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277034 scottg <scottg@s...> 2023‑02‑25 Re: a squeaky chair
I am a syringe junkie. Yes its true.
Getting glue into crazy impossible places is what these things do like 
no other.  These and air pressure.
   I keep all kinds of syringes but these are my favorite. There is a 
guy on ebay selling boxes of 50 of them for 18 bucks. I am tempted, 
anybody want to split a box? hahahaha
   http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/auction/syringedental.jpg

I would use the old car noise trick for this squeak. Corral a helper to 
sit in the chair and make it squeak. Get a length of tubing and put it 
up to your ear.
   This will isolate the squeak.

Then thin down regular Elmers yellow wood glue about 50/50. Flood the 
joint with your syringe.  You can blow with a soda straw or compressed 
air to get it in even further. Give it a couple coats of glue while you 
are there.
  Wipe the excess while its still wet with a damp sponge.

The only way to genuinely renew chair spindle joints is to take them 
apart and veneer the tenons. No glue is going to fill loose tenons for 
long.

  (I have someones crazy solution, somewhere in this junk, of thin steel 
perforated shims that go over and around a tenon.  But man the joint has 
to be loose to need one of these. haahahahah. )

   Regular veneer works fine though.
Soak it well to loosen it up and wrap it over plenty of glue with as few 
splits as possible. Rubber band it up.
  Take a shoe rasp and fit it tomorrow.
    yours scott

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