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yally i have this fairly old coheed and cambria sweater. i love it very much, and have basically had one or another coheed hoodie that acted as security blanket since i was 14. i moved last year and it took a while for me to realize that the dryer was aggressive and would frequently remove zippers from things, till i turned the tumble speed down. ANYWAYS i decided to fix the zipper that had sort of broken. the base(?) of the zipper that kept the clasping mechanism from falling off the bottom was busted off, so i put the zipper piece back on, then glued said base with superglue back onto the zipper rail. let me show you a photograph. can you find the way i totally hosed it up?  please share your misadventures in repair so i can feel better about what i've done. (also tell me how to fix this (also teach me zipper terms)) |
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i forgot to drill a pilot hole for a cheap wood screw and it got stuck in the wall. i stripped the screw trying to get it out so i bought a set of cheap screw extractor bits which just hollowed out the head more without giving any grip. then i used a saw to try cutting a groove into the screw to fit a flathead, but the saw was also a piece of poo poo. the screw stayed half-embedded in the wall for a month before i just gave $5 to a neighbor who actually bothered to spend money on decent tools
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Feb 11, 2021 00:26
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I'm very sorry for laughing but lmao |
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Feb 11, 2021 05:38
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FutonForensic posted:i forgot to drill a pilot hole for a cheap wood screw and it got stuck in the wall. i stripped the screw trying to get it out so i bought a set of cheap screw extractor bits which just hollowed out the head more without giving any grip. then i used a saw to try cutting a groove into the screw to fit a flathead, but the saw was also a piece of poo poo. the screw stayed half-embedded in the wall for a month before i just gave $5 to a neighbor who actually bothered to spend money on decent tools I have definitely done this sort of thing multiple times mostly on bike parts |
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Feb 11, 2021 05:39
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acetone can dissolve super glue pretty nicely, so you could take it apart easy-ish and try again
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Feb 11, 2021 06:12
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HP you need a zipperator reconfuckulation device. |
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Feb 11, 2021 15:59
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I have put the alignment/focus sheet into the developer tray after "exposing" it more times than i care to remember. Im also the queen of forgetting the lens hood on my Mamiya TLR. BUT... I'm still not as bad as that man on youtube that pronounced it "mommy-uh." Wtf. Oh and my most common fuckup is not checking the fixer before putting it in the film tank, then having to mix more and redo twenty minutes later and that fucker just will not go back on the reel while wet so don't bother. Queen-Of-Hearts fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Feb 11, 2021
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Feb 11, 2021 16:05
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sig by Prof. Crocodile
BYOB spells: Mutually Assured Kindness
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I broke my toilet tank trying to take it off to see something. Had to replace the whole toilet. =)
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Feb 11, 2021 17:04
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Zurtilik posted:I broke my toilet tank trying to take it off to see something. Had to replace the whole toilet. =) with the right framing, this can definitely be passed off as a feat of strength
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Feb 11, 2021 17:06
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alnilam posted:I'm very sorry for laughing but lmao i knew i wouldn't be the only one biosterous posted:acetone can dissolve super glue pretty nicely, so you could take it apart easy-ish and try again gonna try this asap. THANKS BIOS!!!
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Tried to fix my electric car windows. Car can no longer be locked up. Tried to fix car locks. Car windows are fixed. Car locks are still broken. Car door is broken. Tried to fix car key. Ordered wrong replacement key parts. Broke key. Car still won't lock. Tried to get car out of snow. Broke car.  car
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Feb 11, 2021 19:07
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 Goodbye my old car, Though I never washed you at all You had the pace to win a race, While those around you stalled |
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Feb 11, 2021 19:18
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Feb 11, 2021 19:25
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RickRogers posted:
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Feb 11, 2021 19:45
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RIP to a real one.
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Feb 11, 2021 21:53
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We stan a hero (car) |
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Feb 12, 2021 16:06
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Remembering a time I used some lovely software boot disk to repartition my drive, and I needed to erase a partition. But.... I had the entire drive selected and there was no warning confirmation dialogue I sat there a good half hour before I realised that that was way too long for a 20gb partition to be erased, and it was erasing, the entire disk. Thank god for backups! edit: also thank god for photorec |
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Feb 12, 2021 16:08
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thinking back to when I hosed up my BIOS to the point where it wouldn't even boot long enough to recognize that I'd reset the BIOS. reminiscing about destroying the best CD player I ever owned because I ran out of batteries and jammed an AC adapter that was not for the CD player into the CD player's power port. it's been like 20 years and every so often i catch myself thinking "i bet it was just a fuse, if i learn to solder i could probably fix it in like ten minutes" as if i still have the thing, or have use for a CD player lmao |
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Feb 12, 2021 16:18
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today: forgot to turn on the slow cooker this morning. oh well, no biggie, i'll just cook it on high for half the time, like the recipe says. so i definitely do that. and i cook my pot of rice, and go and look at the chicken, and welp no actually instead of setting it to "cook on high" it set it to "keep warm" so it's just a crockpot full of slightly-warmed chicken and sauce, not at all safe to eat fresh rice and uncooked chicken. tomorrow i will have cooked chicken, but old rice
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Feb 13, 2021 01:51
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Both my marriages, op.
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Feb 13, 2021 03:52
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when i tried to fix this towel hanger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLOMs0_kFBk ---------------- |
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Feb 13, 2021 14:08
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Heather Papps posted:yally lmao
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Feb 13, 2021 15:34
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many glued things can be taken apart by striking them with a hammer, and it's not like that would make the zipper function any worse if that doesn't work you could cut off the bottom stop with plyers, take off and turn the slider, and glue another bottom stop to replace the old one another hint: if your slider doesn't close the zipper anymore, you can fix it by squeezing it with plyers |
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Feb 13, 2021 15:43
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take the entire zipper lengths off of each side of the hoodie and flip them and reverse them
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biosterous posted:today: this is actually a miracle because now you can have fried rice 
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