Bodging...

[Martin Barrett]

There are times when we are forced to adapt a tool or other item to suit another purpose. There is a subtle difference between ingenuity and bodging.

 

Ingenuity – using a socket as a bearing drift

Bodging - using a chisel as a screwdriver

 

I am a bit of a Bodger

 

My permanent repair on my tekno rack

 

 

Tomorrow I will making a temporary repair using two Jubilee clips and a coke can over the blown out gasket between the balance pipe and header pipe, whilst waiting for the gaskets to arrive.

 

Picture to be posted later

 

Do you have any examples of ingenuity or bodging that you are prepared to share here

[belfastguzzi]

There are times when we are forced to adapt a tool or other item to suit another purpose.

 

Do you have any examples of ingenuity or bodging that you are prepared to share here

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Sometimes, when there isn't a Moto Guzzi to hand, I use a car instead. I know it's naughty, but it can get you out of a hole.

 

BTW Martin. We can tell that you are a bit of a bodger by the way that you slapped that monstrous sized photo into the site.

[jrt]

It's the 'chisel where a screwdiver would work' attitude that's so endearing, Martin.

I'm afraid I suffer from the same affliction to some degree. Mostly, I limit my bodging to zip ties. Love 'em.

J

[Martin Barrett]

BTW Martin. We can tell that you are a bit of a bodger by the way that you slapped that monstrous sized photo into the site. 

 

only 210kb thou , will slim it down

[belfastguzzi]

only 210kb thou , will slim it down

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NO, NO! Don't do that! You would undermine the whole ethos of this thread.

 

Never mind the quality, feel the width.

[callison]

My Dad used to use my screwdrivers as chisels...

[Guzzirider]

I like the way Guzzi bodged the relays by fitted siemens units- obviously a temporary measure!

 

[belfastguzzi]

I like the way Guzzi bodged the relays by fitted siemens units- obviously a temporary measure!

 

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'til you replace them with paperclips

[DeBenGuzzi]

yeah I thought it was more of using a Screw driver as a chisel or a Socket wrench as a "loosening" device IE Hammer. Or your Thumb as a instrument of exact measurements.

 

[Guest ratchethack]

Very nice bodge indeed, Martin. I've found that a Journeyman Bodger with J-B Weld, duct tape, electrical wire, and a few tie-wraps can make a trip of several thousand miles without carrying any spares - without worry of being stranded. Now, A Master Bodger can own a Guzzi for many years without buying any "non-consumables" at all...

 

Myself, I'm an aspiring Journeyman Bodger. Looks to me like you're more of a Master.

 

I'm a West Coast Yank. However, I understand spanners, bonnets, boots, and banjo unions, but please forgive my ignorance - what's a Jubilee clip?

 

Ratchethack

[Guest MotoMessiah]

In my previous air cooled VW days there was always a problem with this small metal plug that would pop out of the stock carburetor whenever it would backfire (when didn't they) from bad timing, etc.

 

Impossible to find the plug, but it's slightly smaller in circumference than a dime. Which is what I would use, first grinding down the edge on the pavement by rubbing it back-n-forth till it fit in the plug hole. And then a little jb weld to make sure it stays.

[Martin Barrett]

what's a Jubilee clip?

 

 

a hose clamp

[Guest Thundering Subash]

I am definitely a bodger. Mainly from either a cost savings or convenience stand point. The distributor cap on my '97 Chevy truck is currently being held on by one screw (one side is busted out) and nylon tie wraps. 10,000 miles and holding. Cost of a new distributor, $350.00. Cost of a bodger job holding it on with nylon tie wraps, priceless.

 

btw, I wish they would bring back the old style retainer clips on distributor caps.

 

 

-Chris

[DeBenGuzzi]

a hose clamp

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The sheer fact that you posted a picture of a Hose clamp is just funny to me

you silly englesh conniggets

[big J]

Ratchethack's list is pretty comprehensive,I'd only add stainless steel lockwire and tinfoil and you have all you need. Many years ago, I was unfortunate enough to be employed as a mechanic in a construction/haulage company where stores and supplies were virtually non-existent, and your imagination was all you had to repair a truck at the roadside. memorable bodges include topping up the sump of a truck which had lost most of its oil with water to get it off the motorway; using 4 jubilee clips and a piece of the radiator hose to join a severed main air line; topping up a dry battery with screenwash;windscreen broken en route to vehicle test centre[would have failed] solution-remove screen- pass test-drive home-fit new screen. I could go on but I dont want Martin having nightmares. Back then [the 80's] if you had a job you held on to it with both teeth.