AI6YR BenAha! Found the perfect replacement adjustment arm for this bicycle trainer! #BikeTooter #repair #kludge
Andrew HenryMother-in-law has a bunch of vise-grips she is trying to give away.
You make me think I can’t have too many vise-grips.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
Sarah E Bourne@msbellows @AndrewHenry @ai6yr The accelerator cale snapped on our VW Fastback. We were able to coast downhill to a typical Maine gas station/store, where we got some picture wire. The vice grips (already in one of the trunks) served to hold one end of the wire and to use as a gas pedal. Worked well enough to drive another 3 hours to Boston. I'll always have a place in my heart for vice grips.
Paul Horn@sbourne @msbellows @AndrewHenry @ai6yr Reminds me of the day the same cable snapped in dad’s ’75 Audi Fox.
He pulled the interior trim panel off the front door, pulled out the speaker wire, tied it to the accelerator doohickey and threaded it up through the hood vent.
Drove the stick shift car home with his left hand out the driver’s side window using the wire as a throttle.
#MacGyver before the TV show existed.
Oh, and my inherited tool chest came stocked with a great many vice grips of varying sizes and types. Needle Nose vice grips are a real thing.
Larry Anderson 🕊️@nrohluap @ai6yr @sbourne @msbellows @AndrewHenry And that makes me think of the time I was with a buddy of mine in his 1978 Honda Civic and the accelerator cable snapped. He got out, opened the hood, set the idle screw to about 4000 rpm, and we idled all the way back to his house, rowing through the gears.
@larand @nrohluap @ai6yr @sbourne @AndrewHenry Brilliant solution. I miss manual transmissions sometimes.
@msbellows @larand @ai6yr @sbourne @AndrewHenry If you’re not using the left hand to manage the throttle and the right hand to shift the transmission, maybe.
And he used to give me grief for steering with my knee … yet another useful skill!