Somehow, all that typing and mousing does little to warm things up. What you need are hand ... to quick but thorough explanations of nichrome wire and basic electronic theory.

But [Matthias Wandel] may be on to something. Here he’s using nichrome wire to reinforce the broken plastic part. The repair process is demonstrated in full in the video after the break.

When a length of copper or nichrome is heated ... A small weighted hook is placed in the middle of the wire to increase visibility of the wire's change in length. Set up the posts and sockets. Cut off ...