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My Dresser drawers started to dismantle themselves recently, and I finally got around to pulling the pieces out of the dresser and looking to see if they were salvageable.
They were very much so, SO I took them to a seperate room to see what I could do with them.
These are the steps I took to fix them and give them another good 10-20 service.
Here are the pieces I had to work with.
They were very much so, SO I took them to a seperate room to see what I could do with them.
These are the steps I took to fix them and give them another good 10-20 service.
Here are the pieces I had to work with.
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Signing UpStep 1Materials and supplies and tools, oh my
I had the 5 pieces of the drawer, shown in the last step.
I also needed some quality wood glue, which I happened to have on hand from a former project.
And one needs a clamp of some sort, since the wood glue works best when clamped during drying.
I happened to have a "strap" clamp. It consists of a ratchet and a strap. Once wrapped around the area to be clamped, one "ratchets it tight".
These clamps are VERY handy, but are a bit of a pain for smaller jobs. They are great for the monstrously large clamping needs, without going out and purchasing special corner clamps, etc.
I also needed some quality wood glue, which I happened to have on hand from a former project.
And one needs a clamp of some sort, since the wood glue works best when clamped during drying.
I happened to have a "strap" clamp. It consists of a ratchet and a strap. Once wrapped around the area to be clamped, one "ratchets it tight".
These clamps are VERY handy, but are a bit of a pain for smaller jobs. They are great for the monstrously large clamping needs, without going out and purchasing special corner clamps, etc.
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Goodhart, consider yourself a pioneer in the USA. (I arranged for the Instructables URL to be displayed at Trash Palace, call it a intelligence sharing arrangement) Check out www.trashpalace.co.nz/ and be aware, in the background to the right of the title picture, the mural is on the side of the truck that collects items around the city, every home is entitled to two free collections per year. But neighbours get together and charge collections. In the pisture left foeground is the drop oif point for people bringing in stuff, in the middle is the entrance to the retail shop, behind the photographer is the road to the landfill.
Eat your hearts out USA, we got Trash Palace, you don´t, get a move on, before you use up all the planets resources.
Locally, (NZ) we are way ahead in REUSEING items that in the US of A, get used by one owner then destroyed.
On rebuilding drawers we used to ¨rub in¨ corner blocks, to make them take some 1 1/2 square wood, and split in half lengthwise on the diagonal. We did this on a saw table, but its can be done on a bandsaw with a sawing jig.
Then we cut to length, so they would go into the corners of the drawers standing upright as reinforcement.
Before doing so, they would be sanded, with the top end nicely rounded, we then put glue onto the two glueing faces, put the piece into the corner of the drawer and ¨rubbed it in¨ which is, slide the piece up and down once or twice until the glue grabs, then we left it for 24-hours.
Recently at home I did a drawer for a neighbour, the dovetail pins had broken off, I chiselled away the stubs of the pins, and in this case, I used screws thru the glue blocks into the drawer sides, the glue blocks in this case doing what the dovetails did, holding the drawer square.
We also made large stock boxes from 3/4 (19-mm) MDF, that involved screwing into edges, so we used rubbed in glue blocks which we estimated was a doubling in corner joint strength.
As for 24-hours with glue, our shop went thru litres of it on production jobs (10 items of a child[ cot say) there we just left the work clamped for 20-minutes, removed the clamps for reuse, and 40 minutes more, we could continue assembling that part.
It is 24 hours until the project can go into SERVICE and withstand rough handling, which the builder or repairer is smart enough not to give to the job, BEFORE the client pays for, and takes the cot home. :-)
Anyway Goodhart, 2 hours was enough DEPENDING on workshop temperature.
Peter
Absolutely not. Some of it was still not completely dry 24 hours later. They bear nearly 30 lbs of weight (about 13 1/2 kilos for you all). The temp of the room was around 55 F (not quite 13 C ).
And what you say above, sounds like the glue was not drying as the humidity was too high.
And where did you get the gold bricks from, to store in your drawers?
Goodhart, I dont want to worry you, but in winter we delayed glueing until around 10-am when the frost was gone.
Too cold harms the glue strength.
The air being too dry, also harms glue strength.
In the UK, according to my woodwork magazine, cabinet makers turning out custom made items to order, have special rooms for glueing, some even lined with plastic sheeting. Currently the rooms are heated, some experts even stop gluing work if the temperature is too low.
The issue is called "frozen glue joint" not frozen as in ice, but that the glue molecules never combined with the wood molecules.
Would you like a PSM article on how glues glue? Some people think its due to glue being sticky, but its on the molecule level, some glues are on the atomic level.
Think of it as archwelding, where the metal on 2 bits of steel, combine in the joint, with the help of filler rods
I don't think the wood was actually melted and combined by the glue. It comes about more from the glue soaking into the wood a bit and then drying/curing hard, like a two headed vise grip clutching both wood pieces...
