Babushka

More toys to fix, this time a broken pivot hinge on a doll's house. The two year old got her paws on the door and off it came. The trouble was a snapped hinge, which had been made out of uber-thin wood dowels (0.05"). The top hinge had parted leaving a stub in the door and an empty socket in the door casing ( the bottom hinge is shown below).

The quick fix was to drill out the remaining dowel in the door and replace it with brass rod. The sockets were 0.08" so 1/16"rod would do, or 1.5mm. A foot of 1/16" was duly purchased and a 7mm length cut. The socket in the casing was deep enough for the rod to be pushed up into it and then held with a strip of card while the door was replaced. The card was removed and the rod dropped down into the socket in the top of the hinge stile forming the hinge and locking the door back into place.

JOB DONE