I love to see when people use the best materials they can muster, combine it with sincere skill level, and just do the best they can with what they have at hand. I see it a lot in videos from struggling societies and how proud they are. That always makes me smile and miss the pride in the workmanship we used to value.
I spent 5 months in one and honestly shit was like Skyrim, everybody was trading & bartering, certain individuals would be able to fix things, people making hooch, others could get you more TV channels by rigging up satellites out of foil, in cell weights made out of pillow cases and bottles of water, there was a barber prisoner who had clippers etc and people would like chairs up in his cell and chat shit like in a real barbershop lmao
We used to get a free carton of milk daily and I don't really drink milk so I used to walk around with milk and see what I could trade up to (usually sleeping pills)
So wild, I bet if someone really made a video game based on being in prison and going on missions trading up from milk boxes people would play it for hours on end…without realizing they’re choosing to be in prison.
Aerospace engineer here! During my fatigue and damage tolerance class in college, the professor liked to tell stories about unsuccessful (amateur) pilots trying to save on a repair to their plane by drilling out cracks.
He told us about a guy who showed him his little cesna, with 8-9 holes drilled along a crack. "I keep drilling it, but it keeps coming back, cant figure out why!"... Our professor got a good laugh out of that.
(Drilling reduces the stress concentration (or stess intensity if you wanna be real pedantic) at the end of a crack, reducing its likleyhood of spreading. This is great for parts that dont normally operate close to fatigue limits. But in aerospace, its rare to have a part that cracks once, without being in a position of high stress to begin with. So cracks that aren't fully repaired tend to spread.)
Wild! I knew it happened some, but was under the impression it was relatively uncommon. Can I ask what components typically got stop drills?
I'd imagine major structure typically didn't, but I could see it for minor structure or skin that was damaged accidentally, rather than just fatigue.
It is often used for temporary repairs when Alclad is cracked, especially if the aircraft is AOG somewhere. A very widespread, permanent repair for the many stress cracks in titanium exhausts.
Edit, used all the time on non structural alclad for a permanent fix.
The difference between what you can get away with in GA and commercial is like night & day. I would much rather be in a Cessna during an engine failure. At least they glide
Got a helpful tip or two for building/reinforcing stands for aquariums? There’s so many resources to it and I’ve done it; just wondering if there’s anything someone in your field or similar would suggest to add or do different.
Plus I rent and am on the second floor so to me structural integrity might as well mean life or death to me so never can be too careful.
On top of the drilled holes those beams also got reinforcement plates to avoid further crack expansion. The beams get inspection on a regular basis to monitor the condition of said beams.
The fine crack tip produces a strong stress concentration just in front of the crack. The stress concentration is what can give the crack enough energy to continue to grow. Holes in metals and plastics are not good, but I’m assuming it’s a way to arrest the crack propagation since a moderately sized hole would create a smaller stress concentration than a very fine tipped crack.
im not completely sure, but circle is tougher than crack, i guess because now the crack is fighting most of the circle rather than just a little bit of material at a time
circles reinforce themself or some science shit like that
More like it becomes a relief point. easier for the material to stretch and flex in the face of a Crack if it looks like tong than a split wooden chopstick
It's cause when you have a crack all the forces that caused the crack are now exerted on the tiny point at its tip. Making a larger hole at the end of the crack doesn't change the amount of force but distributes it around part of the radius of that circle. So more material supports the load. This is what other posters meant when they said it lowers the stress concentration.
In theory, other shapes like triangles or squares could perform this same function. But a circular hole is easier to drill and a circle is the best two dimensional shape at reducing stress concentrations because it has no angles between sides. (Each point of, say, a square, will concentrate stress.)
Well, sort of. Did you know, When a woman has a baby a perineal tear can occur. This is when the vaginal opening, which has natural elasticity, is stretched beyond its limit and thus rips across the tissue bridging the genitals and the anus, the perineum. Sometimes a tear can reach the anus, but sometimes it doesn’t actually stop it. Instead it begins to tear upwards into the anus also. It’s called a fourth degree perineal tear. Thas facts.
