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Default Toto toilet seat broken hold to toilet

On Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 5:19:00 PM UTC-8, HandyLawyer wrote:
On Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 9:14:25 PM UTC-7, allan wrote:
The one piece slow dropping seat has an integral attachment, this has
a lip molded to it that holds it in place by the bolt. Well the lip
broke off (granddaughter child seat put stress on it, I guess), so now
only one bolt is holding. This looks non repairable to me. Any
thoughts.


Forget all the glue and trying to re-attach weak plastic to the weak plastic seat bracket. Take two, flat washers (metal) that will cover the seat bracket area, keeping the detached plastic rings, if still intact, and re-attach the bolts through the toilet and voila. You now have a much sturdier attachment in place and you don't have to worry about whether glued plastic can hold up.


Me thinks me posted too soon ...

The Cover of the seat does NOT go back far enough, unless the washers are really thin, and perhaps made of a thinner plastic as well. The metal flat washers DO hold the seat down nicely, but with that cover not going back far enough, that poses a new problem. I'm still working on a better solution..