The broken frog princess

Last Updated 9 November 2024

Her Royal Highness, Duchess of the flower bed fell off her stick. Maybe she had been kissed to hard.

The princess and the pole was originally connected with a spring that gave her some bounce and some nice moves in the wind. The spring was rusted and broke off.

I used some 1mm stainless steel wire to make a new spring. I would have preferred it to be 1.5mm, but this was the only stainless wire I had. I wound it around a knitting pin to make the spring. My plan was to tread the spring onto the remains of the old spring, but trying to do this I realized that I had wound the spring in the wrong direction so I had to make a new one.

With the spring wound in the right direction, I could tread it on to the remains of the old spring on the princess. Then I threaded the old spring remains on the pole into the new spring.

This was a quick repair without soldering or gluing, that also means it is easy to replace the spring again if needed.

I believe her majesty has got her bounce back.