duct tape and wd40 . . .

still not sure about the wd40 but duct tape rules!!!!

remember i said i was going to go all maintenance today and replace the bracket to the sliding drawer in the kitchen??  i was so good, i took shots.  no. no. photos.  not vodka. geesh.  i went to my friendly ace hardware man.  he burst my bubble.  they do not carry a large supply of the brackets and without the measurements i was sunk.

i'm supposed to measure?  what is that?  i took the photos. intact:

 crumbled like bacon on a bleu cheese salad:

to top it all off, there is no visible means of adherence of the bracket to the wall.  no screws.  nothing!  mr. helpful says it probably done with a staple.  great.  pry it off he said.  with my seven foot arms, i asked?  ok, i was getting testy.  but i thanked him profusely and headed home.

i rattled around in the 9TS's tool box.  my first and second tries at finding a prying tool were too big but the third was a maybe.  then i wondered if i would do more damage than good.  i'm prone to that you know.  and so i sat.  looking around at the contents of the drawer strewn over the floor, the rung hanging down like a dejected swan neck, the woeful bracket denuded on one side, and finally the light bulb went off.

while the 9TS supplies lacked the necessary black sticky roll, my craft drawer was overflowing.  back into the kitchen, i cut a length of duct tape and not so carefully wound it around and around the rung sitting in place in the broken bracket.  around and around.  carefully i tested the drawer.  and then i loaded said drawer.  to date, i have not heard a crash.  maybe it is waiting until 3 a.m. but . . .

by george, i think she's got it.