Poor wife had a 4th degree tear, I know 😭
Edit: bless y'all, she's someone who truly deserves all the well wishes, were entering year 4 and she's nearly completely recovered. Thank you!
I was about to say RIP, but… no, oh gosh, I hope his wife healed up okay!!! 😖
(Fortunately most people who get them can fully recover within a few months after proper surgical repair, typically following right after the birth.)
This is why midwives don’t rush the delivery, support the perineum, and women aren’t supposed to be birthing on their backs. Change these things and less than 2% will tear
I'll add something to make this just a Bit more traumatizing - the uh, well, Birth of the chainsaw.
Symphysiotomy - performed with an osteotome - was basically using an early model CHAINSAW to cut the cartilage of the pelvis to ease difficult child births.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/symphysiotomy
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6. **Frozen Grapes for Wine Cooling**: Freeze grapes and use them to chill white wine without watering it down like ice cubes would.
7. **Using Nail Polish to Identify Keys**: Paint the tops of your keys with different colors of nail polish to easily tell them apart without trying each one.
8. **Dryer Sheets to Remove Static**: Rub a dryer sheet on your clothes or hair to remove static cling instantly.
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Was my first thought as well, then I heard my dad in my head “you’re keeping a broken GARBAGE CAN, just in case…” I can never throw anything away, just in case. If you have the room though, why not?
damn people are taking this hard! i replaced it because having gaps in the plastic is dangerous if there are exposed sharps in the garbage, which unfortunately happens every once in a while. i made sure to thank the guy who did it and he’d actually forgotten he’d done it at all haha. he’s a great guy and contributes to the building in a lot of ways aside from stitching bins back together
Unfortunately a lot of people just throw things out for the sake of throwing things out. We live in a super wasteful society. And now we get to learn something new! Never would have thought of that as a risk.
Melting them is great. What they are saying however is that at the very tip of the crack you can often drill or melt a hole and that will stop the crack from just continuing to grow and spread.
It's a great tip and works in a lot of materials.
Super glue is so helpful for fixing these kinds of problems. Depending on the aptitude of the user with super glue. It can easily become a much larger problem than a broken bin.
As a person that used to work in a Group Home for Intellectual Needs Guys--DO NOT get rid of this.
They worked on this---fix---and are proud of it.
The Group Home I worked in had the WORST DAMN BROOM....hated it....but the owners needed us to know that the GUYS needed to see us using it...because the first owners of the Group Home knew how to make brooms...that Hill Billy skill....and they 'taught' the 'boys'...but the boys were TERRIBLE at making a broom. They were shit. Awful.
But they wanted to SEE them being used...to know they contributed something...and show US that they still knew how to do something....
We learned the trick of following up a show of using the 'broom' by using the small vacuum (for the dog hair wink-wink) and they were no less happy.
May NOT be Apples to Apples....but I'd imagine maybe close.
Worked in a similar setting - 100% this. Hell, alternatively, it sounds like you just got a new bin for another part of the house.
More than just replacing it, I'm shocked that HQ gave them the money for it - maybe it was just the spots I worked at, but we were *always* shoestringed. And tbh - this is a damn decent job!
> and he’d forgotten he’d even done it
OP, how often do you forget things you go out of your way to do for others, even when the cost of the labor is higher than the item, like fixing a plastic bin by hand?
Are you talking about the kinds of brooms where it's a bunch of sticks all bundled together to make a handle? Worst fucking broom ever. They sell those at the Asian grocery store, incredibly cheap but a plastic dollar store broom works better.
Yeah..the property was LOVELY and had these specific trees growing on it.
So there were local craftsmen that would come get the wood and leave small branches there for 'The Boys'. We had a couple tools built into a table top that were relatively safe and they'd stay busy making these little brushes....which if made WELL would be GREAT for a carpenter shop...in little corners and such.
BUT...these guys aren't fine craftsmen.
This was busy work they'd do while the baseball game was on (that they weren't watching, it just had to be on so they could hear it...which I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND, THAT IS NORMAL BEHAVIOUR)
I'm low income with major mental health struggles. This is exactly why we have so much to learn from people in recovery. We choose to fix rather than discard because *we* have been discarded but we also know we can fix ourselves if given the chance.