Glue actually works on a molecule level, there are microscope pictures in the article.
The link would be good for Indestructible resources
Now, with many glues that glue plastics, yes then there is a mild dissolving and mixing of the materials to the extent that it is much like a weld.
books.google.com/books that's the same thing but for paints
I am bookmarking both
Super fast DSL and Google Chrome are conspiring to overwhelm me. I am learning that when pages hand up, takes ages to download, its because the Google servers in Auz, which include Double Click are overloaded at certain times, unable to dish out the adds fast enough to everybody, and Stuff News is unable to dish out the static (fixed) items of a news page.
I wish they would set the pages to show content, while waiting for the adds to arrive, if they did, I would have the contend and been long gone before the adds arrived and found the door was locked on them
Yeah, that doesn't really add much to what I meant by my statement above, that I mention twice. But, that's ok, I am used to being either too concise or too wordy, and in this case, I was being too concise.
Ah, the Infamous Double-click. Before there were many (or maybe any) pop-up blockers, I had a little script to block Double-click....because back then, they were just an advertisement nuisance. It soon got so you couldn't access some sites though, if you blocked them.
Your "wish" about ads though would defeat the purpose of ads....that is, to make sure you see them :-)
Opera is turning out great, its even reporting when a site is causing trouble during download.
Ironically its my ISP's home page that is only causing issues now.
My wish is valid, if they can not serve the adds out fast enough when they get the chance, tough.
Peter
Yeah, I have an app on FF that warns me before I download things if the site or the download is suspicious. I also use WOT for extra protection.
We are currently having heavy fog early in the morning, during the night my DSL gets unreliable, the cable from my upstairs goes across to the pole out back, then down into the ground. Clear.net is going to get Telecom to check that pole, my cable to the pole was replaced about 2000, it was a single twisted pair its now a double pair enclosed in a outer, with a steel wire for straight. I replaced all my 1960s figure 8 inside wiring. 3 years ago a pain of kid with ADD (He knew his mother would protect him) climbed up on a shed, and pushed the pole back and forth. That cut the DSL off, needing a tech to go to the exchange and reset it.
An adult on the shed could have reached the distribution box and slid off the plastic cover.
I suspect the fog moisture gets in and shorts out the DSL signal but not the phone line.
With Opera, I am having the unique experience of reading news content, while the adds are still coming down, I see them opening as I am reading.
Goodhart, Stuff sells advertising slots to Google Adds, so a news item link I sent you, when you download into your browser, very likely displays adds from your area?
I might do a archival PDF of a item, and include it with the next item, so you can compare the advertising
Here too, due to traffic combined with "in house wiring" that was done right after phones were invented....
I suspect the fog moisture gets in and shorts out the DSL signal but not the phone line.
That is very probable.
With Opera, I am having the unique experience of reading news content, while the adds are still coming down, I see them opening as I am reading.
Hopefully that is not one of it's many security holes......
Goodhart, Stuff sells advertising slots to Google Adds, so a news item link I sent you, when you download into your browser, very likely displays adds from your area?
I so rarely look at ads, I couldn't really tell you right now...I would have to check next time and try to pay more attention....
I believe that is on purpose, to speed it up.
Opera prevents also Google from analyzing my postings here, for keywords, to target me with advertising elsewhere.
(Or I don't notice it, Opera does not leave me stuck on a blank page while Google is reading my comments)
Everything must be recycled, home composting, commercial composting, worm farms, metal, plastic, even that ploystrereane packing material.
When buildings get pulled down, no longer do slabs of concrete go to the land fill, instead they get broken up into football size chunks and used for land protection, one company supplies home owners willing to pay, a wheelie bin for grass clippings, when house owners remove small trees, they get chipped and used as mulch on gardens.
Even the sludge left over from sewage treatment is being composted for flower gardens.
Gas is being taken from our tip, to heat the community hospital, and public indoor swimming pool
It was near impossible to open a new land fill, because of the NIMBY (Not in my backyard) syndrome quickly affecting its proposed neighbours, whenever a proposal is announced. (same for wind farms and small hydro power, so alls not cosy in NZ)
Recycling extended the life of the Porirua rubbish tip (Our old name for land fill) and charging by weight for deposits helped, commercial firms used to carry rubbish miles past the nearest tip, to a tip with the lowest fees, like ours. There was a Wellington City tip opened 10 minutes from here. and full 10 years later.
When ours is full, the nearest is on the opposite side of Wellington City, to get there, you drive thru the city, and that is congested, its just announced that the motorway is finally being extended to the Airport on the other side of Wellington, that was supposed to have been done in the '70s!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some hazardous waste will still go there after 2011. Our water supplies are not metered, but will be soon, as we (Wellington region) begin exceeding the water resorse, costs too much to build reservoirs and safeguard catchment areas.
