Repairs

Repairing Broken Breyer Horses

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As a follow-up to my original post, I decided to attempt a repair of one of my broken Breyer horses. As you can read in the first part, I did not have a lot of success with this!

I went to the store and bought a fresh bottle of nail polish, and decided to try again. And again. All in all, I have made three attempts to repair Sagr's tail, with no success. Read more

Anatomy of a repair: Sagr's Tail, Part 1

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I recently wrote up a post about repairing Breyer Horses, which motivated me to do some repairs on my own horses. Many of them have broken over the years - I was not very careful with them when I was a kid! Read more

Repairing Breyer Horses: Fixing Broken Legs

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Breyer horses are considerably more lucky than real horses in the case of broken legs. (Although this is a debatable point. For one thing, a real horse's leg is unlikely to break OFF. For another thing, real horses aren't as prone to broken legs from falling off shelves or being dropped.) While we all know what cowboys do to horses with broken legs, a Breyer horse's broken leg can simply be glued back on.

The first task, of course, is to find the other piece of the leg. This can be tricky, since the broken bits can be vacuumed up unnoticed, or skitter under the couch. Read more

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