Sheddy Items
The true shedder, or shedi, takes a certain pride in, and an enjoyment from, making do and improvising . Here are a few artefacts which may amuse from around the shed.
First; how do you get the gates to stay shut when they grow and shrink with the seasons, and those little gate catches you find at the hardware store don't even meet except the first warm dry day after the equinox? Well, you could copy the ideas you find around other gates, like farmers' fields. The first is 'ammered and hacksawed from bits of mild steel, and self-latches when the gate closes (essential when the gate is used by delivery people).
The second is much simpler, the classic rope on a nail, and has been functioning as it should for about 10 years.
What do you do when the cable breaks on your up-n-over garage door and your Mrs. has to go all the way round to open the door? Buy a new cable? (Shocked spluttering noises from the shed.....). No, you delve into the tqt reserves for the very thing, an electrical connector usually called the "chocolate block", or choccy block around here. Now you can easily join the cable end to something else, preferably which will not fray at the top like the original.
Guess what the last one is?
It's a car window wash jet unblocker. Got 25psi in the last one from a footpump before the jet cleared. Of course there is always the risk of blowing the pipe off inside the tailgate, but hey, it didn't work to start with did it?
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