A new spring - where can I find one?

[rich p]

Our fishmonger is an expert on scales

 

[Aperitif]

Our fishmonger is an expert on scales

You mean he plays a tuna two...or he knows his onions when it comes to springs?

 

[Fnaar]

Should the above fail, just bin it. You could buy a new spring but to be honest the cost and effort of tracking one down might well be a fair percentage of the cost of new scales.

You'll have to weigh up the pros and cons

 

[Mr Pig]

You'll have to weigh up the pros and cons

Why not buy him one as a present, that would be a weight off his mind :0)

Unless someone wants we weigh in with a better suggestion?

 

[domtyler]

Why not buy him one as a present?

What a whole new spring? I couldn't really stretch to that.

 

[Night Train]

I usually go to RS Components for small packs of springs.

BTW I also have a pen that needs putting back together. It is one of those where you put in new pencil leads, (yes, steady on at the back there), but a lead got stuck in the pencil, and it won't go back together.

You will need a needle or something similar that is about the same diameter as the lead and then push it up the tip to dislodge the stuck lead. Sometimes the lead breaks and a bit jams the clutch so you might need to unscrew the tip and clean it. Given your abilities so far I would leave that last task to someone who knows what they are doing.

Also a saucepan lid handle came loose. So I thought I would tighten the screw, only to find I was unscrewing it, and then it won't screw back together again.

There is sometimes a loose captive nut that goes astray when the bolt is unscrewed. Otherwise the handle could have had a thread tapped into it that has now failed and stripped.

 

[Speicher]

Why not buy him one as a present, that would be a weight off his mind :0)

Unless someone wants we weigh in with a better suggestion?

Who is "him" in this example?

 

[Speicher]

Thank you, Night Train, that is the very helpful answer I was looking for. I can now measure the spring and obtain ten, rather than ten thousand.

However, you seem to be casting aspertions on my pen mending skills?
I have in the past, mended someone's windscreen wiper, when they thought it had jammed. It just required gently jiggling by a gentle feminine hand, not heavy-handedly rotating.

I have untangled the most tangled of tangled necklaces, using the inestimable skills of patience and co-ordination.

You are right about the saucepan lid, it does not seem to have a corresponding screwising thingy in the lid. Loose captive nut, hmm I think there is one of those behind every most steering wheels.

 

[Mr Pig]

Who is "him" in this example?

You're not male then?

 

[Arch]

You are right about the saucepan lid, it does not seem to have a corresponding screwising thingy in the lid. Loose captive nut, hmm I think there is one of those behind every most steering wheels.

Very good!

I like the challenge of fixing stuff, like you do. I fixed my Mum's kitchen scales once, and I often tighten up pan handles and the like...

 

[domtyler]

Very good!

I like the challenge of fixing stuff, like you do. I fixed my Mum's kitchen scales once, and I often tighten up pan handles and the like...

You're obviously not as potty as I thought!

 

[Night Train]

I'm another one for going around fixing things. Currently, when I am at M's house, I am adjusting her kitchen cupboard doors to get them to line up straight. It bugs me when they don't.

 

[Arch]

You're obviously not as potty as I thought!

I'd have thought, with my eco-tendencies, it'd be obvious I was a make-do-and-mender...

 

[Speicher]

You're not male then?

You have been a member for how long?

I shalll re-phrase that

How long ago did you join?

 

[Speicher]

You're obviously not as potty as I thought!

I hesitate to read between the lines, here Dom, but are you incinerating that both Arch and I have been considered as "potty".


Be very careful how you phrase your response.