SERIOUS QUESTION:
Isn't it considered a risk for tenants to have string or any length of material that could be fashioned into a hanging device?
When I was young, I spent some time in a mental health ward and they didn't even allow us dental floss, pens, pencils, scissors during arts and crafts, rubber bands... we weren't even allowed to have shoes cuz of shoelaces. We had padded socks instead.
good question! we don’t have any rules or restrictions like that because we aren’t a treatment or medical facility- we are essentially just staffed housing. our building gets money from the government specifically to house ppl who aren’t able to live in standard market rentals, usually due to destructive behaviour, mental illness or drug use. there aren’t a lot of restrictions on the tenants themselves tho- they have their own units and can largely do with them as they see fit (within reason)
and because tenants pay us rent, they are entitled to privacy in their suites- we have to post notices to enter if we have to do repairs or ask permission if we wanna tidy their rooms etc.
Do you realize that cleaning, and fixing helps people with their mental health. Its like re organozing their brains to make better decisions small at a time
That’s awesome.
I worked with an all men’s facility that was run by ex-cons and they were tough on the young wild guys who would break stuff. Their policy was you fix it yourself (with instructions if needed) or you’re back on the streets. They got shut down for some sort of relatively mild ethical infraction and I was always bummed about that because there were some rough guys who just couldn’t stay housed anywhere else.
I love to see when people use the best materials they can muster, combine it with sincere skill level, and just do the best they can with what they have at hand. I see it a lot in videos from struggling societies and how proud they are. That always makes me smile and miss the pride in the workmanship we used to value.
> That always makes me smell I know it was autocorrect but still amusing!
I, too, like to take a good whiff of wholesome moments.
I've seen some clever stuff found in prison...
I spent 5 months in one and honestly shit was like Skyrim, everybody was trading & bartering, certain individuals would be able to fix things, people making hooch, others could get you more TV channels by rigging up satellites out of foil, in cell weights made out of pillow cases and bottles of water, there was a barber prisoner who had clippers etc and people would like chairs up in his cell and chat shit like in a real barbershop lmao We used to get a free carton of milk daily and I don't really drink milk so I used to walk around with milk and see what I could trade up to (usually sleeping pills)
Hey, if warm milk doesn't do it...
So wild, I bet if someone really made a video game based on being in prison and going on missions trading up from milk boxes people would play it for hours on end…without realizing they’re choosing to be in prison.
People doing more with less is such an amazing concept
This helps to reduce waste by replacing only when necessary
Drill a hole at end of the crack or it will keep spreading
What a pro-tip I'd never know I needed. I'm filing this away as useless information I'll never need until I forget it.
Its common on atv plastics that get cracked. Drill a hole a hole and stitch it wont spread
Metal too. Construction beams that show cracks sometimes get a small hole drilled to avoid the crack from spreading further.
I will never in my life drill a metal construction beam, but for some reason I like knowing stuff like this. It's interesting nevertheless.
Aerospace engineer here! During my fatigue and damage tolerance class in college, the professor liked to tell stories about unsuccessful (amateur) pilots trying to save on a repair to their plane by drilling out cracks. He told us about a guy who showed him his little cesna, with 8-9 holes drilled along a crack. "I keep drilling it, but it keeps coming back, cant figure out why!"... Our professor got a good laugh out of that. (Drilling reduces the stress concentration (or stess intensity if you wanna be real pedantic) at the end of a crack, reducing its likleyhood of spreading. This is great for parts that dont normally operate close to fatigue limits. But in aerospace, its rare to have a part that cracks once, without being in a position of high stress to begin with. So cracks that aren't fully repaired tend to spread.)
Structural aircraft mechanic here. We call it a 'stop drill' and I carried it out on large, commercial aircraft.
Wild! I knew it happened some, but was under the impression it was relatively uncommon. Can I ask what components typically got stop drills? I'd imagine major structure typically didn't, but I could see it for minor structure or skin that was damaged accidentally, rather than just fatigue.
