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Re: Tightwad tips - fazersharp - 11-10-14
Once had a frifge freezer with the fridge on top and the fridge part stopped working so I cut the foccer in half with an angle grinder and kept the freezer part for another 5 years.
Re: Tightwad tips - lew600fazer - 11-10-14
(11-10-14, 07:18 PM)fazersharp link Wrote:Once had a frifge freezer with the fridge on top and the fridge part stopped working so I cut the foccer in half with an angle grinder and kept the freezer part for another 5 years.
Your taking the piss surely!!!! two compressors?? no way :eek
Re: Tightwad tips - robby boy - 11-10-14
My wife goes out every afternoon to visit a different friend, saves her putting on our heating thus saving a fortune on the gas bill.
Re: Tightwad tips - His Dudeness - 12-10-14
(10-10-14, 05:30 PM)NorthWestern link Wrote:I occasionally take wads of those plastic gloves they put next to fuel pumps. A couple of those on each hand before putting your gloves on works pretty good if your caught in the rain/cold
That's not being tight that's thieving :lol
(11-10-14, 11:07 PM)robby boy link Wrote:My wife goes out every afternoon to visit a different friend, saves her putting on our heating thus saving a fortune on the gas bill.
Either that or she's got a bit on the side :lol
Re: Tightwad tips - His Dudeness - 12-10-14
(11-10-14, 02:29 PM)greenman link Wrote:I don't use gunk etc for cleaning I use paraffin, I put plastic sheet under the bike then an old towel, do the degrease and towel gets soaked with dirty paraffin then cut towel into strips roll the strips up and stick a cocktail stick through to keep rolled up and I use them as fire lighters.
Ahh the sweet smell of asphyxiation :lol
Re: Tightwad tips - His Dudeness - 12-10-14
There's some comedy gold in this thread :lol
Re: Tightwad tips - robin78842 - 12-10-14
What Thread?
Re: Tightwad tips - His Dudeness - 12-10-14
The bit stuck between your toes
Re: Tightwad tips - darrsi - 12-10-14
A next door neighbours car aerial, carefully folded, can make an ideal coat hanger in an emergency!
Re: Tightwad tips - fazersharp - 12-10-14
(11-10-14, 10:02 PM)lew600fazer link Wrote:[quote author=fazersharp link=topic=14974.msg169761#msg169761 date=1413051507]
Once had a frifge freezer with the fridge on top and the fridge part stopped working so I cut the foccer in half with an angle grinder and kept the freezer part for another 5 years.
Your taking the piss surely!!!! two compressors?? no way :eek
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Tiz true Sir here are the pictures, it was 1996 and I think was a currys own make and it had two compressors, the on -off and boost control panel was at the top on the fridge part and just unscrewed.See the extra long white cable that once reached to the top of the fridge. You can also see the fridge compressor in the close up picture, and the freezer one was at the bottom. I then extended the worktop and brought a new fridge and sat it on the work top so it was all just like the fridge freezer was, only now two seperate units.
Re: Tightwad tips - lew600fazer - 12-10-14
I apoligise fazersharp, belting idea, why chuck a perfectly good freezer. As they say necessity is the mother of invention.
Respect.
Re: Tightwad tips - ChristoT - 12-10-14
Asda's 20p a pack instant noodles are actually pretty good! Used to be 11p a pack 2 years ago when I was spending all my money on rideouts instead of food. How can anyone afford to be an impoverished student these days? :rolleyes
Always bodge when possible. A few years ago, the extractor fan over the hob stopped working at home. Mum and Dad were going to replace the unit, but I convinced them to let me have a crack at fixing it. 20 minutes later, the diagnosis was obvious: the speed control was an incredibly simple potentiometer-like PCB. 20 years worth of grease had effectively insulated the system! :eek :eek (Having found the problem, I made myself scarce as Dad spent the next 4 hours cleaning the fecker out with acetone! It lasted another 3 years to boot! :lol )
(12-10-14, 01:22 PM)lew600fazer link Wrote:As they say necessity is the mother of invention.
When in Turkey, the windlass control stopped working. We could drop the anchor chain, but not raise it. I had to make a new windlass remote out of 2 buttons, some old wire and a glasses case. No necessity, but I'm a lazy bastard, and hauling up 30 metres of 10mm chain with a 27kg anchor on the end by hand in 7m of water is a job I was only prepared to do once. :lol :lol :lol
Re: Tightwad tips - fazersharp - 12-10-14
(12-10-14, 01:22 PM)lew600fazer link Wrote:I apoligise fazersharp, belting idea, why chuck a perfectly good freezer. As they say necessity is the mother of invention.No worries you were right to query it. I could not believe that I was doing it at the time and that is why I had the pictures taken - I knew it was a hair-brain idea but it worked.
Respect.
Re: Tightwad tips - YamFazFan - 12-10-14
I knew a bloke that used to buy huge quantities of vegetable oil from the cash&carry & mixed it in with the diesel on his Citroen BX.(biofuel?).Think it was about half the cost of diesel.Had a real aroma to it.Passers by would be looking round for the chip van :lol.
Re: Tightwad tips - midden - 12-10-14
(10-10-14, 05:18 PM)dazza link Wrote:When my daughter out grew her baby grow suit...... I cut the feet off. :lol
cut high for motorbike boots and low for trainer socks. neat idea
Re: Tightwad tips - midden - 12-10-14
1. use empty hand soap pump bottle as shampoo dispenser2. oil stone your razors when they become blunt and get some extra shaves.
3. save sour milk and when lumpy strain for cottage/ cream cheese
4. don't get married or have a girlfriend
and certainly
5. don't have kids
Re: Tightwad tips - Gingernutz - 12-10-14
Whenever I am on a tube platform with a few minutes to spare I pop over the the chocolate vending machine. On the front it a code to report my £1 has been stuck inside and I haven't to my twirl. A quick call and they send me a refund in the form of a voucher.
I bought a watch from h samuels and paid for the extra insurance. Just before it runs out I let them know the strap broke and fell off while riding my bike - which was why it looked like it had been hit with a hammer. Two minutes later I am wearing a new watch.
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Re: Tightwad tips - DILLIGAFF - 13-10-14
I bought some quite expensive toothpaste and when the tube was squeezed empty I cut the top off and was able to get another few days worth from the unsqueezable nozzle end.
Of course I've done it ever since, even on Wilko's 80p tubes.
OK. My secret's out. Oh the shame. :'(
Re: Tightwad tips - fireblake - 13-10-14
(11-10-14, 02:29 PM)greenman link Wrote:I don't use gunk etc for cleaning I use paraffin, I put plastic sheet under the bike then an old towel, do the degrease and towel gets soaked with dirty paraffin then cut towel into strips roll the strips up and stick a cocktail stick through to keep rolled up and I use them as fire lighters.Awesome. I'm going to try this.
Mickey
Re: Tightwad tips - fireblake - 13-10-14
(11-10-14, 10:02 PM)lew600fazer link Wrote:[quote author=fazersharp link=topic=14974.msg169761#msg169761 date=1413051507]
Once had a frifge freezer with the fridge on top and the fridge part stopped working so I cut the foccer in half with an angle grinder and kept the freezer part for another 5 years.
Your taking the piss surely!!!! two compressors?? no way :eek
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We used to have a fridge/freezer with 2 compressors. I was going to keep it when the fridge part failed but my wife binned it when i was at work.
Mickey