Alas, the shoulder strap clip on the girls' dungarees broke. It was made of zinc based alloy and I could snap the broken pieces in my fingers. The solution was not really a blacksmith, but I took some copper wire out of an old piece of 14 gauge Romex electrical wire. Using pliers I bent it into a rectangle, then hammered the ends down so they would overlap at the join. Using an electrical soldering iron I soldered the join so it wouldn't just spring apart. A small file the size of a points file took the rough edges off, and
we're ready for school again. 
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You have some really good practical how-to ideas here. Thanks for visiting my blog and letting us know about shoeing oxen.
I once visited Fredericksburg, Texas, and they said the main street is so wide because everything the Germans hauled in there was carried by teams of oxen that needed a wide space for turning around!
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