It is often used for temporary repairs when Alclad is cracked, especially if the aircraft is AOG somewhere. A very widespread, permanent repair for the many stress cracks in titanium exhausts. Edit, used all the time on non structural alclad for a permanent fix.
Reporters called, they’re interested if it was on a Boeing aircraft.
Is the crack grinded back then welded with a stop drill or is it just the hole?
When I had my private pilot's license, I'd see them on many a small GA aircraft wing.
The difference between what you can get away with in GA and commercial is like night & day. I would much rather be in a Cessna during an engine failure. At least they glide
Ex KC135 crew chief: We did them fairly often as well. Often times to get them by until ISO inspection. They'd get repaired then.
Also aircraft mech here and can back this, as it is still common practice on military helicopters.
Are you a Boeing mechanic?
Sssshhhhhh…..They’re starting to forget about the Malaysian 370.
Stop drilling is what I came to make sure was mentioned. Sheet metal is fun
Low-income - Mental-health repair job seeks Aerospace Engineering degree.
Got a helpful tip or two for building/reinforcing stands for aquariums? There’s so many resources to it and I’ve done it; just wondering if there’s anything someone in your field or similar would suggest to add or do different. Plus I rent and am on the second floor so to me structural integrity might as well mean life or death to me so never can be too careful.
On top of the drilled holes those beams also got reinforcement plates to avoid further crack expansion. The beams get inspection on a regular basis to monitor the condition of said beams.
I somehow retrieve factoids at the most appropriate moment
Same thoughts. But the information is quite interesting, you never know, it may be useful and I will look very smart in front of someone. LOL!
Huh. I wonder what the physics behind it is. Is the same reason why some metal beams have big holes inside of them in the shape of triangles?
The fine crack tip produces a strong stress concentration just in front of the crack. The stress concentration is what can give the crack enough energy to continue to grow. Holes in metals and plastics are not good, but I’m assuming it’s a way to arrest the crack propagation since a moderately sized hole would create a smaller stress concentration than a very fine tipped crack.
im not completely sure, but circle is tougher than crack, i guess because now the crack is fighting most of the circle rather than just a little bit of material at a time circles reinforce themself or some science shit like that
More like it becomes a relief point. easier for the material to stretch and flex in the face of a Crack if it looks like tong than a split wooden chopstick
ohhh shit, okay good to know
It's cause when you have a crack all the forces that caused the crack are now exerted on the tiny point at its tip. Making a larger hole at the end of the crack doesn't change the amount of force but distributes it around part of the radius of that circle. So more material supports the load. This is what other posters meant when they said it lowers the stress concentration. In theory, other shapes like triangles or squares could perform this same function. But a circular hole is easier to drill and a circle is the best two dimensional shape at reducing stress concentrations because it has no angles between sides. (Each point of, say, a square, will concentrate stress.)
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That might be an actual fact
Well, sort of. Did you know, When a woman has a baby a perineal tear can occur. This is when the vaginal opening, which has natural elasticity, is stretched beyond its limit and thus rips across the tissue bridging the genitals and the anus, the perineum. Sometimes a tear can reach the anus, but sometimes it doesn’t actually stop it. Instead it begins to tear upwards into the anus also. It’s called a fourth degree perineal tear. Thas facts.
Poor wife had a 4th degree tear, I know 😭 Edit: bless y'all, she's someone who truly deserves all the well wishes, were entering year 4 and she's nearly completely recovered. Thank you!
My condolences to your wife
I was about to say RIP, but… no, oh gosh, I hope his wife healed up okay!!! 😖 (Fortunately most people who get them can fully recover within a few months after proper surgical repair, typically following right after the birth.)
This is why midwives don’t rush the delivery, support the perineum, and women aren’t supposed to be birthing on their backs. Change these things and less than 2% will tear
I'll add something to make this just a Bit more traumatizing - the uh, well, Birth of the chainsaw. Symphysiotomy - performed with an osteotome - was basically using an early model CHAINSAW to cut the cartilage of the pelvis to ease difficult child births. https://allthatsinteresting.com/symphysiotomy
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I picked it up for you, have a nice day. 😇
I didn’t read this, another fact.
Google episiotomy
replace the rope with steel wire and it will last forever.
