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There needs to be a whole category of “I have deployed a vise-grip on a long-term tour of duty and therefore it is now fixed”.
Reminds me of the needle nose pliers we used to change the channel on the television when I was a kid.
vice-grips are the duct-tape of the metal tools genus.
I did the same to my grill when one of the knobs fell off. Unfortunately, it only took a couple uses before the stem also broke… in the on position. I have to think of something else soon or this is going to cause problems (can’t afford a new one).
I employed the same fix until I could get a new handle under warranty. (Took 2 and one half months)
Believe it or not:
Once, this old fabric-covered airplane cut us off on final while landing @ AJO. Later, when we finally found the airplane, we noticed his door handle WAS a pair of VISEGRIPS!
Hey, where is the chewing gum, bailing wire and duct tape to complete the scene?
I have that same faucet…
Including the visegrips?
What? Your’s didn’t come that way?
@Another David
Just turn the tank off for now.
I have the same faucet too … I think the vice grips are an improvement.
ummmmm…. Who hasn’t lived in a house with a faucet like that?
Been there, done that, got the new taps…
I knew a guy who drove his Corvair around for months using a pair of Visegrips in place of the steering wheel.
vise grips are the genius invebtion of a lazy man
Almost anything can be “fixed” with any or a combination of the following: duct tape, WD-40, vice grips pliers. Rubber mallet is optional equipment.
@gil
i remember needle nose pliers to change the channel
also reminds me of the vice grips my dad used to replace the throttle handle on our old cub cadet lawn tractor
holy crap i had to do a 2nd take because i thought this was the faucet from my house. my buddy’s girlfriend is a professional masseuse and thought our faucet was stuck and ripped the handle off. we used the vicegrips for about 3 months. sexy.
I did this for a while. Incidentally, mine was a moen, that looks very much like the one in the picture.
It is a moen; I had same POS, needed similar ‘modification’ . . .
Exactly how I turned on the wipers in my first car.
Dang! This is amazing. I had a cheapa$$ apartment with a faucet like that too! Yes, it had vicegrips on it. Knowing the landlord at the time, he would have had me pay to replace the taps because his argument would have been “It works better now.”
We had the exact same faucet and the exact same problem with the exact same fix. Great minds think alike.