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Default Using JB Weld on a chair?

Greetings and salutations

After a dozen years or so, my desk chair has become hazardous. I
didn't know you could crack an eighth inch steel plate, just by
sitting on it. But - I managed, somehow. This is the plate which
mounts the connector from the stand up to the chair bottom. Mostly it
got the left-right stresses as I shift around reach for stuff, but I
knew there was a problem when I leaned forward, and it "leaned" with
me.

So, JB Weld. Advertised as being "able to fix anything but a
broken heart", how it is for handling the sort of stresses of a
twisting plate?

And how does it handle stress fractures and failure?

tschus
pyotr

It is either JB weld or I find someone with a welding kit. Or go hit
the yard sales, etc.
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Discussing the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol once wrote
"It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged
boys could lose a finger or two playing with."