Shop Class: [1/23]

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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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Re: Assignment: [1/23]

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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."

Re: Assignment: [1/23]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Looks good, Isabel. Good job."