[TheForge] Big mistake

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Well after I finished putting a railing together today I discovered that I
> had put the bottom horizontal bar in upside down.

Had to laugh ;-) At horseshoeing school, when we were being taught to make
heel caulks, Red TOLD us that invariably, someone would bend one the wrong
way- up instead of down, and that whoever it was would have to make a whole
new shoe. Sure enough, someone did ;-) At that point in our training, making
a new shoe was a royal pain- getting the arch right takes a while, though
once you learn it's pretty quick- Red would throw off a shoe with three
whacks and a crack, in two heats- we were taking an afternoon, bending it
wrong, straightening it, etc.

But, by the time we were done, we knew how to build a horseshoe properly,
having, between us, found every possible wrong way to do it.....

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge@marktwain.net>
To: "theforge" <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:46 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Big mistake


  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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