April 9, 2025 by HTV9
This is a lap desk that started to come apart. It’s made of bamboo, and the corners are kind of held together by wood glue and some slices of bamboo stuffed in there, though it was starting to splay out when I was using it. So instead of going out and buying clamps, I did a quick gluing of this stuff with an all-purpose heavy-duty waterproof glue, then clamped it back together the few millimeters it needed to get clamped with this setup. Two paracord pieces, ends melted with a lighter, tied with two trucker’s hitches each, then one trucker’s hitch each got tightened. When I was clamping them each was in the middle and a bit tighter but you can see how it goes. Did it work? Well, I’m typing on the laptop lap desk now so yeah. For now it’s holding. Maybe later I’ll need to wait for it to darn near completely fall apart then reglue it and re-clamp it even more. We’ll see.
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