We ratified that carbon reduction treaty, but the USA hasn't, your president decided it would harm companies doing business in the USA, but its the same for us, just like we all get harmed by ozone holes and greenhouse gases.
The USA, claiming to lead the world, as a peace maker, but is years backward about saving the planet from our destructive habits.
At home is where I believe most waste can be reused, and it's good to see more and more of this in our neighbourhood. Where I am though a major factor that needs to be considered is water and power usage, our dams haven't been above 55% in over a decade! Cutting down on power consumption is sometimes hard but a big gas and heating company has released a part in their website about where you can make a difference, which has actually helped us considerably!
Because I live in two house holds I can see two completely different lifestyles though, at one place we reuse everything we can and save up every where else. We've tapped into the plumbing from our shower so that it goes out to the yard which has really made a difference, without having to increase our usage of H2O we've made our garden much more productive! And all it cost was $50 for all the gear to do it. At the other house the light's seem to be never turned off, nothing is powered down at the wall and the cooler runs until sometimes I need to grab a jacket to sit under it's icy blast.
With this two sided view I can really see that even a little bit of extra thought can do a lot, but convincing people to do it is the hardest thing.
It's just really good to see things like what Goodhart is doing here, salvaging and re-making. If every one did this then it would make a huge difference.
Our NZ South Island Hydro Lakes are spilling water as we can not transfer power fast enough to the North Island.
The North Island is burning coal, oil and gas to produce power. Wellington is concerned about a shortage of drinking water in the next few years.
The last few months has been very windy, NZ got 3% of its electricity from wind farms.
Change the conditions, and there is not enough Hydro power in the South Island to transfer to the North Island, we began emergency power savings.
The Government believes its bad management on the part of the generating companies, while it talks about deregulation, its already made a knock out blow.
The next time the power generators declare an emergency and ask people to save power, they will be paying the consumers for saving power, $10 per household per week. As I pay $120 a month, next time we get asked to cut back, my bill will reduce, but I will also get a credit of $40 per month.
That is a very logical rewarding way of saving on Green House Gases.
However, dont think we will have shortages again, shortages in the past, meant the price of power went up, but not so much the cost of generation.
Power shortages are no longer profitable to the generating companies now that the consumers get to share in the profits from higher prices due to shortages.
Simple strategies like that are brilliant but aren't employed enough. A year or two back I heard about a country up north (was it Greenland?) that ran out of coal and made the government a little paranoid, changed to renewable energy and making rebates and the sort actually improved the country's economy and everything. All from a little good thinking, it's proven that you don't need coal and oil to run a country!
Before coal, factory's depended on water wheels, so factory's had to be located alongside rivers, but that was not always convenient for the labour force, so mill owners had to provide basic, but good housing. (That saved on the wage bill, and the workers liked the housing)
With coal, which cost more, the factory's could be build in the middle of cities, where the labour force lived, the mill owners no longer had to provide housing, and with such a larger pool of labour convenient to the factories, they drove down wages, and that resulted in what was called "Slum housing areas" or Slums.
London was the classic example; smoke everywhere from coal powered industry.
The price of coal went up, and the price of using it went up too, it required too much handling, and then came Demon OIL.
It could be piped everywhere, to use it, very little labour was needed to watch the burners and steam producing plant.
Initially oil was miles cheaper, and the world abandoned coal, but as demand increased, and the most convenient oil sources ran out, AND oil became a political weapon, the price of oil became uneconomical plus no country wanted to risk its economy on oil always being available.
Researchers now work out the true value of oil by working out how much energy input it takes to put one barrel of oil on the market. And we are fast approaching diminishing returns, we are past the point of half the energy in a barrel of oil has been used up, finding and extracting it to put that barrel of oil on the market.
Back to the 1920s when oil began taking over from coal, at the same time the UK for example began setting up power stations to serve small localised areas, small inefficient stations, all different voltages, some AC, others DC, some supplying both. But as electricity was so much more convenient than coal and oil, people were willing to pay the price of ineffective power stations. And electricity began going into homes.
WW2 was the first war run by oil, you could say Hitler lost, because he had few sources of oil (concentrated energy) and Japan's navy was always restricted in action, by its limited oil stocks. Its last outing of big battleships was a one way suicide mission in effect, as there was not enough oil left to fill their tanks for the return trip.
