I recently noticed that the doors on a pine bookshelf, a gift to me, bought at
a certain BigBox store, do not meet.

the gap is now at least 1/3 of an inch.

Can the wood shrink that much?

On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:10:11 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:


I recently noticed that the doors on a pine bookshelf, a gift to me, bought at
a certain BigBox store, do not meet.

the gap is now at least 1/3 of an inch.

Can the wood shrink that much?



Yes, they can. Probably a big gap to start with too.

On 7/19/2013 4:10 AM, Contrarian wrote:
I recently noticed that the doors on a pine bookshelf, a gift to me, bought at
a certain BigBox store, do not meet.

the gap is now at least 1/3 of an inch.

Can the wood shrink that much?




Likely a built in over compensation to insure that the doors do not
touch. If it has Euro hinges you can adjust that out pretty easily.

In article , Contrarian
wrote:

I recently noticed that the doors on a pine bookshelf, a gift to me, bought
at
a certain BigBox store, do not meet.

the gap is now at least 1/3 of an inch.

Can the wood shrink that much?

It can... Pick up a board stretcher and you should be able to get it
back to size.

--
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to
read. - Groucho Marx

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:10:11 +0000 (UTC),
inquired:

Can the wood shrink that much?

Yes, they can. Probably a big gap to start with too.


there's a silver lining; I can just take the doors *off* and replace them with
lucite. and hide the sides with higher screens.

Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:
Likely a built in over compensation to insure that the doors do not
touch. If it has Euro hinges you can adjust that out pretty easily.

oh. shucks.

the gap did get bigger though

Dave Balderstone wrote:
It can... Pick up a board stretcher and you should be able to get it
back to size.

thanks, sort of.