I have a trick for repairing thermal plastic to a condition better than new.

I worked moving buildings and applied practical application of tension and compression. In New England the centipede method of moving a structure is cumbersome and unpractical. We moved buildings using modified airliner (4wheel) trucks with a swivel joint on the truck stem. The apparatus looked like a tricycle, but with front and rear wheel steering on swivel joints. Two control arms linked the rear wheels by a crossbeam and steering was achieved by 1/2 cable come-alongs attached to the X member, and a long pole with a bullring controlled the front truck. When grades were predicted to be too steep, we strung the structure throughout with internal cables to prevent expansion, and X bracing to prevent compression. The apparatus best resembled a tripod with a box on top. Unlike a car with four wheels and needing a suspension, or a table needing a shim to prevent uneven loading, the tripod can not be twisted, or put to much load on any given two legs, like a table rocking on two legs. It works like a three wheeled vehicle, the load is divided evenly, in spite of the terrain.

Any way here’s a picture I took in Amsterdam where my fellow mangineers displayed their work to prevent structure movement in Amsterdam’s soft saturated soil. Structures are built on antiquated wood pilings driven into the marshland.

Anyway I’d like to share one of my tricks that apply to thermal plastic repair and reinforcement. Plastic and steel are not co-expansive, plastic is soft and tends to peel off the steel, IE: wire, sheet-matal strips, I’ve tried them all, they just don’t behave like plastic. I share this intellectual idea for personal experimental, non profit use. Any industrial, business for profit, or otherwise for profit use, is strictly forbidden unless contracted otherwise.

Plastic is elastic, so is steel, I discovered a way to combine the two successfully, creating a stronger structure. Similar in nature to fiberglass reinforced concrete.

Brillo, preferably stainless, the coils behave more like plastic when it comes to expansion and compression, the bond remains intact, it moves with the plastic instead of tearing through it like reinforcement bars would tear through ballistics jell.

Why purchase a new part that’s going to fatigue and crack in the same place again anyway! RE-Engineering, has been my solution to many faulty designs. Recently my glove box door broke at the hinge (weakest point) I melted stainless coil (brillo) into and extended across the fatigue area. Stronger than new! Imagine if they used this method in the manufacturing of thermal plastics? It’s good idea, because it works! And It’s my idea!

Unlike feminism, a bad idea that doesn’t work!

I was starting to draw up a budget for the fiscal year of 2015. Now I have to re-do it all over again because the people who own my apartments are jacking up my rent by $50 more a month.

Unless I can just make the extra $50 by working more hours. LOL.