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@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 3:58 AM

of course the REAL pending question is

will it hold together?

i mean this is the best plastic epoxy I've got with pretend rebar going all the way through but it's still _mostly_ epoxy and... well... fingers crossed I guess?

BUT I HAVE MY DOUBTS

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@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 3:54 AM

I'm still trying to figure out what image to print and put on top. Maybe an agility spider? I dunno!

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@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 3:47 AM

ding ding

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@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 12, 2026, 3:44 AM

purble and black (on the underside)

much more modern

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the bell reassembled with the purple bell part and a newly back enamel undercarriage

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 9:54 PM

i think this is enough for now I can add more later if I want

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@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 9:53 PM

round three purbler

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@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 9:45 PM

purble (round two)

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same bell but now more purple than before

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 9:36 PM

purble (round one)

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@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 3:18 AM

And that's where we are now more or less. Since the attachment ring has a rubber liner (not shown in photos) I figure it can stick out a little on the ring side since it'll be padded by the rubber liner.

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The disc again but with the drilled holes filled by epoxy and wire to serve as rebar.

A somewhat hard to parse shot of the inside of the plastic ring which attaches the whole thing together and the wire taped over to hold it in place with the epoxy hardens overnight.

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 3:14 AM

And I made this staple (to snip shorter later), to put through the assembly, and fill all the intentional remaining gaps with as much more epoxy as I could cram into it.

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An oversized wire staple made of round wire. The cross part is bent to match the circular curve of the plastic handlebar attachment piece.

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 3:12 AM

But I'm worried about curved roughed up plastic on stepped plastic on flat(ish) metal for obvious reasons, even if it's the best plastic epoxy I've found so far, right?

So I came up with the idea of more or less rebar to go through all three objects and drilled holes:

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The de-rusted metal base, spraypainted with silver stop-rust, with two new holes that go through all the new parts of the bell, one on each side of the central threaded shaft that holds the actual bell itself.

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 3:09 AM

So that old-fashioned bike bell I found before, right?

This is the base of the bell with the old all-metal handlebar attachment completely removed and a new one expoxied onto a matched 3D printing bridge which is also expoxied into the base of the bell holder.

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