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drilling with a spade blade
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artie67 wrote:
Space-time, thanks for keeping me from my work. Solving your type of problem takes up a part of my normal day.

You're welcome. My pleasure Smile

artie67 wrote:
Also, for the forum, you need to add more info on the the project. We are guessing that maybe pegs for supporting things, I don't know. It would help.

here you go. previous owner installed these 45 degree 1/2 sticks in this 4x4 piece of wood (which is really 3.5 x 3.5"). Seems soft, I don't think it is a hard wood. The sticks came loose. They are many years old.

I found 48" long 5/8 diameter dowels at Home Depot. They seem stronger and should last longer than these 1/2. the problem is that if I install at 45 degree, I would need slightly longer sticks/dowels which are not available locally. So I plan to change the angle just a bit, maybe 40 degree or so. I want to have 1" into the lower/left post (not shown in this picture) and 1" into the upper/right post (the one shown here). I plan to drill a 2-3" hole in here, stick the upper end into this, then place the lower end into the 1" hole and slide it in. Gravity should keep the sticks down, and they can be easily taken out if necessary to repaint or replace. To fix the visible damage I plan to use some wood filler and repaint the whole thing.

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drilling with a spade blade - by space-time - 04-17-2014, 02:34 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by Carm - 04-17-2014, 02:39 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by OWC Jamie - 04-17-2014, 02:40 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by space-time - 04-17-2014, 03:04 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by cbelt3 - 04-17-2014, 03:27 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by OWC Jamie - 04-17-2014, 03:30 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by Ken Sp. - 04-17-2014, 03:49 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by davester - 04-17-2014, 04:22 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by artie67 - 04-17-2014, 06:04 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by space-time - 04-17-2014, 07:18 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by nwyaker - 04-17-2014, 09:16 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by davester - 04-17-2014, 09:48 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by space-time - 04-17-2014, 09:48 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by Buzz - 04-17-2014, 11:40 PM
Re: drilling with a spade blade - by artie67 - 04-18-2014, 12:36 AM

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