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   mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 07:28:33 JST mark

   • AI6YR Ben

   Help me @ai6yr , you're my only hope

   Do these things really not have a pin , and use a pressure fit to hold things together?

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 08:50:55 JST mark

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     • AI6YR Ben
     • W6KME
     • IcooIey

     @W6KME @IcooIey @ai6yr this makes sense. The handle is quite old amd dried out. I was looking at it and thinking it needed to be sanded and oiled

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     W6KME (w6kme@mastodon.radio)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 08:50:59 JST W6KME

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     • AI6YR Ben
     • IcooIey

     @IcooIey @ai6yr @ATLeagle Put the fork back in the handle, tap the other end of the handle on the ground to set the tang. If it keeps coming out, put a thin piece of wood like a popsicle stick in and repeat the process.

     With a fresh handle it's a very strong joint. As the wood gets old and starts to break down, this is what happens. First sign that you will be buying a new handle.

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     IcooIey (icooiey@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 08:51:00 JST IcooIey

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     • AI6YR Ben

     @ai6yr @ATLeagle I’ve done that and also driven a screw through it. More for spite than as an actual solid fix. But it seems to hold.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 08:51:01 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @ATLeagle Ha! Indeed, they are only pressure fit together.

     I have fixed things like that before by shoving the thing back in and lightly tapping on the outside collar with a hammer until it is wedged in there again. (which is only a temporary fix, of course).

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     zl2tod (zl2tod@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 09:01:35 JST zl2tod

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     • AI6YR Ben
     • W6KME
     • IcooIey

     @ATLeagle

     If the wood inside the ferrule is rotten:

     Cut the ferrule back to good wood.

     Drill a hole roughly the diameter of the width of the tang so the corners of the tang have something to bite into when you hammer the fork back in.

     @W6KME @IcooIey @ai6yr

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:04:51 JST mark

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     For anyone who stumbles on this in the future, this actually work. Its half of a clothes pin, because its tapered. I set it with the tang, beat the fork back into the handle, then hammered the pin until it wouldn't go any further and fell to bits.

     The pitchfork works again

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 21:38:20 JST mark

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     • I am Banksy ☕ / 🗑‍🔥

     @xinit gotta love analog tools, or something

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     I am Banksy ☕ / 🗑‍🔥 (xinit@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 21:38:22 JST I am Banksy ☕ / 🗑‍🔥

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     @ATLeagle ... and you didn't even need to disable DRM or anything. Well done.

     #RightToRepair