....Nothing . Ummmm What Maggyver would do ?

OK I need a longer Snake. So I used the Garder hose . NOTHING !
because it's too tight to make a 90 angle turn...

Well ....IF it isn't going out I will bring back in ( to the shower )
FIRST : More water and USE a WET / DRY VAC from my shop.
The Vac. Hose is about the same size as the pipe. all I need was a rag around
the hose ( make sure you use MASK and LOTS OF FRESH AIR ! ) to seal
the gap.
TWO : With the hose all the way ( as much I could ) inside the Drain and gap
tight I turned on the Vaccum....

So first time : Only water mix with acid.
Did again...water in the Pipe untill over flow and down the hose again....
BUT THIS TIME !!!!! There we go !!!! I got it !

I found a plastic cap the got stuck inside.... Looks like I need to buy a
screem to keep out all that stuff....

Sorry for my bad English . oooops........

Today the trash people came, and i guess were mad because of the snow they smashed my trash can , The the wheel and washer came off, my dad wasent home, so i couldnt put a hole in the metal wheel bar to put a cotter pin in. So i had to improvise. First I took one of these clips http://www.exchange3d.com/cubecart/images/...s/aff586/aa.jpg and 2 paper clips from a desk drawer. i went outside and put the wheel on the bar, the i open the black clip thing on the end of the metal bar. Then i opened the to silver wings of the clip, then i bent the paper clip in the wings then bent them over the wheel.

just in case you are lost this is what i basically did, if the clip gets knocked it is not going anywhere, because the paper clips will prevent it from moving, then after that i duct taped the paer clips so the wheel would roll properly, not bad huh?

not really as good as mac but I thought it was worth sharing

I had a couple of MacGyverish moments the other night.

My brother and had to go visit my mother in hospital the other night. And after we'd been there for a while my mother decided she wanted some more sprite, so we went looking to see if any vending machines had sprite drinks in them.

Now to set the scene this is about 9pm at night, the hospital is pretty much deserted and locked down for the night. So we're wondering around the maze of corridors which own it's own feels somewhat like a MacGyver episode; anyway, we ended up having to go through to the A & E section, but to get there we had to pass through a one-way security door (push the button to open it, but it locks behind you). SO there's a yellow "slippery when wet" sign leaning against the wall on the other side of the door, so I grabbed it and jammed it in the door to stop it from closing. So we're just around the corner buying a couple of cans of sprite and suddenly and alarm goes off at the door and we here a voice telling us "Visitor! Secure the door please!" - oops did I do that?

So after getting a security pass to get back in and returning with requested drinks to said mother we said our good byes and headed for the car park. which is where the next MacGyver moment happened...

As I was feeding coins into the payment machine somehow two coins went in to the slot together and jammed so now we have a machine asking for money and coins stuck in the slot going nowhere. So I pulled out my SAK flipped open the main blade and carefully pushed one of the stuck coins further into the slot until it fell down into the machine, then the second coin just needed a little flick and nudge into the right position and it rolled away into the machine as well.

Does anyone remember those rubbery sticky novelty toys in the shapes of hands and feet that you could slap down on pieces of paper and other lightweight material to pick them up?

Anyway, one time I was twirling one of those around, let go of it and it stuck to the vaulted ceiling in our living room. Only a small portion was hanging freely from the ceiling and it wouldn't release and fall down. Thinking quickly, just like MacGyver always did, I got a wooden dowel, some tape (it was scotch tape not duct tape), a shoelace and some hot dog tongs.

I taped one of the hot dog tong handles to the wodden dowel, tied the shoe lace around the other hot dog tong handle then got up on a bar stool. Holding the wooden dowel in my left hand and the shoe lace in my right hand, I was able to pull the hot dog tongs closed, pinching the small portion of the sticky hand toy and pulling it off the ceiling.

While my MacGyverism worked just as I thought it would, I hadn't counted on the faint stain left on the ceiling from the sticky hand shaped toy.

To quote Charles Bartowski from the show "Chuck", "I knew seven seasons of MacGyver would eventually pay off".

Not sure this really counts as a MacGyverism, but I have a good brainstorm from yesterday at the gym. I use a padlock with a key for my locker. Only problem is what to do with the key, as my workout clothes don't have pockets. I usually have a large safety pin rattling around in my bag, which I use to pin the key to my shirt. Well, yesterday I discovered that I had lost the pin. What to do with my key??