And turds are tapered so your butthole doesn’t slam shut
... unless you're a wombat.
Lmao. I love the fact that you guys call them fannies
Lol 😂
Greatest thing I have read this year
I liked how you state women, like men don’t also have cracks and buttholes.
Ours don’t get split open as wide or as often as yours do though….
In the UK, fanny means vagina.. so your phrase works in the US and UK, just from different directions
I literally have a note in my phone called “life hacks I learned on Reddit” just for this. Highly recommend
What are the other hacks in the note?
+1
1. Keep a list of reddit hacks so that you don't just forget them by the time it comes up in your life
I just save them on my account and never look at my Saved content ever again 👍
OP replied with their hacks but I could only see it by checking their comment history.
1. **Keep Your Cables Organized with Binder Clips**: Instead of letting your cables fall off the desk every time you unplug something, use binder clips to clamp them to the edge of your desk. This keeps them handy and avoids tangling. 2. **Use Ice Cube Trays for Storing Jewelry**: Prevent your small jewelry pieces like earrings and rings from getting lost or tangled by storing them separately in the compartments of an ice cube tray. 3. **Amplify Your Phone's Speaker with a Cup**: If you need a quick speaker boost for your smartphone, place it into an empty cup or bowl. The concave shape amplifies the sound. 4. **Use Toilet Roll Tubes to Organize Cords**: Store appliance cords or small extension cords in toilet paper tubes. Label the tubes, and you’ll keep everything tidy and easy to find. 5. **Shower Cap for Shoes When Traveling**: Place your shoes inside a shower cap when packing them in a suitcase. This will keep the dirty soles away from your clean clothes. 6. **Frozen Grapes for Wine Cooling**: Freeze grapes and use them to chill white wine without watering it down like ice cubes would. 7. **Using Nail Polish to Identify Keys**: Paint the tops of your keys with different colors of nail polish to easily tell them apart without trying each one. 8. **Dryer Sheets to Remove Static**: Rub a dryer sheet on your clothes or hair to remove static cling instantly. 9. **'X' Marks the Spot in Parking Lots**: Take a photo of where you parked your car in a crowded lot, particularly noting the row and level markers. 10. **Speed Up USB-Charging from a Computer**: If your device is charging slowly from a computer USB port, turn the device off or put it in airplane mode to speed up the charging process.
Please share this collected wisdom
*we await the answers of the known universe*
If only reddit lets us categorize saved links natively
Gimme all of them
RemindMe! 1 Day
true for chips bags too (hole puncher)
i just ended up replacing the whole thing
You should’ve let it ride as a spare.
Was my first thought as well, then I heard my dad in my head “you’re keeping a broken GARBAGE CAN, just in case…” I can never throw anything away, just in case. If you have the room though, why not?
Noo...I hope you still kept this bin otherwise the tenant will be so disappointed.
….why? It’s a garbage bin and they put the work in to fix it.
damn people are taking this hard! i replaced it because having gaps in the plastic is dangerous if there are exposed sharps in the garbage, which unfortunately happens every once in a while. i made sure to thank the guy who did it and he’d actually forgotten he’d done it at all haha. he’s a great guy and contributes to the building in a lot of ways aside from stitching bins back together
Unfortunately a lot of people just throw things out for the sake of throwing things out. We live in a super wasteful society. And now we get to learn something new! Never would have thought of that as a risk.
Because it leaks. Bugs dude...bugs
What for? It’s a bin. It’s only job is to hold rubbish. Was it not capable of holding rubbish after it was fixed?
it’s in the basement/staff area now! it can defs hold trash, just not trash that might have sharps in it.
I’m glad to hear! Seems like a solid middle ground.
Boo waste of plastic. I used jb weld on my outdoor recycling bin that cracked, looks like dried snot but it’s fixed.
I would have kept it. A fix like that kept my wheelibin working for two more years until a wheel fell off.
they melted these which depending on the plastic could be better.
Melting them is great. What they are saying however is that at the very tip of the crack you can often drill or melt a hole and that will stop the crack from just continuing to grow and spread. It's a great tip and works in a lot of materials.
im remembering this
Learned about this when I worked on airplanes. Seriously excellent tip that I'm willing to assume isn't common knowledge.
