Cereal box bodge blew my tiny mind

[mickfulton]

Took off engine cover while sanding off the childish paint job on my project ...tadah !!! laminated cereal box gasket stuck on with blue sticky stuff. top banana !!!!!!!

I dont know if Im in awe of the crafty bodge or dumbstruck with the dumbness of it ( why when its 15 squid to buy)

Got me thinking, whats the best/worst bodge you've done/found? And was it a Great British masterpiece of engineering to make Liz proud or was it a total arse-up lying in a heap in a ditch ?
[......and yes I have actually paid a scrote some of my hard earned money for this bike ]
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Exes: YBR 125 2007,GPZ500S 1998

[T0MMY]

That is so far from unacceptably slapdash that I'm not sure I'd even define that as a bodge.

Perfectly reasonable solution

Was it leaking?
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[TheSmiler]

Doubt that is actually a bodge the blue sticky stuff will actually most probably be RTV blue coloured instant gasket (image below). Also the cardboard gasket is an old method of creating a near perfect gasket on the cheap. Link below

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=220475

https://www.allmoto-online.com/oldimgs/oro_instant%20gasket__thumb.jpg
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[mickfulton]

I stand corrected. Everyday is a school day. So I can reuse it then as it wasn't leaking, and knock one up for the other side too ?
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Exes: YBR 125 2007,GPZ500S 1998

[T0MMY]

I'd maybe make a new one although I guess you could stick with it if it's not damaged. Either way stick with Kellogg's if you want to do a proper job. None of this own-brand rubbish.
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[Nexus Icon]

After I rear-ended an Escort in my first car (an Austin Allegro) I lifted what was left of the bonnet to find the rad had been pushed back so far it'd smashed the distributor cap into at least 20 bits. After pulling the rad far enough forward to make room I began reassembling the bits of dizzy cap. I only had Sellotape in the car but after about 30 mins doing what was effectively a 3D puzzle I hooked the cap back onto the distributor. Believe it or not, it got me home.

I also broke down in one of the Capris once. It turned out to be the HT lead from the coil to the distributor. It had burned through. I rummaged through the boot and found an old kettle flex, chopped the plugs off and stripped the 3 core back for an inch or so. Wedging that into the coil and the cap got me home.

I've also used a wire coat hanger as an HT lead before.

Not technically a bodge but when the throttle cable snapped on my '77 CG I pulled the sheathing off and operated the throttle at my side with the foot or so that was left.
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[Ariel Badger]

Wrote this a few years ago just after building an Ariel HS Scrambler (value £5K) with all the right bits for a mate. They were not so good on the track but hot on the road!


I took his HS to Selly-Oak branch last night for general posing
purposes. The lighting system is 12V total loss and I was wondering how
long the lights would last on the way home, the headlamp bulb is a
50/40W unit and I erred on the side of discretion and rode off on dip.
After about 2 mins I swung into a tight right hander and the light went
out, I hit the dip switch and got full beam and survived the corner.
The dip switch was not new so I suspected a bad contact but twiddling it
did not bring dip back on but I had full beam so I pressed on through
the lanes. In reality the HS un-baffled exhaust note was rather complimented by the
high beam in your face and refusing to dip headlight, a HS is an
arrogant machine.
After about three miles I came into the outskirts of Brum and gunned her
down Primrose Hill, the lights went out again. Primrose Hill is a
council estate on a hill but their aint no primroses, there are however
lots of ratboys with shanks and electronic tags and it is one of my least
favourite places to break down. Fortunately all was quiet and for once
the Kevs were abiding to the curfew orders on their ASBOs and I was not
molested. All kinds of switch flicking did nothing so I decided to
improvise . I pulled the headlamp to bits and the bulb was clearly blown
so I stuffed it in my pocket and pondered if riding though Britain's
second city on an underslung pilot light was a good idea, it was not.
I always carry a little HID LED torch powered by a watch battery, you
need to hold the rubber button in to get it to work though. I had
already pulled a knife from my boot ( Primrose Hill insurance policy)
and I used it to cut my boot lace in half, I then fashioned my lace into
a loop with a knot and worked it over my little keyring torch. It worked
and the knot kept the light on so I bunged it inside the headlamp shell
through the bulb hole and fired up the HS again and under the bleary
eyed gaze of freshly woken chavs headed towards the city centre casting
a very dim blueish shadow in front of me. Three times the knot moved,
three times she went out and three times I striped it back down and
sorted it out again.
I got home at midnight, cracked a beer open and contemplated on what had
happened. The bike runs on a battery with no charging system so power
surges were not an issue and the wires had not leaked smoke, very
careful examination of the bulb revealed a 4mm long crack in the glass (
my mate at school could not see it even when I pointed it out but it can
just be felt by a finger-nail) I believe this was there from manufacture
and allowed air into the bulb allowing each filament to go pop as it
oxidised .
Not a recommended experience even though it seems funny today. If you do
have to use a LED as a main beam be sensible and try not to go over
60mph in built up areas and a very tuneful exhaust helps.
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[Ariel Badger]

A HS
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Bikers make great organ donors, get 115 on your licence today.

[Marmalade]

Me, transit van and a leaking thermostat housing gasket is not normally a huge incident but add to that it was Feb, I had a load of stuff to deliver the next morning and I'm in Munich, Germany

Cardboard wrap from a pack of drinks and some careful tearing later saw me back on the road without a further drop lost.
It stayed there for several thousand more miles and was still there when I sold the van

https://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/bramble43/DSC02031.jpg

https://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo141/bramble43/DSC02036-1.jpg
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[robs321]

I bought a honda bros 650, best bodge was the twat i bought it off took an angle grinder to the swingarm so he could fit a 180 section tyre!

https://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a12/robs321/Image004.jpg

[andys675]

[hellbound]

My Old GN250 (now in the hands of STONEY) had both clutch and accelerator cables stolen from my cheap and cheerful mountain bike first thing in the morning.

It also had, for a while, a completly different oil filler cap as I topped it up but forgot to put it back on (disturbed by ex in middle of top up), off i went to work and heard this strange louder noise than normal so looked down to see oil splatting out of hole and all up my leg.

Went into my local woodland where I knew a dumped scooter was and bodged the one off that to fit.

Also stole the petrol pipe from a stripped scooter in the same woods a few years previous for my c90.

the above scooter was complete when i first saw whilst driving past but a mere 5 hours later I went for a walk to get the frame number to report it and it was stripped!
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[Itxi]

There's still a gasket-shaped patch missing from the kitchen floor of the family house, where my Dad made a gasket from lino when he was 17.

Went about as well as could be expected, it melted and gummed up the engine.

[J4mes]

[bunglehaze]

Im fairly sure that during the 80's that was a common way to fabricate a gasket, my old man certainly did it a fair old bit
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[ninja_butler]

[Fizzer Thou]

My little CB125T2 that I am restoring needs a gasket between the two halves of the front brake caliper.As this part is not available,even on back order,I made one using a Weetabix box

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/PIC_0001-1.jpg

Unfortunately this was not thick enough,so I found some more card and made another.Works perfectly
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