I pray to CROM!

Ever seen “thereifixedit.com? It’s a site dedicated to redneck repairs.

I may have my own entry here but I don’t think it’s rednecky enough. :(  Still I take enough pride in it to show it too you here!

Washing machines are pretty simple to operate, spin the knob to the correct cycle and duration then press the knob in! My ex-girlfriend ( PB02) and her room mate both liked to slap the knob though (which is why I kept her around as long as I did! AR AR!)

So they broke the plastic tabs off the switch assembly that slide into the slots of the panel and then the switch would just flap free.

I fixed it once with fiberglass and explained (and demonstrated) how you could gently press the knob but these two were dedicated knob slappers  and broke it again in short order. So the next time I come over I get this lecture about how I suck at fixing things and how they called the repairman who wants $135 for a new switch (which in a perfect illustration of PB Syndrome it is somehow NOW my fault the washer is broken)  .

"Conan! What is best in life?"
"To see ya enemy driven before you and to hear da lamentation ov da vemon!"

So taking a lesson from the Old movie “Conan the Barbarian” I made an invocation to Crom, the God of STEEL. By golly if plastic won’t fix a plastic part then STEEL will! So where do you find steel in the normal household?

“ Cindy, I need your oldest, crappiest fork… one that you won’t mind me destroying.”

So here is a photo of the handy work. The tines of the fork are in the steel slot where the switches plastic tab should be. The fork is bent sharply enough that there is a tremendous pre-load on it. That fork is holding that switch TIGHT against the panel!

And if Crom and steel cutlery can do one thing, they can handle a little knob slapping!

Of *COURSE* you repair delicate electrical components with bent up old forks! DER!

Looks ugly works GREAT took ten minutes to repair and cost 2 cents woth of STEEL! It's goooooood to be a redneck! MMMMmmmmm caqn you feel it? Oh I can feel it!

However estrogen and Crom are incompatible so she ended up paying the $135 and getting a new plastic switch anyway.

Did I mention Cindy is VERY pretty? I should. It s a key point I think! lol

PS unlike Erika Cinda never reads my blog! lol!

In fact here is an old post about Cindy from when I was first getting to know her! 
              There but for the grace of God

Ahhhhhh, Life is good!

On that note, and to ramble off of on a radam access data path, I am now 3 years older than my mother was when "the Cancer" struck her down in her 40's.
Every day is a blessing and a joy!

Too many people forget that. They have not been to enough funerals - Yet.