Alright, this one put up a good fight
Trimming the rubber inserts and putting this back together was no problem. I went ahead and studied some of the screen caps and exhibits where these are seen and noted this tool is definitely set cockeyed so it fit inside the pocket, check.
Now, the split pin holes... it seems a little counterproductive but I opened up the cracks with a razor saw and swabbed silicone glue in there (same stuff I dabbed under the rubber inserts before sliding them back in). The cracks were basically too small for a thick glue though so I instead used a drop of superglue. Flowed right into the cracks! This picture is of the e6000 before I tried to trim it..
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Before this, I made some choices about the inside. Of course I was going to E6000 this together, but I thought I’d add some meat in the empty spaces where the springs used to go. Here I went to my parts bins. I ended up stacking 6-8 small hex nuts in the openings, and running e6000 around the rest. I added more nuts up top where the sides are set further a part. I also did a small stack of 2-3 in the left arm spring hole.
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For the broken tip, I mixed some apoxie sculpt and applied it. This is a rough squashed shape that I’ll sand down once it cures.
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Unfortunately the superglue was a magnet for apoxie dust and dirt, and e6000 can drip everywhere so I’ll have to clean this up a bit. [ATTACH=full]172615[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]172616[/ATTACH]
