On 27/01/2019 10:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 27/01/2019 09:36, ss wrote:
On 27/01/2019 08:01, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/01/2019 19:36, ss wrote:
Re previous post:
Ok having looked at it more carefully I have managed to seperate the
2 parts (also better images below) It is off a Kirby vacuum shampoo
water tank, it is an on/off `valve`
My thoughts are to insert a couple of pins (dovetail layout) to
support whatever epoxy will stick to the plastic and fill the void
at the bottom left hand image.
There is no reason to have to disassemble this part later on so a
permanent fix I am hoping for.

Any further thoughts welcome?

https://imgur.com/a/IlPyXtY
Ah.

NOW I see what is going on.

Is the shaht solid? If it is here is what I would do.

Remove the other lug.

Fill the entire top of the knob with car body filler.

When set drill through it and into the plastic shaft of the other bit
and put a couple of small self taps in.




No the shaft isnt solid, but I could either fill the shaft with a
dowel of some sort or maybe a resin and then put a self tap in.

Yes. I think the more phislophical mesaning I was trying to convey was:

"Stop trying to put it back like it was, and think instead of what
function it has to fulfil, and what available solutions you have that
would meet that, even though they bear no realationship to the original
design".


Like the time when, faced with a corroded PCB coinnectoor and circuit
boardÂ* in the te freelander passenger lights, and the dealer said 'new
light unit and loom, as that connector is not available on it's
own'....and I thought, said 'sod it',

A 'merkin would have said, "sodder it"

parked by an outside power point,
plugged in me soldering iron,Â* cut the connectror off and soldered the
wires directly to the PCB....