🤳 on Dec 8

  🤳 and the ' boro weather is grim looking
dampish for sure. but we will start to warm. in fact, we go to 40 F sometime this afternoon

the week is wet and rainy but 40 + or -.

lately, as part of neighbourhood watch [ the Whatsapp group,  here on our street ] I've been posting photos of the street
and due to the snow accumulation on the roof, I powered the de - icing cables on the kitchen roof

well, I had the selfie stick out to photo the roof [ don't need a ladder just hold up the camera ]
AND I gently tossed the selfie stick to the driveway. NOT gently enough. the plastic frame for holding the camera cracked.

did I tell you that I hate plastic, b/c you can't repair plastic [ easily or at all ]
this all happened on Tues last

thus, three days of planning and fiddling produced - a set of ideas and some wood strips approx the size of the selfie frame

yesterday, I drilled the wood strip to take the female bolt that allows the frame to pivot in four directions [ up / down and rotate ]. I had glued two strips to create some thickness b/c 2 screws would be the vertical supports. screw away.
I cut off the excess plastic from the frame to leave the plastic upright posts of the frame

next, it was wire the frame to the screws [ so the posts were fixed ]. the frame posts are spring loaded to raise and lower to accommodate different size phones. that's why those posts needed to be salvaged

now, this is where you have to imagine 30 minutes of cursing, muttering and pricked fingers
BUT done. Last step. take shrink tubing and cover the posts and screws

SO what have you got. mostly, a good facsimile of the original. 
looks not bad [ 8 out of 10 ]
function [ 7 out of 10 ] b/c I used the same size wood strips as the plastic base BUT the posts are now slightly middle of the strips [ you cannot screw too close to the edge ] and the holding ledge is a touch narrow
I expect that I'll add an elastic to secure the phone 

BTW, I could have bought a new selfie stick for $ 8.