Plastic lugs on kitchen appliances

[The Nomad]

Nick

Think you might be betterer with Galena rather than quartz

Avpx (the other other one)

[Nick Odell]

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 Odell]

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.

[Roger Hayter]

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

[Tim Streater]

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

[Nick Odell]

<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

[Nick Odell]

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

[Tim Streater]

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.

[Nick Odell]

:-)

N.

[ARW]

Actually it should be

4) Replace wife for younger model with bigger t*ts.

[Thomas Prufer]

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

[tabbypurr]

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

[Max Demian]

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.

[AnthonyL]

[Thomas Prufer]

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

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

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

[AnthonyL]

mmm - ruin a possibly repairable item?

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

I recently bought some

which I was told is primarily Acetone.

What's the worst than can happen?

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

[Thomas Prufer]

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.

Germany

Crazing and cracking:-)

Thomas Prufer

[Roger Hayter]

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.

[AnthonyL]

"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!

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

[Andy Burns]