A swift repair
Nov. 17th, 2024 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merrileemakesLast year I donated a spare yarn swift to the Knitters' Guild NSW Capital Region group. But when someone went to use it the other month it wasn't very functional. I'm not sure what happened, but I took it home for some work.
The little pearshaped nut that held the arms in place while spinning had a piece chipped off, and it no longer held anything in place.
But that shouldn't be hard to fix, right? I dug around my partner's woodwork shed and found some polyfilla.
I also noticed that the metal wire holding the arms up was quite thin and an experimental poke made it snap.
Oops. But for some reason I have fairly solid beading wire in a dozen colours. Which is a lot of wire for someone who doesn't really do beading. But such is the joy of stash, and of buying people's destashes on Facebook. You end up with all kids of bits and pieces.
It wasn't too tricky to get the arms back into place and new wire secured.
Now back to that wooden piece. After the polyfilla dried I gave it a light sand and then broke out my new acrylic paint pens to colour it in to blend more.
The reason this piece had broken in the first place is that a screw goes into that hole to secure it to the top of the swift, but all the pressure ends up on that single screw to hold the arms in place.
So I got some of that grippy shelf liner and cut some to size to fit inside the wooden ring. That will make it fit snuggly over the centre pole of the swift and the pressure will be distributed around the entire circle.
After letting everything dry again I sealed the painted polyfilla with some spray modpodge sealer I bought to seal the wooden board I recently painted. And voila, a working swift!
That wasn't too tricky. I don't know if it was my growing skills in restoring and repairing texile equipment or the fact that if there's something that's typically done by a straight white man it's not going be particularly difficult.
While shopping in SuperCheap Auto for rust remover I noticed that they sold acrylic paint pens (sorry, touch up markers) and modpodge spray sealer (sorry, quick coat autospray).
Which really got me thinking. Can I colour in and modpodge (sorry, touch up and autospray) the scratches on my car?
Yep.
It's not perfect, but it's good enough. I'm not that fussed about how my car looks but I did enjoy using my frivolous ~arts and crafts~ from Spotlight in a traditionally masculine (and therefore not at all frivolous) way.
Will I colour in and mod podge other things? Definitely.
Will those things include my car? Probably not.
The little pearshaped nut that held the arms in place while spinning had a piece chipped off, and it no longer held anything in place.
But that shouldn't be hard to fix, right? I dug around my partner's woodwork shed and found some polyfilla.
I also noticed that the metal wire holding the arms up was quite thin and an experimental poke made it snap.
Oops. But for some reason I have fairly solid beading wire in a dozen colours. Which is a lot of wire for someone who doesn't really do beading. But such is the joy of stash, and of buying people's destashes on Facebook. You end up with all kids of bits and pieces.
It wasn't too tricky to get the arms back into place and new wire secured.
Now back to that wooden piece. After the polyfilla dried I gave it a light sand and then broke out my new acrylic paint pens to colour it in to blend more.
The reason this piece had broken in the first place is that a screw goes into that hole to secure it to the top of the swift, but all the pressure ends up on that single screw to hold the arms in place.
So I got some of that grippy shelf liner and cut some to size to fit inside the wooden ring. That will make it fit snuggly over the centre pole of the swift and the pressure will be distributed around the entire circle.
After letting everything dry again I sealed the painted polyfilla with some spray modpodge sealer I bought to seal the wooden board I recently painted. And voila, a working swift!
That wasn't too tricky. I don't know if it was my growing skills in restoring and repairing texile equipment or the fact that if there's something that's typically done by a straight white man it's not going be particularly difficult.
While shopping in SuperCheap Auto for rust remover I noticed that they sold acrylic paint pens (sorry, touch up markers) and modpodge spray sealer (sorry, quick coat autospray).
Which really got me thinking. Can I colour in and modpodge (sorry, touch up and autospray) the scratches on my car?
Yep.
It's not perfect, but it's good enough. I'm not that fussed about how my car looks but I did enjoy using my frivolous ~arts and crafts~ from Spotlight in a traditionally masculine (and therefore not at all frivolous) way.
Will I colour in and mod podge other things? Definitely.
Will those things include my car? Probably not.
