Sometimes I get to do an easy one. This dust collector came with the house and sits on the fireplace; one of the little guys fell off when Mary went on a cleaning frenzy. As nearly as I can tell, he had a bad butt weld (using the exact term) with marginal penetration.
A dot of JB Weld, an uncomfortable overnight stay on the workbench, and he’s as almost good as new. I briefly thought about resistance-soldering him together, but came to my senses: epoxy to the rescue!
The balance point is sufficiently delicate that the additional weight of the epoxy pulls his side down a bit. I’ll call it art and leave it at that, although I should build a little circuit with a proximity sensor and an electromagnet to keep the thing in motion.
Yeah, that’s my Tau Beta Pi Bent in the background… along with the little glass bead I made in the Corning Museum of Glass a few summers ago.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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4 responses to “Tchotchke Repair”
>I should build a little circuit with a proximity sensor and an electromagnet to keep the thing in motion
Wouldn’t it be easier to just put another dot of JB Weld beneath the other metal man? OTOH, a “gently rock something that’s unbalanced” circuit would be far more interesting :-)
Wouldn’t it be easier to just put another dot of JB Weld beneath the other metal man?
Now, that is certainly an unnatural restriction on a project…
I now know how to spell tchotchke.
See? You learn something new every day!
Actually, I learned the tschotschke variant, back in the day, but trying to say that made me spray down the first two rows every time. Had to cut out the sibilants as a matter of public health…