5th October 2019
I tackled the repair to Rob’s lamp.
It was a standing Angle poise design, where the anchor point of the spring has broken, meaning the lamp had no adjustment, it was facing straight up or facing down.
The anchor point was a plastic moulding that held a steel pin that the spring hooked over. The plastic part had cracked and no longer retained the pin.
In the many hours of “down time” I had watched many YouTube video, some of which dealt with the repair and restoration of Matchbox model cars. Yes I agree it is sad, but I learnt many things from that, one I don’t want a house full of restored toys, but the other was the use of superglue and baking powder.
This combination makes a material just like concrete.
So this was the solution I used to repair the plastic part.
It took about five minutes to do, and with a bit of trepidation I stretched the spring over the repaired part and it held.
I dressed the repair with a small file so that it looked good, and patted myself on the back.
I dropped in on Ryan and Louise to deliver the wooden bunting pieces and came away with a broken chair to repair and some empty gin bottles to turn into lamps, so my weekend was set.
Another Lifetime to go 