Repairing leaking watering can

[alldigging]

There's some plastic stuff you can mould to shape by warming up - polymorph plastic I think its called

[MrBloom]

for the price of some of the repair stuff you can buy you might as well go out and buy one

[Kaiya]

The OP said the can has sentimental value.

[veggiechicken]

Some may say it's a waste of time but it has sentimental value to someone.

This was the reason for asking about repair - its not a cost issue

[veggiechicken]

The OP said the can has sentimental value.

SNAP, Kaiya!

[MrBloom]

some people get way too attached to things lol

[rustylady]

for the price of some of the repair stuff you can buy you might as well go out and buy one

But if you read the original post, the can has sentimental value.

[MrBloom]

i can't see how a watering can has sentimental value lol its weird. once its repaired its not the original can any way so might as well go buy a new one

[veggiechicken]

i can't see how a watering can has sentimental value lol its weird. once its repaired its not the original can any way so might as well go buy a new one

Maybe you've been fortunate and never lost anybody near and dear to you. When you do, sometimes the most insignificant objects take on a special meaning. I hope you never have to learn this through experience -although I doubt that it would affect you anyway.

[MrBloom]

9 of my close family members have died and left me things but if you get too attached to stupid little things it will just make you miserable and depressed and that is no way to carry on your life. so believe me i know what its like. and i said buy a new one not throw the old one away there's noting stopping you going out and buying a new can and keeping the old one purely for display purposes

[Dusty Rhodes]

9 of my close family members have died and left me things but if you get too attached to stupid little things it will just make you miserable and depressed and that is no way to carry on your life.

For us sentimental types, those "stupid little things" bring back fond memories...not misery or depression. Windsor Castle is full of those little things you talk of, but The Queen somehow manages to carry on...

[MrBloom]

inanimate objects don't hold the memories your memory does. if you start to get attached to something that belong to somebody and it either brakes or gets lost, whatever the situation then your going to cause your self more misery by been so much attached to it that you will be upset. If somebody meant so much to you then you shouldn't need an object to trigger a memory you should remember yourself. i understand people out there can't let go of things but for god sake sometime you will have to. My uncle left me all his brick laying tools in his will when he died about 8 years ago and to this day i have not even looked inside the bag or taken the bag out of the garage because i do not want to loose anything or damage any of it. i know it is there and i will never get rid of it but i do not rely on it to remember him by

[Kaiya]

People have different ways of dealing with things and what works for you is not necessarily right for other people.

[Jeanied]

I thoroughly approve of 'make do and mend'. My plastic watering can is still going strong three years after I mended it. And I have still got the can of fixer to use on other stuff.

(And I have novel uses for chrome polish and white car wax too!)

[BUFFS]

i used some of that imitation lead flashing,its pitch i think,i cut the shape of the bottom,peeled off the protecting sheet,pressed it down and gave it a few sweeps with OHs hairdrier...simples...3 years on ,out in all weathers ,its still fine....