I selected appropriate sticky chemical mix for the job. Handles. Low quality badly fitted handles started wobble.
Victims of the "repair". Hopefully it will work and it will be repair.
Handle is held only by bent tool end and some friction. Not a lot.
There are way too big of a holes in the handles
Selected some splints to wedge the blades into the handles
Poured some soviet made epoxy (1:1 resin to hardener) and performed stirring. Not mixed in picture. Proper mix should be one color.
Almost fill the handle openings with epoxy:
Then jam the blades with splints into the handles and leave to dry. Tomorrow will bend the ends for more of a mechanical, not just adhesive strength. I forgot to clean the blade tangs with some degreasing chemicals and now not sure if epoxy will bond to metal strongly. These things remind me of something.
Note the safety flip flops. Some dude long ago had some improper use of tools and put them on a cloth.
On a completely unrelated note- I'm making three wooden hammers. That was not planned. they were just dry today after gluing desired size oak heads from scraps. Three long things will become handles and big blocks(2 in picture) will be heads.
That's all for today, and maybe for several months or years again ;) Motivation module may be broken in this unit.
