My beautiful jug RIP

It is with a heavy heart, just no, why did you have to go so soon? I thought we would spend the rest of our lives together. I thought we had a handle on this. Alas you’ve split on me.Is there anything I can do to repair the damage?

Take it to the local frame builder and get it welded? Maybe add a head badge whilst they’re at it?

Silver solder, dead easy. Blowtorch and a cheap ebay kit.

Make up a story about how your great grandfather used it to tunnel his way out of the Russian tundra or something then…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08l581p

by Ajahn Chah

“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

Silver solder, dead easy. Blowtorch and a cheap ebay kit.

Thanks! I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy a blowtorch for a while 🙂

Make up a story about how your great grandfather used it to tunnel his way out of the Russian tundra or something then…

Hopefully they won’t recognize it off Amazon then 🙂

It only lasted 5 years 🙁

Beautiful-really?, get yourself to the nearest charity shop and move on, sounds harsh but it’s for your own good.

Maybe buy a better quality one?

my steaming jug is now 17 years old and still going strong. Dropped a few times, unscathed.

Plus one for silver soldering it.

I have fixed a couple of seives similarly. Useful skill to have and it will end up being YOUR jug more than ever.

Regards “stuff” I try to follow the repair/repurpose/recycle/replace order of action. I have to admit this doesn’t always sit well with SWMBO.

Plus – blowlamp!

Regards “stuff” I try to follow the repair/repurpose/recycle/replace order of action. I have to admit this doesn’t always sit well with SWMBO.

We really  really need to get back into repair being a thing.

Then charity shop

Then second hand

Then new replacement.

With repurpose/ recycle being the disposal options where necessary.

The default for something like a jug should be repair. Like there is zero reason not to.

Plus one for adding a headtype badge aswell mind.