I've been building EVERYTHING with glued and screwed joints for twenty
years...be it furniture, cabinetry, automotive wood components, or even boat
components...Type of glue and type of screws vary a lot according to the
kind of wood being used, and conditions in which it will be used...for
anything exposed to the elements, it's hard to beat the really good marine
products, but you have to be careful as to which varieties of woods you
combine them with...You need different products sometimes for teaks, as, say
opposed to oak, or walnut, or hickory, or ash....each kind of wood has
different expansion/contraction characteristics, and in some applications,
attention needs to be paid to these factors.
With screws, you can always used matched-wood plugs if having them show is a
factor, so you still have a nice, clean surface with no fasteners visible.
Bottom line: Glue AND screws are the best insurance out there against joints
coming loose.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Wilkinson"
To: ;
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] (No Subject)
> Let digitaldon be the first (if he is). He wonders how a screwed joint
could
> "flex", without it loosening, and thus destroy it's integrity, making the
> whole structure like a marionette. Has anyone tried screwed and glued
> joints, and if so, what was his experience?
>
> Don
> TC 7993
>
>
> >From:
i.thomson@talk21.com
> >To:
mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [mg-tabc] (No Subject)
> >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:23:01 GMT+01:00
> >
> >
> >Stand by for a protracted debate about whether to glue or not. Who will
be
> >the first to claim that screwed joints flex better than glued ones?
> >
> >Ian Thomson
> >
> >
> >----------
> >
> > > Speaking of adhesives, I was astounded on dismantling my - admittedly
> > >frightfully ramshackle - body (the TC, that is!) over the summer, that
it
> > >appears to be screwed together only! Not a drop of glue anywhere as far
> >as I
> > >could see. Now I know it was designed to flex and all the rest of it,
but
> >is
> > >this a purely MG thing? Anyone know about the old coach-built Rollers
and
> > >stuff?
> > >
> > >Regards to all, David Lodge
> >
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