As some of you remember, I was awarded stupidest poll ever for my toothbrush poll, so Ill try to beat it (since I have to break my own record that means that nobody else even cares to try!)
So here’s a question!
If your favorite wooden chair brakes, you fix it by…
a: buying a new one
b: screws and driver
c: hammer and nails
d: duct tape
e. Get my dad to fix it.
(As he mutters, “Darn kids. Don’t know how to take care of things. Chairs? In my day, we didn’t even have butts to sit on things with!”)
Depends how it broke exactly, but most likely b. Maybe c, or if the circumstances warrant: f. wood glue
I think if I had to use my favorite chair as a brake, I’d buy a new car.
I’m going for option c. It’s what I did with my cheapass pressboard computer desk, which I broke the heck out of when setting it in place. One leg of it came down, and there was a beautiful crunching sound as the connecting bits tore out.
After the cursing was done with, I stared at the ruin contemplatively, then got out hammer and nails and went to work. End result was the desk fit together much stronger than it ever did unbroken.
Glue and clamps, pretty much what I routinely do with my wooden chairs.
Meh. I built the last one, I can certainly fix this one. Possibly with spit and bubblegum, but it’s MY artistic statement, and Bob Vila doesn’t live at my house. Who’s gonna check?
If my favourite wooden chair were irreplaceable I would have to have to go with e. as well. But if there were heaps of others like it, I’d just go buy another one.
It would really depend on what type of wooden chair it was.
If it was a dining room-type chair, I would use e. However, if the wooden part were just the frame of the chair, I would go with b.
Nails, screws, glue, and extra boards for reinforcement. On my computer chair (a livingroom type swiveling/rocking upholstered chair I bougt for $10 at a garage sale), I use duct tape.
Screws’n’glue. Or at least screws.
I can’t stand to throw repairable stuff away. On a walk I found a sandbag (for weighting things such as light stands, Century stands and tripods) by the curb. I lost half of the sand on the walk home, but I emptied the remaining half into a can and washed the fabric. Then I filled one side and sewed it up, got more sand, filled the other side and filled it up, and now I have a perfectly serviceable 10 lb. sandbag. Right now it’s counterbalancing a 2,000 watt movie light I have hanging on a C-stand.
I had one of my movie lights refurbished. I put new Edison plugs on each end and made myself a 100" extension cord that can handle the amperage of my lights.
Over the weekend I repaired a 4,000 watt movie light whose reflector was not attached.
This is the stupidest poll ever! 
Wow, I got the stupid poll award again…
:)… it’s so buitiful I can almost cry