Miscellaneous

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Repairing a plastic part with superglue and baking soda
06 June 2017
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    While using my Zelmer wet-cleaning vacuum cleaner, the brush head began falling off because the mounting part holding it had broken. I decided to rebuild the broken plastic part using superglue and baking soda as a filler. We prepare the part by filing the break and the...
Fitting an on/off switch to a Sigma glue gun
11 April 2017
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   I bought a low-power 10 W hot-glue gun. These do not come with an on/off switch, and buying one with a switch immediately increases the price by a third, even though the switch itself costs very little. So I decided to buy an on/off switch and fit it to this small gun.    We...
A mini thermos made from a plastic bottle
23 August 2016
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Today is a very hot day. I came back from the shop with a bottle of water, and decided to wrap it in a thin layer of polyethylene laminate underlay to keep the water cold for longer in the heat. Fortunately, I had a piece of this underlay left over from a parcel from China. What we will need...