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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.