An Umbrella Mod....YES!

[Spiel]

A couple of weeks back now when I shared the pictures of "Project 10," the Wine Bottle Stoppers a long time friend of mine shared the pictures with his wife who immediately loved the pink ones, not for her desire to have one but for another reason. She quickly called me and stated how much she loved the colour and asked if I could somehow modify her Umbrella to replace the handle with the pink acrylic, I said I'd be more than happy to try. So my friend brought me the Umbrella on Sunday and as I had feared it was an auto pop up with the mechanism built within the handle so a full handle replacement was out of the question....so onto plan B.

The first thing to do was take apart the handle with a plan in mind .....



The plan was to add a "Butt Cap" style piece to the rear of the black rubber grip cut and finished at the required angle .....

But that idea due to perceived difficulties had me change my mind and I then decided to square up the rubber grip and go with a perpendicular mount ....

And the acrylic turning begins ....

Testing the dry fit ....

Now that it was ready for gluing I had to make sure that the process did not allow the epoxy to run into the handle and seize the auto open/close mechanism, so a clamp was made to hold it upright (in the open position) while the glue set overnight ....

And today it's all done, still working and ready to go back home with the hope that my friends wife will be pleased ....

Thanks for looking. 

[aplumma]

well done Spiel I am sure there is a happy lady out there. 

 

Art

[John]

Great job, as always Chris!

[Spiel]

11 hours ago, aplumma said:

well done Spiel I am sure there is a happy lady out there. 

 

Art

 

9 hours ago, John said:

Great job, as always Chris!

 

Thank you Gentlemen. 

[Big Cliff]

WOW! I see so many possibilities and potential uses for those beautiful pieces of acrylic.  You and I need to talk! Stunning as always!

[Spiel]

5 minutes ago, Big Cliff said:

WOW! I see so many possibilities and potential uses for those beautiful pieces of acrylic.  You and I need to talk! Stunning as always!

Thank you Cliff.

I look forward to chatting with you.