Bridger writes:


My sisters has the old, possibly antique, chair with mortise and tenon
joints pinned my finish nails. The glue failed many years ago and the
chair is being held together by the pins. The whole chair racks forward
and back by about a foot (like a recliner) apparently because the
mortise and tenon joints are severely worn from years of use with broken
glue joints. How can I fix this? The first thing that comes to mind is
filling the mortise with epoxy and clamping the chair back together.
Will that hold? The idea is to fill the empty space in the joints worn
with epoxy.

Thanks,
Scott



this can be a viable last ditch repair. note that the chair will not
be repairable again.
if there is as much slop in the jointery as it sounds like, you will
likely have to add some fiber to the epoxy



Someone makes a fiber that wraps the end of the tenon before it is reglued. I
think that works with regular glues, so a search might be in order.

He might start with this series:
http://antiquerestorers.com/Articles...e/FTT_0698.htm

Or he can just Google on "chair repair" including the quotes and pick and
choose what is needed.

Charlie Self
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Will Rogers