Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.


--
AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.


Buy bowls that are not clear plastic.

I have a blender that is glass bodied and needs no rotating, I don't
have a mixer, but if I did it would be stainless steel bowled.

Don't try and contravene nature.I bought 'the Ex' a Miehle ashing
machine on the principle even she couldn't break it.

Buy decent stuff- styrene crap is for the Sharons.




--
€œIdeas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of
other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"

- John K Galbraith

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

4) Replace wife.

--
Max Demian

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:15:59 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs

Stick em back on. This

"UHU Model-Making Glue Allplast" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000KTBLOA/

works for me, on many plastics. It's a diffusion weld glue aka solvent weld
glue, i.e. dissolves the plastic parts at the join, they mix, and the solvent
evaporates, the parts are now welded together. (The above leaves behind some
gummy bit that holds the solvent in place for longer, AFAIK).

The chance of making lasting repair is about 90%, IME -- let the join dry for 24
hours, though.




Thomas Prufer

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....

Thank you for that.

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Nick

Its not just kitchen appliances. my Bosch vacuums lugs that old the filter
pads on the back snapped. Who thought that hard plastic should be used as a
spring? so it now has two self tapping screws in the back instead.

My Shavers heads are held in or were by a push fit little double lug made
of plastic. This had one half break off on reassembly, plastic again. Had to
resort to just packing it out instead.
Garden lights where the globe bits push and twist on, the plastic goes
brittle in two years of uv and frost and breaks up.
As to what to do about food mixer bowl holders based on this principle.
Depending on the design, some can be fixed by merely gluing a few bits of
metal to the bottom and using those under the edge twist on flange. If its
the base that breaks then its a bit more of a problem in my experience since
there seems to be nowhere solid enough to mount anything, most ladies do not
like the look of such repairs as above and buy a new one.
I agree its a stupid way to design things, but its gone on for years.
Remember cassette recorders with lids that flew off on eject or Videos and
tellies where the station preset doors catch always broke. What about the
hinges on battery compartment doors on radios that broke or the catch
stopped catching. Plastic brittleness again.
Then there is that stupid rubbery material put onto hand grips of things
that goes so sticky it is unusable. Cameras binoculars and hand tools are
prone to that one.

Bah humbug.
Brian

--
--
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Blind user, so no pictures please
Note this Signature is meaningless.!
"AnthonyL" wrote in message
...
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.


--
AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?

There are despite the unlikelyness of it, some people whom by merely being
in close proximity to devices, cause them to fail. I really do not know what
it is, whether its some kind of invisible disruptive field or what, but I
believe it exists.
I remember when I worked testing pcbs for tvs back in the 1960s, I could
go many months with no faults to the test gears cable looms and plugs. I go
on my holidays and the person doing my job would say, I don't know how you
cope, it kept on breaking down and I had to get the engineers in.
Brian

--
--
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Blind user, so no pictures please
Note this Signature is meaningless.!
"Max Demian" wrote in message
...
On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

4) Replace wife.

--
Max Demian

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.


There are a couple of Kenwood machines (not Chef) in the pantry. I
vaguely recall a Magimix but that's gone.

She wants something small just for chopping.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....


There is no way the lugs can break in rotation unless being totally
forced, and strongly, the wrong way. But if the bowl is tilted in the
process that would do it and is what I suspect happens.


--
AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?

On 13/10/2020 12:51, AnthonyL wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.


There are a couple of Kenwood machines (not Chef) in the pantry. I
vaguely recall a Magimix but that's gone.

She wants something small just for chopping.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....


There is no way the lugs can break in rotation unless being totally
forced, and strongly, the wrong way. But if the bowl is tilted in the
process that would do it and is what I suspect happens.



Buy a Magimix Mini Chopper. That's £50, but it's cheap compared to a
divorce.

On 13/10/2020 07:36, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Its not just kitchen appliances. my Bosch vacuums lugs that old the filter
pads on the back snapped. Who thought that hard plastic should be used as a
spring? so it now has two self tapping screws in the back instead.

