If the shoe breaks above the locking dial, a good (if ugly) permanent repair
could be made by forming thin metal shims to bridge the break. The metal
bridge could be screwed and/or epoxied into place. (The screws would need
to be short, or you'd have to check to be sure they wouldn't damage
something inside.)
If it's the thin plastic that actually slides into the hotshoe that breaks -
that's a toughie. I think Wein offers metal shoes for the Vivitar 283 and
285 flashes because of this very problem.
It would take some doing, but that entire bottom clip part of the flash shoe
probably could be replaced with something tougher - Delrin or some other
material.
Or use Velcro.
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