Pinblock Installation

[Brian Trout]

Hi Ron,

You wrote:
>Question: Do you think it's really necessary to dowel the block to the 
>stretcher? Is the joint under severe enough stress that glue alone wouldn't 
>suffice? I don't dowel these joints because it seems like overkill to me 
>for the trouble it takes to do it. <snip>

Thank you!!!

I've wondered about this practice for some time, although I normally put 
dowels back and glue it in just to say I did it.  (And I've only had to 
touch up the front of the stretcher once because I drilled through it.  
Aarrgghh!!  That's one of the things you only do ONCE!) I've never seen a 
stretcher that was as sturdy as one of the beams underneath anyway so that 
item adding structural integrity has always been suspect in my mind.  Yes, I 
do glue, dowel, and usually screw the new pinblock to the inner rim 
regardless of what came out.  Once it's in, it ain't movin'!!

Thanks for the thoughts, Ron.

Brian T.





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