My Shavers heads are held in or were by a push fit little double lug made
of plastic. This had one half break off on reassembly, plastic again. Had to
resort to just packing it out instead.
Garden lights where the globe bits push and twist on, the plastic goes
brittle in two years of uv and frost and breaks up.
As to what to do about food mixer bowl holders based on this principle.
Depending on the design, some can be fixed by merely gluing a few bits of
metal to the bottom and using those under the edge twist on flange. If its
the base that breaks then its a bit more of a problem in my experience since
there seems to be nowhere solid enough to mount anything, most ladies do not
like the look of such repairs as above and buy a new one.
I agree its a stupid way to design things, but its gone on for years.
Remember cassette recorders with lids that flew off on eject or Videos and
tellies where the station preset doors catch always broke. What about the
hinges on battery compartment doors on radios that broke or the catch
stopped catching. Plastic brittleness again.
Then there is that stupid rubbery material put onto hand grips of things
that goes so sticky it is unusable. Cameras binoculars and hand tools are
prone to that one.

But plastic lasts forever!

I bought a steamer from Argos and after a few years the plug
disintegrated. Then the steamer bowls started to crack up. Finally the
lid cracked to pieces. That was after about ten years, but why wait so long?

--
Max Demian

On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....

Thank you for that.

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Nick

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:01:05 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....

Thank you for that.

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Nick

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Grin

Or an aviation headset, maybe?

These are flat, Panasonic on-ear types. If she wakes in the night she
listens to the radio and they allow her to turn over on her pillow...

....until turning, she drags the radio(1) off the bedside table the
force of gravity on same dragging off the headphones.

Nick
(1) I have three, nice, Sony radios waiting for me to get around to
repairing the antenna coils.

On 17/10/2020 00:01, wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Where will you get a crystal set to use them with?

--
Max Demian

On 13/10/2020 07:41, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
There are despite the unlikelyness of it, some people whom by merely being
in close proximity to devices, cause them to fail.

Women seem to be particularly good at destroying things that
should last longer.

On 17/10/2020 00:01, wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....

Thank you for that.

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Nick

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.


Ditto Kenwood mixers. Get an older one and it will be built
like a tank.

On 13/10/2020 12:51, AnthonyL wrote:
She wants something small just for chopping.

Board and a decent knife ?

The "repair shop" refurbed an ex German WW2 Pair of ?Zeiss
binoculars that had been 'expropriated' by a UK navy
captain when the sub was intercepted in 1945.
No gooey rubber, just three layers of paint,
Original Green, then battleship grey that the Navy
commander repainted it in, and then black that his
son painted it in again.
Considering the hostile salty environment and 70
years later, I was quite surprised that it came apart
at all.

Andrew

On 13/10/2020 07:36, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Cameras binoculars and hand tools are
prone to that one.

@Unfortunately they sthing that a "wiggle" is what is needed to assemble
and disassemble - as they have no empathy with the design. I whince
whenever I see my wife plugging in her phone for a charge. The concept of
looking at the plug to see which way up it should go is too much trouble -
prefers a bit of force - if that fails then reverse it.

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 12:59:12 +0100, Andrew
wrote:

The "repair shop" refurbed an ex German WW2 Pair of ?Zeiss
binoculars that had been 'expropriated' by a UK navy
captain when the sub was intercepted in 1945.

I bet they could fix the plastics lugs. Wouldn't make for a
heart-tugging story though.

--
AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:35:44 -0300, Nick Odell
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:07:44 +0100, Max Demian
wrote:

On 17/10/2020 00:01, wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is
repetitive headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Where will you get a crystal set to use them with?

I reckon I could probably McGuyver one with what I have around me if
ICBA.

There's a bit of quartz in a tin of old stones collected from the beach;
aluminium baking foil and some glass photographic slides; lots of odd
bits of wire I could un-strand and coil around a nail and a loooong run
of cable already going to the roof.

Mind you, my first crystal set had the luxury of a germanium diode so I
have never actually faffed around with a cat's whisker.

