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.
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Plastic lugs on kitchen appliances
Oct 12, 2020
Last reply: 5 years ago
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Chloroform welds it.
IF anyone will sell that to you...
It's a ROT 13 of the word Germany, as used in the Shed (uk.rec.sheds).
Thomas Prufer
DOH - V qvqa'g guvax nalbar jbhyq hfr EBG13 nalzber
It is a hard clear plastic that could possibly be mistaken as clear glassware at first glance.
It has a recycling code of 07 which seems to rule out a raft of plastics:
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The unit is
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(annoyingly the unit itself only has BL23 on the sticker on the bottom
- but we still have the box which states BL237WG).
Anyway the Mill Jar is £2.50. Delivery is a bit of a killer - £3.50 or £4.50 for two so have ordered two and then will have to give instructions on rotating and not tilting (which she vehemently denies doing even though there is no way it can break the way it has in rotation).
I'll try some glues on what will become reduntant spares which I'm now thinking my be acrylic plastic rather than polycarbonate. Chemistry was never my strong point, the equations were never algebraic.
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