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Mug splint
Use your favourite mug, even after the handle's fallen off | |
I have a mug that I received as a gift. I looked after it and was quite disappointed when it fell out of the kitchen cupboard, losing its handle on impact. It has a slightly sad afterlife as a vessel for watering houseplants.
Enter the Mug Splint. It's rather like the metal frame around a glass cafetiere,
with a comfortable handle. Now my handle-less mug is whole again and I can drink my tea from it. As a side benefit, it's less likely to be smashed by any future perilous events.
High Tourque Jubilee Clips
http://www.jubileec...superclamp-ms-85mm/
"..suitable for marine and offshore oil and gas applications" So, dishwasher safe then? [bs0u0155, Jan 15 2015]
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Nice idea. We've all lost a mug that we cared about - you could probably commercially bake this. Okay, maybe not profitably, but still (+) |
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Yes - but then drinking anything hot becomes a game of Russian roulette, where the penalty for exceeding the temperature rating of the glue is to get wet, or worse, to smash the rest of the mug on the floor. The stakes are just too high - an engineering solution is needed. |
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You could probably make something like you describe with a
couple of massive jubilee clips. |
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actually 3. One 'round the top of the mug, one 'round the
bottom of the mug and one threaded perpendicular through
the others to form a handle. The advantage being variable
handle size and the ability to clamp your mug to any
horizontal bars that present themselves. |
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//an engineering solution is needed// There are
plenty of engineers who will tell you that glue is an
engineering solution. |
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Howevertheless, [bsu]'s solution is not without merit. |
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Araldite.
It's been the mug-repair method of choice in my family for generations. |
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Okay, my Dad and I have both used it for that. |
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(OK for fixing handles, not cracked vessels : not suitable for contact with food).
You can get a nice smooth finish by putting sellotape over the join. |
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I think the disadvantage of the third jubilee clip is that it will behave as if pin-jointed, where the ends of the handle should really be encastré. How about a jubilee clip top and bottom, clamping on a decorative metal handle? |
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If you're Jubilee clipping the mug, a decorative handle
will not be aesthetically or financially congruent with the
whole theme. |
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"what's with the fuel system Steve" |
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"it looks like the vibration was moving this pipe around
until; it worked free of the fuel pump, hence the mess" |
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"well, I custom-milled this bracket out of billet titanium,
bolted it to this anti-vibration PU block with anti rotation
washers, torqued it down and wire locked the bolts." |
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"and how did you attach the fuel line?" |
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I'm actually gutted that the Jubilee clips people don't sell t
shirts, I'd have bought one on the spot. |
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Not sure a mild steel jubilee clip is dishwasher safe. |
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How about a pair of sterling silver jubilee clips? Plus a silver-ferruled horn, bone or ebony handle. |
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Suction cups, formed to the curvature of a standard mug. |
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[aside: Why don't they make Model 'M' laptop keyboards? One damned cookie renders the little chiclets inoperable] |
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// Not sure a mild steel jubilee clip is dishwasher
safe. // |
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They come in stainless steel as well. |
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Would a jubilee clip be OK for a mug with a body crack as well? I suppose dirt would fester in the crack. |
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//I suppose dirt would fester in the crack// |
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If you're drinking the recommended minimum of 21 cups of
tea a day, nothing gets the chance to get growing before
another assault of scalding watery death. |
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Of course, but what about overnight? |
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// but what about overnight // Put it in the fridge. |
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//Of course, but what about overnight?// |
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the last drink of the day should be generous slug of neat
scotch. Enough sterilization to get you through to the
morning. |
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Hmm, everything seems to be worryingly under control. |
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// the last drink of the day should be generous slug of neat scotch. // |
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Besides, tea is full of tannins and other germicidal compounds. Tea
made with boiling water and proper tea leaves is pretty much sterile
and has antiseptic properties. Tea made with boiling water and proper
tea leaves and with a generous amount of blended* whisky is
definitely sterile and has antiseptic and other desireable properties. |
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*Readers should note that putting Single Malt Whisky into tea, or any
oither beverage other than highland burn water, is an offence
punishable by summary execution without trial** |
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So... putting single malt whisky into other single malt whisky is, presumably, punishable by death? |
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Your blended whisky is pretty unethical stuff. |
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//blended whisky is pretty unethical stuff// |
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But I am nervous about the //highland bum water// |
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