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Why did they break? Mike S. 09-27-2006
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Posted by Mike S. on September 27, 2006, 2:57 am
Could someone take a look at this site:
http://www.geocities.com/littleboyblu87/broke.html
and tell me what would cause the railing to break and what would cause
the chair to break?

I've been accused of breaking these (I didn't) and I'd like to know
what happened to them. The railing is broke at the top of the stairs.
When people go down the stairs they tend to lean or put their wait on
the top part of the railing.

The chair is rarely used anymore. It's picked up at the top every week
on cleaning day and moved to another room. The cats also like to climb
and stand on the very top part of the chair. They've also knocked it
over once or twice.


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Posted by on September 27, 2006, 4:45 am
wrote:

>Could someone take a look at this site:
>http://www.geocities.com/littleboyblu87/broke.html
>and tell me what would cause the railing to break and what would cause
>the chair to break?
>
>I've been accused of breaking these (I didn't) and I'd like to know
>what happened to them. The railing is broke at the top of the stairs.
>When people go down the stairs they tend to lean or put their wait on
>the top part of the railing.
>
>The chair is rarely used anymore. It's picked up at the top every week
>on cleaning day and moved to another room. The cats also like to climb
>and stand on the very top part of the chair. They've also knocked it
>over once or twice.

The railing mount broke because it's made out of pot metal and
someone needs to lose some weight.

The chair broke because many of the glue joints are loose and
someone needs to lose some weight.

Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on September 27, 2006, 6:20 am

> Could someone take a look at this site:
> http://www.geocities.com/littleboyblu87/broke.html
> and tell me what would cause the railing to break and what would cause
> the chair to break?
>

Weight. Lots of it. Those brackets will last forever under normal use.
Someone put a lot of weight on the railing, rather than holding themselves
with their legs. Railing generally just steady a person. Looks like
somebody was hanging on it. or really leaning hard. I'd put it in the
abuse category, or someone tripped and grabbed to keep from falling.

Same with the chair. Cheap or old chairs will do that, especially if
someone leans back on two feet and stresses the joints more. The bigger the
person, the more likely it to occur. If you have a constant leaner in the
house, I'd say it was 99% their fault.



Posted by on September 27, 2006, 6:38 am
chair: you got kids? then fatigue did it in, the joint was a little
loose in the first place, and stressed (it's natural position appears
to be pulled away from the chir slightly, so it didn't want to be there
anyway.)

Handrail bracket, again, if the pictures show the connection with no
one pulling on it, then either the wall isn't straight, or the handrail
is warped, this put stress on the bracket constantly, and everytime
someone used it it was that much more stress, eventualy the cheap alloy
broke.

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Mike S. wrote:
> Could someone take a look at this site:
> http://www.geocities.com/littleboyblu87/broke.html
> and tell me what would cause the railing to break and what would cause
> the chair to break?
>
> I've been accused of breaking these (I didn't) and I'd like to know
> what happened to them. The railing is broke at the top of the stairs.
> When people go down the stairs they tend to lean or put their wait on
> the top part of the railing.
>
> The chair is rarely used anymore. It's picked up at the top every week
> on cleaning day and moved to another room. The cats also like to climb
> and stand on the very top part of the chair. They've also knocked it
> over once or twice.


Posted by Cliff Hartle on September 27, 2006, 8:13 am
> I've been accused of breaking these (I didn't) and I'd like to know
> what happened to them. The railing is broke at the top of the stairs.
> When people go down the stairs they tend to lean or put their wait on
> the top part of the railing.

Why isn't there a bracket at the top of the stairs? It looks like 2 to 3
feet before the broken bracket thats allot to torque on that bracket. There
should be another bracket.

>
> The chair is rarely used anymore. It's picked up at the top every week
> on cleaning day and moved to another room. The cats also like to climb
> and stand on the very top part of the chair. They've also knocked it
> over once or twice.
>

Its from leaning back on the chair. Dropping it on it's back probably
helped.



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