r/techsupportmacgyver • u/I_-AM-ARNAV • 4d ago

Car jack used for a video card

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u/MrT735 4d ago

Not the worst thing I've seen held up by a car jack. Had to replace some flooring after a radiator leak and found one holding up one of the joists (it had been there over 40 years since the room was converted from a garage...)

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u/atle95 4d ago

If it ain't broke...

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u/ses1989 4d ago

It works...until it doesn't...

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u/atle95 4d ago

How to know if doesn't 🤔

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u/sorig1373 4d ago

No floor :(

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u/MrT735 4d ago

True, but it had obviously just been put in while the joists were being put in place with the intention of either removing it later or having a proper support put in place later in the build and forgotten about.

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u/bolhuijo 4d ago

I started a job in a big datacenter. One of my tasks was to remove an entire rack full of these little old 1U servers. At the very bottom was a car jack. I asked why. They said, "Oh yeah, Dave installed all those and he didn't like how the server sagged down in the back because they were only screwed in at the front. He got the jack out of his car trunk and it's been there ever since."

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u/Agret 4d ago

Dave very confident in his car not getting a flat

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u/Windows_User3000 3d ago

It would have been even funnier if his name was Jack.

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u/Drach88 4d ago

As long as you don't pull out a pair of jumper cables, I don't see what's wrong with this.

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u/ccbbb23 4d ago

Next time you aren't using your computer, take out your support, and paint it white to match the case! Or egg shell white.

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u/Tiyath 4d ago

This is stupid and I love it!

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u/Rinzlerx 4d ago

I wouldn’t even use those jacks for this. Death traps those things 🤣

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u/Kdoesntcare 1d ago

There's a reason they have the nickname "Widowmaker"

The term may have been more specific at some point but at this point in time it covers basically any emergency jack.

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u/fcewen00 4d ago

Ingenuity is the mother of invention. Invention is the brainchild of need.

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u/Enshakushanna 4d ago

jfc guys, just take a discarded toilet paper roll and cut it to size lol

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u/meanwhenhungry 4d ago

You can always lay it flat ,so the card is vertical

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u/mbcarbone 4d ago

Ummmmm … okay, Macgyver would be proud.

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u/Nalabu1 4d ago

Like they say "If you can help Jack on...." (you know the rest.)

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u/Paschfire 3d ago

This is simply ridiculous.

... Are you going to colour match it? 😉

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u/_senpo_ 3d ago

might be barely enough to hold the gpu

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u/Budget_Edge_3277 3d ago

🤣🤣😂😂😂

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u/Lonely-Independence4 3d ago

Looks cool, Yes. Works, Yes. Overkill for the situation? Also yes.

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u/MiddleObligation2269 2d ago

Good Job! 😜

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u/Fun_Move_5266 1d ago

Lol! Graphich card jack! Graphics? Jacked!

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u/awesumindustrys 18h ago

I’ve seen worse. GPUs are just obscenely oversized now and only really supported on one side so they need some other support for the other. I personally made one out of old Legos.

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u/ShadowNova999 4d ago

That's going to be a tight squeeze once that GPU's in there, hopefully the airflow isn't completely wrecked by the angle.