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When Apollo 11 was returning to Earth, the tracking station at Guam failed. To jury-rig repairs, the station director brought in his 10-year-old son, whose hands were small enough to get inside the faulty machinery and pack it full of grease.
In WWII, when USS New Orleans was hit by a torpedo, losing 150 feet of its bow and sustaining heavy damage, it sailed under its own power to Tulagi harbor at 2 knots (2.3 mph), where the crew jury-rigged a bow out of coconut logs to use until they could reach a dockyard for repairs.
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The phrase Jury-rigged comes from nautical use, when sailors had to set up a "jury rig" or replacement/impromtu mast after irreplaceable damage.
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Jerry rigged is used for poor or haphazard construction. Jury rigged rigged means clever or ingenious construction.
