{"id":28174,"date":"2025-09-17T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28174"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:44:00","slug":"diy-broken-specs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28174","title":{"rendered":"DiY: Broken Specs\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2383-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2383-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2383-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2383-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2383.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Belt n\u2019 braces\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst working on the oak mallet, I took my glasses off, and &#8211; very dumbly &#8211; put them on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I them promptly forgot I\u2019d done so, and stepped on them. I bent the left arm to almost 90\u00b0 out of alignment, and cracked the frame, so the lense fell out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2382-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2382-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2382-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2382-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2382.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I managed to more of less straighten out the bent arm. Super glue, so called &#8211; ha! &#8211; failed to bond the frame. As did hot glue. Third time around? Araldite epoxy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what\u2019s currently holding the specs together. Along with some wound around masking tape\u2026 will the epoxy hold, once the tape comes off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst working on the oak mallet, I took my glasses off, and &#8211; very dumbly &#8211; put them on the ground. I them promptly forgot I\u2019d done so, and stepped on them. I bent the left arm to almost 90\u00b0 out of alignment, and cracked the frame, so the lense fell out. I managed to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DiY: Broken Specs\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7kq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}