Gaffer Tape, Baler Twine, your tools that aren't tools?

[bikeworkshop]

The cable tie,
In the days people used to smoke, the matchstick and the rizla paper.
A rusty nail?
A piece of aluminium can or plastic pot.
A pencil, jammed behind the front derailleur?
I once stuffed a ripped tyre with grass to ride 10k to the nearest bike shop!

What else do we find useful for repairs and modifications beyond their designed purpose?

 

[bagpuss]

Have used all of the above .
Knackered inner tubes have many uses .
Old forks ,a mate used one for a weather vane complete with a hub ..
Cranks and pedals used as part of bar stools .

 

[grantoury]

Non tools or non appropriate tools?

 

[bagpuss]

Plumbers tape

 

[novocaine]

nail varnish as thread lock
aluminium tape - like gaffer tape by shiny
beer can shims
11mm headed bolt to remove a free hub (used like allen key)

bent spokes as a chain retainer
lead pipe as a headset race seating tool
hoovers for pulling thread through a frame so you can pull through internally routed cables.

there are millions of them.

none of these are bodges as such but certainly not the completely right way to do it.
I own a 3d printer, so many things are made to do jobs.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Have used all of the above .
Knackered inner tubes have many uses .
Old forks ,a mate used one for a weather vane complete with a hub ..
Cranks and pedals used as part of bar stools .

Canal boat Hippies used to use sturmey front dynamo wheel in a bicycle fork as a wind generator, wrapping silk tape around the spokes in a particular way to make a vane. Like this, except usually multi coloured...

I suspect output was probably enough to run an ever ready bike light for about 1 minute a day?

 

[bikeworkshop]

hoovers for pulling thread through a frame so you can pull through internally routed cables.

Now that adds to the calls for a workshop hoover
Now on shopping list.