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Not pictured: Iron rigged to the ceiling and floor covered in Hot Wheels. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “Somebody should just spring for a new door.”
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Bu sure to let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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No longer will slamming the door open be an issue– but you’ve got to be quick to not let it beat you before you get through.
This is not the sort of trapdoor I had in mind.
All attempts to keep door open failed
Little did Johnny know that when he stormed into his own bedroom to catch his wife with the mailman that the door was going to come back and knock him on his ass.
I would pay money to see that happen!
Pervert.
Kids, I see it’s time for spring cleaning!
Something seems terribly off about this picture. It seems to be taken at an angle, while the doorknob seems to be at an angle to the door, and the duct tape is also taped diagonally.
Is it just me?
Stick a folded matchbook under one of the legs of your desk and see if that helps any.
The problem is that the standards here at TIFI have simply gone to hell. Oh for the days when kludges with improperly applied duct tape were considered unfit for the glories of the front page, and would live in flaming infamy, dying a slow, ridicule-induced death on the submission pages.
This is my kludge. The spring is held on by two thin strips of duct tape in an X, then four strips outside the footprint of the spring across the ends of the X (making a square with a + in it). So yes, the whole thing is diagonal.
I like it. I’d have gone diagonal with it, too. It looks like a good workaround for having a puppy in the house that loves to chew on the traditional spring door bumpers.
is the outside doorknob broken? btw, i LOVE this idea and have a welder and could make this a more permanent and professional looking application. I seriously think you could market this. floor doorstops are also springs but just don’t have that much retraction. Dip the top in some rubber so jr doesn’t rip his eyeball out and you’ve got a cool door stopslammer
SHOVE ME? SHOVE YOU! (Mad Max reference)
Oh yeah says who?
How to stop people from opening the door too fast.
You could also do what the Army does to keep people from running out of the gas chamber(CS tear gas) at the NBC(Nuclear Biologic and Chemical) class at basic. Put big ass concrete fill steel pillars behind the doors. They open wide enough for people to get out single file but tend to hurt folks that freak and try to bum rush the door.
I’m not shure if this will keep any angry kids from smashing the doorknob thru the drywall, like I did one night in ’87 or so.
Macaulay Culkin = Kludgenuity Extraordinare. Proof you shouldn’t rob a house during the holidays.
I think they were Micro Machines
Well, looks like the Coyote is running out of ideas…
I’m adding this to my arsenal of booby traps (which is mostly stuff i learned from ”Home Alone”)
Somebody should just spring for a new door.
Bob was known for hiding his money in his mattress but thought that was not secure. So he decided to put the money in his wall. However, he didn’t take it out of the mattress. Now a mattress spring has sprung through the wall. The duct tape is a ruse to reduce suspicion.
Acme door stops.
It’s not so much a door stop as it is a door return-to-sender. You really have to watch out for the recoil on this baby.
I agree with Dogmeat. Door swinger revenge?
Open the door to a rebound relationship. It’ll put a spring in your step.
I open the door, then I see a blur the same color as the door, and hear a loud THUMP! from right above my eyes, and I ask, “Wut wuz dat!?” I look at a door swinging away from me a second time, and just when I think something has been changed, the door now has a dent at forehead-height.
Yes, I dented a door with my head more than once (walls, too). No, it did not hurt. Or it hurt little.