Quote Originally Posted by Colonel Enfield View Post
some 2x4 and No. 8 fencing wire" (ie whatever was lying around at the time)
We refer to this as the "bubble gum and bailing wire" (or clothes hanger) approach. I remember my grandmother using this technique (showed to her by her father) on a 1952 Oldsmobile that had a pin-hole leak in the gas tank. She took chewing gum and mashed it into the hole. Lo and behold dried and sealed the tank for a couple of years until she sold the car.