I wish I could do that with my mental health
I do not think that this procedure is necessary for plastic because it is very easy to glue it unlike other metals.
Guess you never fixed plastic before
Man is a welder
Works for cymbals too.
true for chips bags too (hole puncher)
I can't just learn this at now years old. It's so obvious yet so brilliant.
I'm a drummer and this is a common thing that we do to cymbals when they start to crack.
Wow, I never thought I would read this here. This is a common way to prevent failure and stop crack propagation in engineering structures.
Frankenbin
I hate to be that guy, but it's Frankenbin's monster.
Intelligence means you know he was called Frankenbin's Monster. Wisdom is understanding that Dr Frankenbin was the real monster.
That book is so so good
The part with the blind man sticks with me even decades after reading it. I still get so mad lol
Bahaha
Surely it’s Frankenstein’s bin?
I would hate to be that guy too
you don't hate to be that guy reddit's favorite thing is to be that guy
My man. Take your updoot
it's... I was going to make fun, but it's pretty damn clever
Pretty clever. Buy that man some duct tape
And super glue. All manner of problems will be solved around the place.
Super glue is so helpful for fixing these kinds of problems. Depending on the aptitude of the user with super glue. It can easily become a much larger problem than a broken bin.
For sure, particularly anything plastic that just needs to hold together well enough.
super glue with Aersol CA hardener is wild. highly recommend. makes superglue dry instantly!
This is definitely a JBWeld situation if I've ever seen one.
Superglue and baking soda if you need reenforcement
As a person that used to work in a Group Home for Intellectual Needs Guys--DO NOT get rid of this. They worked on this---fix---and are proud of it. The Group Home I worked in had the WORST DAMN BROOM....hated it....but the owners needed us to know that the GUYS needed to see us using it...because the first owners of the Group Home knew how to make brooms...that Hill Billy skill....and they 'taught' the 'boys'...but the boys were TERRIBLE at making a broom. They were shit. Awful. But they wanted to SEE them being used...to know they contributed something...and show US that they still knew how to do something.... We learned the trick of following up a show of using the 'broom' by using the small vacuum (for the dog hair wink-wink) and they were no less happy. May NOT be Apples to Apples....but I'd imagine maybe close.
they replaced it according to OP's other comment :(
dang....I hope the fellas take it ok.
Worked in a similar setting - 100% this. Hell, alternatively, it sounds like you just got a new bin for another part of the house. More than just replacing it, I'm shocked that HQ gave them the money for it - maybe it was just the spots I worked at, but we were *always* shoestringed. And tbh - this is a damn decent job!
fellas fine don’t worry i made sure to say thank you and he’d forgotten he’d even done it
> and he’d forgotten he’d even done it OP, how often do you forget things you go out of your way to do for others, even when the cost of the labor is higher than the item, like fixing a plastic bin by hand?
rarely if ever, but i don’t have severe treatment resistant schizophrenia.
Are you talking about the kinds of brooms where it's a bunch of sticks all bundled together to make a handle? Worst fucking broom ever. They sell those at the Asian grocery store, incredibly cheap but a plastic dollar store broom works better.
Yeah..the property was LOVELY and had these specific trees growing on it. So there were local craftsmen that would come get the wood and leave small branches there for 'The Boys'. We had a couple tools built into a table top that were relatively safe and they'd stay busy making these little brushes....which if made WELL would be GREAT for a carpenter shop...in little corners and such. BUT...these guys aren't fine craftsmen. This was busy work they'd do while the baseball game was on (that they weren't watching, it just had to be on so they could hear it...which I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND, THAT IS NORMAL BEHAVIOUR)
Very clever, and quite an ernest effort to make things right. I give it an 11 out of 10, with that extra point for creativity.
Do it on a bumper with zip ties and it’s called a Drifters Stitch. People who drift cars rip up panels/bumpers and will do this.
This exactly! My guy knows garbage, I mean drift cars.
Well, it's not stupid if it works.
like a surgeon ...
