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Shop Class: [1/23]

As the students enter the shop class they'll find that the room has been turned into what appears to be a ghost town.

With multiple versions of Mac's beat up jeep.

"Today kids? We're going to be doing the MacGyver version of car repair."

Today's Assignment:

"Each of these jeeps have the exact same problems. Your job is just to fix *one* of those problems on the car. Unless you're an overachiever who feels the need to get extra credit."

"The situation is that you have been on a camping trip to this ghost town and you just found out that your jeep has one of the following problems:"

1. Cut brake line
2. Blown fuse
3. Crack the in the radiator
4. You lost the keys to the jeep
ETA: You can get into the jeep because there's no top to it. You just can't start it.

Mac points out each of the problems and where they are located for the car engine impaired.

"The list of items you have with you?"
A pack of gum
A ball point pen
A cooler full of food for breakfast, including eggs, bacon, OJ and bread.
Swiss Army Knife
Duct Tape (Duct Tape alone will not be accepted as a solution)

"I know some of you may not have any experience in car repair, so if you want to buddy up with a partner."

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Sam grinned. This was definitely her kind of assignment.

Working quickly, she unscrewed the pen and took out the refill. She then took the pen casing and inserted it inside of each end of the cut brake line, then smushed the ends of the brake line together and used the duct tape to create a solid seal.

Next, she popped the gum into her mouth and began chewing on it. Once it had reached the desired softness, she bent over the radiator and used it to seal the crack, once again sealing it over with duct tape.

Finally, she stripped the ignition wires under the dash with the swiss army knife and twisted them together, again using duct tape to keep the connection solid.

"You frighten me Carter," Mac says adding another A+ and extra credit beside her name in the grade book.

"What? My first car was a clunker."

"And you were constantly losing the keys, right?"

"Oh, yeah. All the time. Really."

John looks at the array of supplies. And, since he's kinda hungry, he eats some of the bacon and eggs. Because, yum.

Then, he actually sets out to do the work. Taking the Swiss Army Knife, he proceeds to grasp the brake line and cut one end into a smaller line so he can shove that end up into the regular sized brake line.

He eats some more eggs.

He opens a pack of gum, chews a piece and then uses that to make the two brake lines a sticky seal. Then he ducts tapes the two lines together to provide even more strength against breaking. To test the flow, he takes one end of the OJ and pours it through the newly constructed line to see if everything flows.

And now, he just hope the repaired brake line works.

"Nice Job, Crichton. Make sure you eat some carbs to go along with all the protein."

"Will do, sir." John winces a bit. "Huh. Maybe I should've paid closer attention to what I ate."

Mac pulls out a box of Altoids and offers him a mint. "Bite down on the mint. Oil of peppermint is a natural way to calm the stomach."

Izzie stares at the battered old jeep for a few minutes, trying to remember what her uncle had tried to teach her about cars. She figures she might as well start at the top of the list.

Locating the severed brake line, Izzie carefully wrapped a piece of uncooked, rather stale bacon around the two pieces of tubing. She figured the bacon would absorb any brake fluid that leaked as she couldn't fit the two peices of tubing back together perfectly. Popping some gum in her mouth she chewed quickly, then divided the gum into two pieces to wrap around the bacon creating a seal. She then proceeded to wrap the entire thing in duct tape.

Not quite sure how she is planning on fixing the blown fuse, Izzie climbs into the jeep and finds the fuse box just to the left of the steering wheel. The blown fuse is clearly visible, with its melted center strip, and Izzie pops it out with the Swiss Army Knife. Hating to leave the project unfinished she frowns.

After several minutes, Izzie climbs back out of the jeep and wrestles with the hood, deciding it would be better to move on with her work. Finding the cracked radiator, Izzie decides to use the gum again to create a seal. She knows she needs something to protect the seal from all the heat under the hood. So she cracks the eggs from the cooler, and carefully positions the eggshells in double layers over the gum. She covers the whole mess with duct tape. Three layers of duct tape to be exact.

Izzie decides that she has no idea how to solve the problem of the lost keys, but she watches Sam strip the wires and duct tape them together. Not knowing enough about cars, Izzie decides not to try something quite so complicated looking. She'll have to ask Sam to show her how to do that sometime though.

Raising her hand, she says, "Hey, Mac? I'm done."

"Looks good, Isabel. Good job."

Nadia looked over the car and the supplies and settled back to think for a few minutes. She'd done a few car jobs with Cesar in Buenos Aires, and Mac's jeep would have been gone in 30 seconds there, broken bits and all.

She took a look at the radiator. She examined the fuse. She crawled under the jeep and ~~looked up how brake systems work on google~~ followed the brake line to see where the cut was and where the cylinders were. She nodded to herself, crawled back out, and got to work.

She took the ball point pen apart until she had just the outer tube. She glared at the duct tape, then gave in and used it and the pen to complete the brake line. She used a slice of bread as a filter and added the OJ to replace the lost brake fluid. She looked the whole system over again, then climbed into the cab and gently tapped the breaks to test them.

There was a soft *splooshing* sound as the duct tape came loose and the OJ came spilling out of the brake system. Nadia scowled. She hated duct tape.

She examined the system again, and the puddle of dirty OJ on the ground.

She looked at the radiator. She examined the blown fuse.

Then she grabbed the Swiss Army knife, climbed into the cab, hot-wired the car, and ate breakfast.

Sometimes you just had to go with your strengths.

