What was your greatest "It's not stoopit if it works triumph"? What was the worst? Which was private & which was "We shall never speak of this again"?

[DrPepper12]

My TRIUMPH: My brothers pipes froze. In the wall. In the bathroom. He's not home. FUUUCCCKK! I get the bat signal! I rush over. Removed one tile under sink to hide damage. Stuck hair dryer in. Heating element in hair dryer frys out. SHIT! Tried his tenants space age hair dryer. Lasts about 10 minutes cuz it has an automatic shutoff to prevent over heating. Pipes still frozen. Okay. THINK! I go to basement and hit this LONG ASS RUN with MAP gas torch. 30 minutes. Not even warm where I could feel pipe through removed tile. Time is not on my side Mick!!! OKAY. THINK HARDER!! I spot his old as dirt box of computer parts. A 18 volt laptop charger. Could it? Maybe? Let's try! I splice the cord. Neatly remove another unfortunately visible tile next to tub. Put the exposed + side on pipe with duct tape. Put the - side about 8' away on part of exposed pipe under sink. Plug it in. Multimeter shows ohms resistance. Resistance = heat. Heat melts ice. Added a curling irons clamped on both sides of pipe just for good measure. 40 minutes later with an assist from hair dryer for last 10 minutes first drip comes out of sink. 15 minutes later first drip from tub spout. Soon it's all flowing again. Hero status achieved!

I checked afterwards with the physics teacher in my school to see if I really McGuyvered my way out of it. That geek mofo did all the math down to watts generated and outside ambient temperature and said I did!! What's your story?

[exitseven]

I did a hill climb in my Scout and I went into a slide and before I rolled over i got stuck next to a tree. I could not get any traction and there was nobody who could tow the Scout off the hill.

I came back the next day with my chain saw and cut the tree down. I had to make sure that I was in the Scout when the tree fell so I could use gravity to get my truck moving but I needed to be able to steer and apply gas and brakes or else it would flip. Once the tree started falling I jumped into the scout and popped it into reverse and carefully kept the speed up just enough to keep moving and not fast enough I would roll over. After 3 or 4 long seconds I started to feel like I was getting control back and was able to finish backing off the hill. I only had a dent in the side and a busted side mirror.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[DrPepper12]

That's creative !! Kudos!!!

[Likes2drive]

Once or twice I had to get lug nuts off a car that were rounded out and a locking nut so found an under sized socket and smashed it on and it worked but was very hard to get out of the socket but it worked so I could remove the tire

[DrPepper12]

Smart!!

[Dongie]

Oh shit! I have a couple but one is over the hill. But it was as a teenager and I can't remember the details. I just remember a couple friends laughing and saying what the fuck, it's working. That's it.

[princeofromance]

All of them are never to be spoken about again.