Anybody ever wonder what happened to all that oil spilt during WW2 when U-boats sunk tankers being convoyed to the UK? I read also, destroyers did not have much range, so in the middle of the Atlantic, when a destroyer needed a refill, it went looking for a convoy with a tanker, that's when under way refuelling was developed. Imagine doing that with coal. The final hunt for the Bismarck, when the British warships were closing in, they were running low on fuel, Churchill sent out orders that "stuff the oil supply, sink the Bismarck, they (UK warships) don't have to come back) (they were expendable, not the same as the Japanese suicide mission for a lost cause)
So oil enables war too. Anybody ever wonder how much oil was used in WW2? It ran the Texas oil fields dry. BTW Churchill was Bipolar and today some people say he had Aspergers Syndrome.
During WW2, the British began developing their national grid, to ensure reliable electricity supply for the war industry, afterwards they closed down the small power stations, built big stations, standardised the voltage, and went 100% AC, and today they have their super power stations and super power grid.
The rest of the world has too.
Because we can now transmit energy long distances over wire as electricity, we no longer need packets of concentrated power such as a sack of coal, or can of petrol, except to power shipping and air transport. Railways are being electrified.
There is one last hold out, the automobile with its IC engine. As the price of oil continues going up, those people insisting on having their own means of transport, have to pay for battery powered cars. (The price of the batteries did not drop so much as that the price of oil came up to meet it, and exceed the battery cost.)
TODAY
We are returning to that old waterwheel factory on river bank idea, but rather than water wheels, its super efficient turbine electricity generators and large lakes. (With water wheel factories, when river levels were low, the mill owners laid off their staff, without pay)
And the factories can be anywhere, like close to their source of raw materiel, and/or labour force.
That is reflected in NZ, most hydro power comes from the South Island, and the central North Island, There is no fossil fuel power station that I can think of in the South Island, such stations begin a third of he way up the North Island, up to Auckland near the top of the North Island. (Our only oil refinery is just North of Auckland.)
Auckland is our largest city (collection of cities) most of the NZ population is there, Wellington at the bottom of the North Island is second, but still lots less than Auckland, (Wellington is the capital city, and with Auckland has a great natural harbour)
And Christchurch in the middle of the South Island comes a poor 3rd. There in winter it snows.
Auckland has a warm climate, which is why people live there. Wellington is the capital, and the politicians need heaps of people living in Wellington to help run NZ.. Christchurch attracts people, as it could be considered as the capital of the South Island.
The rest of NZ, small cities and towns are populated due to natural resources and farming, and service providing to local population and industry. (New Plymouth is where our best oil and gas wells are, albeit running dry)
This happen because we could transmit energy long distances, including underwater between the North and South Island.
Auckland is like London, New York, Tokyo etc, everybody is moving there, and that is only possible due to electricity.
And electricity transmission enables all the renewable resources in NZ to be developed, hydro where the water is, (few people chose to live there) wind farms where the wind is (lots of protesters live there, they don’t want factories there either) and Geothermal (where the tourists go)
And one day, there will be sun powered power stations in orbit beaming power down to the world's large cities.
Now the downside, as cities get bigger, there is more violence and cities get to be a dangerous place to live and bring up families.
I foresee that one day the population is going to shift again, and there the WWW and computers have already begun the process, factory's will become more automated, people can monitor them from home, office workers can work from home, people will chose to live in remote areas, high speed rail services will reduce distances, as renewable power sources come in, it will be cheaper to heat homes, so people will want to live way down South, for the snow skiing, or fishing. The availability of on-line-shopping and services such as banking will be a major in the shift away from large cities.
End of my thoughts, time for me to do something else, my first instructable, a digital calculator is almost ready.
Seems strange to me.
Last night Sydney opened up their desalination plant which will be supplying East Sydney, Central North Sydney and the Central Business District as of now. A lot of people say it's going to be a huge waste of energy and tax payers money there we're all going to sit here and whine about it. Sounds fun.
Just because we do things because we want to, not because we need the goverment to legislate that we must (we need less babysitting ;-) . We aren't as behind as you might think though.
Have you found a safe place to store all that nuclear waste yet?
You are not bringing it to Johnston Island like you planned to once, we said NO
Until you know where to store the waste for a few thousand years until its safe, would it not be logical to shut down your nuclear industry until you know what you going to do with that waste?
Why not sell it off to the terrorists, before they come and steal it, without paying for it. (No profit for the USA then, poor business practice)
Maybe the USA is the most dangerous country in the world, the way it leaves nuclear waste lying around. Not even a land fill for the waste, and how long as it been, 40-years?
BTW, look out your window, you hundreds of law reinforcement agents, preparing to take you, and torture you until you reveal the real location of the nuclear waste.
Goodhart, knowing your taste for nuked tatters, I really hope you did not eat those cookies by mistake.
How sad, I will miss you.
Aaron just cut the grass, he been putting it off, he said he learnt not to put off until tomorrow, what he should do today.
I told him it would be more correct for him to say, not to put off until tomorrow, what he should have done yesterday.