[TheForge] Big mistake

Wed Apr 23 10:46:01 2003

That's why I have something like a dozen tapes laying around the shop. Wherever I stop to do something I lay one down, and I can never seem to keep one on my belt.

Ray
Cincinnati
> 
> From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2003/04/23 Wed AM 09:41:02 EDT
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Big mistake
> 
> 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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