Someone broke my laundry hanger. He said him breaking it was the hanger's fault for being fragile. I kicked him out of my home and got to work.
You poor thing. You've dried so many loads of laundry. You do such a good job. You've done nothing wrong.
I have a two sets of wire pliers and could not find a single one. I borrowed this one and it was... Fine. It was able to cut and bend wire.
I hate to, just add details, this part. But I have no pictures. See, a spinning part meeting a drill(that spins) meant that this was a genuinely very annoying experience.
I could not take pictures, so I put my phone away. I will add gifs where I would've put pictures. Here the seal demonstrates how the inner turning part acted during drilling.
I eventually was able to drill a hole nearish to the middle of the rack's broken part.
I lined up the drilled section from the rack part to the hook part and drilled a hole in the hook. This was much easier because the hook did not move. It behaved.
I then made a length of steel wire, it's a few mm thick and very uncomfortable to bend by hand.
Using skills I've gained from previous fixes, wire ornament making, post hitching, and tamandama making, behold:
A before and after video showing how well I kept that swivel function. It turns the same as it did before!
Zero loss of function!
Sometimes I impress myself and this is one of those fixes.
I'm pleased as punch