>> I've got a plastic push gear I'm trying to glue back together, and so far
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>Ah... What's it out of? Any chance in getting, or making, a replacement gear?
Its actually for a VCR, and an off topic one I might add (its only a few
years old). Yes I can probably get a new gear from the manufacturer, but
they are a royal PITA when it comes to getting parts unless you have a
specific part number. Of course, they don't stamp their parts with the
numbers, nor do they offer exploded diagrams that list the part
numbers... which leaves one in the nice situation of not being able to
order the part because you don't know what they refer to it as!
I've had to jump thru serious hoops to get parts from this company in the
past, and I figured that glue would be easier then trying to get the
replacement part. As it stands, from the sounds of it, glue isn't going
to be any easier, so most likely, the whole VCR is going to be disposed
of rather than spend any more time on it. (Its for a local animal shelter
I support, its a crappy TV/VCR unit that the cats use to watch videos of
birds... I'm not willing to spend any more time working on it when I have
a VCR and TV I can donate to them instead, and since they are two
different units, I can wire up the TV in the cat room, and the VCR in an
office down the hall, which will greatly reduce the amount of cat hair
and litter dust that gets in the VCR, which was the cause of the failure
in the first place. What I REALLY want is to hook them up with a computer
running MPEGs of their videos... that should drop the wear and tear
factor down to almost nothing as the computer doesn't care if the hard
drive spins 24x7 for the next 20 years)
However, I'm glad I asked about glues, as this VCR is just what drove me
to the point of trying to find a decent glue. I've run into the problem
on a number of things in the past, so now I'm a bit more educated in the
topic for the next time.
-chris
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