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271363 | gary may | 2020‑07‑03 | Re: Call for ingenuity: loosening a wooden screw (Don't Despair!) |
True, true, Mr. Conroy--- Do not despair, galoots, if it's wood, it's always moving, and different pieces move at different rates. I'd try a week or two in the dryer you use for chair-legs and trunnels. If you don't already have such a thing, it's a top-vented box with a hot light bulb in the bottom, at the intake vent. As your patient warms up under the hot lights, try loosening day after day. One should also try tightening: The contact surfaces in stuck screws are almost always 'trained' for tightening. Once budged, it's much easier to reverse direction. Applying high frequency vibrations, by hell-beating with a hammer, is sometimes in order. If your subject hasn't come apart after a few weeks of desiccation, move out of the dryer to a moist environment and try the same persuasions for a few more weeks. If it hasn't come apart by then, bronze it, and send it to some galoot at Christmastime. and a very happy 3rd of July to all galoots everywhere; gam in OlyWA/USA PS---Apropos of nothing much, hammer-drills from concrete borers on down to the modern hideously loud impact-driving screwguns can drive nails, settle concrete in forms---or shake the letters off a printed page---with no traces left behind---if cushioned properly. YMMV "If you were Einstein's father, there wouldn't be a bomb." Peggy Hill, ca. y2K On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, 02:07:32 PM PDT, Thomas Conroy via OldTools |
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271364 | don schwartz <dks@t...> | 2020‑07‑03 | Re: Call for ingenuity: loosening a wooden screw (Don't Despair!) |
On 2020-07-03 1:03 p.m., gary may via OldTools wrote: > I'd try a week or two in the dryer you use for chair-legs and trunnels. If you don't already have such a thing, it's a top-vented box with a hot light bulb in the bottom, at the intake vent. Might a tour of the microwave do as well? Don -- “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” — Albert Einstein “Worry less, concentrate more, and above all relax.” James Krenov “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” — Frederick Douglass |
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271365 | Tim Pendleton <tpendleton@g...> | 2020‑07‑03 | Re: Call for ingenuity: loosening a wooden screw (Don't Despair!) |
On July 3, 2020, at 3:03 PM, gary may via OldTools |
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271372 | gary may | 2020‑07‑04 | Re: Call for ingenuity: loosening a wooden screw (Don't Despair!) |
Don Schwartz my Dear Fellow ---Microwave *might* work, but talk about your tailed demon! Lemme know if you're trying it so I can be out of town that day.....best g On Friday, July 3, 2020, 12:34:49 PM PDT, don schwartz |
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271373 | Erik Levin | 2020‑07‑04 | Re: Call for ingenuity: loosening a wooden screw (Don't Despair!) |
Don inquired: >Might a tour of the microwave do as well? >Don Given that the contents of the maraca- sorry, handle- are unknown, and and metal in a radarange is a Bad thing, I would class this application as inappropriate, unless for solely for the entertainment value of the electron burner becoming an incendiary device. *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address |
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271382 | don schwartz <dks@t...> | 2020‑07‑04 | Re: Call for ingenuity: loosening a wooden screw (Don't Despair!) |
Ooops! Silly me. Pass the Brasso! Don On 2020-07-04 5:43 a.m., Erik Levin via OldTools wrote: > Don inquired: > > >> Might a tour of the microwave do as well? >> Don > > Given that the contents of the maraca- sorry, handle- are unknown, and and metal in a radarange is a Bad thing, I would class this application as inappropriate, unless for solely for the entertainment value of the electron burner becoming an incendiary device. > > > > *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > OldTools is a mailing list catering to the interests of hand tool > aficionados, both collectors and users, to discuss the history, usage, > value, location, availability, collectibility, and restoration of > traditional handtools, especially woodworking tools. > > To change your subscription options: > https://oldtools.swingleydev.com/mailman/listinfo/oldtools > > To read the FAQ: > https://swingleydev.com/archive/faq.html > > OldTools archive: https://swingleydev.com/ot/ > > OldTools@s... -- “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” — Albert Einstein “Worry less, concentrate more, and above all relax.” James Krenov “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” — Frederick Douglass |
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