All posts for the day November 15th, 2010

How to fix modern plastic toys

Yesterday my son handed me a piece of broken toy train track. Last night I fixed it. At first I figured it would be easy–wood’s just a matter of gluing and clamping. But this one had a funky plastic connector. The plastics used in today’s toys are less brittle and arguably stronger than the polystyrene [...]

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