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Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Tue May 10, 2016 8:32 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)
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When we arrived at the EOC rally last Friday, I found the front left hand roller blind hanging away from the window.
The photo shows the reason for what I found.
With gaffer tape on it, we managed carefully whilst away and now I need to repair it.

Does anyone know if thebracket can be sourced as an item or is it part of the frame of the blind. That could mean real money, so a repair would be useful.
I have one idea from the ever dependable font of all knowledge Frantone. which is to imerse the broken bit with plastic Araldite I think he said, then drill a hole and screw through it, being careful to protect the inner wall surface when applying the no doubt hot lethal Araldite.

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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Tue May 10, 2016 8:53 pm
by Randa france | 13.283 Posts

Quote: hampshireman wrote in post #1

I have one idea from the ever dependable font of all knowledge Frantone. which is to imerse the broken bit with plastic Araldite



http://www.onlinebearings.co.uk/Araldite...g-Adhesive.html Always part of our tool kit Derek. I'm sure I fixed the same problem using this product, a few years ago.

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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Tue May 10, 2016 9:00 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)
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Thanks mate, sounds like the right stuff. Will have a go.

The van needs a good clean right now, awful weather and big detour off A35 which was closed so country s*i* being thrown up by every wheel passing etc.


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Tue May 10, 2016 9:02 pm
by Randa france | 13.283 Posts

You can buy it over the counter at most DIY shops Derek. Make sure to go for the "Rapid" though.

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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Tue May 10, 2016 9:09 pm
by Pepé Le Pew | 2.752 Posts

If you're going to try Araldite, Derek, I'd glue a suitably-sized stainless steel washer to the back of the broken part so that the fixing screw passes through its hole as well. It'll reinforce the repair and you won't see it from the front.

It will also go some way to packing the gap between the back of the bracket and the wall. That gap (and possibly a bit of injudicious over-tightening at some point) has already caused the distortion of the screw lug and that's why the broken off bit is bent.

Bed the washer in the Araldite. You can always run a drill through the hole after it's set if you've inadvertently blocked it with glue.

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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Tue May 10, 2016 10:41 pm
by Frantone (deleted)
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Isn't there a specific 'plastic repair Araldite' ?


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 7:34 am
by Randa france | 13.283 Posts

Quote: Frantone wrote in post #6
Isn't there a specific 'plastic repair Araldite' ?


http://docs-asia.electrocomponents.com/w...66b81311a04.pdf


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 9:32 am
by Pepé Le Pew | 2.752 Posts

Quote: Frantone wrote in post #6
Isn't there a specific 'plastic repair Araldite' ?

Loads of it.

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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 10:31 am
by hampshireman (deleted)
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Thanks chaps, there isn't a gap behind the broke bit, certainly not to fit a washer in there. Might have a go later today. Things to do as usual.


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 10:49 am
by Pepé Le Pew | 2.752 Posts

Quote: hampshireman wrote in post #9
Thanks chaps, there isn't a gap behind the broke bit, certainly not to fit a washer in there.
Well I'll be. It looks like it from here. I'm talking about a very small washer, as thin as you like and only a whisker bigger than the diameter of the screw head.

You still wouldn't see it from the front, and without it I reckon you'd bust the glued joint the first time you re-tightened the screw.

Anyway, suit yourself.

Don't say I didn't warn you

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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 12:05 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)
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What an extra extra buddy you are, cheers


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 12:43 pm
by Ray Lawrence | 671 Posts

Those bits are available to buy on line. I have done in the past, sorry don't have a link.


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 12:50 pm
by Ray Lawrence | 671 Posts

Here you go


http://www.camping-online.co.uk/caravan-...right-hand.html

Make sure you get left or right.



Oh, just looked at your photo again, wrong type, still worth looking around though :)


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 12:56 pm
by Ray Lawrence | 671 Posts

Or this one?

https://www.leisureshopdirect.com/ventil...for-remi-blinds

Make sure you get left or right.


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RE: Broken roller blind bracket

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Wed May 11, 2016 1:37 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)
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Hey thanks Ray, will examine later


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