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255618 "ruby1638@a..." <ruby1638@a...> 2015‑08‑01 horror story . . . was it the crappy wood?
On Aug 1, 2015, at 6:09 AM, yorkshireman@y... 
<mailto:yorkshireman@y...>  wrote:
>It’s a bench - it’s a working tool, a building experience, not a dilettante YB
ornament.  No problem here..

>I used a Schwarz trick and bought the widest and longest Yellow Pine boards I
could find.  YP was not available locally, but I found it at a Blowes when I
visited my mom, 450 miles away.  It was 16 foot 2X12’s and I had them cut them
in 9/7 foot lengths for my 7 foot bench and tied the 250 pounds on top of the
station wagon for the trip home.  I ripped them to 1/3 the width and thicknessed
them down 1/8” for consistency.  They were reasonably dry and I did not wait to
let them acclimate, because a bench top does not relate to another piece of
wood, so it if gets a bit bigger or smaller who cares:
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>I flattened it when it was new, and once again after about 3 years.  It is now
7 years old and still pretty flat.  I have had no issues with Titebond for the
top - 21 pieces of wood glued together.  I have to tighten the leg bolts about
every other year, but less frequently recently.  I agree with Scott - just use
the top as is - it is a tool and not a piece of furniture.  I might heat the
open joints with a hair dryer then drip a little epoxy in and heat again to thin
the glue.

>Also, I have used a couple of artist’s brushes that I got at a gar(b)age sale
for spreading glue for the last 15 years or so - one an inch or so wide and one
about 5/8 or 3/4” wide.  If you forget to clean them, just stick the hardened
brush in a glass of water for a day or so and the Titebond softens and cleans
just fine.  Mine have dried hard and been cleaned perhaps 25 times with no ill
effects.

>I know we are a culture of procrastinators, but sometime you just have to get
it over with.
>Ed Minch
>
255621 "Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq" <rohrabacher@e...> 2015‑08‑01 Re: horror story . . . was it the crappy wood?
On 8/1/2015 2:47 PM, ruby1638@a... wrote:
> P was not available locally, but I found it at a Blowes when I visited 
> my mom, 450 miles away.  It was 16 foot 2X12’s and I had them cut them 
> in 9/7 foot lengths for my 7 foot bench and tied the 250 pounds on top 
> of the station wagon for the trip home. 

Wasn't that a scene from the Chevy Chase movie  "Galloots Revenge" 
released exclusively in Australia  at the same time as "Vacation" ?
255631 "ruby1638@a..." <ruby1638@a...> 2015‑08‑02 Re: horror story . . . was it the crappy wood?
How did you remember that?


On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 16:07:36 -0400
  "Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq"  wrote:
>
>
> On 8/1/2015 2:47 PM, ruby1638@a... wrote:
>> P was not available locally, but I found it at a Blowes when I visited my
mom, 450 miles away.  It was 16 foot 2X12’s and I had them cut them in 9/7 foot
lengths for my 7 foot bench and tied the 250 pounds on top of the station wagon
for the trip home.
>
> Wasn't that a scene from the Chevy Chase movie 
> "Galloots Revenge" released exclusively in Australia  at the same time as
"Vacation" ?
>
>

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