Post #747234 by mike and marie on Thu, Jul 16, 2015 6:44 PM

We had a disaster at space age central today. Found this great orange lucite chunk lamp -- just the shade -- and were excited to get it going. It was exactly the lamp we needed for the Malibu Room. These lamp shades are pretty delicate, but we did notice that the pieces seemed to flake off on this one more than any other we've seen, like the inside plastic globe itself was going brittle. So we very very carefully cleaned it with detergent and lukewarm water, set it down to dry. The next day Mike picked it up to bring it down to the workshop, and the inside globe part of it cracked and giant pieces of the lucite and chips started to fall off.

It looks pretty bad, but really the majority of lucite is still on the globe itself -- these two shots are of the bad parts. However, the globe is definitely cracked in a few places. And it's obvious that the glue is all dried out -- if you wanted to, you could probably pry everything else off the globe with minimal effort.

So, experts: what's the plan of attack? How can we salvage this besides using pieces parts in other projects -- should we even attempt to glue everything back and reinforce it all with something? Or should we take it all off and reglue on another globe? and what kind of glue?