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- From: leut@elc11.icase.edu (Scott T. Leutenegger)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Glue up mistake
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 15:03:34 GMT
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- First thanks to all for your helpful suggestions. I think I mailed
- a response thanking each of you who sent me email, but if I missed you
- before, thanks!
-
- Okay, the major suggestions for fixing the mistake where:
-
- 1) To take apart a glue joint use vinegar, acetone, or alcohol as a solvent.
-
- 2) Cut out the panel from the inside of the chest, flip the panel over,
- and hold the panel in place with small strips of wood, similar to
- how you put glass into cabinet doors.
-
- 3) Flip the panels on both ends so it is symetrical.
-
-
- What I did:
-
- I tried to take apart a test joint with vinegar, no luck.
- It could be that I did not soak it enough, I just kept pouring it over
- the joint every 5 minutes.
-
- By this time more than a week had passed and I got philosophical (lazy?).
- I decided to just leave it as is. I figure there are enough mistakes
- in that blanket chest that there is no reason I should pick this
- mistake out as the one to fix. Besides, I am NOT a paid professional,
- I am doing this to have fun and have the pleasure of saying, "I made
- that." Sort of like I do when I look at my new son :)
-
- Anyways, this whole process is a learning process, and that backwards
- panel will serve as a reminder for me. Besides which, I would rather
- move forward on new projects rather than fix old mistakes.
-
- A final rationalization, New Mexican artisians always make one part
- of the art slightly different to make it unique. (Many midwestern
- quilters do this too.) Hence, my blanket chest is not a mistake,
- it is just me subconciously making it unique!
-
- Thanks for your suggestions, sorry I can not tell you whether acetone
- or alcohol take apart elmers wood-working glue, but with a new job
- and a new baby I find little time in my shop.
-
- ---Scott
-
- P.S. Bordern does not have an 800 number and I did not bother to find
- there phone number since by then I decided to live with the mistake.
-
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