Fix Broken Umbrella

This instructables show how to reuse some metal fix a broken umbrella.

An umbrella with UV protection can be USD30-50, and the umbrella ribs break easily in windy days. The price tag make it become a hard decision to simply throw it away. Fortunately, it can make a quick fix with some materials you can found easily.

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I learnt this fixing method from my mother's fixed umbrella many years ago.

The main fixing material is a tiny metal plate. You can reclaim a metal plate from any metal sweet box in your hand.

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Beware sharp edge and corner hurts your hand.

If original socket nail still in good condition, you can try to reuse it. But it is not easy to reuse it, the straighten and refasten process are broken easily caused by metal fatigue.

Extract a wire from a wire twist tie, connect rib components with perforation and then twist tie.

You just saved some money to buy something else, enjoy!

Some umbrella are not using metal ribs, it cannot direct fix by a metal plate. Especially thin plastic rib. It need more steps, more tools and accessories to fix it.

Cut a heat shrink tube and put it in the broken rib.

Apply a little bit hot glue at the broken part to temporary reconnect it together.

Use wire surrounding the connection part.

Apply more hot glue to fix the wire.

Cover the connection part with heat shrink tube and use hot glue gun shrink the tube.

Wire, hot glue and heath shrink tube altogether is very good in tension but cannot resist bending. It still require cover by a metal plate to increase the strength.

The irregular shape make the metal sharp part expose and easy to hurt. It is better use some masking tape cover it.