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>They’re ok when they work but when they don’t they can burn your house to the ground or empty your entire NAS to a random IP in China.
I have never come across the term 'shed' in this context, either in urban slang or formal speak, please can you provide a valid source and/or clarify the origin of this term?
I’ve heard it used in London and Nottingham regularly.
I always thought shed came from them being the sort of rust bucket normally found abandoned in a shed. Barely running, owned by someone who can barely fix or fuel it. So it would be somewhere to sit parked - and listen to the crappy stereo at max distortion - with bits falling or rusting off it in time to the bass. Least that's how we used it oop north in the 80s. The car equivalent of a rat bike. Both sewn together corpses, and animal corpses hiding in dark corners...
Pistonhead's Shed of the Week[1] is far too upmarket to be a proper shed - they all work. :)
I think that's where shed started. A lot of people got lucky / rich and actually finished their car project. I had a proper shed which was a series III land rover with an engine in pieces in the back rather than the front. When I lived in Nottingham there were a lot of proper sheds!
Those "sheds" on pistonheads are ridiculously too good to be called a shed.
How are you gonna do that? Run a stress test on it for two years? If it's working now doesn't mean cheap caps won't blow the night after.