On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:21:36 -0400, "dadiOH"
wrote the following:

tiredofspam wrote:
I banged out some thru mortises this past winter for a new work bench.
I was going to use wedges to complete them, but I haven't cut the
angle in the mortise yet.

Anyway, I had dry assembled them together and now that summer is here
I can't get them apart. I have brought the assembly into my air
conditioned space hoping it will dry out wood and shrink it back to
winter conditions, but I'll bet that won't work. Anyone got any ideas
how I can them them apart. I have tried banging the hell out of them,
spreading them with clamps... nothing.

Hair dryer?

Air conditioner: Removes the moisture which allows the swelling to go
down in the tenon.

--
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels,
throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions,
without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act
with cheerfulness. -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711