Nick
Nick

Think you might be betterer with Galena rather than quartz

Avpx
(the other other one)

--
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear
that only the other one snores.
(The Fifth Elephant)
16:40:01 up 11 days, 21:08, 11 users, load average: 6.93, 6.94, 7.05

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:07:44 +0100, Max Demian
wrote:

On 17/10/2020 00:01, wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Where will you get a crystal set to use them with?

I reckon I could probably McGuyver one with what I have around me if
ICBA.

There's a bit of quartz in a tin of old stones collected from the
beach; aluminium baking foil and some glass photographic slides; lots
of odd bits of wire I could un-strand and coil around a nail and a
loooong run of cable already going to the roof.

Mind you, my first crystal set had the luxury of a germanium diode so
I have never actually faffed around with a cat's whisker.

Nick

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:44:08 -0000 (UTC), The Nomad
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:35:44 -0300, Nick Odell
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:07:44 +0100, Max Demian
wrote:

On 17/10/2020 00:01, wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is
repetitive headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Where will you get a crystal set to use them with?

I reckon I could probably McGuyver one with what I have around me if
ICBA.

There's a bit of quartz in a tin of old stones collected from the beach;
aluminium baking foil and some glass photographic slides; lots of odd
bits of wire I could un-strand and coil around a nail and a loooong run
of cable already going to the roof.

Mind you, my first crystal set had the luxury of a germanium diode so I
have never actually faffed around with a cat's whisker.

Nick
Nick

Think you might be betterer with Galena rather than quartz

Yebbut, McGuyver never had the luxury of picking what articles he had
to hand as the water was rising in the cave, etc.(1) And all I have
right now is quartz.(2)

Nick
(1)Though I suspect the scriptwriters probably weighed the objects in
his favour.
(2)Not to worry: I can mix in a little CGI and nobody will know the
difference.

On 17 Oct 2020 at 02:19:05 BST, "Nick Odell"
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:01:05 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....

Thank you for that.

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Nick

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Grin

Or an aviation headset, maybe?

These are flat, Panasonic on-ear types. If she wakes in the night she
listens to the radio and they allow her to turn over on her pillow...

...until turning, she drags the radio(1) off the bedside table the
force of gravity on same dragging off the headphones.

Nick
(1) I have three, nice, Sony radios waiting for me to get around to
repairing the antenna coils.

Would Bluetooth headphones be better? Though possibly complex if the radios
don't have Bluetooth.

--
Roger Hayter

On 18 Oct 2020 08:23:44 GMT, Tim Streater
wrote:

On 17 Oct 2020 at 02:19:05 BST, Nick Odell
wrote:
These are flat, Panasonic on-ear types. If she wakes in the night she
listens to the radio and they allow her to turn over on her pillow...

...until turning, she drags the radio(1) off the bedside table the
force of gravity on same dragging off the headphones.

You need to have that trigger a loud recording of lots of china falling off
shelves and smashing - say 30 secs' worth.

grin That would only work if she were wearing her - rather powerful
- hearing aids at the time. Otherwise the only one who would be scared
out of their wits would be me!

Nick

On 18 Oct 2020 08:13:59 GMT, Roger Hayter wrote:

On 17 Oct 2020 at 02:19:05 BST, "Nick Odell"
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:01:05 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:35:33 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has three lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body. Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts. Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

and/or anything else that might work.




Buy Kenwood Chef or Magimix.

Incidentally, I like the wife I have. You probably likewise. Do all
wives have a tendency to force mechanical bits and break them? Small
price to pay for the love, companionship, and ....

Thank you for that.

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Nick

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Grin

Or an aviation headset, maybe?

These are flat, Panasonic on-ear types. If she wakes in the night she
listens to the radio and they allow her to turn over on her pillow...

...until turning, she drags the radio(1) off the bedside table the
force of gravity on same dragging off the headphones.

Nick
(1) I have three, nice, Sony radios waiting for me to get around to
repairing the antenna coils.

