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What are you most proud of "MacGyver-ing"?

By Miguel351

9 years ago


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#36 9 years ago

My wife, just a couple of weeks ago, paid me one of the biggest compliments ever. She told her friend that I was a cross between Fred G. Sanford and MacGyver. I don't think she meant it as a compliment though.

My latest, best hack was a fix for a broken Meteor drop target. After supergluing it a couple of times and having it last for a month or two, I noticed that one of my extra Fireball2 targets was exactly the same shape and size as the original, except for the little ledge where it sits before it gets dropped. I took one of those things that hold wire bundles to the backbox and cut a little strip and superglued it to the FB2 target to make the little ledge. It works beauty; drops and resets smoothly like the original. Once I remove the paint and apply the R decal I have, it'll be beauty. Right now it sits just a tad lower than the others because I cut the add-on piece a bit short, but once I open it up again, I can fix that too.

Love this thread.

#37 9 years ago

@ Pinaf: When I bought my Old Chicago, EVERY rubber was like that. At least some of them were purple. And the flipper rubber was just dozens of wraps of electrical tape. It was also holding the cracked flipper bats together. It actually played ok.

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