"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in
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It's been hotter than Hades here in the Boston area for
the past week, we broke the all time high temperature
record on July 19th. And, the humidity has been so high
that if we take something out of the fridge it
immediately is covered with lots of water condensed on
it.
Even with our two heat pumps running full bore, it's
still noticeably warm and humid inside our home.

Anyway, last nite SWMBO and I were watching the eleven
o'clock news when we heard a fairly loud "thud" from
somewhere in the house. I had no idea what it was, nor
did she, so we just gave each other a WTF look and
shrugged it off.
When we went upstairs for sleep I glanced through the
open doorway of a spare bedroom and saw that one of my
mom's original oil paintings had fallen from its location
on the wall where it had hung for probably 25 years or
more. It was a rather large painting, about 5 feet wide
and 3 feet high, in a traditional wooden frame, it feels
like it weights about ten pounds.
What happened is that the eye screw securing one end of
the picture wire had pulled right out of the frame wood.
No one was there fiddling around with that painting when
it fell.
Granted, whoever selected those eye screws to use on that
picture 35 or more years ago picked ones that were about
the smallest size available, the threaded section is only
about 5/16" long. But, I can't think of any reason other
than the extensive period of high humidity "softening"
the frame wood enough to cause the the weight of that
picture to make the eye screw pull out.
I've already shuffled a pair of heftier eye screws out of
my "hell box" and will fix things by tonight.

Do you agree with my thoughts about high humidity being
the straw that broke that camel's back?

Jeff

No. I would agree with 35 years of stress and aging on an indequate
fastening and wood.

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dadiOH
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