On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:44:03 UTC, wrote:

Lost the alternator pivot bolt on my Lancia Montecarlo once. It's
impossible to get access to the nut with anything that has a handle
long enough to torque it adequately. The replacement had a Nyloc, as it
should have done from the first.

But standing in a layby on the A1, wondering where the charge and
waterflow have gone, you have to improvise. I still have the
screwdriver I used instead and apart from the flat spot that a pullety
wore into the handle, even the fact it was half the diameter it ought
to have been didn't matter over the next 200 miles.

Many years ago, when I was at university, I (and others) got fed up with
cleaners bursting in without knocking, at some unearthly hour. One
cleaner delighted in it.

We had Yale-type cylinder locks with a mastering system. I used an old
box spanner and some insulating tape to make a jig for dismantling and
reassembling the cylinder. Then we just swapped over two sets of pins
with the same height 'cut' for the 'user' key, but a different one on
the 'master'. Result, one de-mastered lock....well, several, by the time
we'd finished.

I still have that spanner and the tape is still on it...30 years later.

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