A baby barn, Chapter III
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I recently finished milling the crossbeams. This was a good time to check my
work and see if things were going to come together squarely. I really need to find out before the barn raising if I am going to have to rework the parts. It went generally well. Two of the four bents went together with essentially no trimming to become square, and only one required a modest shim to a brace. I got the first three together by beating on them with the big mallet. The last bent just wanted to spring back each time I beat on it. so I assembled a 15' pipe clamp (3 5-footers with coupplers).. why didn't I think of that sooner? It worked like a charm. My test fitting of my first pegs quickly illustrated that a normal peg does not drive in reverse well, even when pounded from the opposite side of a through hole. I came up with the attached "pryable peg" design fabricated from some leftover white oak spindle stock. I supplemented the pryable pegs with my 5/8" diameter wrought iron holdfasts. -Steve -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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