Mid-Atlantic Gardening: The Birds of Winter in the mid-Atlantic, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
THE SAGA OF MY BROKEN TUBE FEEDER--continued....

1--here is the all in pieces feeder--after IT and me fell crashing to the ground.
Just re-posting it so all can see what i am talking about...only the Feeder.
Nothing broken or damaged on me! PHEW! Good!

2--Been working all morning to glue it back together. Using "Loctite" Super Glue.
Before--I was trying to use the Epoxy (2 tubes to mix) but it never worked
and did not hold the glued parts together even after a whole night. Gave up on it.
Decided to use the "Loctite" Super glue. It is supposed to hold everything!
Got out my rusty razor blade knife and spent an hour scraping all the old glue
off of everything--as it had been glued together twice before.

Using the "Loctite" seemed to work OK. Just had a hard time aligning all the
broken edges together in so many places and holding them tight.Let it go after about 10 minutes.
Did other stuff for another half hour or so. Came back--glued some other part....etc...etc...

FINALLY! Showing you this picture to brag that I fixed it all. Even filled it with seed....
just for looks..(HA!!)
Something is missing!!! AHH! The baffle part....It is outside in my garden cart covered in snow. Went to get it..cleaned it off and all....came in to.....put it on...????

3--Then came the "downer"! I realized that the gizmo that fits into the hole on top of the 3 tubes,
and extends out so the baffle can be screwed on and off was all broken apart.
Besides being used every winter since 2001, it was brittle to start with.
Nothing aligned there. It was totally broke! What a downer...after all that work!
Here is the hole between the assembled tubes and the useless screw-in hook..

4--SO--now I have a filled feeder (it can be emptied, of course) and no way to make the
baffle stay on and hang at it the same time. Besides--the big eye-screw that is part of this
assembly no longer screws into the opening, sticking up, between the tubes, upon
which the baffle is attached. It is all broken!


5--Here is the now broken threaded tube that is inserted into the hole, into which
the screw.eye-hook assembly goes into. You put the baffle on--you spin it around,
and it screws on to this assembly.
It CANNOT be fixed! NOW--how do I hang my feeder?????????

Ric--you are always full of ideas---GIVE! ....I may come up with something..
we will see..... Thanks! G.