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Dowel stuck in collapsed chair
Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy |
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Not-very-handy wrote in message ... Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Recommend rec.woodworking for actual answers, but in the interim- (and IMHO, of course), if this is a nice or heirloom chair, I'd take it to a furniture repair place for an estimate, if your town has one. If I wasn't an expert woodworker (and I'm not), I'd only try DIY on a chair that I could live without, or live with it turning out ugly. Busted-off dowel stubs usually have to be drilled out. The dowels usually aren't separate, they are usually the actual ends of the legs, spindles, cross pieces, etc. Only usual exception is if all those items are square-section. Second problem- the holes in seat board, legs, etc, are often not 90-degree angles. Almost impossible to free-hand drill out successfully, leaving a nice tight hole for the new dowel. If the dowel is actually the end of the leg or spindle, grafting a new dowel in there is often impossible. Sometimes it can be faked by gluing the broken ends, and adding a countersunk and puttied screw through the center, from the far end. Often, you have to actually recreate the broken part. This is artisan-level work to make it come out strong and pretty, and expect to pay accordingly. If you can match the chair style at a new or used furniture place, that will probably be cheaper. So, unless you already have a tilt-table drill press, strap clamps, mortising bits, etc, and a lot of patience, the odds of a successful DIY repair are less than encouraging. As to glue, I'd recommend Gorilla Glue. |
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Not-very-handy wrote:
Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy What kind of chair? What joint - seat members, leg to seat, etc? Is the dowel part of one member, or a third piece of wood? What diameter is the dowel? |
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Not-very-handy wrote:
Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy If what you are calling "dowels" are the cylindrical sections at the ends of legs or crosspieces and they are at least 5/8" in diameter you might consider doing this: Drill centered 5/16" diameter holes in the mating broken ends and splint them together by epoxying suitable lengths of 5/16x18 threaded steel rod into those holes. Put some epoxy on the broken wood ends too. Draw the broken ends tightly together with clamps or a tourniquet while the epoxy cures. It's worked for me more than once. Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) The speed of light is 1.98*10^14 fathoms per fortnight. |
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:54:48 GMT, Norminn
wrote: Not-very-handy wrote: Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy What kind of chair? What joint - seat members, leg to seat, etc? Is the dowel part of one member, or a third piece of wood? What diameter is the dowel? Good questions. I will post a photo tomorrow and give dimensions and other requested info.. |
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aspasia wrote in message ... On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:54:48 GMT, Norminn wrote: Not-very-handy wrote: Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. If you can't pull the dowels out of their holes, cut them off flush with the frame, then drill holes for the new dowels. |
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On Feb 18, 1:20 pm, Not-very-handy wrote:
Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy Beware that the three foot dowels sold at HD and Lowes are cut on a shaper with a half-round cutter and will, without exception, be undersized and elliptical in section and will not glue reliably. Dowels made 20, 30 years ago would have been cut with a rotary mill similar in function to a pencil sharpener, and would have been dead round and within a few thou of specified diameter. The bagged, 2" dowels with the spiral glue channels will be okay. |
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aspasia wrote in message ... Good questions. I will post a photo tomorrow and give dimensions and other requested info.. For the loose joints, consider this http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...0261&cat=1,110 |
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Dowel stuck in collapsed chair
On 18 Feb 2007 18:56:18 -0800, "Father Haskell"
wrote: On Feb 18, 1:20 pm, Not-very-handy wrote: Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy Beware that the three foot dowels sold at HD and Lowes are cut on a shaper with a half-round cutter and will, without exception, be undersized and elliptical in section and will not glue reliably. Dowels made 20, 30 years ago would have been cut with a rotary mill similar in function to a pencil sharpener, and would have been dead round and within a few thou of specified diameter. The bagged, 2" dowels with the spiral glue channels will be okay. Awesome. The depth (and height and width) of knowledge on this N.G. is just that -- awesome! Tx! |
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:40:45 GMT, "Noozer" wrote:
aspasia wrote in message m... On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:54:48 GMT, Norminn wrote: Not-very-handy wrote: Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. If you can't pull the dowels out of their holes, cut them off flush with the frame, then drill holes for the new dowels. OK, but won't the new holes -- offset from the original location -- unbalance the chair? TIA |
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On 18 Feb 2007 18:56:18 -0800, "Father Haskell"
wrote: On Feb 18, 1:20 pm, Not-very-handy wrote: Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy Beware that the three foot dowels sold at HD and Lowes are cut on a shaper with a half-round cutter and will, without exception, be undersized and elliptical in section and will not glue reliably. Dowels made 20, 30 years ago would have been cut with a rotary mill similar in function to a pencil sharpener, and would have been dead round and within a few thou of specified diameter. The bagged, 2" dowels with the spiral glue channels will be okay. Thanks for the heads-up! But the dowels on the broken chair are not 2"; more like 5/8. What to do? |
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aspasia wrote:
On 18 Feb 2007 18:56:18 -0800, "Father Haskell" wrote: On Feb 18, 1:20 pm, Not-very-handy wrote: Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy Beware that the three foot dowels sold at HD and Lowes are cut on a shaper with a half-round cutter and will, without exception, be undersized and elliptical in section and will not glue reliably. Dowels made 20, 30 years ago would have been cut with a rotary mill similar in function to a pencil sharpener, and would have been dead round and within a few thou of specified diameter. The bagged, 2" dowels with the spiral glue channels will be okay. Thanks for the heads-up! But the dowels on the broken chair are not 2"; more like 5/8. What to do? They're 2" in length, you can get them in various diameters. -- Grandpa |
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:40:21 GMT, Grandpa wrote:
aspasia wrote: On 18 Feb 2007 18:56:18 -0800, "Father Haskell" wrote: On Feb 18, 1:20 pm, Not-very-handy wrote: Greetings, amigos y amigas Well, we had a lively dinner party last week! One of the chairs collapsed under a BIG guy. Fortunately nobody hurt, and chair seems to be repairable. Now I need to know how to extract the broken-off pieces of dowel from their holes, so I can repair chair with new dowels. Also, is "ordinary" wood glue sufficient to glue in the replacement dowels, or do I need to get something special. Thanks for your help! Not-very-handy Beware that the three foot dowels sold at HD and Lowes are cut on a shaper with a half-round cutter and will, without exception, be undersized and elliptical in section and will not glue reliably. Dowels made 20, 30 years ago would have been cut with a rotary mill similar in function to a pencil sharpener, and would have been dead round and within a few thou of specified diameter. The bagged, 2" dowels with the spiral glue channels will be okay. Thanks for the heads-up! But the dowels on the broken chair are not 2"; more like 5/8. What to do? They're 2" in length, you can get them in various diameters. Thanks, Grandpa. Grandma |
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