Dan Hartung wrote:

This was a standard old wooden chair with two side rungs and one rung
front and back. With a couple of the side rungs fallen out the chair
legs began to "sag" and eventually through misuse (my relative has a
household full of children who like to tilt them) the chair more or less
collapsed. It would have been fine, of course, had the rungs been glued
back in place at the first opportunity!

Now what has happened:

1) the seat actaully split where one leg was embedded. A sliver about
3/4" wide and 1-1/4" long is bent out of the wood. I imagine it can be
glued and tapped back in place, but will it have strength to hold the
leg now?

2) one of the spindles split at the base, not a clean break either. This
is probably ideally fixed with a dowel, but is a "for now" fix with glue
acceptable if the rest of the back is properly glued and put back together?
throw out the chair.. your back is worth more than a broken chair...
dont believer me?? just sit in it and fall over backwards and see how
long it takes for you back to heal....