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The Sweet Smell of Melting Plastic (Metal Content, a Screw.)
I had an extremely rare experience today; I thought of an easier way to do something *before* I did it the hard way, rather than after. When I took a jar from a kitchen cabinet today a small plastic piece fell out onto the counter. I recognized it as one of those push in shelf supports, sheared off from its mounting peg, which was undoubtedly still pressed into a hole somewhere. A little searching located where it had come from, the front center of a heavily loaded shelf, with the "peg plugged" hole located in the center of a stile between two doors. I had a few shelf supports squirrled away from when we installed the cabinets so I headed downstairs for a cordless drill, right angle attachment and drills. What a pain it was gonna be to empty out enough cans and jars to gain working room, Plus maybe I'd screw up drilling in such an awkward location and pierce through the stile leaving a mark I'd never cease to notice. And I'd have to clean out the plastic swarf afterwards and replace all the removed groceries. All that for just a lousy plastic shelf support. Just as I was reaching for the drill a light bulb lit over my head and I returned instead to the kitchen with my propane torch, a pair of pliers and a one inch long #4 self threading screw. You can guess the rest I'm sure, but in case you can't.... I just raised the sagged shelf up a bit on some stacked cans, held the screw in the pliers, heated the tip red hot with the torch and melted it into that busted off plastic peg. I waited a couple of minutes, grabbed the screw with the pliers and pulled the peg out quicker than you can say Jill Robinson. Oh yeah, I'd borrowed a mirror out of wifey's purse to let me see where to stick that hot screw in. File the idea away, it could make you look like a genius in front of SWMBO some day. G Happy Holidays, Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) "Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented." |
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The Sweet Smell of Melting Plastic (Metal Content, a Screw.)
"Jeff Wisnia" wrote: (clip) heated the tip red hot with the torch and melted it into that busted off plastic peg.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Neat. From your idea, I came up with two other possibilities: hot glue or C/A glue. |
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The Sweet Smell of Melting Plastic (Metal Content, a Screw.)
I wonder if you could have just stuck a push pin into it and pulled it out?
Anyway, it's fun to use the head for more than a hat rack .. GWE Jeff Wisnia wrote: I had an extremely rare experience today; I thought of an easier way to do something *before* I did it the hard way, rather than after. When I took a jar from a kitchen cabinet today a small plastic piece fell out onto the counter. I recognized it as one of those push in shelf supports, sheared off from its mounting peg, which was undoubtedly still pressed into a hole somewhere. A little searching located where it had come from, the front center of a heavily loaded shelf, with the "peg plugged" hole located in the center of a stile between two doors. I had a few shelf supports squirrled away from when we installed the cabinets so I headed downstairs for a cordless drill, right angle attachment and drills. What a pain it was gonna be to empty out enough cans and jars to gain working room, Plus maybe I'd screw up drilling in such an awkward location and pierce through the stile leaving a mark I'd never cease to notice. And I'd have to clean out the plastic swarf afterwards and replace all the removed groceries. All that for just a lousy plastic shelf support. Just as I was reaching for the drill a light bulb lit over my head and I returned instead to the kitchen with my propane torch, a pair of pliers and a one inch long #4 self threading screw. You can guess the rest I'm sure, but in case you can't.... I just raised the sagged shelf up a bit on some stacked cans, held the screw in the pliers, heated the tip red hot with the torch and melted it into that busted off plastic peg. I waited a couple of minutes, grabbed the screw with the pliers and pulled the peg out quicker than you can say Jill Robinson. Oh yeah, I'd borrowed a mirror out of wifey's purse to let me see where to stick that hot screw in. File the idea away, it could make you look like a genius in front of SWMBO some day. G Happy Holidays, Jeff |
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The Sweet Smell of Melting Plastic (Metal Content, a Screw.)
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:03:45 -0500, Jeff Wisnia
wrote: I had an extremely rare experience today; I thought of an easier way to do something *before* I did it the hard way, rather than after. I just raised the sagged shelf up a bit on some stacked cans, held the screw in the pliers, heated the tip red hot with the torch and melted it into that busted off plastic peg. I waited a couple of minutes, grabbed the screw with the pliers and pulled the peg out quicker than you can say Jill Robinson. Oh yeah, I'd borrowed a mirror out of wifey's purse to let me see where to stick that hot screw in. File the idea away, it could make you look like a genius in front of SWMBO some day. G Happy Holidays, Jeff Congratulations on having retained the capability to think. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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