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ANTIQUE FURNITURE RESTORATION DISCUSSION BOARD
Posted By: James Schooley <jschooleyfamily@earthlink.net> (0-1pool247-75.nas2.sioux-city1.ia.us.da.qwest.net)
In Response To: Re: warped door (Jim Cole)
Date: 9/16/3 03:13
The twisting in this door is due to an uneven drying that has occured after being finished, since you don't mention anything about the door getting wet in that time. The best way to remove this twist without removing the finish is to place heavy weights on the door so that it will twist back into a flat plane. Since this will take a long time to reach perfection, and you don't want to be without the door for 6-8 weeks, you can consider this little trick. Get a small turnbuckle, two eye screws, and some 1/16 wire rope. Put an eye screw in the back side of the door into each corner which needs to pushed back inward. Place the cable and the turnbuckle between the eye screws and tighten it a little. Next cut a piece of 1/4" plywood to measure 4"x4" and a piece of dowel rod 3/4" round and 3" long, make a shallow saw cut across the end of the dowel like the tail end of an arrow. Place the ply wood in the center of the door backside with the dowel rod in the center of that, now streach the wire rope outward and into the groovew in the end of the dowel rod. Next tighten the turn buckle till the door is flat again, give it an extra tighten and just wait a few weeks. Start to loosen the cable a little each week till it is so loose that it is no longer needed. Fill the holes with a matching wax fill stick after removing the eye screws and hope the repair is permanent.
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