How To Repair A Broken Coffee Mug

Did your favorite coffee mug lose its handle? Here'due south how to fix a broken coffee cup handle chop-chop and simply. The repair is fifty-fifty dishwasher safe!

This is why I can't accept nice things:

That mug is a cute, hand-thrown coffee mug from my very favorite potter on Etsy. I bought information technology at the Indie Craft Experience, and information technology'south the perfect size for my morning cup. It's my favorite mug, then of course I managed to break the handle off inside days of buying it. My poor mug sat sadly on a shelf until I finally pulled it together to repair it.

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The thing most fixing this mug is that I didn't just want to fix it. I wanted my repair to be dishwasher safe. Hand-washing dishes is not on my agenda with a toddler to chase, meals to fix, and freelance deadlines to meet. The tutorial beneath shows you how to set a cleaved coffee cup handle and then that you lot tin wash that sucker in the dishwasher.

My mug has been through many cycles in the top rack of my dishwasher and is yet property upwardly strong, so I'thousand feeling confident that I've got a sharable solution here! Yay!

How to Ready a Cleaved Coffee Cup Handle

Materials

+ broken java cup

+ Gorilla Super Mucilage – I know, this is non the greenest craft supply, but this glue is very durable. I tin't vouch that other super glues will hold up to the dishwasher.

+ something to protect your work surface, similar newspaper or an old piece of cardboard

Directions

1. Piece your handle together. This is peculiarly important if your handle bankrupt into more than ii pieces. Once you apply the glue, y'all demand to work fast, and then lay out your handle on the table to get in easy to grab the slice you demand and orient it.

ii. Rebuild your broken coffee cup handle. Apply gum to one of the broken pieces, then press the matching piece to it. Press firmly and hold for 60 seconds to become a nice strong bond going. Repeat until you lot have a completed mug handle. Set this aside and allow it cure for a bit. But 10 or 15 minutes is fine. Y'all just want to give the glue some actress fourth dimension to bond, so your handle volition exist overnice and potent when you lot attach it to the mug.

3. Attach the handle to your coffee loving cup. Utilize your mucilage to the cleaved ends of your mug handle, and printing the whole affair firmly onto your mug for sixty seconds. Allow the mug dry out overnight earlier washing and using.

Note: Your repaired coffee cup handle may have some small pieces of mucilage that stick out of the repaired areas. That'due south ok! They will chip off over fourth dimension.

My name is Becky Striepe (rhymes with "sleepy"), and I am a crafts and food writer from Atlanta, Georgia with a passion for making our planet a healthier, happier, and more than empathetic identify to live. My mission is to make vegan food and crafts accessible to everyone!. If you like my work, y'all can besides find me on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.