One constant with having children and grandchildren is that there will always be some repair job waiting for your attention.
My 2 granddaughters (aged 3 and 1) have a toy basinet for their dolls but being active young children they pushed it to it’s limits by trying to get in it themselves. Consequently, the plastic fittings holding it together started to break. So, the call went out – Pop, can you fix it?
My first thoughts were that there wasn’t much I could do. I was planning on making them a similar sized wooden basinet that would stand up to their play. But on thinking about it, I felt that it would be an overkill and too bulky.
Looking around my wood stock and offcuts, I came up with a repair for the original basinet. Maybe a bit of an overkill, but I decided to use 40mm dowels to replace the broken plastic joiners (a 30mm diameter would probably have done the job, but I didn’t have any in the workshop). All I needed to do was cut the dowel into 8 pieces of the right length and then drill them to take the metal tubes making up the frame of the basinet.
Let’s see how long this lasts now.