In contrast to the wanton destruction from the ham fisted idiots on the other thread, what have you brought back from obliteration?

rebuilt a few wheels

My mate’s marriage

About £40m from someone else’s design for something.

Half a millions worth of armoured truck as part of the day job.

A magnox nuclear reactor.

our telly.

Its only a £200 thing from the co-op, but
-4.30pm on boxing day,
-mother in law staying, wife out at work till late
-actually turned out to be easy slean up of contacts on main power switch.
When m-i-l stopped fretting and settled back down to watch Only Fools and Horses i could have wept with joy. 8)

A railway radio network, if it wasn’t working come 0500 there would have been no trains out of Victoria.

This gets into a telphone numberpissing contest if you’ve ever worked on industrial machinery.

Waiting for someone to come along with a story of how they fixed an £1000,000 a day off shore rig…..

Various Type 45 Destroyers, usually at fairly short notice before they are due to go out.
I think they are worth about a Billion quid each..

I’m not a natural at DIY but I have managed a couple of decent household fixes.

Boiler – fitted a new pressure switch and air bleed valve. Gutted the pump and got it running again.

Dyson – fitted a new motor.

Laptop – dismantled and soldered in a new power jack.

Professionally I’ve fixed much bigger more expensive things, but that’s all software so not really real 🙂

A boxing match in Vegas 😉

I was asked to sort out a problem with one of our folding machines, a simple problem turned out a bit more complicated, fortunately I knew how to fix the part back in place, using a 1mm Allen key that I had at home, otherwise it would have meant the machine being down for 48 hours before an engineer could get out, and a bill for several hundred quid.
Only a small thing by comparison to some posted, but rather chuffed at fixing something that no-one else at work had a clue how to sort, and saving a fair bit of money for a small-ish company.

Well if we’re playing that game, I’ve fixed a bit of kit on these which helped them to work properly:

Well, a bit of it anyway…

These:

Tornado GR4

I’ve got two washing machines, one for my sailing gear/cycling gear and other really cruddy stuff and one fancy pants machine for undies and more normal clothing.

I fixed the “cruddy” machine today, changed the brushes and heating element.. By Jove it’s (not) like new.

Do I win ?

Day jobs shouldn’t count in this thread. 🙄 😀

This

By planting a few trees

My wife.

Depends on how much you value ‘people’ at….

A referendum vote, last year I think….

Depends on how much you value ‘people’ at….

depends on the person. from 0p up to about £47, not including my kids who are priceless (although I’m open to offers).

One of these

Ok I helped on the dbs by making tea and doing what I was told under close supervision.

VW Passat 2.0 TDI 2007

Our combi boiler…
one or two high-end bicycles…
LOADS of expensive computer networks over the years.

Ermmmm…that’s it I think.

Are you sure about that, molgrips?

A Harrier jump jet the day before they parked it on the front of the Ark Royal before departing to the South Atlantic.

Some funding applications, probably 20 million quid or thereabouts we’d have lost.

Hands on fixing things? Glentress 😆

all this military kit is much more exciting that the crap I’ve fixed.
mine are all along the lines of ‘international payments system’ and ‘force intelligence system’, I’m going to start making stuff up to tell my kids.

11.5′ wind tunnel, RAE Farnborough. Some students had a boat hull design come off the balance rig and go around the tunnel. It was reduced to a pile of matchwood.
Benetton F1 team wanted to use the tunnel next too so much waving of hands and flapping ensued

Bloody ABS sensors at £125 a pop where I needed two.

Apart from that I don’t have anything that’s expensive.

jef – what was broken? measuring stuff or mechanical stuff? or airflow smoothing stuff?

Medical test on unborn children uses globally now.

Children are priceless (little pains in the…)

mcdonnell douglas f4k back in the day . it was the hangar queen and more bits robbed than you could shake a stick at but got it ready for a “one flight only” back to Leuchars

My house.
Both my biggest spend and most expensive asset.
Previously owned by utter bodgers.
Maybe that doesn’t count as it was working in that it fulfilled the basic function of warmth and shelter.

In 2001 I fixed a Y2k bug on a mission critical computer system – didn’t mention that I’d created it….

Nothing, absolutely nothing – everything I fix ends up in various degrees of “more broken”.

Thats not true actually, I fixed a grands worth of Mondeo by replacing the crank position sensor using only a screwdriver (and the combined power of a AA Man and his no doubt very expensive diagnostic kit).