[MBAtarga]

I fix stuff around the house and even make stuff or replacement parts out of scrap/spare parts from other things broken beyond repair. I rarely throw anything away that can be used or made into something useful. In my basement shop, I've got 2 or 3 boxes filled with parts useful for stuff:

Recently:
- made a tool to remove the drawers from my recently purchased (used) Snap On tool box. I used the thin metal strips from old windshield wiper refills and taped them side by side and bent them to resemble the "tool" that Snap On charges $6.50 for.

- took an old bi-fold door knob (cheap plastic thing), sanded down the diameter to make it smaller in size, and then screwed that to the winding lever on a 300' surveyors tape reel, because the original know was lost.

- used the scrap casters from an old office chair and made a wooden dolly with a piece of plywood and scrap 2x4s.