Would Bluetooth headphones be better? Though possibly complex if the radios
don't have Bluetooth.

That is an interesting idea: thanks! Her favouite station is available
over her smartphone so that ought to work. For reasons that will
become obvious when I reply to Tim, below, she uses flat, on-ear types
like the Panasonic Rp-hs46e-k so I will hunt around and see if I can
find something similar with bluetooth.

Nick

On 19 Oct 2020 16:40:58 GMT, Tim Streater
wrote:

On 19 Oct 2020 at 17:07:01 BST, Nick Odell
wrote:

On 18 Oct 2020 08:23:44 GMT, Tim Streater
wrote:

On 17 Oct 2020 at 02:19:05 BST, Nick Odell
wrote:
These are flat, Panasonic on-ear types. If she wakes in the night she
listens to the radio and they allow her to turn over on her pillow...

...until turning, she drags the radio(1) off the bedside table the
force of gravity on same dragging off the headphones.

You need to have that trigger a loud recording of lots of china falling off
shelves and smashing - say 30 secs' worth.

grin That would only work if she were wearing her - rather powerful
- hearing aids at the time. Otherwise the only one who would be scared
out of their wits would be me!

OK - replace "audio" with "video" throughout. Could be quite entertaining -
include shots of yourself doing slow-motion leaps to rescue her favourite mug
before it's dashed to atoms on your exquisitely tiled floor, whilst all
around, Ming vases explode into powder.

:-)

N.

On 12/10/2020 11:08, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has threeÂ* lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body.Â* Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts.Â* Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

4) Replace wife.


Actually it should be

4) Replace wife for younger model with bigger tits.

--
Adam

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:06:41 +0100, ARW wrote:

On 12/10/2020 11:08, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/10/2020 09:15, AnthonyL wrote:
Typically for small mixers and choppers the "bowl", usually clear
plastic, has threeÂ* lugs which are rotated into plastic/rubber
recesses on the body.Â* Obviously the fit has to be tight enough to
stop what ever is being mixed/chopped from escaping.

My wife seems to break these lugs with regularity and then goes out
and buys another machine or replacement parts.Â* Either way it's
costly.

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs
2) Lubricating the assembly
3) Techniques for smooth removal

4) Replace wife.


Actually it should be

4) Replace wife for younger model with bigger tits.

He already said buying another machine or replacement parts was costly?

So 4) sounds a bit like getting out of a hole by digging...


Thomas Prufer

On Saturday, 17 October 2020 11:07:52 UTC+1, Max Demian wrote:
On 17/10/2020 00:01, tabbypurr wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Where will you get a crystal set to use them with?

I don't ever plan to make a crystal set, simple as they are. They're crap.
Nor will I use them on an old valve set, they're high Z & have exposed terminals sticking out.
Nor do I plan to use them with a modern radio, they're marishly uncomfortable.
The wire is exposed & uncordgripped, so not entirely robust either. But after trying them once she'll never use them again, unless she's super-weird.


NT

On 27/10/2020 01:03, wrote:
On Saturday, 17 October 2020 11:07:52 UTC+1, Max Demian wrote:
On 17/10/2020 00:01, tabbypurr wrote:
On Monday, 12 October 2020 16:21:50 UTC+1, Nick Odell wrote:

Last night EQDSO broke yet another set of earphones and today I will
mostly be putting them back together again. (I keep a small stock of
replacement bits for this purpose.) But you helped me put it into
perspective. If the worst thing I have to complain about is repetitive
headphone destruction then I am a pretty lucky chap.

Get some 1920s headphones and no-one'll ever break them again.

Where will you get a crystal set to use them with?

I don't ever plan to make a crystal set, simple as they are. They're crap.
Nor will I use them on an old valve set, they're high Z & have exposed terminals sticking out.
Nor do I plan to use them with a modern radio, they're marishly uncomfortable.
The wire is exposed & uncordgripped, so not entirely robust either. But after trying them once she'll never use them again, unless she's super-weird.

I assume that 1920s headphones would be high impedance to work with a
valve radio. I think low impedance outputs only came in with moving coil
speakers.

