I have a chair that the wooden leg broke in the middle. clean break in half.
It is a horizontal break, not hight way. What is the best way to fix this.
Drill a hole in the two parts and glue in a hardwood dowel? any other ideas?
Is there a web site that shows how to do repairs to furniture? If so, please
post it. thanks in advance.
Personally would drill and put in a short piece of threaded Stainless
Steel rod or a cutoff SS bolt - glued with expoxy
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:49:09 -0400, "Major Canuk"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I have a chair that the wooden leg broke in the middle. clean break in half.
>It is a horizontal break, not hight way. What is the best way to fix this.
>Drill a hole in the two parts and glue in a hardwood dowel? any other ideas?
>Is there a web site that shows how to do repairs to furniture? If so, please
>post it. thanks in advance.
>
use wooden dowels
I used 3 dowels on a table leg I fixed
"Major Canuk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I have a chair that the wooden leg broke in the middle. clean break in
half.
> It is a horizontal break, not hight way. What is the best way to fix this.
> Drill a hole in the two parts and glue in a hardwood dowel? any other
ideas?
> Is there a web site that shows how to do repairs to furniture? If so,
please
> post it. thanks in advance.
>
>
The dowel bit or the bolt for that matter usually have allignment problems .
so
make another horizontal cut with a bandsaw perhaps a couple of inches above
or below the fracture. Prior to making the cut make a register mark so the
two pieces can be correctly realligned .
Now take the two broken ends and dry fit them together to form a perfect
joint now drill a dowel hole all the way through the fracture . Now
disassemble that arrangement and now match up the two that were the result
of the bandsaw cut using the register mark made earlier [also a dry fit]
backdrill a dowel hole through this joint using the hole previously drilled
through the short section as a guide .
Insert glue and insert dowel into all three sections . If done right the
repair should be invisible, however the leg will be shorted by the
thickbness of the bandsaw cut ............mjh
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"Major Canuk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:6KG%[email protected]...
> I have a chair that the wooden leg broke in the middle. clean break in
half.
> It is a horizontal break, not hight way. What is the best way to fix this.
> Drill a hole in the two parts and glue in a hardwood dowel? any other
ideas?
> Is there a web site that shows how to do repairs to furniture? If so,
please
> post it. thanks in advance.
>
>