Then I happened to look down at my sneakers, and I suddenly got the idea to stick my key under the shoelaces. A few tugs on said shoelaces, and my key was secure. I suppose a variation on this would be to thread the shoelace through the hole in the key and then tie the lace, but if your shoelace comes undone, you're up a creek without a paddle (as we say in the U.S.) I checked on my key every so often while I was working out, and it stayed where I put it until I untied my shoes to get changed before showering and heading home.

That's a good one! I'll have to remember that myself!

At cons, I'm often in costume, and my costumes don't always have pockets. I often tuck my room key (which, nowadays, is a plastic card) into the top of my boot.

I leave it to your imagination where I put my SAK.

Had to share this...the other day I was working and client explained she couldn't start her car. I thought it was the battery and had jumper cables at hand, but when we got to her car (about a mile away where it stalled out) I saw it had been running but stopped in "mid-drive." We opened the hood and saw the battery connection was dodgy and the terminal was pretty much screwed down all the way but way too loose to make a full contact.

I had a small paperclip in my car, took off the contact and wrapped the clip around it to give it less surface area. Then I tapped it down back on the battery terminal and the car came to life when she started it!

Kev

Kevin,

Sounds like a great idea for a quick fix! very macgyverish

Hi guys,

At home I have a 2-door sliding cabinet with a lock in the middle that closes both doors. Unfortunately I could not find the keys but wanted something which was inside the cabinet.

So I figured out what tools can I use. This is how I managed to open it in Mac Gyver style:

1. I got a paper clip (which I consider a Mac Gyver multi tool)
2. Straigtened the paper clip.
3. Grabbed my tinker swiss knife and used the hole in the awl to bend both ends of the paper clip. Basically my paper clip ended up like this ~~------~~
4. Then I bent the paper clip from the middle in a U shaped form.
5. Inserted the paper clip in the lock so that the bent ends are touching the top and bottom pins.
6. Inserted the SAK's small knife in the middle of the lock (between the paper clip).
7. Jiggled and turned for a few seconds and voila... the lock opened...

Just wanted to share today's experience with you... Hope you find it interesting...

i use mac's very often but one time i used a beach inter tube, a nail, and a piece of duct tape to fix a flat tire. and then another time i was camping and i forgot my fork and spoon and bowl so i made a bowl out of tinfoil and for my fork i pulled out my kick awesome wallet and pulled out my mini wrench and nail file and taped them together to make a fork.

On Saturday, I was putting old cardboard boxes into the bin in front of our house. Since the bin is very small, I had taken my cutter to make the bits smaller.

One time when pressing to hard the blade broke and flew into the bin. It was so deep down that I could not reach it. I could have left it, but well.

Instead I got a magnet, put it on a thread and then felt like MacGyver when he fumbled for the medicine after he was poisened It even went the same that at first I thought I had caught it but it went off again.

No big MacGyverism, but at least the bin is only full of cardboard and not metal that does not belong into it. Taking waste separation rather seriously

Astra ~ next time you're in the hardware section, you could get a "magnetic pick up tool" on a telescoping handle for the equivalent of $2 - 5.

It can make life a LOT easier ~ I keep one in the garage, one in the house, one in a tool kit..

sounds like more fun doing it Astra's way.

I have a new MacGyverism, after a fashion -- high fashion, in fact.

I was at a local store called Tuesday Morning, which specialises in odd stuff at markdown prices. They had a fancy women's compact for sale - the round case with the mirror that's sold to be carried in a purse and used in applying make-up. This one was quite large, had its own little quilted zip bag, and had bright battery-powered LED lights around the mirror.

It was dirt cheap. I bought it and brought it to work.

I never wear make-up.

But it's terrific when I have to crawl under a desk to check out computer problems! The mirror amplifies the lights -- more than enough for tight spaces -- and I can even hold the mirror out and use it to see the back of a computer!

Admittedly, it's the only item in my IT toolkit that's decorated with rhinestones.

That is só cool!

Wouldn't it have been fun if Mac had used a rhinestone compact in 'The Gauntlet'?

Ha! Or even "Deathlock". (It wouldn't have made up for the girl's wooden acting, but hey, anything would help.)

There was a compact in 'Deathlock' too?
I missed that. Probably too distracted by said wooden acting. Although maybe you shouldn't be so hard on the poor girl. If I remember correctly, she provided you with an excellent subject for one of your ditto stories.

Talking about stories, can't you write another one? The fan fiction thread needs CPR.

At the very end, Mac has Karen get him a piece of mirror, and uses it to watch Quayle in the ambush scene.

