Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

carolt

LydiaJ wrote: »

Can't see anything in the screw hole. It's quite small, and the MDF-or-whatever-it-is has kind of frayed all round the hole. I don't think the bottom screw would come out just by pulling - it would need unscrewing but there's now no screw head to put the screwdriver into.

You're right I can't just rotate everything. The plate is long and thin and goes parallel to the door edge.

I have been pondering it and wonder if it might be possible to fit a rawlplug into the frayed hole where the upper screw is supposed to go. I'm sure it would be fine with just one screw as long as she doesn't swing on it again. I'll give it a try and let you know if it works.

I am humbly amazed at both your technical cleverness.

It's as though you'd suddenly started talking in fluent Sanskrit, or something - utterly unintelligible but quite, quite fascinating and deserving of wonderment.


Wish I could understand stuff like door handles.

And please, no jibes about knobs or screws.


NB My children regularly break door handles. I thought everyone's did?

PasturesNew

Best thing to do is to get a new house ....

Use "No Nails" in the meantime.

silvercar

LydiaJ, to make the top screw work better in the MDF, you need to put a few match sticks (with the heads cut off) in the screw hole and then tighten the screw in. The match sticks act like wood filler around the screw.

silvercar

My council has just announced cuts in library opening hours and school transport.:(

Both are going to be painful, libraries because reasonable opening hours are a good thing, I thought. School transport because the roads round here are very, very congested at school run time and 1 coach can keep 30 cars off the road. Plus my friend has a job as a coach escort that she really needs.

SingleSue

carolt wrote: »

I am humbly amazed at both your technical cleverness.

It's as though you'd suddenly started talking in fluent Sanskrit, or something - utterly unintelligible but quite, quite fascinating and deserving of wonderment.


Wish I could understand stuff like door handles.

And please, no jibes about knobs or screws.


NB My children regularly break door handles. I thought everyone's did?

I've become a dab hand at fixing the front room handle, at times the little metal bar inside slips out and it means that the knob just spins round without opening the door.

So I get the knife out (I did have a set of screwdrivers given to me but I find a kitchen knife does the business better), unscrew all the screws on the plate, remove the plate, thread the bar back through to where it should be and then screw all the screws into the plate again.

I'm also a dab hand at replacing light switches too...although the first one I did, off was on and on was off. :rotfl:

michaels

I'm afraid I have to disappoint you - I don't think it is just sewing machine repairs - I think they fix telescopes as well!

My secondary was much more 'modern' - Up to GCE/CSE options year boys and girls had to do both cooking/sewing/macrame and woodwork/metal work/CDT and I went on to do Technical Drawing as my 'vocational' option for O level - definitely more fun than the academic ones but I don't think there were many girls in the class so I guess I might have been better off choosing cooking which as a former chalet 'girl' I like to think I am reasonable at.

I don't remember the girls playing football tho and they didn't let the boys get their hands on hockey sticks no doubt at the behest of the local A&E.

carolt wrote: »

Wish I'd had the opportunity to do CDT - I would have been rubbish at it, as putting things together definitely isn't one of my strong points - but possibly if I'd been taught I'd be marginally less rubbish than I am.

Sewing was good - actually making stuff. That I do still use a bit - would use a lot more if the tension wheel hadn't fallen off my sewing machine. Must get round to getting it sorted - OH has said he might be able to fix it - and he might - or there is, believe it or not, an entire sewing machine repair shop near michaels (and my MIL, more usefully for me, before michaels thinks I'm stalking him! ) - how cool is that? A whole shop that has no purpose other than to make sewing machines whole again.

Almost as good as the door knob shop we once had on our street in Ealing.

SingleSue

Michaels....Technical drawing! TD!

That was what I was trying to remember earlier....

michaels

I seem to remember there was 'Engineering Graphics' as well - can't remember which one I did.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Best thing to do is to get a new house ....

Use "No Nails" in the meantime.

Indeed.

However, I'd like to get at least part of my deposit back when I leave this one.

Davesnave

I can confirm that the right size of Rawlplug will cure Frayed Hole Syndrome on cheap flush doors. I think we had three of them on the handle of our under the stairs cubby-hole door at the old house, which was a funny size, so replacement would have been a difficult option. If I remember correctly, it was that bad, I had to Araldite them in place first.

As you folk are into chocolate and DD1 works in an indirect way for Ca_ _ _ _ys, I thought I'd just tell you that we sometimes get 'experimental' items. I have just had some chocolate with caramelised pecans and honey flakes, but to be honest, it wasn't terribly good.

I think the subject you did, Sue, was Technical Drawing. It was something a few people did as an option at my grammar school, but it certainly wasn't offered to me. They probably thought I did enough of that already, as the back of my physics book was always full of plans and diagrams relating to my inventions, most of which never left the page. EDIT: Just noticed the next page & that Michaels got here first!

Apologies for suggesting the 'granny-style' electric footwarmer this morning, lir. It was a 'moment of madness',' I'm afraid....:rotfl: