I don’t even remember it being dented in that spot. The physics of it are a mystery to me.
Well if you have any more sweeping to do, I’m sure you’ll make short work of it.
Still though, that broom manufacturer shorted him.
That manufacturer needs to clean up their quality control. Get a handle on it! Make sweeping changes! The customer doesn’t deserve the shaft.
Nah, as usual the manufacturer and retailer will just sweep it under the rug.
Make a splint using some duct tape and spare thin wood parts (or grab a few branches from a tree). That will tide you over until you get tired of looking at an ugly broom and buy a new broom stick.
Gorilla glue it back together. Then gorilla glue a full length splint onto it. Then use several screws to screw the original handle to the splint. I once fixed a futon frame this way.
Well if he’s going that far, may as well go get a lathe from market place, then find an appropriate hardwood block. He can lathe the block into a nice cylinder, making sure grain of the wood runs in the same direction (lengthwise). Then use the center drill action on the lathe to carve out the exact diameter of the broomstick. Then he can jam the broken pieces into it with some 3x strength wood glue.
It should hold until he wants to replace the broomstick in 20-30 years.
Yes! How did you know I will use just about any excuse to buy new tools?
That sounds more expensive though. But ideally yes.
get a lathe? get a lathe. well lah dih dah mr french man look who doesn’t take the opportunity to make a rudimentary lathe at the drop of a hat
Alternatively:
Just detach the broom head and get a pvc pipe of appropriate length and diameter. Cap the end that points toward you, gorilla glue the broom head onto the new stick/handle.
Detach and measure the broom head’s ‘socket’ before you go to Home Depot.
My car snow brush head came off the handle the one day, I found that the screw had absolutely no threading and promptly lost the screw anyway. Easiest solution was taking a nail longer than the diameter of the handle, curving it into an L, inserting it and wrapping the thing in duct tape. Worked great!
you can stick a dowel inside the hollow bit, glue it in place. splint it from the inside.
that repair could last until you get a new broom
Another one bites the dust.
Owwwwwww
I have a scar on my finger because a broom broke while I was using it. It snapped open, caught my finger and closed again. The bastard basically bit me.
That is the most ridiculous injury I have ever gotten.
Fuck that sounds painfuuul!
what were you doing when it snapped in half?
I had to check this isn’t the witchy memes comm.
Just sweeping up all the dried up dirt and salt my car dragged in over winter, I wasn’t even angry cleaning neither!
I hope you’re handling the situation well. Don’t want you to fly off the handle.
Careful, you don’t want OP to bristle at that pun.
a short piece of pvc the right diameter works pretty well to repair it. ask me how i know lol. what was wrong with wood handles?
I miss Gordo and Tracy Stevens
You’re gonna need an even bigger broom to clean that up.
Trigger’s broom.
do you have some piece of round stock wood? you could use that to fix the broom stick.
bend the rim where the broomstick broke outwards and snap off any sharp shards. cut a little bevel on the roundstick’s ends and the. insert the wood into the metal broomstick on both halves. than finish up with some gaffa tape so you can’t cut yourself on the metal edge.
depending on how tight of a fit the wood insert is in the metal tube you might need some screws too
Everything is defective now, and everyone will victim blame you, for brooming too hard. But a broom has always been built to withstand a strong brooming, until the 80s or so. Every penny has been shaved, ever corner cut. Instead of carbon in the steel, they use shit. They cut the amount of steel down to the absolute minimum to sell it to you before you break it in normal operation.
Don’t let anyone blame you for this, it’s a conspiracy of the manufacturers that shipped all of our jobs to slave labor factories overseas in a race to the bottom.
brooming too hard
“So, what would you say are some of your weak points?”
“Sometimes I just broom a little too hard!”
My enthusiasm for the job is sometimes more than the provided tools can handle.
This can also be said by workers who rage out and destroy equipment. Just a different kind of enthusiasm.
The hollow metal broom sticks are all destined for this. It just takes a variable amount of time.
You broomed too hard.
Guilty
If its not wooden, I’m not buying.
