

| Subject: | Re: " you fixed it with what?!" |
| From: | don spence |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:14:25 -0700 |
As travel season is approaching and there has already been a fair bit of discussion re: what spare parts to carry I'd like to invite one and all to contribute to a " you fixed it with what?!" list. Who knows, tales of other's creative fixes may get one of us out of a jam. For example, a friend and his family (wife, two young girls) were heading up a remote highway in northern Alberta for a Christmas visit with grandma in a Hyundai. Thirty miles from nowhere, -20 C, the fan belt pops. No spare. No tools. What to do? For some unknown reason, the wife, whom I have never known to wear a dress, was carrying a pair of pantyhose in her luggage. Yup, stretched and tied the panty hose around the pulleys and limped slowly into the next settlement. I've also heard of it being done with duct tape (don't leave home without it). I have wrapped up burst rad hoses successfully with Gaffer tape. (better than duct tape-used in the film biz) Anybody else made emergency repairs with "available" materials?
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