Junkyard math

[gdocktor3]

Saw this on Facebook today

 

[Pipe]

I saw it too. Pretty damn funny. At a pick n' pull you gotta improvise

 

[woody 73]

Very good been there a few times myself.

 

[PoorOwner]

Used with 2 pennies you don't need to buy AN wrenches?

 

[L.Cheapo]

I had to do this to get a drain plug out of a transfer case. Used the largest size hex bit socket I had plus the blade of a slotted screwdriver wedged in there with it. Worked fine, no damage to anything. Wouldn't do it at home.

 

[gdocktor3]

Gotta love human ingenuity. I can't remember what it was, but I used an eye bolt to temporarily secure something on my truck once when I was younger. I also remember using vice grips to hold the vacuum actuator closed on the 4x4 of a s15 while off-roading back in the day. If there's a will there's a way.

 

[nh_yota]

Dimes are homeowner-grade tools, real mechanics use silver dollars.

 

[Doug Arthurs]

I once used a crushed pop can off the side of the road to hold my throttle partially open so I could drive home after my throttle cable broke.

 

[CoogarXR]

I have a Snap-On Coin Set in a nice red blow-molded case.

 

[LXCam]

Reminds me of a river trip with my jet boat. First day out of a four day weekend my buddy beaches my boat and breaks the gate cable. Sure as hell there wasn't one to be had anywhere around. So I tied a rope to the gate and threaded it through the ski eyelet.

 

[tody009]

have done the dime trick before.. I'm thinking I may upgrade and get the snap on kit that was mentioned above.. I think it has a penny, nickel and quarter in it too.. used they are about 95 bucks on ebay

 

[larry_g]

Some people have no math skills.

1/2" - $.10 = 11.5mm

lg
no neat sig line

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

I have a tool for making change

 

[Sal Bandini]

When my washing machine lid switch broke at 10:30 PM

 

[gdocktor3]

I once used a crushed pop can off the side of the road to hold my throttle partially open so I could drive home after my throttle cable broke.

When I was like 10 years old my father had a Saab turbo. One night we were driving home and the throttle cable broke. He strung up some wire and string from the throttle, out the engine bay and through the window into the car. On top of that, it was a 5 spd. That still stands out as one of the most amazing things my dad did when I was a kid. Funny enough, he told me he brought that same car to a garage one time for a repair. He went to pick it up and the mechanic told him "everything's fixed, but the throttle cable snapped on the test drive. A new one is on the way." Sure enough the old pollack borrowed some wire from the mechanic, strung it up and drove it home where he could fix it himself.

 

[egnorant]

Math in the original post is WRONG!!! 9/16th plus a dime = 13 mm.
1/2" + 10 cents = 11.5 as stated above.

Bruce

 

[Bighead38]

1/2 + .10 = .60 cents

 

[derosa]

that's like a 1/2 breaker plus a quarter for the accessory belt tensioner on a volvo whiteblock.

 

[Jason280]

That's pretty creative...but who goes to a junkyard without a socket or wrench in 1/2"??

 

[mfewtrail]

That's pretty creative...but who goes to a junkyard without a socket or wrench in 1/2"??

Plenty of people. I've ran into people at the yards that literally didn't have any tools with them.

 

[Denwad]

I think they are trying to say a 1/2" bolt head plus a dime equals 14mm

note the wrench is 14mm

 

[MushCreek]

At the junkyards I frequent, they would just beat the 1/2" bolt head with a hammer until the 14mm wrench fit.

 

[Rileysan]

I once crushed a pair of header tubes on my 4x4 while doing some serious off-roading. Back at camp, I repaired them by cutting up and clamping a baked bean can. Whatever it takes to get you through the day!

 

[DenisG]

I think they are trying to say a 1/2" bolt head plus a dime equals 14mm

note the wrench is 14mm

Thanks. Sometimes a caption (or legend) helps to explain an equation (for someone like me).

 

[NUTTSGT]

If you don't have the right tool at the yard, you either improvise, go home to get the right tool or ask to borrow a tool. Borrowing tools at a junk yard is like a man asking for directions.

 

[driven3]

I was surprised to see that something floating around the internet actually had some level of accuracy.

thickness of dime = 0.053"

0.5 + 0.053 = 0.553'

0.053" converted to mm = 14.046mm

we've all had to improvise at some point.

 

[G_P]

I also remember using vice grips to hold the vacuum actuator closed on the 4x4 of a s15 while off-roading back in the day. If there's a will there's a way.

Helped a friend out doing something similar with a cable actuated 4wd system on an old small Blazer. The vise grips stayed on for over a year since it was an off road only rig.

 

[lbhsbz]

Reminds me of a river trip with my jet boat. First day out of a four day weekend my buddy beaches my boat and breaks the gate cable. Sure as hell there wasn't one to be had anywhere around. So I tied a rope to the gate and threaded it through the ski eyelet.

That's funny. A buddy of mine got a call from a race promoter for the long beach boat races one year the night before the race...we needed another boat to make a field. His race boat was long since converted back to river duty, but we did what we could to make it work. Didn't have a kill switch handy, so we tied a piece of ski rope around the coil wire and clipped the other end to his lifeline jacket...it passed tech the next morning and we had a race.

 

[Zeke]

Some people have no math skills.

1/2" - $.10 = 11.5mm

lg
no neat sig line

I was waiting for that. 1/2" is close to 13 mm. Actually 12.7 mm. And if you take a 9/16ths wrench with the dime you have a nice snug 13 mm.

 

[Raymond Fast]

I had a throttle cable break on a '74 Opel Manta once when I was several miles from the nearest other human being. My kids were still kids then, so I rummaged around the back floorboard until I found a roll of kite string and a Lincoln log. I tied the string to the throttle, ran it through the driver window, and tied the other end to the Lincoln log so I could use it as a handle. I drove the car about ten miles home along winding country roads with the throttle in my left hand, my right hand on the shifter, and steering with my knees and chin. It was actually fun!

I couldn't find a replacement throttle cable anywhere (this was in the pre-internet era) so I went to a bicycle shop and bought a cable I could modify using parts from the original cable.