I definitely should start writing Mac again. I miss him! I don't think I ever posted the crossover here, for that matter.

I have three MacGyverisms I pulled off:

1. I used a wire hanger(does it count if my neighbor brought it over?) to help my Dad get back into his truck after he accidentally left the keys inside with the ignition on. My neighbor bent the wire hanger to try to pop the lock from the outside, then he tried to maneuver it through the small opening of the rolled down window to try to open the door handle from the inside.

After he gave it a good effort, he went back to his house. I was thinking about how I could use the wire hanger to maneuver it through the small window opening to somehow open the door. Then it hit me, I could use the wire hanger to roll down the window by hooking it on the handle to manually roll down the car window. So I bent the end of the wire hanger to make it like a hook and I bent it in other places for increased tension. I hooked it on the handle and kept turning it until I eventually could reach inside the car and I pulled up the lock and unlocked the car for my Dad without him having to call a tow truck.

2. I made a pea shooter out of a small pipe, a metal clamp(handle), a rubber finger glove, and two different kinds of tape.

3. I picked a lock using a generic pocket knife and a paper clip.

This post has been edited by mgeoff88 on 6 September 2012 - 05:58 PM

I don't know if any of these qualify as Macgyverisms.

About ten plus years ago my big brother was on his way back from a delivery when the fan belt broke.

He didn't have a spare and it being a big truck he didn't know what to do. Was completely clueless.

Then the guy who were working with him then had a brain storm, he found a piece of wire and rejoined the fan belt where it broke.

It didn't hold for too long but at least he got to move the big blue truck 10km further and another 10 after their next stop to rejoin it once more. They waited 15 mins for me and my mom to arrive with a brand new belt.

And

I met my hubby 5 years ago and met his oven as well (which he still has no clue as to how it works), it's a fairly oldish model and is way to high for eye level so i don't use it much.

One day not too long ago my mom tried to bake a cake in the bottom one that has a fan and because the rubbers by the door slacks from the heat the door didn't seal properly and caused my moms cake to burn.

Then about three weeks ago i noticed that the bottom right corner of the rubber was completely off the frame and was just hanging there. I then noticed the hole where the rubber had been i then went looking for a bolt that would fit the hole.

I hooked the rubber around the bolt and now its back in place.

But i still wonder what to do about the slack on the other sides.

Any suggestions?

I remembered something else: when I was in middle school, my friend taught me how to make a blowgun with a pen, scotch tape, a nail, and the tip of a shoe lace.

@M.C. Wolfcat That's awesome how your brother was able to fix the broken fan belt.
If the oven is that old and hard to use, maybe it's time to get new one? And trying to fix an oven MacGyver style may not be the safest solution.

This post has been edited by mgeoff88 on 13 October 2012 - 05:33 PM

Months ago, I had to fix my satellite dish in the terrace upstairs.
I had lost the signal because the wind has moved the dish.

So, if my tv was downstairs and the dish was upstairs, how could I to fix it without run up and down from a floor at the other?
(I do not have the tool to check for signal)

The terrace is near the room of my sister in law, and she was connected on Facebook, so I went in to my place, I took my pc and I pointed at the TV, with the webcam on.

When I'm come back upstairs I could watch my tv screen in the pc of my sister in law by webcam and skype and with a few moves in and out to the terrace I adjusted the dish.

I totally agree.

But hubby, not so keen.

He doesn't even know how it works,
didn't have any manual,
so i had to learn the hard way.

took me a month ....

Was thinking about removing the other end where it
still slacks and see if i have another bolt or something
to put in that hole.

Oh, well, I guess you could hope it stops working all together and then you would have to buy a new oven.

Sounds like a good idea

While on 'assignment' in India in 1996 - I used my Swiss Champ to splice and connect my IBM Thinkpad to an ISTD long distance line box (sans RJ-11 jacks) in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan. I had been working in Delhi and taken a 3-day vacation to the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve.

However, there was an urgent message awaiting me upon arriving at my accommodations. It basically stated that I had missed a deadline for uploading some important code to headquarters back in Toronto. And so I finished the code off and set off in a Rickshaw to find a suitable place to transmit the data. Not easy in circa 1996 (remote) India.

As, I remember - I ended up dialing long distance into Compuserve in Delhi, connecting to my account and sending the file to a monitored company address. The was essential in accessing, striping, and splicing the wires. It was clearly a MacGyver moment and with all the villagers gathered around and watching the event unfold.

cool