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I tried breaking another prong off of a safely-removed cover and gluing that to the offending prong. Unfortunately, everything I have on hand is ancient, so I'm not getting any bond. I've had the best luck so far with JoeD's paper clip hook approach. I can get the prong near the front of the...

Sorry I haven't written back. The dishwasher's on the same circuit, and the time I have to work on this during the evenings overlaps with the time to get the baby bottles run through. Hoping to get back to it Saturday. Lots of good suggestions here. Good question as to whether a GFCI on the...

My wife put some tight fitting safety plugs into our kitchen island outlets (the kid could remove the normal ones without any trouble). So, not long after, one of the prongs breaks off inside an outlet while she tried to pry one of these things out. It's deep enough that my normal needle-nose...

I have a 1960's house framed with steel posts and beams, each post secured to a concrete footer. It's an odd house, designed by an architect. Today, I was cleaning what I thought was surface rust from the base of a beam, and discovered it was rusted through at the base, about an inch in...