On Jul 13, 6:02*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Jul 13, 9:50*am, terry wrote:

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Hi DD.
Several screws seemed to have tips cut or broken off!
Suspect several original screws rusted away and someone used whatever
they had on hand to try and refasten some of the back of seat slats at
the bottom (where snow and water would collect, ref metal strips, if
chair left out during the winter?) Not sure about that but seems a
reasonable assumption!
The chair as mentioned is complete but had started to fall apart when
I got it, mainly due the rusting of those screws and also due the
rusting of two strange strips of metal mounted, almost hidden behind
the middle and bottom seat back slat supports which are curved and
made of wood.
Got chance to look at a similar chair yesterday and it also has the
metal strips! Now think that the metal might be there for ease of
production; bur it led to the idea of screwing 'and gluing' the seat
back slats to their curved supports as an alternative to metal strips
that rust! Although suppose could fabricate some strips out of
stainless steel. It would involve cutting and then drilling 28 holes.
Another idea may be to drill and bolt the bottom row of seat back slat
fasteners, right through the supports, using ss bolts with the nuts
washers and countersunk.
maybe the most force is exerted, due to the design at that bottom
mounting?
The chair carries a small tacked on tin sign that says "WOOD", whether
that's the manufacturer or the material not sure.
As also mentioned this all started after had downloaded a plan for a
type of 'Adirondack' or similar named Outdoor Chair; intending to draw
it out on one inch squared paper and make one from available pine and/
or some old redwood. Then this 'slightly broken' but ostensibly
complete one showed up during a community clean up
week ................ and not wishing to waste anything!!!!!!
And like anything else it's been a learning process.
So thanks folks for the ideas and the questions.