You shouldn't have but it worked

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Wanted to see what repairs or modifications that you have done that shouldn't have worked but did.

I'm glad that we look out for each others safety or at the least the innocent by standers but sometimes it seems like the wealth of information on the internet has turned everybody into an aerospace engineer and we over analyze everything and have forgot that sometimes "Good enough" is good enough.

I'm from a place and time where the private farmer didn't have or maybe even know about a MIG, TIG, plasma cutter, CNC machine etc. They had an arc welder, an oxy acetylene set with cutting torch, a bench grinder and a whole lot of bailing wire. But what they had the most was seed that needed put in the ground and a crop that needed harvested and they didn't let someone more educated stop them when something broke down (Did I just write a country song?).

I once paid someone to weld a pot metal part and they bragged how good it was that I brought to them as no one else around could weld it. Well it didn't work and I thought "Hey I can do it wrong for free" and welded it myself and it never failed. Also have a project in the back of my head that I want to try a process called cold welding for cast iron on but don't tell NASA.

So let hear your stories:

Thanks