Fortunately, I have a suitable gun, but I had to get it through an altogether different incompetence.
Many years ago, the little insert on the top of my gear stick with the diagram of which gears are where was rattling. I furtled the RS catalogue and found a polyurethane-cyanacrylate flexible space-filling adhesive. I figured a bead of that around the edge would solve the problem nicely. I ordered it.
Unfortunately, in an error of G'Gugvuntt-Vl'hurgian proportions what arrived was a large cylinder intended for a glue gun rather than a tiny tube of the stuff. It was only £3 — how was I to know one could get such a huge quantity so cheaply?
I bought a gun and ended up filling the entire cavity behind the insert rather than beading around the edge. It was several years before I needed the gun again, by which time the remaining goop had set solid, forming an entertainingly sproingy model of the inside of the nozzle.
Geek solution to your remaining problem: stash under the leak all those silica gel sachets you're bound to have lying around.
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Many years ago, the little insert on the top of my gear stick with the diagram of which gears are where was rattling. I furtled the RS catalogue and found a polyurethane-cyanacrylate flexible space-filling adhesive. I figured a bead of that around the edge would solve the problem nicely. I ordered it.
Unfortunately, in an error of G'Gugvuntt-Vl'hurgian proportions what arrived was a large cylinder intended for a glue gun rather than a tiny tube of the stuff. It was only £3 — how was I to know one could get such a huge quantity so cheaply?
I bought a gun and ended up filling the entire cavity behind the insert rather than beading around the edge. It was several years before I needed the gun again, by which time the remaining goop had set solid, forming an entertainingly sproingy model of the inside of the nozzle.
Geek solution to your remaining problem: stash under the leak all those silica gel sachets you're bound to have lying around.