[pure-silver] Re: A Bloody Shame
- From: "Nicholas O. Lindan" <nolindan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:46:44 -0500
From: "Eric Nelson" <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
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You are going to have to 'sister' this.
Cut pieces of reinforcing material, 20 Ga. steel sheet if you have some,
or fibre-glass circuit board material, 18 Ga. aluminum, anything stiff and
strong will work, so that it covers the lower left corner of the door and
the broken bit and extends about two inches around it over the front of the
door.
If you can then an angled bit of good metal that goes around the left and
bottom would be nice, if not then a rectangle for the bottom and one for
the side. If you can, fit a block of wood into the
inside - carve out a space for the broken bit, and attach the front plate
to the wood by drilling through from the front and bolting the bits
together.
Fit the bits, drill holes and use screws where possible to hold things
together. Screw the broken-off bit to the reinforcing bits it you can.
You can get small hi-lo screws for plastic by taking a busted plastic
appliance apart.
Clean off _all_ old glue. Sandpaper the surfaces to the joined, but not the
inside of the break - make sure there is no glue on the break surfaces.
There are two glues that will work: A long-working viscous cyano-acrylate
may be the best and fills in small voids. Hobby/craft/toy train stores
carry it.
WWW is full of suppliers: http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/rgc.htm
Important: You _will_ need an accelerator
http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/rge.htm
because the join won't exclude contact with air. Don't bother with hardware
store CrazyGlue.
_Use_ _clamps_: Sears has a nice set of squeeze clamps for not
that much money. If you don't use clamps the whole thing is going to
come apart again soon, so don't bother fixing it. You will find it easier
to glue
each reinforcement on separately, wait till the glue holding the pervious
one sets. When attaching the screw together bits apply glue first and then
scriv the thing tight. When clamped and screwed _then_ apply the
accelerator
to the places where the glue is oozing - it's a catylist, you only need to
get
the hardening reaction started and it spreads on its own.
The other thing to consider is cutting away the lower left corner of the
door and substituting a hardwood (maple, hickory, ash, _not_ poplar) glue
up/carving.
It's like the dentist, the first step in fixing a hole in your tooth is
drilling a hole in your tooth.
--
Nicholas O. Lindan
Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
Cleveland, Ohio 44121
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