Fred,
Thanks for setting me straight as far as the glue is concerned. Guess
building car bodies and furniture are not the same. However, I wonder, if
wood bodies are designed to flex, why they need to flex at the joints and,
if they flex at the joints, would the joints not loosen over time.
Another role glue plays is to fill whatever gaps there are in the wood and
thus prevent moisture penetrating the wood. Pre-treating the wood with a
wood preservative or, as John Blair has done, using the West System epoxy
are alternatives but how about a silicone coating (the stuff we put around
bath tubs)?
Chuck Vandergraaf
'52 +4
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From: FPS3@aol.com[SMTP:FPS3@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday March 22, 2000 11:09 PM
To: sseidler@easterndatacomm.com; morgans@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Wood Frame Assembly- no glue
I have a couple of old car restoration books and they are pretty
emphatic on
NO glue... period!
They say that it will break the wood- it has to have some flex
(notice no
triangles on the frame?) Also it is important to select the right
screw
length so that the shank is through the joint... and pre drill with
the
proper drills to the proper depth.
That said.. I thought that I would try to re-invent the wheel
(body) on my
trike. I used used all T-nuts on my trike and then let the paint
lock 'em.
Three years of pretty hard use and nothing has come loose or
cracked.
fred sisson
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