Tool Care and Repair

I am adding this topic because I am good at it. It is also one of the few things I can feel at all superior about, so there. Tool care was an obvious no-brainer  prior to our present throwaway culture. Now there are even stores which specialize in cheap tools that don't last. Conversely, I savor antique and odd tools, some which were passed down from our families' rural roots. My mom turned me on to Naval Jelly when I was a kid and we saved some steel tools from the landfill. It's disgusting scary stuff, but the results can be amazing. I try to spray the "business end" of gardening tools  with wd-40 before I put them in the garage for the winter. I sand and stain the wood on old long-handled tools. I still have aluminum cased 1950's power tools from my Grandpa- they scare me too much to use them, but they are so pretty! To me a tool is sort of an extension of the body and it has to be in good shape to feel right. I don't have money to blow,  so I figure out methods to repair equipment that many would view as overboard or perhaps creative. My gal is urging me to use recent examples of my wacky work, so here goes. The photo below is the recently repaired "leg" of a plastic Garden cart.

Glue, Plumber's tape and stainless steel bolts