[TheForge] Big mistake

Wed Apr 23 09:45:04 2003

Mistakes and finding where I left my hammer/square/tapemeasure/bolt..... are
what make up 50% of my days :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <[email protected]>
To: "theforge" <[email protected]>
Sent: 23 April, 2003 1:16 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Big mistake

> Well after I finished putting a railing together today I discovered that I
> had put the bottom horizontal bar in upside down.  What a sinking fealing.
> Once I came to grips with the idea that I had really screwed up, I had to
> fix it.  The railing is made up of balisters that are in a genreal "S"
shape
> with a square tennon on top and a round tennon on the bottom.  So I have a
> lot of work invested in this railing, and wanted to salvage as much as I
> could.
>
> At first I thought that I could grind the expanded part of the rivoted
> tennon off and drive the bar off what was left. Well that didn't work
> because the tennons had expanded to fill the holes and the chamfer, and
even
> though I tried to be carefull I had made a lot of grinder marks on the
bar.
> So with a cut off wheel in the angle grinder I cut the bar on either side
of
> each tennon and broke it off piece by piece.  I then laid the railing on
the
> floor and re-swaged each tennon using a torch and my spring tennon swage.
I
> then made a new bottom bar, reassembled the railing and rerivoted all the
> tennons.  The heads weren't as large as originally but got the job done
and
> looked pretty good.  So instead of having all afternoon to make
adjustments
> and get the first coat of paint on, it took me until 6:30 to get back to
> where I thought I was at 1:00. I'm glad I was able to save it but hated
> wasting my whole afternoon on it.
>
> I will be a lot more carefull next time before rivoting the tennons.
>
> Bob Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo
>
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