Patrick R. Andrews

I needed to place a nut halfway along a threaded bar (many times).

Ford clearly used their B team to design the bonnet catch on our Transit van.

Spanish plumbing doesn’t generally impress me.

A fellow motorcyclist got in touch to say that he had dropped his precious machine in a car park and to ask if I could do a cosmetic repair.

Two rooms in a house I own were built on a pad of clay.

I had to improvise a french drain, in order to arrest a landslip.

I had to drill some holes through a wall.

Despite the terrible printed instructions, I managed to fit a replacement lock barrel to my BMW topbox and code it to my ignition key.

I made a frame for the inside of our van to hold the two ‘shoes’ which accommodate the bikes’ front tyres.

An attempt to shorten a motorcycle sidestand, to correspond with the lowered suspension on that machine.