Makeshift Engineer

My wife’s bread maker started behaving weirdly one day while making a batch of bread. The mixing blade would turn

Five years ago I made a drain adapter that connected my washing machine and a spin dryer to a drain

An old recliner sat unused in our living room for the longest time because it was missing a handle to

An old recliner sat unused in our house for a number of years because the lever that controlled the footrest

The on-off switch on our 30+ year-old Tatung rice cooker (大同電子鍋) has been missing a knob like forever. Besides being

The locking tabs on my plastic toolbox fell off recently. I was able to quickly fix it with just a

The nose bridge on my swim goggles broke and I didn’t have a replacement part for it. A search online

The door on our 30+year-old refrigerator was sagging and it was letting air inside causing condensation near the top. It

The cheap toast oven we’ve been using for nearly two years finally died. The heating elements simply would not heat