Sometimes I Do Manage To Fix Things

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My wife was looking at my recliner the other day and noticed it was listing to one side. Some time ago, it had stopped being a rocker/recliner and turned itself into just a recliner. I knew something must have broken in the workings underneath but, since it still reclined, hadn't been worried about it. My wife was worried about it. "We should think about getting you a new chair," she told me. "This is my new chair," I replied. "It's not new," she countered. "We've had it for years." She went and looked it up. Yes, she keeps records of that sort of thing. It turns out we've had this chair 8 years. Once upon a time 8 years might not have been old for a chair. In this day of planned obsolescence, 8 years is old for a chair. The thing is I like this chair. It is big and comfortable and has room for Ace to sit in it alongside me. I decided to find out if I could fix it. Fixing the chair involved flipping it over. Have I mentioned it is a big chair? But flipping it over turned out to be a good idea. It only took a moment for me to find the problem. One of the screws on the bar that controls the rocking and reclining had sheered off, causing the spring that allows the chair to rock to let go. After a search of the random selection of nuts and bolts in the garage, I finally decided a heavy duty cotter pin would do until I can find a correctly sized nut and bolt at the hardware store tomorrow. What do you know? It worked. Now I won't have to break in a new chair. Have you ever managed to fix something you thought you had no idea how to fix?