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Phat Kat
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You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece.

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Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".


Ummm.. this certainly fits the description "Crazy back yard sh_t that shouldn't have worked... but did :shock: :shock:


I wouldn't expect any better from brick top,,, say you seen turkish lately? Did tommy ever end up blowing one of his bolocks off with that gun he bought off that sneaky russian?

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So does anyone have any crazy back yard inventions / inovations that don't involve the disposal of bodies?
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Phat Kat wrote:
So does anyone have any crazy back yard inventions / inovations that don't involve the disposal of bodies?

I fixed a loose valve seat in a Briggs and Stratton 16 hp twin with a Milo tin and a Morris 1100 ball joint shim.
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Morris 1100 wrote:
Phat Kat wrote:
So does anyone have any crazy back yard inventions / inovations that don't involve the disposal of bodies?

I fixed a loose valve seat in a Briggs and Stratton 16 hp twin with a Milo tin and a Morris 1100 ball joint shim.

My brother couldn't buy an oil pump drive part (PVC) for his son's jet ski, so I cast one up using some super strength Araldite, a dunny roll centre, and a metric nut. I used Castrol HMP grease as the release agent on the nut. :P
A bit of turning and milling, and she's a goer. Been running fine 2 years since. :wink:

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awesome, now your getting it :)
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I recall in my youth my 850 burnt oil faster than I could top it up. Couldn't afford new rings so on a trip I filled the sump with EP90 to get home.
Does that count?

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Did I ever tell you about the time I performed an appendectomy with a rusty sardine can?

And once I was caught short without instrument one and removed a uterine tumor with my teeth. That was in the Upper Effendi, and besides the wench is dead.

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:lol: awesome :lol: I think anything that gets you out of the poop counts :)

EDIT--> Simon.... WTF? thats just wrong :lol:
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blue_deluxe wrote:
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig poo poo, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".


errr.... does someone mind telling me who the f*** you are, apart from somebody who feeds people to pigs of course?

and then there's this (NSFW) http://www.27bslash6.com/scanningfineart.html now THAT'S ingenuity!

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I was cleaning a drum type fishing reel and lost the tiny spring that controlled the brake. Scratched my head and worked out as it was to work in compression I cut a small piece of rubber out of an eraser and used that - worked a treat and wonm't rust is still there today (30 years later) - Sent the tip into a Fishing Magazine and it was published and I recieve a book on rock fishing for my effort :mrgreen:

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Dylan's Clubby wrote:

errr.... does someone mind telling me who the f*** you are, apart from somebody who feeds people to pigs of course?



Someone with a pretty well developed SOH obviously. Well, obvious to most of us around here :roll:

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BZZZT

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Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution, manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case, by a 'orrible c***. Me

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ok before one of you scallywags gets to relaxed and accidently admits to a real murder and not just one out of Snatch...

Here another one of mine..

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Its not the ice pick that Ramon Mercader used to kill Trotsky, its a tool I fashioned out of a coat hanger, broom handle and coach rod for installing the Key in the sindscreen rubbers... Works a treat :D
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Ah Ha PK! So wer'e into homemade tools now are we?

Just wait til I get home.

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The previous owner of my MK II S obviously couldn't afford a new turn indicator assembly when the existing one broke so he drilled a hole in the top of the plastic shroud and fitted a simple three-way toggle switch. Not as user friendly or aesthetic as the original item but it works.

Note that the steering column has twisted in this photo - the switch is normally at the top centre.

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Phat Kat wrote:
EDIT--> Simon.... WTF? thats just wrong :lol:


William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, awesome combination 8)

From "Spare Ass Annie and other tales"

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