Repairing Rob's old dressing table

摘要

During 2011 and 2012, there were a small number of comments from people new to Model Engineering asking that established modellers should explain more and refrain from using phraseology such as 'in the usual manner' as, by definition, someone new to this hobby will not know what this is. As it happened, during the early part of 2012, my elder son, Rob, asked me to look at the possibility of repairing a damaged drawer pull on an (at least 65 years to my personal knowledge) old dressing table. In fact, the repair eventually consisted of making new parts using a wide variety of techniques, some of which were new to me. I then thought that an article detailing the procedures I used, along with the problems I encountered and the mistakes I made, may be of interest and use in demonstrating just what can be done.