"Looks good Nadia."

Nadia just gives Mac a thumbs up, as her mouth is full of bread and OJ. She's considering trying to build a contraption to cook the eggs and bacon, but it just doesn't seem worth it.

[OOC: I'm going to have to start serving breakfast at Shop from now on. Everyone seems to be hungry..."]

[ooc: they're students living in dorms. simple equation: if food, then eat. Doesn't matter if they're actually hungry or not....]

Lilly pops the gum in her mouth, and gets into the driver's seat. She grabs the Swiss Army Knife, and seems to pry something lose near the steering column. Bending out a view for a few seconds, the engine roars to life.

Popping back up, she blows a big bubble, with a smile on her face.

"What? I did sleep with a guy in a motorcycle gang. I picked up a few things!"

"Uh... Good to know," Mac said.

Xander? Was not an overachiever. And he'd also been watching ~~illegally~~ downloaded episode of Legendbreakers all day yesterday. He checked through the breakfast supplies, saw that, as he'd hoped, some of the eggs were fresh and uncooked, and cracked several open, dumping them into the overheated radiator. The eggs hissed and sizzled on the hot metal, and bubbled down into the crack. Filling it with water, Xander looked for leaks on the ground under the car and was pleased to note that ~~Adam~~ Moses and ~~Jamie~~ Hamish hadn't been lying to him; it really did work.

Not that he'd try to drive to Toledo without getting it repaired by professionals...

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{ooc - *cough* Deletes and chooses a fake name for Jamie that is not in fact Mac's real name...}

"Good Job, Xander," ~~Angus~~ MacGyver said looking at the radiator fix ~~and giving him an A for fixing the issue the MacGyver/Mythbuster way.~~

Duo comes into Shop, still sporting the sling on his right arm. He surveys the assignment and is glad wires and fuses are pretty much the same on cars as they are on Mobile Suits. It'll sure make completing the assignment with only one good arm easier.

For the blown fuse, he stoops under the dashboard and finds the faulty fuse to be in that fuse box, not the one in the engine compartment. He uses the knife on the Swiss Army Knife to pop out the faulty fuse. Instead of trying to fix the broken one and lacking a new one to replace it with, he locates the fuse that handles the radio. Figuring he could sacrifce some tunes for a while before getting to a real repair shop, he replaces the original fuse with that one.

The gum makes a nice seal on the radiator, he thinks, but to be on the safe side, he adds some duct tape on top for extra support, tearing it with his teeth.

Next, he detaches the starter motor wire from the ignition wire and touches it to a powered wire on the other side of the ignition switch, momentarily completing the starter motor circuit, so that the starter motor turns over the engine.

He reads the last assignment, about the brake line, and grins.

"Ah, well," Duo says with a laugh. "Stopping's overrated."

Having no experience with cars, Stark stared at the jeep for a long time before getting started. Chewing thoughtfully on a slice of bread from the cooler, he looks at what he has for supplies. The food doesn't seem useful, but he's not one to ever turn down food so he continues eating the bread.

After a while, he decides to attempt to patch the brake line. Muttering to himself, like he tends to do, he starts to cut the pen casing to a smaller size. The rest of the line looked like it needed to be flexible, so he thought putting the entire pen casing in might cause problems. Unfortunately, he neglected to dismantle the pen first and ends up with ink all over his hands.

Grumbling, and having run out of bread to eat, he chews some of the gum and sticks it around the middle of the pen casing. It needs to stay in place inside the brake line, after all. Then he attaches the two cut ends of the line to the gum, lining them up as best he can manage. And then duct tape around the outside, because duct tape is the solution to all problems in the multiverse.

Having finished that, he climbed inside the jeep and spent the rest of the class trying, and failing, to make the vehicle start without keys.

*DEATH closely examines the crack in the radiator and then looks at his supplies. He then removes a stick of gum and begins chewing. However, lacking any salivary glands, his masticatory efforts yeild only dry, crumbled bits. He raises his hand.*

Mac smiles and produces a peice of ABC (already been chewed) gum and offered it to DEATH.

Ivanova looked at the car. Then looked at the materials.

Then looked like she was going to cry.

Where was Lennier when you needed him?

Kawalsky decided to go with the easiest one since he was still half-asleep. He chewed the gum and used it to seal the crack in the radiator. He duct taped it for good measure.

...

Question: is the car locked?

No. It's a jeep with no top, so you can crawl in.

Other question: Are the eggs cooked?

*read the Mythbusters book wayyyy too recently*

Well Crichton just ate some of the eggs. But I'm fine with some of them being uncooked.

*stares at Crichton as he gets salmonella*

Hahahaha. I didn't even think of that. Hey, I was too busy doing some car repair.

*STARES LIEK WHOA*

*fashions stomach pump using the fixed brake line, a plastic bag and an old shoelace*

Nadia:

I adore your ongoing duct tape issues. Seriously.

Sam

Agreed - Nadia for the win!

Imagine a world without duct tape. . . .

Wait, Xander already did.

I gave blood about half an hour and am extremely woozy - if I say something stupid, let me know and I will un-stupidify it.

I redid my dorm room in total MacGyver style. My dresser has been duct taped together, and my curtains are constructed out of a sheet, purloined shower curtain rings, and a purloined broomstick. Don't even get me started on how I made a set of bookshelves from a few trashbins, a chair, and three rubberboots.

I just felt like sharing

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