--
Max Demian

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:28:13 +0200, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:15:59 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

Any suggestions including:

1) Rebuilding snapped off lugs

Stick em back on. This

"UHU Model-Making Glue Allplast" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000KTBLOA/

works for me, on many plastics. It's a diffusion weld glue aka solvent weld
glue, i.e. dissolves the plastic parts at the join, they mix, and the solvent
evaporates, the parts are now welded together. (The above leaves behind some
gummy bit that holds the solvent in place for longer, AFAIK).

The chance of making lasting repair is about 90%, IME -- let the join dry for 24
hours, though.



This looks very powerful stuff. The utensil bowl is a clear hard
plastic, looks and feels very similar to glass (polycarbonate? I don't
know much about plastics). My wife has found the piece that is
broken.

But -- a replacement bowl is £5. That glue is expensive. I have at
hand:

Gorilla Contact Adhesive
Wickes Extra Strong Multi-purpose Adhesive
Loctite Super Glue
and somewhere I think a bit of old epoxy (in the twin tube dispensers)

Any opinions. (She's on a third replacement)

--
AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:34:57 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

This looks very powerful stuff. The utensil bowl is a clear hard
plastic, looks and feels very similar to glass (polycarbonate? I don't
know much about plastics). My wife has found the piece that is
broken.

Google for "plastic burn test" for a quick and easy identification.


But -- a replacement bowl is £5. That glue is expensive.

Buy it cheaper! :-) 3.21‚¬ a tube here (but in Treznal).

I have at
hand:

Gorilla Contact Adhesive
Wickes Extra Strong Multi-purpose Adhesive
Loctite Super Glue
and somewhere I think a bit of old epoxy (in the twin tube dispensers)

Any opinions. (She's on a third replacement)

There may be a way to glue it using just solvent. This may be acetone (but
possibly methylene chloride), check which plastic it is. Clean both edges with a
quick wipe of the solvent, join edges, seep solvent into the crack, let sit
motionless and fixed for 24 h.

Other than that, I'd probably try the Loctite Super glue, and give it plenty of
time to set, fix the edges (tape?) etc.


Thomas Prufer

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:20:56 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:34:57 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

This looks very powerful stuff. The utensil bowl is a clear hard
plastic, looks and feels very similar to glass (polycarbonate? I don't
know much about plastics). My wife has found the piece that is
broken.

Google for "plastic burn test" for a quick and easy identification.


mmm - ruin a possibly repairable item?


But -- a replacement bowl is £5. That glue is expensive.

Buy it cheaper! :-) 3.21‚¬ a tube here (but in Treznal).


What/where is Treznal? Google isn't much help.

I have at
hand:

Gorilla Contact Adhesive
Wickes Extra Strong Multi-purpose Adhesive
Loctite Super Glue
and somewhere I think a bit of old epoxy (in the twin tube dispensers)

Any opinions. (She's on a third replacement)

There may be a way to glue it using just solvent. This may be acetone (but
possibly methylene chloride), check which plastic it is. Clean both edges with a
quick wipe of the solvent, join edges, seep solvent into the crack, let sit
motionless and fixed for 24 h.


I recently bought some

https://www.halfords.com/motoring/pa...ml-248893.html

which I was told is primarily Acetone.

What's the worst than can happen?

Other than that, I'd probably try the Loctite Super glue, and give it plenty of
time to set, fix the edges (tape?) etc.


Yes it's in a position that a clothes peg will hold it nicely.

--
AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:17:21 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:20:56 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:
Google for "plastic burn test" for a quick and easy identification.

mmm - ruin a possibly repairable item?

Take a shaving with a scalpel or razor blade, and test that. Or if you want just
the smell test, touch a hot pin to some inconspicuous part.


Buy it cheaper! :-) 3.21‚¬ a tube here (but in Treznal).

What/where is Treznal? Google isn't much help.

Germany

I recently bought some

https://www.halfords.com/motoring/pa...ml-248893.html

which I was told is primarily Acetone.

