10 Penny Ringshank Nail........

Geez, at least give it a case! Mild steel is just soft iron w/ pretensions of grandeur...

Bruce Brodnax

As my father would say "Stupid people keep the trained people in business".

I guess you could shape it and put it in a coal fire and get enough carbon in it to make it hardenable, but it seems a lot easier to start with a piece of round stock of more appropriate steel.... :)

Jeff Price

awesome to see you make stuff

Alex Newman

As Red Green would say about something like this, "It's only temporary... unless it works."

James Caldwell

Glad to hear we are going to start seeing some the more heinous/wierd stuff. Even though it should not have left as permanent, you got give the man that did that as a "quick fix" a high five for his "out of the box thinking".

Matt K Mitchell

Nice

Temporary stuff has a curious way of being permanent....

Field Repair When I was in college I worked in a foreign car repair shop. A customer drove in a Volvo sedan and said he needed to have the points replaced. The shop owner, a master mechanic apprenticed at 12, noted the car was running just fine. The owner insisted and explained he was out in the desert near Mojave, California when his engine quit. He had it towed to a small shop in Mojave where the mechanic discovered the moving arm of the point set had broken off. With not many part available and certainly no Volvo parts, the mechanic soldered the tow halves back together with a thin strip of metal to reinforce the joint. The mechanic did an excellent job of repairing the points and getting the car back on the road, We replaced the point with a new set and I’m pretty sure that repaired set hung on the wall of the shop office until it was closed yers later.

Eugene Luder

A clever hack, and who knows when it was done, and for how many years it had been there. It's good that the rifle is getting a proper replacement part, but still I just think of some guy out in the wilds and his rifle stops working, and he came up with that.

Ron Johnson

A trailside fix that worked and was never corrected after a return to civilization.

Eugene Luder

Noted

Having used a nail or two when no parts were available, I can say only this in mitigation: at least I knew what a file and sandpaper were for.

ViejoLobo

I intend to begin letting you in on some of the more heinous stuff

American ingenuity is a fantastic thing, but some of these McGyver jobs are downright scary.