Carpentry and Woodworking - Broken chair legs
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11-17-01, 04:05 PM
I have a dining room set with captain chairs. the legs are held together with an "H" support. the support keeps coming out of the legs. I have glued them several times but a few times of moving the chairs around they come apart again. Is there any way I can repair the legs on the chairs for good. I am running out of wood glue.
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George
11-18-01, 05:55 AM
First, take the stretchers out - that's the 'H' shaped (3 pieces) you're having trouble with.
Clean the glue off all the tenons (the parts that goes into the hole) by scraping them with a knife. Don't cut - you just want to remove all the old glue and get back to wood. Glue doesn't hold on glue.
Using the knife carefully, clean out all the mortise joints (holes) the stretchers fit into.
Use Devcon 2 ton epoxy to reglue and secure the reassembled chairs with clamps while the glue sets.
Because of their design, dinette chair leg assemblies are inherently weaker than traditional dining room chairs - those stretchers, as you've found out, take the brunt of the force applied when someone sits down.
Clean the glue off all the tenons (the parts that goes into the hole) by scraping them with a knife. Don't cut - you just want to remove all the old glue and get back to wood. Glue doesn't hold on glue.
Using the knife carefully, clean out all the mortise joints (holes) the stretchers fit into.
Use Devcon 2 ton epoxy to reglue and secure the reassembled chairs with clamps while the glue sets.
Because of their design, dinette chair leg assemblies are inherently weaker than traditional dining room chairs - those stretchers, as you've found out, take the brunt of the force applied when someone sits down.