What's the worst than can happen?

Crazing and cracking:-)


Thomas Prufer

On 29 Oct 2020 at 12:17:21 GMT, "AnthonyL" AnthonyL wrote:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:20:56 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:34:57 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

This looks very powerful stuff. The utensil bowl is a clear hard
plastic, looks and feels very similar to glass (polycarbonate? I don't
know much about plastics). My wife has found the piece that is
broken.

Google for "plastic burn test" for a quick and easy identification.


mmm - ruin a possibly repairable item?


But -- a replacement bowl is £5. That glue is expensive.

Buy it cheaper! :-) 3.21‚¬ a tube here (but in Treznal).


What/where is Treznal? Google isn't much help.

I have at
hand:

Gorilla Contact Adhesive
Wickes Extra Strong Multi-purpose Adhesive
Loctite Super Glue
and somewhere I think a bit of old epoxy (in the twin tube dispensers)

Any opinions. (She's on a third replacement)

There may be a way to glue it using just solvent. This may be acetone (but
possibly methylene chloride), check which plastic it is. Clean both edges
with a
quick wipe of the solvent, join edges, seep solvent into the crack, let sit
motionless and fixed for 24 h.


I recently bought some


https://www.halfords.com/motoring/pa...ml-248893.html

which I was told is primarily Acetone.

What's the worst than can happen?

Other than that, I'd probably try the Loctite Super glue, and give it plenty
of
time to set, fix the edges (tape?) etc.


Yes it's in a position that a clothes peg will hold it nicely.

Apparently polycarbonate dissolves in dichloromethane (aka methylene
chloride). Don't know if you can still get it as paint stripper. Not very
nice to work with.
--
Roger Hayter

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:30:20 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:17:21 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:20:56 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:
Google for "plastic burn test" for a quick and easy identification.

mmm - ruin a possibly repairable item?

Take a shaving with a scalpel or razor blade, and test that. Or if you want just
the smell test, touch a hot pin to some inconspicuous part.


Buy it cheaper! :-) 3.21‚¬ a tube here (but in Treznal).

What/where is Treznal? Google isn't much help.

Germany


"Google Maps can't find treznal

Make sure your search is spelled correctly. Try adding a city, state,
or zip code. "

Google search for Treznal Germany:

"Did you mean:

trizonia germany
trizone germany
terezin germany"

Of no great importance - was just seeking clarification and it might
help me get a pointless answer on Pointless one day!

I recently bought some

https://www.halfords.com/motoring/pa...ml-248893.html

which I was told is primarily Acetone.

What's the worst than can happen?

Crazing and cracking:-)


Thanks. I'll try the superglue first and then the acetone if that
fails.

--
AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?

AnthonyL wrote:

Thomas Prufer wrote:

AnthonyL wrote:

What/where is Treznal? Google isn't much help.

Germany

Google search for Treznal Germany:

"Did you mean:

trizonia germany
trizone germany
terezin germany"

https://rot13.com

On 28/10/2020 18:34, AnthonyL wrote:
This looks very powerful stuff. The utensil bowl is a clear hard
plastic, looks and feels very similar to glass (polycarbonate? I don't
know much about plastics). My wife has found the piece that is
broken.
If it's broken, and costs only £5, almost certainly styrene. Go to a
model shop and get the glue used for e.g. 'Airfix' kits.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Humbrol-P...e/392757299413


--
In todays liberal progressive conflict-free education system, everyone
gets full Marx.

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:09:00 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/10/2020 18:34, AnthonyL wrote:
This looks very powerful stuff. The utensil bowl is a clear hard
plastic, looks and feels very similar to glass (polycarbonate? I don't
know much about plastics). My wife has found the piece that is broken.
If it's broken, and costs only £5, almost certainly styrene. Go to a
model shop and get the glue used for e.g. 'Airfix' kits.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Humbrol-P...-Of-12ml-24ml-
Tubes-OR-20ml-Precision-Needle/392757299413

Chloroform welds it.