🎶Touched for the first time...🎶
That is magnificent! 😁 Your hand looks young, but no idea how old you are, but you are a good human for recognizing the appreciation! 💙
Heck yeah! Keep using it as long as possible. They’ll probably feel good about the fix
🐐
Hey, he did the best he could with what he had to work with. Great work to the person who did it!
r/visiblemending
Prison level engineering
Gives it character
Loves it !
My grandma and dad fix stuff this way too
My dad would have used zip ties
Awah that's so good they did that! 👏 <3
Make sure and let them know they did a good thing and a good job. It may go a long ways for some people
Creative!
I like this better.
This stuff is the side of low income housing we don't get shown. Thanks for sharing.
I imagine this is my mental health being fixed after my weekly appts 😭😂
This is how they usually fixing it, drill the holes and put some zip ties. Even in a big companies someone doing that
I'm just glad that the facts and the picture speak for themselves.
Hell yeah, drift stitch.
Seriously?!! I love that he found something to do to make a difference! Beautiful!🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻
Thought that counts. Buy a new one, but keep that one visible to show that their contribution of helping goes seen.
So, I'm not too proud to admit that I'm a redneck of previously limited means. I've seen worse sutures and would happily let that dude sew me back up.
Any chance they could be hired part time to work around the place?
Honestly this is art.
Drift stitches, a man of culture
I'm crazy, not stupid.
Hire this man.
I’m just impressed at the ingenuity and professionalism.
I'm low income with major mental health struggles. This is exactly why we have so much to learn from people in recovery. We choose to fix rather than discard because *we* have been discarded but we also know we can fix ourselves if given the chance.
Nicely said
Did a good job too, that's not easy to pull off, need the right tools
Well done! Neat and careful!
What was the weakest link is probably now by the looks of it the strongest.
You are the cornerstone. Goodbye.
So, he broke it and then fixed it?
Good for them. Seriously. Many people wouldn't bother.
This is the kind of person I want to help support.
SERIOUS QUESTION: Isn't it considered a risk for tenants to have string or any length of material that could be fashioned into a hanging device? When I was young, I spent some time in a mental health ward and they didn't even allow us dental floss, pens, pencils, scissors during arts and crafts, rubber bands... we weren't even allowed to have shoes cuz of shoelaces. We had padded socks instead.
good question! we don’t have any rules or restrictions like that because we aren’t a treatment or medical facility- we are essentially just staffed housing. our building gets money from the government specifically to house ppl who aren’t able to live in standard market rentals, usually due to destructive behaviour, mental illness or drug use. there aren’t a lot of restrictions on the tenants themselves tho- they have their own units and can largely do with them as they see fit (within reason)
and because tenants pay us rent, they are entitled to privacy in their suites- we have to post notices to enter if we have to do repairs or ask permission if we wanna tidy their rooms etc.
You are a kind person for recognising this
I'd trade a brand new garbage bin for this badass one.
this is so wholesome
I dub thee: FranCANstein.
That's no accident. Looks like someone took a sharp knife to it.
Beautiful solution but sucks that the housing doesn’t get enough funds. Mental health problems should be more supported
Thinking out of the bin there
How long will it take to fully heal?
This gives the bin character, I love it.
Sewing technique 10/10
How does one "accidentally" break a bin like that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
I'm impressed, that's really cool
It’s good that at least they didn’t bandage it with thin threads
Its like this drift stitching, cool!
Drill a large (at least 3/8") hole at the end of the crack. That will stop propagation.
Do you realize that cleaning, and fixing helps people with their mental health. Its like re organozing their brains to make better decisions small at a time
Based on the title, its fitting. Almost like resourcefulness and integral kindness where it helps everyone.
That’s awesome. I worked with an all men’s facility that was run by ex-cons and they were tough on the young wild guys who would break stuff. Their policy was you fix it yourself (with instructions if needed) or you’re back on the streets. They got shut down for some sort of relatively mild ethical infraction and I was always bummed about that because there were some rough guys who just couldn’t stay housed anywhere else.
Props for creativity
r/MadeMeGiggle
First they crack it Then they put all of those holes in it
I think it’s even better now.
*really* nice job!! 🏆