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Disassemble!
Jun. 10th, 2023 10:34 pmIt was a beautiful day, so far too much time was spent driving around in it. At one point, when Gretchen had taken Julie out for a drive and Goose Patrol, I decided it was time to start working on one of my many long-delayed household projects.
My medicine cabinet (as well as the one in the downstairs bathroom) has doors that are starting to come apart due to slippage against the double-sided tape that holds them together. I fixed two of the doors on my cabinet some years ago, but never got around to the third. Months and months ago, I decided it was in danger of catastrophic failure, so I took it down and set it on the only flat surface I could find, a trunk in Julie's room.
Today, I excavated it from where I had placed it, took it down to a space that I cleared on the kitchen table, placed it carefully on a couple of towels (to protect the table), and pulled out the extendable box cutter that I had bought for this purpose to cut the remaining tape that was holding it together. This took a while, but the parts of the door are now detached from each other.
There is a lot of dead tape that still needs to be peeled off and/or dissolved in acetone (a can of which is sitting in the basement from the last time I did this work). Once that's done, it should be fairly simple to use the double-sized tape that I bought for the purpose to reassemble this door.
And then I can think about fixing the medicine cabinet in the downstairs bathroom...
I have *way* too many home repair projects queued up, I think.
My medicine cabinet (as well as the one in the downstairs bathroom) has doors that are starting to come apart due to slippage against the double-sided tape that holds them together. I fixed two of the doors on my cabinet some years ago, but never got around to the third. Months and months ago, I decided it was in danger of catastrophic failure, so I took it down and set it on the only flat surface I could find, a trunk in Julie's room.
Today, I excavated it from where I had placed it, took it down to a space that I cleared on the kitchen table, placed it carefully on a couple of towels (to protect the table), and pulled out the extendable box cutter that I had bought for this purpose to cut the remaining tape that was holding it together. This took a while, but the parts of the door are now detached from each other.
There is a lot of dead tape that still needs to be peeled off and/or dissolved in acetone (a can of which is sitting in the basement from the last time I did this work). Once that's done, it should be fairly simple to use the double-sized tape that I bought for the purpose to reassemble this door.
And then I can think about fixing the medicine cabinet in the downstairs bathroom...
I have *way* too many home repair projects queued up, I think.