If you can look at a broken situation and decide that a bungee cord, half a roll of duct tape, and complete confidence in yourself are all it’s going to take, you might just be a Redneck. And that’s not a bad thing! You can find a fix before someone else even finds the number of a professional.
Redneck engineering gets a bad rap because the results are objectively unhinged and occasionally load-bearing. But the internet has been collecting the best of them to give them the respect they deserve. These are the fixes that should not work, the repairs that would make a structural engineer dry heave, and the solutions so aggressively practical that they loop back around to brilliant. Duct tape was involved in most of them.
What the collection ahead ultimately celebrates is the human stubbornness that refuses to be beaten by a problem just because the correct tools are not available. It is creative, it is occasionally structurally unsound, and it is deeply, specifically human.
Other species use tools. Only humans look at a broken situation, assess what is within arm's reach, and decide that a combination of ingenuity and complete disregard for conventional methods is going to get this done before dinner. The professionals will have opinions, but we are not here to hear them out, because the thing has already been fixed. Safely or not.
#27 My Brother Got An Apartment For Himself And Needed To Hang His Shower Curtain
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19points
#36 Was Told You Would Like My Dish Washing Video Hat. Makes Time Go By Much Faster! Never Doing Dishes Again Without It!
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16points
#37 No Bumper? No Problem! Just Slap Some Plywood And Paint On There And Call It A Day! (X-Post R/Shitty_car_mods)
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16points
#40 So My Toaster Dosen't Work Without The Button On The Right Being Down, But Now I Have To Use A Knife And A Bowl To Keep It On
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