There’s some sort of river pin holding the sleeve in place
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I’m not even sure how it goes on 🤔
Any guesses?
Only thing I can think of is some sort of long tool that inserts the pin from the other end of the tube.
The telescoping mid-leg sleeve has the same fastening system as dies the foot, which I now notice has a crack too.
Anyway, alls well that ends well and I now own a spare telescoping stainless steel leg. Which I need to use in a new project. Suggestions welcome.
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Interesting, so they *could* have sent me just a new sleeve, but I’d have had to use a drill (which I own) and rivet tool (which I don’t) to finish the repair, which makes the tradeoff more complex. twitter.com/d_a_keldsen/st
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I’d have saved some steel tubing and plastic but I’d have to have access to more tooling and possessed/learned an extra skill (pop-riveting).
Think I’ll work out the dollar and carbon math here. Interesting problem.
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Rivet tools are surprisingly cheap, at the consumer product rivet scale. I'm looking forward to finally needing to rivet something.
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The last two times for me were repairing a crock pot and a bread machine. Cleaning out excess material required getting in behind the “no serviceable parts inside” inner sleeve. Remove the fasteners they used, which were a different sort of single-use fastener, pop rivet, done
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