Oh I do love this as it is something I would do. Though I do try and restrain myself these days.
Expensive mistakes you've made because of stupidity
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Oh I do love this as it is something I would do. Though I do try and restrain myself these days.
I was doing a house a couple of years ago, I'd done the downstairs and I was just doing the bathroom at this time.
I was replacing the floorboards with MR green board, cutting it up with a circular saw. I was too lazy to adjust the blade depth.
Anyway I managed to cut through not one but two water pipes, by the time I'd turned it all off at the stopcock it'd absolutely ruined the kitchen ceiling, which I'd probably finished skimming and painting about two week previous.
That one always sticks in my mind, when you're spending your evenings and weekends doing stuff like that it's like getting a good old beating.
I was replacing the floorboards with MR green board, cutting it up with a circular saw. I was too lazy to adjust the blade depth.
Anyway I managed to cut through not one but two water pipes, by the time I'd turned it all off at the stopcock it'd absolutely ruined the kitchen ceiling, which I'd probably finished skimming and painting about two week previous.
That one always sticks in my mind, when you're spending your evenings and weekends doing stuff like that it's like getting a good old beating.
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I did something similar. Smashed up my first car on the first day I had it, twenty years ago. That was pretty damn stupid. Cost me £800 to repair and it was never the same
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well, more accurately, not selling at the right time, selling immediately would have been loads better!
well, more accurately, not selling at the right time, selling immediately would have been loads better!
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I bought a VPS about 2 years ago at £19.99 a month. I had plans for it which never came to fruition. I am still paying for it now... not sure why. I'll get rid of it some day, probably when I reach the £1k mark. Its too much effort otherwise.
I had a mare putting a new iphone screen on for my mum. I took everything apart unscrewed all the stupidly small and tight screws, disconnected all the ribbon cables, fitted the new screen and put it all back together again as i was putting the screen back into the casing i managed to put a bit too hard at the top and crack the screen worse than it was before i took it apart. I spent hours getting all the fiddly crap out, i felt like someone had died in front of me. Not that expensive, only 20 quid for a new screen, just a real pain in the arse.
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My first car a Peugeot 106 18k on the clock back in 2006 had it for 3 year. Over in that time the coil park went, exhaust pipe fell off on the A27, countless times of tyre punctures (had low profile on), someone nicked my stereo and speakers , again someone hit my nearside door when parked.
, again someone hit my nearside door when parked.
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Managed to blow my PSU up a couple of weeks ago, who knew plugging it into one of those cube plug extension things would blow it up! Lesson learned next time plug it directly into the socket! £100 for a new one which could have gone to better things!!
My first car a Peugeot 106 18k on the clock back in 2006 had it for 3 year. Over in that time the coil park went, exhaust pipe fell off on the A27, countless times of tyre punctures (had low profile on), someone nicked my stereo and speakers
That it? I'd say that's pretty good, 2 real problems in 3 years ownership?
My first car I ended up rebuilding the top end, replacing the carb, replacing the exhaust and manifold, replacing the alternator, doing all sorts of electrical work including a battery replacement, welding up giant rust holes and even at that it barely ran on some days. And the lovely crunch into second got progressively worse until the synchro totally went.
Then again I did sell it a couple of years down for more than I spent on parts and what I paid for it, and I learned a lot about cars.
It was a pretty relaxed ongoing thing and it was a job on the list to get done. It just didn't get done.
Although now I'm in a much better position so doors closing and silver linings an all.
Knocked a cassette of unsawn silicone wafers off the side of a handler whilst working in a fab as an engineering apprentice at Mitel semiconductor. They were for the black box flight recorder of Typhoon...
Tens of thousands of pounds destroyed and umpteen weeks of manufacturing time down the pan.
Tens of thousands of pounds destroyed and umpteen weeks of manufacturing time down the pan.
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Yep, it was so long ago, it was actually a horse-drawn carriage and I damaged it by riding over a pothole in the cobbles
Sadly enough, the car itself only cost me £1700, and it broke me. Maybe buying the car was the stupid thing? My first ever credit card to pay for damage to my first ever car