On 18/11/18 15:47, John Rumm wrote:
On 17/11/2018 15:36, NY wrote:

I have a wooden chair with four legs that fit into the seat, with
front and back legs on each side held from splaying out by a
fore-and-aft cross-brace; those two braces are themselves joined by a
side-to-side brace. On one side, the braces have come loose from the
holes in the legs, making the chair rickety. I tried gluing them with
PVA glue but the glue joint broke almost immediately (after letting it
set for several hours).

The only glue that will cope with joints that are not snug fitting is
epoxy. PVA has not gap filling capacity.

I don't want to have to unglue and re-glue any of the other joints (in
case I make things worse). What is the best glue to use for sticking a
joint where one wooden piece fits into a hole in the side of another?
I can extract the cross-brace by about 10 mm, but there isn't enough
play to remove the brace totally to line the hole with glue, so I have
to rely on straining the joints to expose as much of the ends of the
brace, smearing glue around the exposed part of the brace (at both
ends) and then pushing it back together.

Disassembly, clean-up and re-gluing is probably the best approach.


Good advice, as is the epoxy. If you can, drill a small cross hole and
add a small pin/nail to hold while the epoxy sets. Drill from the
underside and it doesn't show. A couple of belts or rope will act as
clamps, if you don't have a proper clamp.

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