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Old timer at the hardware store taught me how to fix a leaky pipe with a pencil
I was standing in the plumbing aisle at Ace Hardware in Springfield last spring, totally lost on which epoxy to buy for a pinhole leak under my kitchen sink. An old guy in a flannel walked up, grabbed a standard number 2 pencil, and said 'shave the graphite into the hole, then wrap it with electrical tape.' It held for two years until I finally replaced the pipe. Has anyone else gotten a fix from a random stranger that worked way better than it should have?
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ben8274mo ago
I had a similar thing happen at a gas station in '18. Random guy saw me staring at my dead battery and told me to pour a can of Coke on the terminals to clean the corrosion. Right on the money, fired right up and held for months after. Sometimes old school hacks just hit different lol.
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kevin_wells464mo ago
Pour a can of what now, the sugar alone probably baked into a worse problem later.
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