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My first bench built... but I did not use glue.. just nails... what will happen? Cesar Zapata 06-01-2008
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Posted by David Nebenzahl on June 1, 2008, 2:47 pm
On 6/1/2008 6:15 AM Cesar Zapata spake thus:

> as you may see I'm not a handy guy.. I tried making a small window
> bench with 2x4's. I attached them together using just nails but I did
> not use wood glue. I totally forgot about it..
>
> will the nails eventually pop-out ? the bench is not finished yet but
> the wood are attched.. is sturdy now but I don't know if there is a
> way to fix this or just leave it like that and learn from the
> experience...
>
> suggestion please...

Kinda hard to advise you since you gave no details on the bench (size
and other construction details) but yes, in general, furniture nailed
together will eventually loosen (I assume people will be sitting on this?).

You might be able to stiffen it up by adding other connectors between
the wood members. The ugly and kinda stupid way would be to use things
like metal angle brackets screwed in. You could also drill and glue in
wood dowels.

Or start over with a different design altogether ...


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Posted by Cesar Zapata on June 1, 2008, 6:35 pm
thanks for the advice everybody.. I'm new at building but that is the
way you learn... I guess.


thanks guys...

Posted by David Nebenzahl on June 1, 2008, 6:45 pm
On 6/1/2008 3:35 PM Cesar Zapata spake thus:

> thanks for the advice everybody.. I'm new at building but that is the
> way you learn... I guess.

Yep; the way you learn is, you guessed it: by making mistakes.
(Hopefully not the same mistake twice.)


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conversation with the average voter.

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Posted by Red Green on June 1, 2008, 9:01 pm
$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com:

> On 6/1/2008 3:35 PM Cesar Zapata spake thus:
>
>> thanks for the advice everybody.. I'm new at building but that is the
>> way you learn... I guess.
>
> Yep; the way you learn is, you guessed it: by making mistakes.
> (Hopefully not the same mistake twice.)
>
>


Learning from your own mistakes is experience. Learning from other people's
mistakes is wisdom...

Posted by mm on June 1, 2008, 11:13 pm
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 06:15:08 -0700 (PDT), Cesar Zapata

>Hello,
>
>as you may see I'm not a handy guy.. I tried making a small window
>bench with 2x4's. I attached them together using just nails but I did
>not use wood glue. I totally forgot about it..
>
>will the nails eventually pop-out ? the bench is not finished yet but
>the wood are attched.. is sturdy now but I don't know if there is a
>way to fix this or just leave it like that and learn from the
>experience...
>
>suggestion please...

I don't know if this applies to your situation.

Nails will pull out. Usually I guess the top piece of wood bends away
from the bottom and pulls out the nail.

One way to prevent this is by putting in two nails where you might
have used only one, one leaning in one direction and the other leaning
in the other direction. Each one keeps the two pieces of wood from
moving with regard to the other.

Since you already have one nail in probably perpendicular to the wood,
you could still put a second nail in at an angle. Make sure you
still hit the second piece of wood. :)

Or maybe you could wait until it started to come apart, learn how long
that took, and then put in the additional nails at the proper places.



>
>TIA,
>CZ


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